Patent ID: 8725678
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system of centrally managing managed data of an enterprise, comprising: an internal services framework tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage media and coupled with a centralized master repository, the internal services framework providing internal services that manages the managed data of an enterprise within the centralized master repository, one or more of the internal services directly accessing the managed data of the enterprise stored in the centralized master repository; an infrastructure services layer tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage media and coupled with the centralized master repository, the infrastructure services layer providing bulk data transfers of the managed data of the enterprise between the centralized master repository and one or more external operational systems comprising one or more enterprise solution components, according to one or more enterprise-level business workflows, the external operational systems permitted indirect access to the managed data of the enterprise stored in the centralized master repository, the infrastructure services layer further providing mapping between the centralized master repository and the one or more enterprise solution components of the one or more external operational systems, the mapping comprising transformations that remain reasonably fixed over time; a database comprising a cached data area comprising cached data representing managed data of the enterprise extracted from a managed data area in response to a processing request from one or more internal services and re-inserted into the managed data area following processing from one or more internal services; and wherein the managed data area stores the managed data of an enterprise as cached data in an intermediate state according to a manipulation process, the managed data of the enterprise is maintained as locked in its true state for read only access until completion of the manipulation process, outputting the intermediate state of the cached data related to the managed data of the enterprise to an entity of the enterprise, wherein one or more of the enterprise-level business workflows is embedded within the system and is wholly or partially automated using an enterprise-level workflow engine tangibly embodied on a computer-readable storage media to wholly or partially automate one or more enterprise-level business processes.