Microsoft MDS Valuable Features

* Ease of use * Excel interface * Simplicity * Soft delete support * Sophistication of business rules * Price (FREE for sql server enterprise license) * Hierarchy management * Security integration with AD * Very fine grained security * Easy to build (and extendable) business rules * Automatic Notification * Versioning * Integrated boolean business rules * Change detection * Integrated workflow * Staging support * Publication support * Ability to propagate from one repository to another * Ability to share reference data across models * Integrates as a web part * Flexibility * Includes both batch staging process and Excel data loading * Unused area of hierarchies to easily identify members not assigned View full review »

Its availability for a secured server is one of its most valuable features. Also its replication features are valuable- we can manage eight replicas. Their clustering and availability groups are also valuable. View full review »

I like the ease of deployment. It is very easy to deploy and provision a machine. I like the analytics and that I can run them. Until now, this was always something that was done on the business side. For me, this solution makes it easier to do analytics. With Oracle, they have to use an IBM business intelligence tool called Cognizer. But with Microsoft, the BI tool is better. So we are using Microsoft BI as it is quite good. View full review »

The dynamic data masking, the row-level security, and the data quality business rules are the most valuable features of the solution. View full review »

The most valuable feature is the administration console. You can import data from Excel. View full review »

What I like about Microsoft, is that it has a huge database with many users. View full review »