Coming soon….Safyr for Salesforce
We’re going to be adding Safyr® for Salesforce capability to our product in the next release (due June 2014) so I wanted to give a taste of what this will deliver.
Are complex ERP data models holding organisations back or helping them move forward?
According to a recent report by leading analyst firm Gartner, heavily customised ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems will have achieved the status of ‘legacy ERP,’ by 2016.
Data Model of SAP Bill of Materials Explosion – download here
We are in the process of providing content 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.
Is metadata discovery necessary on SAP HANA projects?
I picked up on a great blog by Jonathan Haun, Consulting Manager, Decision First Technologies recently where he talked at some length about the Data Modelling aspects of SAP HANA, click here to link through to it.
Satnav and Data Discovery
I’m always looking for new ways to explain what I do for a living. It’s made hard by the fact that it centres on a product that doesn’t do anything quite like any other tool in the ‘data’ space – which is to make it fast and easy to navigate the data models of big and complex systems early in a project to ensure accuracy and reduce risk of overrun or under-delivery.
Data vs Process: “This house believes that there is no such thing as ‘Process’ in a computer system, there is only ‘Data’.”
I realise this might be controversial but I do believe it. IT professionals have long talked about Process Modelling as the way to understand what a complex system does, while Data Modelling tends to be seen as the ‘Cinderella’ of the modelling world.
The traditional view is that metadata is boring and complex and should be left to technicians – perhaps it is time to think differently!
Metadata is boring and complex and should only be of interest to technical specialists and geeks!
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