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Master Data Management (https://www.masterdata.co.za) has signed a partnership to promote and resell Silwood Technology Limited’s (https://www.silwoodtechnology.com) Safyr® metadata curation product to their growing list of enterprise customers.

They will implement Safyr to accelerate critical discovery phases of data catalog, enterprise metadata management and other information management projects designed to deliver trusted data to business users.

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February 2019, Ascot UK and Rocklin, CA USA. Silwood Technology Limited (https://www.silwoodtechnology.com) partners with information and data specialist Pacific Data Integrators to accelerate the delivery of comprehensive Data Catalog and other Data Management Platforms which feature metadata from ERP and CRM packages. Read more

This new release of Safyr demonstrates Silwood Technology’s commitment to keeping Safyr aligned with the direction SAP is taking for managing data in its core application software.

Silwood Technology Ltd. the leading supplier of self-service metadata discovery and analysis software for complex ERP and CRM packages, has expanded its metadata discovery capabilities for SAP customers, who can now use Safyr® to analyse the metadata behind SAP ABAP Core Data Services (CDS). Read more

Ascot – 30 July, 2018 – Silwood Technology Ltd. which provides self-service metadata discovery software to simplify and speed up the exploitation of data in large, complex enterprise application packages, today announced a global reseller agreement with IDERA, a provider of powerful database productivity tools.

Through this agreement, IDERA will market and resell Safyr® to complement its ER/Studio data modeling and architecture product suite. The combined offering allows customers to bring metadata from SAP, Salesforce, Oracle and Microsoft ERP and CRM systems into ER/Studio more rapidly and effectively than using traditional discovery approaches.

As enterprises invest in data transformation, analytics and governance initiatives, it is increasingly critical that they are able to exploit the information they have in their ERP and CRM packages. One of the hurdles to delivering these programs is the unique nature of the metadata landscapes underpinning these systems. Their large, complex, opaque and customised data models often hamper development unless software driven self-service metadata discovery tools are employed.

Safyr is a unique software product designed to allow data modelers, architects and analysts to access and make use of the metadata in these systems without needing deep technical knowledge. Content from Safyr can be used directly with ER/Studio to accelerate development and delivery of a variety of data and information management projects.

“IDERA is thrilled to offer the Safyr solution directly to our ER/Studio customers who are working with these key CRM and ERP platforms. Having access to this complex package metadata gives data professionals improved visibility into data lineage across the entire data landscape. This extends the powerful capabilities of ER/Studio even further, to serve as the focal point to manage all of their data architecture and governance initiatives,” said Mark Berglund, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at IDERA.

“Organisations across all industries must identify new ways to innovate to compete and meet regulatory requirements. Data is increasingly recognised as a key asset in meeting these objectives and delivering compliance. Metadata is a key foundational component to this and Safyr’s ability to provision ER/Studio with relevant data models helps to accelerate the delivery of these initiatives,” said Roland Bullivant, Sales and Marketing Director of Silwood Technology. “We already have a number of mutual customers who are leveraging the strengths of Safyr and ER/Studio and are excited to be working more closely with IDERA on promoting the combined value of our solutions.”

As a result of this agreement, IDERA will boost its ability to support customers who have invested in ERP and CRM systems, enabling them to unlock even greater business value from their SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft packages.

For more information please contact IDERA at info@idera.com  or Silwood Technology at info@silwoodtechnology.com

Or please sign up for our next joint webinar:  Integrate ERP and CRM metadata into ER/Studio

About IDERA

IDERA designs powerful database tools that solve end-user productivity problems with elegant solutions. The company’s broad portfolio of award-winning products addresses nearly every aspect of database modeling, development, and management across dozens of platforms. A community of more than 100,000 data professionals who evangelize and use IDERA’s tools. IDERA ensures that your organization never slows down. IDERA is a division of Idera, Inc. To learn more, visit https://www.idera.com/.

 

About Silwood Technology Limited

Silwood Technology is the leading supplier of self-service metadata discovery software products for Enterprise Application Packages including SAP, SAP BW, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics AX and CRM.

Silwood Technology’s unique product, Safyr® helps customers and partner to accelerate delivery of a variety of key data and information management transformation projects. It does this by giving data analysts and architects the ability to access and examine the metadata, including customisations in these packages during the critical data preparation and analysis phases of the project. Results can be shared with a variety of different solutions and technology platforms.

Safyr is most commonly used in support of Data Governance, Catalogues and Glossaries, Data Warehouse and Analytics, Master Data Management, Data Integration as well as Data Lineage, Enterprise Architecture and Test Data Management.

Sample customers include: BP, Boeing, Hydro Tasmania, VW Financial Services, Proctor & Gamble, RS Components, AMD, Costco, Commscope.

To learn more about Silwood Technology please visit www.silwoodtechnology.com

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Metadata discovery software vendor Silwood Technology Ltd has produced two guides revealing how to find personal data using its GDPR Starter Packs for SAP and JD Edwards.

The GDPR Starter Packs are available for major application packages – SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, JD Edwards and Siebel – enabling users to quickly and simply identify the precise location of Personal Data.

They are underpinned by Safyr®, a dedicated metadata discovery software, which enables users to access, understand, share and utilise the underlying data structures for all major application packages.

Research conducted recently by Silwood Technology Ltd demonstrated the scale of the challenge encountered by users of large ERP and CRM packages when locating personal data for GDPR compliance.

The research revealed that in SAP alone there are over 900,000 fields that may (or may not) contain personal information that require data discovery and risk assessment. The size and complexity of the large ERP and CRM databases mean that businesses that are not well-advanced in data discovery or are undertaking manual discovery processes are probably not fully ready on time for GDPR. For instance, within a typical Siebel system, when searching for personal data, users will be faced with approximately 5,000 tables and 170,000 fields. Similarly, JD Edwards contains 5,000 tables and 140,000 fields.

Nick Porter, founder and technical director at Silwood Technology explained: “While it is vital to perform this ‘discovery’ work for any GDPR project, without a clear understanding of where personal data is located in each of the systems in an enterprise, it will not be a straightforward task to carry out any of the steps to reach GDPR compliance.”

He also confirmed that interest in the Starter Packs is still strong, the day before the compliance deadline, and the reasons are twofold: “Firstly, it is highly unlikely that all organisations will have documented Personal Data in leading packages by the 25 May 2018. Therefore, those that are not fully compliant will need to undertake this work later as part of their data protection programme. As a result, there is an urgency now to find tools to find data quickly and accurately.”

Finding personal data in an ERP system for GDPR compliance

The ‘Data’ in the GDPR is what the guidance calls Personal Data. For example, if a living individual can be identified from any data being processed, it is covered by GDPR. This might be a single piece of information, like a Social Security Number, or several pieces of data that can be combined to identify someone (e.g. Name and Date of Birth).

Exactly what constitutes Personal Data will vary from customer to customer, depending on the industry type. For example, in the healthcare sector, Patient Number would be a means to identify a person, but this would be irrelevant in, say, manufacturing.

Working out which tables store personal data that needs to be reviewed for the GDPR is a challenge in any environment, but particularly so where the system is one or more of the large Application Packages, from the likes of Oracle, SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft.

The two guides describe how to use Safyr® to ‘scope’ the potential tables that store ‘relevant’ personal data in a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (sometimes also known as OneWorld) and SAP systems. In this case, the Silwood research team was looking for tables which store ‘Birth’ information – Date of Birth, Year of Birth, etc. – all pieces of data that can help to uniquely identify an individual. However, the process would work for any data which comes under the general definition of Personal Data. (Article 4 – Definitions, Section 1 of the Regulations defines the scope of data covered).

Many JD Edwards and SAP systems have been customised so rather than providing a reference model, Safyr is more effective and useful because it extracts metadata from the application as implemented – including customisations.

Indeed, one of the major benefits of Silwood Technology’s Starter Packs is that they will work with the customer’s own system. Users can easily overlay the Safyr Subject Areas on the metadata extracted from customised application packages.

For more information on Silwood Technology’s Starter Packs, please visit: 

SAP: https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/sap-starter-pack-for-gdpr-compliance/

Oracle E-Business Suite: https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/oracleebs-starter-pack-for-gdpr-compliance 

Microsoft Dynamix AX 2012: https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/microsoftdynamicsax2012-starter-pack-for-gdpr-compliance

JD Edwards: www.silwoodtechnology.com/jdedwards-starter-pack-for-gdpr-compliance

Siebel: www.silwoodtechnology.com/siebel-starter-pack-for-gdpr-compliance

Please contact info@silwoodtechnology.com for full information on the GDPR Starter Packs.

To book a free Safyr trial, please visit https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/contact/free-trial-of-safyr/

About Silwood Technology Ltd

Silwood Technology Ltd is the leading supplier of enterprise Application Metadata Discovery software. The company has pioneered the use of metadata extraction and analysis for the purpose of building accurate data models of Enterprise Applications including SAP, SAP BW, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle E-Business Suite and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.