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Ascot, UK and Cape Town, South Africa, 25 June, 2018 – Milestone Technologies (MileTech) has signed a partnership agreement adding Silwood Technology Ltd.’s Safyr® to the roster of Information and Data Management software solutions offered to customers seeking to overcome the challenges associated with greater compliance and regulatory requirements.

The IT solutions specialist will now become one of Silwood Technology’s key  partners in the African region.

Johannesburg and Cape Town based MileTech assists its customers to deliver digital transformation, data governance, integration and reporting programs by combining “best of breed” tools that provide solutions for application requirements gathering, analysis, design and development with specialist consulting skills.

Miletech has developed skills and competencies in utilising Safyr® to discover metadata from their customers’ ERP and CRM solutions for exploitation in these projects.

Silwood Technology has developed Safyr, a self-service metadata discovery software which empowers data analysts and architects to discover and navigate the metadata in large packages without the need for technical specialists, external consultants or resorting to guesswork.  This is especially useful in complex data landscapes which underpin application packages from SAP, Salesforce, Oracle and Microsoft.

The use of Safyr accelerates data preparation and analysis phases in key projects such as Data Governance and Catalogues, Data Warehouse and Analytics, Master Data Management, Data Integration and Transformation. Safyr also provisions a variety of other technology platforms with metadata from these packages.

Safyr assists Milestone consultants in accelerating the delivery of source data analysis for programs which involve large, complex and customised enterprise applications. This often overlooked project phase can contribute to delays and overspend if not completed effectively especially when packaged systems are part of the IT ecosystem involved.

Derek Meiring, Milestone Technologies’ Founder and Managing Director commented: “Safyr software has supported a number of data governance projects we have undertaken, and we are delighted to take the relationship to a new level by becoming a Silwood reseller. Given the current compliance regulations, we find our clients need to strive towards an Enterprise Information Model (EIM) which can provide Data Lineage and Semantic Lineage (Entity and Attribute) across ERP and non-ERP data structures. Safyr plays a highly fundamental role in this ability.”

Roland Bullivant, Silwood Technology’s Sales and Marketing Director said: “We are very pleased to be able to welcome the team at Milestone Technologies to our growing partner network and are looking forward to working with them more closely. They bring a highly creative and real-world approach to solving their customers’ data and application management challenges and we look forward to making a contribution to their success with our unique self-service metadata discovery product.”

To learn more about the partnership please contact info@silwoodtechnology.com or Milestone Technologies at http://www.miletech.co.za/contact.asp

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 partners to accelerate delivery 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.

Partners include erwin Inc, SNP, IBM, ASG, Adaptive, AnalytixDS, Itelligence and Datum.

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

Note: SAP is the trademark or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

About Milestone Technologies (PTY) Ltd. (MileTech)

MileTech offer leading technologies through strong brands in flexible partnerships to assignments within the Information Management arena, we have built a team of Senior Business Consultants throughout Africa with our headquarters in Johannesburg South Africa. Our primary focus is optimizing the Analysis and Design phase within the Development Lifecycle for Bespoke or Packaged systems, like SAP or PeopleSoft.

Maintaining a competitive edge in today’s fast moving eBusiness market requires faster, better decisions based on accurate data.

Companies must manage and maintain their data while facing increasingly complex challenges such as mergers and acquisitions, lack of qualified people, and constantly changing technology. In order to build high performance eBusiness applications, data marts, and data warehouses, organisations need to build a solid database foundation.

At MileTech, we understand the complex and complicated needs of business. We are committed to offering simple, meaningful solutions in an uncomplicated way. We work hard to achieve the highest quality in our solutions to help our customers meet their changing business needs.

– Starter Packs simplify personal data fields discovery in five leading application packages, ready for the upcoming GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and beyond

– Strong interest in existing packs as organisations still facing major challenge when locating personal data

Ascot, UK, 24 April 2018. Metadata discovery software vendor Silwood Technology Ltd  has expanded its series of GDPR Starter Packs for major application packages, including SAP, JD Edwards and Siebel. Today’s launch of Oracle E-Business Suite and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Starter Packs will enable more users to quickly and simply identify the precise location of Personal Data.

The GDPR Starter Packs 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.

Silwood Technology is urging application package users and its channel partners to ensure that they have, at minimum, instigated the discovery and documentation of personal data before 25 May 2018.

Nick Porter, founder and technical director at Silwood Technology, has confirmed that interest in the existing Starter Packs is strong 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.

“Secondly, GDPR compliance is not a one-time event. When maintaining compliance, we believe that Safyr will be of value in keeping data catalogues, inventories and glossaries up-to-date with the locations of Personal Data across major packaged applications”.

Recent research conducted by Silwood Technology illustrated the scale of the challenge when locating personal data for GDPR compliance. For instance, within a typical Oracle E-Business Suite system, when searching for personal data, users will be faced with approximately 22,000 tables and 570,000 fields. Similarly, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 contains 7,000 tables and 100,000 fields.

As an example, consider that the attribute “birth” occurs in over 40 tables in an Oracle E-Business Suite system. With Safyr, users can find all occurrences of the Personal Data string ‘birth’ across all tables and fields in an Oracle E-Business Suite system in under five minutes. The resulting data can be delivered to metadata and data governance platforms for further exploitation.

The new Starter Packs join the SAP Starter Pack launched in November 2017, and JD Edwards and Siebel packs launched in March 2018.

Customers using Silwood’s Safyr application for these application packages can request their Starter Pack free of charge. The Starter Pack comprises a set of Safyr Subject Areas that describe and identify each type of personal information, including social security number, IP address and phone numbers.

One of the major benefits of these 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, please visit: please visit: https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/oracleebs-starter-pack-for-gdpr-compliance and https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/microsoftdynamicsax2012-starter-pack-for-gdpr-compliance.

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

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. 

Silwood markets Safyr both directly and via relationships with key Information and Data Management solution vendors such as erwin Inc., IBM, Datum, SNP Harlex, ASG Technologies, Adaptive Inc. Unicom, and AnalytixDS.

Note: SAP is the trademark or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

Ascot, UK, 6 March 2018. Silwood Technology Ltd, a supplier of enterprise application metadata intelligence software, has announced that Safyr® now provides users of SAP and SAP Business Warehouse (BW) greater visibility and intelligence about the data connections between the two products. The company has also enhanced product features for GDPR data discovery.

For data professionals, Safyr’s new capability to show the BW Extractor functions solves the long-standing challenge of tracing the origin of data represented in SAP BW. This is especially important as trust in the data provided by any BI environment is based on the reliability of the data’s provenance.

Safyr is the only dedicated metadata discovery software product for SAP and enables users to access, understand, share and utilise the underlying data structures of SAP applications. Customers can now use a new SAP Hierarchy within Safyr to find the tables in SAP ERP that are accessed by the SAP BW Extractor programs.

Nick Porter, Technical Director of Silwood Technology comments, “customers and prospects have been asking for this BW Extractor capability for a while, as it provides new insights into how data flows through the SAP landscape.

“We’ve also enhanced some of the features we introduced in Safyr last year to further ease the GDPR Personal Data discovery process. While the headline feature of this release is the new BW Extractor capability, every existing user will benefit from upgrading”.

In terms of GDPR, Safyr offers features such as marked field which enables users to easily isolate all instances of a particular term (e.g. “birth) across an entire system; and metadata reporting which enables faster and more effective collation and management of Personal Data. Silwood Technology also recently tested 5 major ERP and CRM packages for GDPR personal data.

Siebel and Salesforce users will also benefit from the new Safyr software, as Silwood Technology has released upgrades to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of these CRM packages.

Learn more about the new Safyr release.

About Silwood Technology Ltd

Silwood Technology Ltd is the leading supplier of enterprise Application Metadata Discovery optimisation software. The company has pioneered the use of metadata extraction and analysis for the purpose of accelerating the delivery of critical Information and Data Management projects.

Safyr is used by data analysts and architects to make the data discovery, preparation and source data analysis for these projects faster and easier. It works by building accurate, as implemented, data models of large, complex Enterprise Applications including SAP, SAP BW, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle E-Business Suite and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.

Silwood markets Safyr both directly and via relationships with key Information and Data Management solution vendors such as erwin Inc., IBM, Datum, SNP Harlex, ASG Technologies, Adaptive Inc. Unicom, and AnalytixDS.

Note: SAP is the trademark or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

A free trial of Safyr is available here: https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/contact/free-trial-of-safyr/

Please contact info@silwoodtechnology.com for further information on Safyr.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

• Silwood Technology is a UK based specialist software company developing products to accelerate delivery of data related projects by automating metadata discovery for ERP and CRM packages.
• Safyr is a metadata discovery software product for SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft ERP and CRM application packages.
• Safyr’s unique capabilities include the ability to extract hard to find rich metadata in these systems, (including customisations to the data model) and then allow data analysts, architects and scientists to navigate, search, locate the tables they need and use them in the context of their information management project.
• Safyr is used for Data Migration, Data Warehouse (BI/Analytics), Data Governance, Data Catalogue, Master and Metadata management projects.
• Customers include BP, Boeing, P&G, RS Components, The World Bank, Hydro Tasmania, Circle K and Shell.
• Partners include erwin Inc., IBM, Datum, SNP, ASG Technologies, Adaptive Inc. Unicom, and AnalytixDS.
• Source applications supported:
  • SAP ERP, S/4HANA, SAP BW
  • Salesforce
  • Oracle eBusiness Suite, Siebel, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft
  • Microsoft Dynamics AX and Dynamics CRM

Note: SAP is the trademark or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

– Fast, accurate and cost-effective software for locating Personal Data in SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft and other major packaged applications.

– Providing accessible metadata intelligence for the most complex, customised ERP and CRM packages.

Ascot, UK, 10 October 2017. Silwood Technology Ltd, a supplier of enterprise application metadata intelligence software, has announced the availability of Safyr^® Version 7, a software product that enables users to identify sources of Personal Data in major ERP and CRM packages for GDPR compliance in minutes.

Analysts, architects and other data professionals can now use Safyr to access, understand, share and utilise the underlying data structures for major packages from SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft and other packages.

Finding the precise location of data defined as ‘Personal’ under GDPR from amongst the thousands of tables and columns (or fields) in customised systems, represents a significant challenge. Traditional tools and methods, such as searching for documentation, using templates and reference models or employing external consultants, do not address the challenge in an effective and timely fashion.

As an example, consider how many times the Personal Data attribute “birth” might occur in an SAP system which contains over 90,000 tables. Using Safyr in a recent client engagement, a customer was able to find all occurrences of the Personal Data string ‘birth’ across all tables and fields in an SAP system in under five minutes. That information could then be delivered to metadata and data governance platforms for further exploitation, for example for data lineage, metadata glossary or enterprise data dictionary applications.

Safyr now offers two new features in response to the need to identify all Personal Data held on an individual for GDPR compliance programs.

Marked Field – this feature addresses the problem of having large numbers of unwanted or irrelevant attributes in some tables. It enables users to easily isolate all instances of a particular term (e.g. “birth) across an entire system, and decide exactly which items of the metadata set are relevant and need to be retained. 

The feature also enables the combination of several sets of Personal Data attributes into a single manageable grouping.

Metadata Reporting – has been introduced to support organisations that may not yet have embarked on the implementation of a Data Governance or Enterprise Metadata Management platform for GDPR. It provides them with the ability to export Safyr content directly to Excel to enable faster and more effective collation and management of Personal Data.

Commenting on Safyr 7, Founder and Technical Director of Silwood Technology, Nick Porter said, “We recognised the unique challenge associated with documenting where Personal Data fields or attributes exist in large complex packages, and have enhanced Safyr to make that process faster and easier. Safyr 7 will make a major contribution to our customers and partners GDPR compliance efforts.”

Rob Perry, Vice President of Product Marketing at ASG Technologies, a Silwood Technology partner, commented on how Safyr is a key tool in data discovery for the GDPR and complements data intelligence tools: “Complying with the GDPR requires that organizations  know what Personal Data is managed, where it came from and how it has been used.

“Silwood Technology’s Safyr software has a unique ability to identify Personal Data used by the ERP and CRM systems on which many businesses depend.  ASG’s Data Intelligence complements this by tracing Personal Data lineage, which is the key foundation to the Data Governance needed for GDPR compliance. Together the two solutions can reduce the risk of the large penalties that can result from non-compliance”.

More details are available here: https://www.silwoodtechnology.com/safyr/safyr-7-supporting-gdpr/

Please contact support(at)silwoodtechnology(dot)com for full information on functionality, support for specific Enterprise Applications and upgrade procedures.

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. 

Silwood markets Safyr both directly and via relationships with key Information and Data Management solution vendors such as erwin Inc., IBM, Datum, SNP Harlex, ASG Technologies, Adaptive Inc. Unicom, and AnalytixDS.

Note: SAP is the trademark or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

October 2016, Ascot UK. Silwood Technology Partners with SAP specialist Harlex Consulting to Deliver the Power of Safyr® the Industry’s Only Dedicated Metadata Discovery Software for Packaged Applications.

Harlex Consulting, a SAP® Gold Services Partner and Data Migration and Data Management specialist, and Silwood Technology Limited today announced their strategic partnership. This will see Harlex Consulting harnessing the power of the Silwood Technology’s Safyr® metadata discovery software across the data services they provide with the aim of achieving maximum value for their clients.

Harlex Consulting are industry leaders in helping clients to define and drive clear business advantage through data migration and data management. Harlex Consulting work with clients to plan, manage and deliver complex and often international data transformation programmes, managing and controlling risk through leveraging proven best-practice methodologies.

Harlex will incorporate Silwood Technology’s unique metadata discovery tool Safyr® with their service offerings. One of these is a proprietary Data Migration Methodology which includes a Data Preparation Phase, developed as a result of experience and lessons learnt from extensive data engagements and which now incorporates the usage of Safyr® to speed up delivery and reduce risk.

“The data preparation phase set our projects up for success by allowing clarity of scope and an understanding of key risk areas and priorities right from the start of our engagement. The early quantification of the challenge ahead enables informed planning benefiting both the data work stream and overall solution design.” says Steve Harding, Harlex’s Head of Delivery.

“As soon as I saw the tool in action I understood the benefits and value this could bring to our clients,” says Alex Smith Harlex’s Head of Data Strategy & Engagement, “Harnessing Safyr’s power to rapidly comprehend, visualise and quantify often hidden and complex data models of ERP systems will reduce delivery risk and avoid a lot of common pitfalls faced with data transformation projects. We are excited to offer this product as part of our services.”

Roland Bullivant, Silwood Technology’s Sales and Marketing Director commented: “We are delighted to be working with Harlex who are recognised as leaders in the SAP market due to their extensive knowledge and their deep expertise in successfully delivering information led SAP projects. The combination of our industry leading tool, Safyr and their skillset will result in even more value being provided to customers who are seeking to extend the return on their investment in SAP products.”

Silwood Technology’s Safyr® product accelerates the delivery of the benefits from any change or transformation projects which require an understanding of the metadata which underpins SAP and other major packages from Salesforce and Oracle. Safyr achieves this by giving data professionals control over their ability to understand and exploit the application data model as implemented ensuring that they are working with accurate information and reducing the risks associated with an incomplete understanding of the data.

To learn more about the partnership please contact info(at)halexconsulting(dot)com or info(at)silwoodtechnology(dot)com.

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Safyr® is the industry’s only dedicated metadata discovery software for packaged applications from SAP, Oracle and Salesforce. Safyr® gives analysts, architects and other data professionals the ability to access, understand, share and utilise the underlying data structures for these applications, whenever they need to.

Safyr® achieves this by extracting metadata from the applications as implemented and storing it so it can be easily navigated, searched, filtered, analysed, visualised using business terminology rather than needing to know physical table names.

More information on Safyr® from Silwood Technologies can be found at https://www.silwoodtechnology.com

Harlex Consulting are a consulting firm and SAP Gold Partner based in London specialising in data migration and data management, with an extensive track record in managing and delivering more than 60 successful data projects across 25 clients.

Harlex Consulting has a specific focus on data migration, data quality and master data management, with specific expertise in the movement of business critical data between SAP and other ERP solutions.

More information of Harlex Consulting can be found at http://www.harlexconsulting.com