Metadata discovery
Accessing the meaning and context of metadata in packaged enterprise ERP & CRM application environments is essential for an orderly data domain, but difficult in practice. Industry-standard ERP & CRM packages from global vendors have large, complex, impenetrable data structures; opaque table & field names which present a significant and costly challenge:
- lack of 'business-friendly' metadata, tables or data structures, or worse, metadata 'hidden' behind an API;
- there may be as many as 90,000 tables requiring a lot of time and effort to locate the metadata needle in the proverbial haystack;
- relating, comparing & provisioning those data structures to your wider plans and environment e.g. how many fields, in which instances, are called 'customer', and how many do you have, want or need?
- the risk of non-compliance arising from failure to locate or curate personally identifiable data (PII) in complex, big data CRM or ERP systems;
- stalling of migration, consolidation or integration projects through data model gaps, inconsistencies or lack of meaning or context;
- data migration plans derailed through failure to locate empty cells in ERP & other systems;
- big data volumes and large, complex, databases make the task even harder without the ability to subset the metadata into more manageable chunks.
Unless you use specialist tools like Safyr, you run the risk of project delays, cost overruns, under-delivery or project cancellation. Safyr is highly regarded because it:
- reduces the time, cost & effort of liberating metadata from packaged applications (by as much as 90%);
- improves accuracy, usability &compliance;
- retrieves metadata systematically from the application layer of each package;
- has powerful features for sub-setting metadata into manageable chunks.