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CDS Views, Virtual Data Models and SAP in the Cloud
If you are working with SAP data for analytics, AI or even for integration, it is critical that you are able to understand and use CDS Views effectively.
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Part 1: Metadata Discovery and Data Intelligence
Read about metadata discovery which covers the process of accessing, identifying, collecting, analyzing and making use of metadata in order to gain insights into the structure, relationships, and context of data assets.

Part 2: Using Metadata with Data Intelligence Projects
Part 2 of our 'What is Metadata Discovery?' series. Explore why metadata is essential for data governance, data catalog, data analytics, AI, data lineage, data observability and other transformation projects

Part 3: The challenges of metadata discovery
If your organisation is planning a data catalog, a governance platform, an AI initiative, or an analytics project, one of the first tasks you will face is building a comprehensive picture of the metadata held in the business applications involved. In principle, this sounds straight forward. In practice, it is frequently one of the most underestimated challenges in the entire project.

Part 4: SAP and ERP Metadata: A Suitable Case for Treatment?
The size, complexity and difficulty of access means that discovering and utilising metadata from ERP’s such as those from SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle is a significant challenge.

Part 5: Using Safyr for SAP and ERP Metadata Discovery
Learn more about Safyr, the ERP applications it works with and how you can use it to grow confidence in data and accelerate delivery of data intelligence projects.

ERP Metadata for Data Products
Is your company continually reinventing reports, integration processes or data quality tasks? Data products might be an answer.