"where's the data?" the role of metadata in enabling the transformation to a data...

“Where’sthedata?” Theroleofmetadatainenabling

thetransformationtoadatadrivenbusiness

RolandBullivant April19th2016

Agenda

• Objective

• Metadata&transformation

• CaseStudies

• Safyr

• Nextactions

Transformationlandscape

ETL/ELTMaster data

Data integration

Bigdata

Datalakes

Data vaults

Data warehouse

Data science

BI Analytics

Datawrangling

Data management

Data governance

DataqualityModeling& Architecture

Application integration

Sour

ces

Unstructured data

Social data

Packaged Appdata

RDBMS data

Audio Video

Mobile data

Desktop apps

WeblogsSensors IOT

Transformationlandscape

ETL/ELTMaster data

Data integration

Bigdata

Datalakes

Data vaults

Data warehouse

Data science

BI Analytics

Datawrangling

Data management

Data governance

DataqualityModeling& Architecture

Application integration

Sour

ces

SOURCEMETADATA

Unstructured data

Social data

Packaged Appdata

RDBMS data

Audio Video

Mobile data

Desktop apps

WeblogsSensors IOT

Metadatahelpsyouanswer

• Where’sthedata?

• Whatdoesthedatamean?

• WheredoIputthedata?

Howdoyoufindit?

• Manualeffort

• Documentation

• Specialists

• Hireconsultants

• Internetsearch

• Guesswork

• Reverseengineer

• Productconnectivity

Isitsimpletofind?

• Easier– RDBMS

– Desktopapplications

– Smallerpackages

– Homegrownapplications

– Sensor

– Socialmedia?

• Harder– SAP

– Oracleapplications

– Salesforce(increasingly)

– Otherlargepackages

– Unstructured?

Findingpackagedapplicationmetadataisdifficult

• Complex

• Largedatamodel

• Customised

• Inaccessible

Impactofnotfindingitquickly

• Latedelivery

• Costoverrun

• Lowproductivity

• Qualityissues

• Lossoffaith

CaseStudies

“TheteamwasoriginallyinformedthatnodatamodelwasavailablefortheSAPapplicationorforSAPBW.”

ScottDelaneyBITeamLeaderHydroTasmania

CaseStudy-HydroTasmania?

• Solution–Safyr®– SAPdatamodel

– Includescustomisations

– Rapidimplementation

– Quicklearningcurve

– Backontrack

– RapidROI

– Nobacklog

– Improvedtrustindata

• Challenge– NewSAPimplementation

– BusinessObjects

– TeamunfamiliarwithSAP

– Datamodelnotavailable

– Nobudgetforservices

– BI/Analyticsbacklog

– Lowproductivity

– Businesslosingfaith

ScottDelaney–BITeamLeader

“AsaresultofourinvestmentinSafyrweareabletotakeamoreagileapproachtomeetingthedemandsfornewreportsanddatawithinacceptabletimescalesandthebusiness’trustintheinformationtheyprovideisgrowing.”

Casestudy–BoeingCommercialAircraft

ChallengeNewSAPimplementation

Multiplelegacyapplications

DatamigrationintoSAPSAPdatamodelbottleneck

Restrictsunderstanding Potentialdelaytoproject Communicationissues

Solution-Safyr™Fastunderstandingofdata

Easiercommunication

RelevantSAPdatamodelsEasierdatamigration

Potentialfutureuses:

CompareSAPinstancesforconsolidation

AdditionalSAPdataobjectsmodels

LorinYeaton–SeniorInformationArchitect

“Franklywesimplycouldnothavedonewhatwedidwithoutsomewaytoextractthatmetadataautomatically.

Todiscoveritandhandenteritmanuallywouldhavetakenthousandsofhours.”

Safyr–theonlydedicatedsolution

• Shortentimetovalue

• Reducecostofdatadiscovery

• Improveaccuracy

Safyr

• Dataprofessionalsincontrol

• Findwhatyouneed

• Whenyouneedit

• Incontext

Safyr

Samplecustomers

Selectedpartners

BrianFarish–ITArchitectureManager

“AfterdoingaquickprototypemetadataextractfromSAP,theresponsehasbeenverypositive!

I’mreallygrievingforthelostyearswithoutaccesstothistool.

Ithasmetandexceededmyloftyexpectations.”

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