1. From MDS to SSRS - a short walkthrough
Change your master data on the fly…

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3. Speaker BI consultant since 2010
Experience with SQL Server since version 2000
Main topics: SSAS (Multidimensional/Tabular), SSRS, MDS
Regional chapter lead in Germany
@SQLMissSunshine 

4. Agenda MDS: Basic overview
Demo: Create a simple Product hierarchy in MDS
Demo: Integrate hierarchical data via Lookup() in SSRS
Demo: MDS versions as source for user-defined hierarchies in SSAS
Demo: Changes on the fly and transfer to user frontend
MDS features in SQL 2016
Q&A

5. MDS: Basic overview (I)
Problem
Heterogenic system environment with several line of business application [LOB] who produce and consume data from identical business entities
Core entities
Customer
Product
Chart of accounts etc.
Operational and Analytical Problem:

6. ?
We got a problem.....
Where is the truth

7. MDS: Basic overview (II)

8. MDS: Basic overview (III)

9. MDS: Basic overview (IV)

10. MDS: Basic overview (V)
Operational MDM
LOB‘s write and read from MDM to achieve a single point of truth
MDM enforcing the single point of truth [SPOT] through rules, security, versioning
LOB systems provide and consume the SPOT of an entity and the related attributes
Open interfaces for data exchange
All by an LOB independent UI

11. MDS: Basic overview (VI)
Analytical MDM
Instead of loading the data from different LOBs to the DWH landing area and standardize it in the stage the MDM solution is the gatekeeper
The gatekeeper function of MDM will be achieved through rules, standardized hierarchies, versioning, approvals workflows, dimension modeling (SCD etc.)
All by an LOB independent UI

12. Demo: Create a simple Product hierarchy in MDS (I)

13. Demo: Create a simple Product hierarchy in MDS (II)
MDS System Administration:
Create model
Excel Add-in:
Create entities from data
Configure Domain-Based Attributes
Create derived hierarchy

14. Demo: Create a simple Product hierarchy in MDS (III)
MDS Version Management:
Create flags
Administer versions
MDS Integration Management:
Create SQL views

15. Demo: Integrate hierarchical data via Lookup() in SSRS (I)

16. Demo: Integrate hierarchical data via Lookup() in SSRS (II)
Create dataset with Hierarchy information
Consider datatypes
Relate master data to facts using function Lookup(Source, Destination, Result, Data set) for label and grouping

17. Demo: MDS versions as source for user-defined hierarchies in SSAS (I)

18. Demo: MDS versions as source for user-defined hierarchies in SSAS (II)
Prepare schema and dimension view in MDS database => Recommendation: use independent solution (ETL transfer, dedicated database, …)
Create data source in SSAS project and add view to data source view
Build dimension with user-defined hierarchies
Integrate dimension into existing cube

19. Demo: Changes on the fly and transfer to user frontend (I)

20. What changed with SQL Server 2016
Massive performance and scale improvements
Scale entities to 100 million members (and beyond)
15x performance increase of excel
Faster entity based staging
Many improvements in the security area
Multiple administrator roles
Granular security permissions in MDS (read/modify/create/delete)
Features to help solve merge conflict when multiple people are trying to modify the same entity
Improved MDS model deployment
Entity sharing across models

21. Questions?