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