Using Safyr

Working with Silwood

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Our commitment

Your success is important to us. We know that Safyr offers great capabilities and value to support those data projects which involve your ERP applications.

  • We will make sure we take time to understand how Safyr can help you to achieve your goals for your data project
  • Once we understand what you are looking for in an ERP metadata discovery product, we will never overstate Safyr’s then current capabilities in order to persuade you to buy the product
  • We are happy to respond to your questions, provide demonstrations and support proof of concept exercises
  • We can assist you in the development of a business case for investing in Safyr
  • Once you have purchased Safyr, we will be available to provide support, and will make new versions of the product available to you as appropriate.

How to buy

You can purchase Safyr directly from Silwood Technology, or from one of our authorised resellers. Please see our Partner directory for a list of software vendors and others who can help you with this.

Deciding on Safyr

As Safyr offers you a radically different experience when working with ERP metadata, it is perfectly natural for you to want to check out the features and capabilities to make sure it fits with your technical needs and delivers what you need.

Some of the ways we can assist you with this process include:

  • Sample data models

    We can provide you with sample subsets of ERP metadata to illustrate the sort of information you can get from your ERP – quickly and easily.
  • Technical and use case discovery call

    This session will explore what you need to achieve with the metadata in your ERP packages.
  • Demonstrations

    This is designed to show you how you could use Safyr to help you access, navigate, curate and exploit your metadata. It will give you an opportunity to ask further questions related to your needs.
  • Download a Safyr trial

    A free trial copy of Safyr is available It gives you the ability to try out Safyr capabilities using full sample metadata repositories from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce.
  • Proof of concept

    This is usually the final step in confirming that Safyr will meet you requirements before purchase.

Once the goals, timescales and mutual commitments for the Proof of Concept are agreed, we will provide you with a licence for Safyr. This will typically permit you to harvest metadata from your own instance of your ERP, use Safyr’s analysis and curation facilities and use the results with your chosen target software tools.

Licensing options

We want to give you the flexibility to license Safyr in the way that most closely matches your standard model for purchasing enterprise software.

You can buy a licence to use Safyr on a One-Time or Annual Subscription basis. Access to Silwood’s Technology’s Support and Maintenance service is automatically included with your Safyr Subscription. For One-Time licences, Support and Maintenance is charged annually.

The are two licence variants:

Standard

Safyr for one source application (e.g. SAP, or SAP BW, or Salesforce)
1 user who can both Extract the metadata from source and Browse it in order to find and create subsets of the metadata for use with other software tools
The Standard Export formats which include:
  • Safyr ERDiagrammer
  • Safyr Compare
  • Safyr Metadata Reporting (Excel format)
  • 1 data modeling tool (from Erwin Data Modeler, ER/Studio, or SAP PowerDesigner)
  • CSV and XML
The ability to extract metadata from as many instances of the source application licensed by the customer
A limit of 5 concurrent Safyr repositories (a Safyr repository stores the metadata from 1 instance of the source application. The content of a repository may be deleted and replaced)

Enterprise

Everything in our Standard licence, plus .....
Unlimited Safyr repositories (a Safyr repository stores the metadata from 1 instance of the source application).

Optional extras

  • Additional Application sources (in the Standard Safyr package each source adds 5 Repositories to the maximum allowed)
  • Additional Users
    • Extractor/Browser
    • Browser only
  • Additional Premium Export formats
    • Safyr JSON for Data Catalogs
    • Collibra Export
    • Informatica EDC Export

Please contact Silwood Technology or your Safyr reseller for specific pricing information.

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