SharePoint`s New Bulldog Application
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How can SharePoint be made better? Ask the people working on Bulldog. The team behind it belong to a data management firm you may not have heard of, but their product was so good that Microsoft acquired them lock, stock and barrel. So what can we look forward to seeing? Keep reading.
Microsoft, whose programs have literally changed the way that people work and revolutionized what consumers are capable of doing on their PCs, has decided to enter the vast and competitive world of master data management thanks to their acquisition of an Atlanta-based master data management firm named Stratature. The product will be released to coincide with the next release of Office and will install as part of SharePoint.
The product, currently being developed, has been nicknamed “Bulldog.” It has been reported that the development team is working with many Microsoft products, such as PPS, Dynamics, SharePoint, Excel and more to integrate the master data hub with those products. The stated goal is to have Bulldog remain almost identical to the Stratature +EDM product, with several enhancements aimed at improving the experience.
Stratature’s former website, which now directs viewers to a Microsoft site, proudly proclaims the fact that the master data management company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft and says the merger represents a culmination of a company-wide effort across the SQL Server, Business Intelligence and SharePoint groups to deliver on a unified Master Data Management solution to improve information management initiatives. Let’s take a look at the specifics of Microsoft SharePoint and how Bulldog is going to integrate seamlessly into a program that already seems to have it all.
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