Does your business is still rely on querying a database to gain analytical insights, or continually reinventing reports, integration processes or data quality tasks? If so, it could well be falling behind and not maximizing value from corporate data assets.
With a new emphasis placed on embedding AI (intelligence into enterprise systems, developers are doubling down on reengineering efforts.
A key component in a governance or AI led architecture, designed for interoperability, reuse and efficiency, is the data product. Unlike a data mart for example, the data product is a self-contained solution component provided as a reusable asset which produces, processes and supplies data.
Instead of saving a query to a database, editing and reusing it, the self-contained asset integrates data from a variety of sources, is governed and well documented.
Silwood Technology understands how business domains rely heavily on the backbone of legacy ERP and CRM applications to fully exploit systems innovation. We knew from day one that when dealing with complex, opaque, heavily customized sources, a simple data connector could never deliver real and lasting value. Besides, everyone says they have a connector these days!
Any data intensive project requires access to not just data but all the rich contextual information that can be supplied around it. Data products in the context of governance are no exception. We need the metadata.
With our flagship product, Safyr, data products can incorporate business domain Subject Area logical and physical metadata.
These are pre-packaged metadata assets that can be generated and shared in Safyr and shared across multiple domains and platforms.
As standard, for the licensed ERP / CRM source type, we ship Starter Packs of Subject Areas, each one containing a group of tables and related tables which represent a specific business artifact in the source application. These can be used as templates for quick wins in the data product arena or to meet more specific needs.
Once the metadata has been harvested from your application and stored in a Safyr repository, the Starter Pack Subject Areas will automatically incorporate source level added or amended attributes.
Results can be displayed in Safyr’s own ERDiagrammer tool, shared with commonly used modeling tools, data catalogs or in exported in other formats.
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