Embarcadero Webinar: Case Study Presentation on Data Modeling for SAP Applications

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/21/15 — is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 to present a case study on data modeling for SAP applications, providing insights for data professionals and database administrators. The online webinar will profile how Boeing used Silwood Technology–s Safyr solution to integrate SAP into their ER/Studio® environment. The webinar will be hosted by Ron Huizenga, senior product manager at Embarcadero Technologies; Lorin Yeaton, data architect with Boeing Technology; and Nick Porter, technical director and Roland Bullivant, sales and marketing manager with Silwood Technology.

It is essential to understand all relevant corporate data to support critical initiatives such as data warehouse and analytics, as well as governance focused activities such as data quality and master data management. Data modelling is the means to map the corporate data landscape in order to achieve this level of understanding across traditional relational databases, Big Data, and ERP solutions. A typical first step is to reverse engineer these databases and data stores into data models. However, most ERP solutions present additional challenges in exposing the foundational metadata. This gap is bridged by utilising Safyr to extract the metadata from the internal dictionaries. This is a vital step for customers who have SAP, Oracle, Salesforce or other ERP and SaaS applications, and need to understand data structures for use with ER/Studio. This reduces cost, time and risk by using a tool to extract and integrate key metadata.

This case study presentation will provide insights into why Boeing chose Silwood–s Safyr solution to integrate SAP into their ER/Studio environment, and resulting productivity improvements, including:

Integrating metadata in their data dictionary

Creating submodels to improve navigation of data models

Producing master files for data governance

This is a 60-minute live webinar (45-minute presentation followed by Q&A). Participants will be able to submit questions during the webinar. Following the webinar, an on-demand replay as well as a PDF of the slide presentation will be available to registrants.

Online registration for the Webinar is now open at:

Ron Huizenga is the Senior Product Manager for Embarcadero–s ER/Studio product family. Ron has more than 30 years of experience as an IT executive and consultant in Enterprise Data Architecture, Governance, Business Process Reengineering and Improvement, Program/Project Management, Software Development and Business Management.

Lorin Yeaton is a Data Architect in the Data Management team at Boeing, where he has been employed for almost 30 years. The last 20 years have been spent in data management disciplines and environments, including a large Oracle Integrated Operational Data Store and application, a Teradata Data Warehouse for 787 Engineering, manufacturing, quality, ERP and planning data, and most recently for an SAP implementation in support of the Material Management (Spares) organization, a multi-billion dollar subset of Boeing–s business.

Nick Porter has more than 30 years of IT experience. He has spent the last 20 years in the Information Architecture space, providing tools and consulting to support projects needing an understanding of data structures for ERP applications.

Roland Bullivant has more than 30 years– experience in Direct and Partner Sales, Marketing and Product Management in the Software industry. Much of this time has been spent helping customers and partners increase the value they gain from Integration, Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics, Master Data Management, and Governance initiatives.

Lorin Yeaton @Boeing presenting case study on #DataModeling for SAP Applications using @Silwood_Safyr and @ERStudio

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance, and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. To learn more, please visit .

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