6 MDS – all in a simple UI Data Editing and Errors Handling Hierarchy Modification Transactions Annotation (Auditing) Versioning Business Rules Validation Permissions / Security DW PowerPivot SSAS From To DW PowerPivot SSAS MDS

MDS Capabilities 7 MDS Excel Add-In Web UI Enabling Integration & Sharing Loading batched data through Staging Tables Consuming data through Views Registering to changes through APIs Role-based Security and Transaction Annotation Validation Authoring business rules to ensure data correctness Versioning

MDS Sales Fact Products Dim Sub Category Dim Category Dim ETL Products Dim Sub Category Dim Category Dim Subscription views DataMart Load Dimensions into Excel Create Entities in MDS Create Relations between Entities Create Hierarchy Create Subscription View Load into DataMart Load into PowerPivot

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