Patent ID: 7383279
Filing Date: 2008-06-03
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for generating reports based on data existing in an enterprise computing network, comprising: a plurality of data stores, each of data stores supplying a data for a central repository; a central repository for storing the data collected from the plurality of data stores; a crawler service for continuously and repeatedly collecting data from the plurality of data stores and storing the data in the central repository, the crawler service only querying the data in the data stores that has been changed since a previous crawl; a unified reporting cube for pre-calculating measurements for data of interest in the central repository; a unified reporting cube administration user interface for defining said unified reporting cube, the unified reporting cube administration user interface enabling a user to: (i) create the unified reporting cube for the central repository; (ii) add one or more data stores that provide data for the central respository; (iii) remove one or more data stores that provide data for the central repository; (iv) select data dimensions for the unified reporting cube; and (v) deselect data dimensions for the unified reporting cube; and a unified reporting user interface for generating a report based on measurements pre-calculated by the unified reporting cube, the unified reporting user interface comprising a Web site accessible by the user, the unified reporting user interface providing access to the unified reporting cube, the unified reporting user interface including a selection of default reports customizable by the user.