Microsoft Common Data Service : CDS

Before you go ahead, read this article if you would like the below questions answered: –

1. What business problem does the CDS solve?
2. How does the common Data Service(CDS) work?
3. How can I get access to it?

Business Pain points

CDS brings together all data from different departments/ databases into 1 repository

CDS provides accurate end-to-end views of data from across systems

Today, even mature companies face issues of ‘disconnected data’. HR holds different attributes about the same set of data as Finance does. How would it look if in one place we can find information about an employee from every aspect (HR, Finance, Sales Performance etc.)

How does CDS work?

At the core of the common data service is the Common Data Model.

The common data model comes prepopulated with many business entities that are useful across a variety of business and application domains. These entities can be…