Insights
Guides and articles on reference data, reporting structures and the business data that lives outside your systems.
Guides
- Master data, and what Grunddata is not
What master data and MDM are, why many banks have no single MDM, and the business-owned data that is left over.
- Reference data management: What it is and where it lives
What reference data is, how it differs from master data, why it is harder to manage than it looks, and where Grunddata fits.
- Which Excel files belong in a system?
Four signs that a spreadsheet has outgrown Excel, what regulators say about spreadsheets, and how to keep Excel as the interface.
- BCBS 239 and the data that never made it into a system
What the principles for risk data aggregation ask of the mappings, parameters and structures your reporting depends on, and where Grunddata fits.
- Migrating from Microsoft Master Data Services
Microsoft has removed MDS from SQL Server 2025, and recent updates are breaking it on 2022. What organisations use MDS for, what your options are, and how a migration to Grunddata works.
Articles
- SQL Server 2022 CU26 breaks Master Data Services
After cumulative update 26, the MDS web application opens but shows nothing. The data is still there. Here is what happened and what you can do.
- Connect Grunddata to Excel with OData
Connect Excel to a Grunddata view, sign in with Microsoft Entra ID, and refresh governed business data when you need it.
- Governed Business Data in the Cloud
Why the business data that falls between core systems needs a home of its own.