Metadata services
Would you like to significantly shortes time to value for projects involving ERP metadata? Read on! If your project involves data from standard enterprise ERP and CRM packages, Safyr® reduces the time, cost and resources absorbed by ERP metadata discovery by as much as 90% whilst at the same time improving accuracy and compliance, so…
Metadata in legacy applications
First, your legacy assets are likely to be found on a legacy or end-of-life operating system; with metadata that is barely, if at all, usable. If you have retained legacy assets on an obsolete operating system, you: Whichever your situation, moving forward will inevitably require metadata to: This prompts further considerations of security and absent…
Metadata & archives
Unless you are a librarian or archivist, metadata in the context of archives will probably have received scant attention. When organisations consign content, data & its metadata to storage oblivion, they tend to forget those archives also include metadata (in varying degrees of health). Metadata is also data. It can be more valuable than the…
Metadata in dark & unstructured data
Dark data is data which is not ‘seen’ by the business: not ‘seen’ because it is not ‘known’ about and therefore, not used. Dark data typically includes a significant amount of unstructured data, such as: graphics, photos, scans, free text in e-mails & social media, audio-visual files & biometric information. Dark data can be as…
Discover metadata in packaged applications
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…
Metadata audit
Metadata is the lexicon of the digital organisation, making data easily findable & identifiable; consistently interpretable, manageable & usable throughout your organisational ecosystem. Metadata actuates your systems. Metadata is, of itself, data: and is richer and more important than the data it describes. Often, metadata forms part of systems of record and is immensely valuable…
No knowledge, no AI
No knowledge, no AI? If you want meaningful results from an AI or ML project, then make sure your data house is in order – data, metadata, content & their curation – otherwise you are just fuelling your systems with your past mistakes. Of course, it may be an expensive way of doing it, but…
Rational metadata
Rationalisation & consolidation tasks may await those companies that have multiple instances of an application package – SAP, Salesforce etc. Multiple instances can arise from underlying cloud infrastructure requirements (as in Microsoft); regional differences or following acquisition of another company which used a different version of the package. Consolidating or rationalising multiple DB instances is…
Control data in ERP
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…