How to configure and integrate SQL Server Master Data Services and Data Quality Services

DQS and MDS are both SQL 2012 features supported by BI and Enterprise editions. Data Quality Services (DQS) can be used by business users and IT professionals to maintain the quality of their data and to ensure that the data is suited for their organization’s business usage. Master Data Services (MDS) is a SQL Server feature for master data management (MDM). MDM is used to discover non-transactional lists of data, with the goal of assembling maintainable master lists.  Read the rest of this entry »

Step-by-Step Guide to Installing SharePoint with SQL 2012 PowerPivot, PowerView, and Reporting Services

We get a lot of requests for templates that include BI solutions. Recently, we published a new template containing SharePoint 2010 Enterprise SP1, SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Edition with PowerPivot, PowerView, SSRS (Native Mode and SharePoint Mode), SSAS (Multidimensional and Data Mining Mode, PowerPivot for SharePoint, Tabular Mode) and PowerPivot features for Excel 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

CloudShare Introduces – New Templates, HTML5 RDP

This week’s release is going to be a two part-er.  Two big things were released today, which I will tell you about now.  As for the other thing, well you’re just going to have to wait until later this week to find out more!

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