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Enterprise Projects - the hidden ERP challenge

All major corporate initiatives from SOA to Enterprise BI are critically dependent on a good understanding of all the data assets across the organisation. Increasingly this demand can only be met by implementing a corporate wide Information Architecture strategy.

But Information Architecture toolsets consistently have problems handling data from ERP and CRM packages. As a result many projects incur unnecessary cost and deadline risks by their inability to effectively handle the critical data discovery and data management requirements.

The problems centre on an inability to effectively access and process the complex and opaque metadata of these large application packages and integrate this information with metadata from other corporate data assets.

Given the near dominant position of ERP packages and their data in the current IS landscape this means that there is a major hidden cost now at the heart of many corporate projects

Project managers tacitly expect ERP experts and ETL & modelling toolsets to provide the critical metadata. But in reality these are incomplete and unreliable methods that lead to excessive (hidden) project costs and poor quality architecture solutions.

Saphir uniquely addresses this issue by automating the extraction and analysis of metadata from Enterprise Applications and integration with leading Information Architecture toolsets. The result is that Project Managers and IT Management can now confidently deploy Information Architecture tools & methods in support of higher quality enterprise systems integration and data analytics projects such as…