According to a new press release, “SAP SE today announced a series of innovations to SAP S/4HANA® to make it easier to add artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and to customize apps. This will help companies improve business results, automate business processes and make accurate predictions for better decisions. With more than 100 out-of-the-box AI […]
Five Ways Data Integration Improves Profitability
Click to learn more about author Eran Rozenfeld. With the beginning of a new year, most businesses will share one common resolution – to increase profits in 2019. However, focusing on efforts to generate more sales is not enough. Finding ways to reduce costs by becoming more efficient is also an integral part of maintaining […]
Silwood Delivers ERP and CRM Metadata Into Informatica’s Enterprise Data Catalog
A recent press release reports, “Silwood Technology Ltd today announced that Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) customers can now use Silwood’s Safyr® metadata discovery software to provision SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft ERP and CRM metadata directly into EDC. Useful metadata from ERP and CRM packages is notoriously difficult to access and utilise for data […]
Data Strategy Needs to Include a Robust Data Architecture
In the digital era, data is the lifeblood of businesses; data piling up from various customer or operational touch-points have to be efficiently collected and managed for a business to thrive and prosper. In short, Enterprise Data Management (EDM) impacts all core business functions like HR, CRM, ERP, or Supply Chain. In such a scenario, […]
The Value of Strong Metadata Discovery
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 […]
Bridging the Data Gap Between Business and IT
Click to learn more about author Pete Aven. In any organization, it’s plain to see there are distinct differences in the way business executives and IT professionals think about their company’s data. The disconnect is a result of perspective, and manifests itself in a lack of communication that produces further confusion as IT systems evolve to […]
Case Study: Unilog Leverages Data Preparation to Monetize Upstream Data
“Paxata has facilitated the monetization of our data,” said Noah Kays, Director of Content Subscriptions, at Unilog. Unilog is a global technology company specializing in e-commerce solutions and content for business-to-business distributors in the industrial products (electrical, plumbing, etc.) market. The solution includes Product Information Management system (PIM), a Content Management System (CMS), helping distributors […]
Myths and Facts about Master Data Management (MDM): Part II
Click to learn more about author Bruck Assefa. Welcome back. In this article, we’ll dive into the next five myths about Master Data Management (MDM) and build off what we learned in Part I which covered the first five myths and corresponding facts. As we’ve learned, MDM can be a confusing topic, so I’d like to […]
Myths and Facts about Master Data Management
Click to learn more about author Bruck Assefa. Throughout my years in this industry, I’ve had the pleasure of educating organizations about the in’s and out’s of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. In my discussions about the industry, use cases and technologies, a few things stood out to me as regular misconceptions and potential pitfalls. Most […]
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 […]