If you’re familiar with the Stratature acquisition, you know we’ve gotten ourselves some really great folks and technology to provide Master Data Management (MDM) on the Microsoft platform.
Microsoft is releasing a technology preview (TP) of our MDM solution, code named “Bulldog,” to a select group of customers and partners for testing and evaluation. As with Microsoft’s other technology previews, this is an early visibility release only. Microsoft is currently busy improving the MDM product and developing additional capabilities. We look forward to your feedback and incorporating your suggestions into the full release. MS Connect provides a forum for giving feedback about the product. We invite and encourage you to use that forum for all TP related feedback and questions.
Please understand that admission into the technology preview does not guarantee admission into the Technology Adoption Program (TAP). Also, as with other Microsoft technology previews, this release is for evaluation purposes only, and Microsoft will not support production deployments of this release.
The attached program guide provides step by step instructions for producing an Idea Exchange Agreement (IEA) and an MS Connect ID that are required for you to download the TP.
You may also be interested in the following resources which provide additional information on Microsoft’s MDM strategy:
- Microsoft’s public MDM roadmap: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/mdm/default.mspx
- Microsoft’s MDM Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/mdm
- MSDN Forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=519&SiteID=1
- My Master Data Management blog: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/knightreign/default.aspx
- MDM blog by Roger Wolter, Program Manager and Architect: http://blogs.msdn.com/rogerwolterblog/default.aspx
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