Too often professionals such as Data Analysts, Data Architects, and Compliance Specialists find themselves at a loss when it comes to being able, on their own, to discover, understand and use the rich Metadata within large enterprise ERP and CRM applications. It becomes complicated, costly, and time-consuming for these users to pull relevant business-context subsets […]
Provisioning Data Catalogs with Metadata: A Variable Challenge
Click to learn more about author Roland Bullivant. Data Catalogs are a fast-growing critical component of an Enterprise Information Management strategy. They provide a solution to document, and enable users to find and understand, how data is used across the enterprise data landscape. This is particularly valuable in the context of Data Governance and compliance, […]
Is Rapid Discovery of ERP or CRM Personal Data for GDPR possible?
Click to learn more about author Roland Bullivant. One of the key tasks early in a GDPR compliance programme is to locate where Personal Data is stored across an organisation’s information ecosystem. Often this is referred to as an Information Audit or Readiness Assessment. To comply with GDPR, an organisation must be able to point […]
Metadata Discovery in Minutes: An Intelligent Solution
Roland Bullivant is accustomed to the stunned silence that often greets a demonstration of Safyr®, Silwood Technology’s Metadata Discovery software. Moments after realizing that Safyr creates a complete Metadata Glossary for large ERP and CRM packages in a matter of hours, a process that can take an entire team working full time six months – […]