GDPR, Personal Data, ERP and CRM – How I learned to stop worrying and love metadata
GDPR – what’s all the fuss about?
If you are involved with data management or data governance, I am guessing you have read, or at least heard about the new European Union General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). GDPR comes into force in May, 2018.
Finding Personal Data in an SAP system for GDPR compliance
Introduction to the gdpr challenge
Working out which Tables store personal data that needs to be reviewed for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a challenge in any environment, but particularly so where the system is one or more of the big Application Packages. Typically these are systems from SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft.
Where’s the data? Avoiding data integration errors
Top 3 Data Integration mistakes
I saw a fascinating post by David Linthicum on the Informatica Blog recently in which he discussed the Top 3 Data Integration mistakes which companies make and how to avoid them.
“You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave”
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/)
Metadata or data? My ‘Elevator Pitch’ dilemma
Often when I’m at conferences, parties and networking events I get asked “so what do you do?”
If it’s someone that I think has a real interest in our market, I will normally give them the benefit of my ‘elevator pitch’.
Transformation to a data driven business needs metadata
Introduction
The theme at Enterprise Data World 2016 is “transforming to a data driven business” and Silwood Technology are delighted to be sponsoring the event again this year.
Ever wondered how you could create an Oracle eBusiness Suite General Ledger Data Model?
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.
SAP “Run Simple” is great for the future, but what about the complexity of the past?
This is an interesting blog by Steve Lucas, President of Platform Solutions at SAP.
Why do Salesforce applications need Safyr to help the understanding of their metadata?
We’ve been surprised (pleasantly I might add) at the response we have received to the introduction of Safyr’s capability to reverse engineer metadata from Salesforce systems.
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