Patent ID: 8548954
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An enterprise management system, comprising: a server, including a transaction system executing on the server, the transaction system comprising a transactional application and data store associated therewith, the transaction system storing business objects comprising transaction data, a lifecycle date, and business logic defining at least one transaction process step; and a data store coupled to the server to store a rule set associated with the transaction system to be accessed by the transactional application during creation of business objects, the rule set storing data representing archiving policies for the enterprise management system, the transactional application to perform at least one transaction process step upon transaction data of the business object as determined by business logic of the business object and, upon completion of the at least one transaction process step, to compute on the server a new lifecycle date of the business object using data from the rule set and to store the computed lifecycle date in the business object following access to the rule set, the transactional application to provide identification of the business object and the computed lifecycle date of the business object for use by an archiving system prior to the execution of an archive process, and the archiving system, upon execution of a batch archive process, to compare lifecycle dates of stored business objects to a current date and archive business objects for which the lifecycle date is elapsed.