Profisee MDM Education Series
Profisee is proud to sponsor this site and offer their Microsoft SQL Server 2012 online training courses for FREE to MDS User.com users. Registration is open to everyone, but corporate MDS customers and prospective MDS customers can fill out the following form to request a coupon for 100% off of each of the two Master Data University courses (regularly $549.95 each) described below.

MDS1001: End-user Training
Online Course Availability		6 Months (180 days) course availability with an expected completion time of about 7 hours.
Prerequisites		Basic proficiency with PCs and corporate master data.
Who Should Register		Financial Analysts, Functional Managers and IT Professionals
Content		Through a combination of online video lecture, demonstration, and self-paced practice, MDS1001 students learn the basic functions of the Microsoft MDS Explorer as well as how to work with Version Management. The Explorer allows end-users to maintain the members in a master model—entities, hierarchies, collections and related members and attributes.
Benefits		Students will attain the skills necessary to effortlessly manage master data models and hierarchies in one centralized location for all subscribing systems.
Course Tuition		$549.95 (corporate customers see discount form above)
MDS1001 is broken down into seven chapters. This allows the student to pace themselves as necessary, thus ensuring that they understand each concept as well as the functionality of the Explorer and Version Management areas within the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 product. Chapter 0: Course Introduction Course introduction Objectives and expectations MDS overview Chapter 1: MDS Installation Database & web application requirements The objectives and expectations of the class Product overview Chapter 2: Explanation of the Environment MDS architecture Administrative overview MDS terminology and concepts MDS application basics Chapter 3: Managing Entities Entity member types Attributes and types Hands-on exercises managing entity members & attributes Chapter 4: Managing Hierarchies Hierarchy functionality and types Hierarchy modeling Hands-on exercises managing hierarchies  Chapter 5: Creating Collections The purpose and role of collections in MDS How to use collections for ad-hoc analysis Hands-on exercises managing collections  Chapter 6: Version Management Versions & the version control model Hands-on exercises managing the version lifecycle
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MDS1002: Admin Training
Online Course Availability		6 Months (180 days) course availability with an expected completion time of about 10 hours.
Prerequisites		MDS1001 or demonstrated Microsoft MDS product skills and knowledge.
Who Should Register		System Administrators and Master Data Model Administrators
Content		Through a combination of online video lecture, demonstration, and self-paced practice, MDS1002 students will understand the concepts behind the application and gain an in-depth knowledge of all the administrative functions. MDS1002 students will also learn how to administer and maintain their product environment, including modeling guidelines, the initial data import, application security, and exporting data for subscribing systems.
Benefits		Students will attain the skills necessary to apply best-practice master data management principles to the product's centralized repository.
Course Tuition		$549.95 (corporate customers see discount form above)
MDS1002 is broken down into seven chapters. This allows the student to pace themselves as necessary, thus ensuring that they understand the structural concepts of System Administration, Integration Management, Business Rules, and Security within Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Chapter 0: Course Introduction Course introduction Objectives and expectations MDS overview Chapter 1: MDS Installation Database & web application requirements The objectives and expectations of the class Product overview Chapter 7: Modeling Guidelines Concept overview of model components The recommended process for developing models Model development best practices Chapter 8: Model Building The master data model and relationships Using entities as attributes Maintaining master data models and objects Hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios creating a master data model from scratch Chapter 9: Integration Management Populating staging tables & importing data Hands-on exercises importing data into MDS Data export and subscriptions Hands-on exercises building subscription views Chapter 10: Business Rules Using rules to define, validate and verify data Business rule design and application Validation issues and notifications Hands-on exercises creating business rules Chapter 11: Security & Permissions Security model and inheritance Effective permissions (resolving assignments) Hands-on exercises assigning user and group permissions
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