First - acronym definition time: BIDS is the Business Intelligence Development Studio and SSMS is the SQL Server Management Studio. Now - what does this series cover? This series is a high-level overview of how to execute packages outside of the normal BIDS and SSMS techniques of executing them interactively and through jobs. You'll learn the various techniques of executing such as .NET execution through C# and Visual Basic, using DTEXEC.exe, sp_start_job and SMO-based execution, and how to use web services with SSIS to execute packages remotely.