Safyr is a software tool designed to simplify the exploration of metadata in ERP/CRM systems by extracting information from data dictionaries, allowing data professionals to access and analyze large volumes of data efficiently. The document details a demonstration session showcasing Safyr's capabilities, including the ability to identify and visualize key data relationships and create subject areas tailored for specific analyses. The tool enhances trust, reduces risks, and promotes agility in data projects, significantly cutting down the time and cost associated with data discovery.

1. Safyr for SAP screen shots
from demonstration session
Safyr: Application Metadata Discovery

2. Safyr – a unique software proposition
• Software to make ERP/CRM metadata
easy to access, understand and share
• Data professionals can explore
metadata in large packaged applications
• Does this by extracting metadata from
the ERP/CRM data dictionary
• Not just an ’interface’ – more than just a
scanner for ERP or CRM’s
“The data in these (ERP) systems makes sense
and are useful, but only in the context of the hard-
coded processes.
In short, the data is trapped inside a complex web
of thousands of database tables whose integrity is
solely controlled by a rigid fossilized collection of
software algorithms.
If you don’t believe me, just ask your SAP support
staff for access to directly update (or even read) a
data table.”
John Schmidt (vice president of Global
Integration Services at Informatica
Corporation)

3. Why use Safyr?
• Shortens time to project value
• Cuts cost of data discovery
• Improves trust
• Reduces risk
• Gives control to data professionals
“As a result of our investment in Safyr
we are able to take a more agile
approach to meeting the demands for
new reports and data within acceptable
timescales and the business’ trust in
the information they provide is
growing”.
Scott Delaney
BI Team Leader

4. Demonstration session
• The following are screenshots captured from a live demonstration of Safyr
• Safyr works by extracting the meaningful metadata from ERP and CRM
packages and making it usable by data professionals who do not need to
be application specialists.
• The demonstration is based on an SAP ECC system with over 98,000
tables.
• Without Safyr the sort of analysis and results achieved would take much
longer, cost more in terms of money and resource and may not be
accurate

5. Main Safyr screen
In the first part of the
demonstration we are
trying to locate some of
the key Customer
Master Tables and find
out how they are
related.
Select “Show List of
Tables”

6. Selected Show List of
Tables and clicked
Search.
Results: 99864 tables
in SAP system,
including
customisations

7. Searched for tables
with string ‘customer’in
table description.
Results: 1185 tables
Select “Advanced
Search” to further
reduce the results set.

8. Selected “Advanced
Search”
Filtered to return
results only from tables
with data

9. Filtered by only tables
with data
Results: 256 tables

10. On the assumption that the most important tables will have the most
relationships we rank those results by “Number of Child tables”.
KNA1 (General Data in Customer Master) is top result. Double click to
drill into detail and then see related tables

11. Further filter number of related tables by selecting “Only with data”.
Then select group of Child tables which are relevant to use to
create Subject Area.
A Subject Area in Safyr is any grouping of tables which are
appropriate to the analysis being performed.

12. Created Subject Area called “demo master tables”
16 member tables as selected from previous screen

13. Now we want to visualise the results in a model.
In this example we are using Silwood ER Diagrammer tool to
display the content of the Subject Area.

14. Subject Area in ERP Diagrammer. Results limited to Primary and
Foreign keys only to aid viewing
Table relationship automatically provided.

15. Now a different use
case for Safyr.
This is a different type
of search for Personal
Datas (GDPR related)
Reset the Search to
show all tables.
Using Advanced
Search features:
We are looking to find
any attribute in any
table (with data) which
has string “Date of
Birth” across whole
SAP system

16. Result: 5 tables
We can select all of
these and create
another Subject Area
called “DOB Marked”

17. Selected all and
created Subject Area
called DOB Marked.
Notice how the
number of times the
string (marked field) is
found in each table
Selected Table
PA0002 HR Master
Data Record to see
detail

18. Detail of 3 instances
of “Date of Birth” in
PA0002 HR Master
Data Record table.

19. Here we illustrate the
result of exporting the
Subject Area “DOB
Marked” to Excel
using Safyr Metadata
Reporting option
More information is
provided in each tab.

20. Main Safyr screen
In the next part of the
demonstration we will
show how Safyr be
used to locate the
Tables related to a
specific SAP transaction
or programs and find
out how they are
related.
Select “Show Hierarchy”

21. This provides a
different view of SAP
system using Safyr
Hierarchy showing
application modules.
Multiple layers.
Very large number of
nodes

22. To aid navigation there
is a search feature.
Here we have
searched for any SAP
transaction which
includes the string
“compare sales”
3 results
Selecting VAO7 will
place us in the
application hierarchy
where that exists.
(next screen)

23. We can see that VAO7
is part of the
Comparison of Orders
with Purchase Req
program
The tables used by
that program are listed
underneath.

24. Then it is easy to
select all the tables for
that program and add
them to a new Subject
Area for export or
further analysis.
New Subject Area
called “Compare
Sales Orders” created

25. Individual Subject
Areas can be viewed,
searched and filtered
from the Table View
Showing “compare
sales orders” as
created in previous
screen.

26. Thank you for watching.
As you can see from the tiles
on the right there are areas
which are not included in this
short demonstration.
If you would like to learn
more about how Safyr can
give you real visibility into
the data models of your ERP
and CRM packages, or you
would like to try Safyr for
yourself, please visit
www.silwoodtechnology.com
Alternatively there are more
contact details on the next
slide.

27. Contact
Roland Bullivant
rbullivant@silwoodtechnology.com
Tel: +44 7900 340257
Request a web call:
https://calendly.com/rbullivant
Visit www.silwoodtechnology.com
for more information,
downloads and trial software