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Data discovery – the step before extraction

18th October 2016/0 Comments/in Data Discovery, Data Management, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Data Warehouse, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Metadata Management, Metadata discovery, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP/by Roland Bullivant

What comes before data extraction? In any data intensive project be it a data warehouse, data migration, master data there is a data discovery phase which has to be completed before any movement of data can be performed.

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Sample Dynamics AX data model from Safyr

Access and exploit Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 data model with Safyr

31st August 2016/0 Comments/in Data, Data Discovery, Data Management, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Metadata Management, Metadata, Metadata discovery, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Safyr/by Nick

New supported package for safyr

We’ve been working hard on a new capability for Safyr®. This is in the form of a metadata extraction feature to enable customers to quickly and intuitively access and exploit the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 data model.

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Download sample data models for SAP, Salesforce and Oracle packages

29th June 2016/0 Comments/in Data, Data Discovery, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Metadata Management, JD Edwards, Metadata, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Safyr, Salesforce, SAP, Siebel/by Nick

Of all the blogs we’ve written here at Silwood, by far the most popular are the ones that are about specific Data Models for SAP, Salesforce and Oracle packages (JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Siebel and PeopleSoft).

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“You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave”

“You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave”

17th June 2016/0 Comments/in Data, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Metadata Management, Metadata, Salesforce/by Roland Bullivant

It was interesting to read the announcement about Salesforce’s latest price hike which amounted to about 40% here in the UK and about 20% in the US. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/23/salesforce_uk_40_per_cent_price_hike/)

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Configuring the repository database in Safyr to hold the Salesforce metadata

Extract, explore and exploit Salesforce metadata using Safyr

3rd March 2016/0 Comments/in Agile, Data Discovery, Data Management, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Metadata Management, Metadata, Metadata discovery, Salesforce/by Nick

Introduction to Safyr for Salesforce

Salesforce has an easy-to-use data modelling feature in the Schema Builder. This provides a graphical data modelling interface to the Salesforce metadata, allowing the user to choose which Objects to include in the diagram, and with zooming and navigation features.

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Ever wondered how you could create an Oracle eBusiness Suite General Ledger Data Model?

1st July 2015/0 Comments/in Data, Data Management, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Metadata Management, Metadata, Metadata discovery, Oracle, Safyr/by Nick

This is the latest in an occasional series of data models which will give some insight into those common business areas in SAP and ORACLE applications for which data models are often required for Information Management projects.

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Finding your way around the complex web of data and processes in SAP systems can be daunting

SAP “Run Simple” is great for the future, but what about the complexity of the past?

26th May 2015/0 Comments/in Business Process, Data, Data Management, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Metadata Management, Metadata, Metadata discovery, S4/HANA, Safyr, SAP, SAP BW, SAP HANA/by Roland Bullivant

This is an interesting blog by Steve Lucas, President of Platform Solutions at SAP.

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Tables from Microsoft Dynamics harvested by Safyr, using ETL for Metadata technology and techniques

Using Safyr ‘ ETL for Metadata’ to harvest Microsoft Dynamics metadata

24th March 2015/0 Comments/in Data, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Metadata Management, Metadata discovery, Microsoft Dynamics/by Nick

As many of you will know, using Safyr® we can pull metadata from a range of ERP and CRM products, including SAP, Salesforce and PeopleSoft. Customers often ask about other packaged applications that they have implemented.

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Analytics and Profiling are two types of Data Discovery

“So what your product, Safyr, does is Data Discovery – Right?”

18th December 2014/0 Comments/in Data and Application integration, Data Discovery, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, Enterprise Metadata Management, JD Edwards, Metadata discovery, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, SAP, Siebel/by Nick

Well…er…Yes, and No.   We get this comment lots of times.  It’s sometimes hard to explain the difference.  Strictly speaking, we do ‘metadata discovery’. I like analogies.

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Trying to find your way around the data model for an ERP or CRM application without some form of accurate guide is a bit like trying to navigate from one part of London to another using the Underground without a map which has details of the stations, lines and intersections.

The role of application metadata in a Master Data implementation

10th December 2014/0 Comments/in Data Governance, Data Model Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Application, JD Edwards, Master Data Management, Metadata discovery, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, SAP/by Roland Bullivant

We would like to congratulate IBM, Informatica, SAP and Oracle on their continued strong showing in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management (MDM) of Customer Data Solutions.

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