News just in… Microsoft have purchased Zoomix, a data quality software vendor.
From the press release:
Zoomix will contribute a critical layer of data improvement to Microsoft's SQL Server Data Platform
Interesting stuff. One would think this will sit fairly and squarely within SSIS given that SSIS will be shipping Data Profiling abilities in SQL Server 2008 so I find it intriguing that I found out about this via Kirk Haselden’s blog. Kirk doesn’t work in SQL Server, he works for the MDM team and in his blog he said:
the Microsoft Master Data Management team is excited at the possibilities this presents for our customers and we'll be working with the SQL Server team going forward to integrate the Zoomix and other DQ capabilities into the master data application
Is this an MDM play or a SQL Server play? From the outside it seems, up to now, like these two teams have been forging their own separate paths so hopefully this is the first sign that MDM and SQL Server will be pulling together in the future.
-Jamie