Master Data Services Add-in For Microsoft® Excel is released

Hi, we are pleasured to announce the release of MDS Excel add-in. You can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42298

This release includes a number of performance improvements – most users will see a 4x improvement when loading data from an MDS server, without any additional server or environment changes. For an additional performance increase (2-4x), you can enableDynamic Content Compression in IIS.

It works with both SQL12 or SQL14.  The installation will be in place upgrade so the users don't need to uninstall previous installation.  All the MDS connections will be preserved through the installation. 

Please download the new version of Excel add-in.  Your feedback is welcome!

Thanks,

SQL MDS Team