Begin with the metadata concealed within packaged applications – discover what lies beneath the opacity barrier. Industry-standard ERP & CRM packages from global vendors have large, complex, impenetrable data structures; opaque table & field names which can drain your resources & budget due to: The upside of tackling packaged application metadata first, is that it…
Important control data may be located within ERP & CRM packages. So delivering successfully on a data inventory; a catalogue; gathering control data sources for business resilience, or building a knowledge platform means that at some point, this information requirement has to be addressed. Of course, identifying the location of control data tables and fields…
Metadata is the lexicon of your digital domain. Metadata is more vital than many organisations realise. AI & organisational knowledge depend on it. We literally use metadata to describe the universe: high volumes of digital information about galaxies far, far away. Without metadata, there would simply be a multitude of stars lacking the relationships & relevancy…
Actively using metadata is both a smart way to help de-risk your domain and inevitable for a rewarding digital future based on knowledge infrastructure, the corporate nervous system. How aware is your business of metadata, and how it can presage both risk & reward? The regulatory environment spans personally identifiable information (PII), consumer data (GDPR,…
In an enterprise application environment, Master Data Management (MDM) used to refer to the desire to achieve a ‘golden record’ within a data domain. It was the holy grail of enterprise computing – a single version of the truth in a single repository, indicating mastery of organisational data – but then reality set in. MDM…
Easily locate personal data buried in SAP, CRM or ERP systems