Patent ID: 8612285
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of providing an assessment, the method comprising: making, using one or more processors, key figures available for selection from a catalog of key figures in an electronic data repository, each of the key figures associated with a quantifiable measure that can be expressed as one or more key figure values for use in a business assessment, wherein the electronic data repository serves as a central location for storing and maintaining the key figures, the key figures selectable by any of a plurality of distributed computing systems such that a user at any of the plurality of distributed computing systems has system-wide access to all available key figure data for key figure value calculations for any of the key figures available in the catalog of key figures in the electronic data repository; receiving, at the central location and from the user at one of the distributed computing systems, a request for a key figure value calculation for a key figure selected by the user from the electronic data repository, the request being transmitted by the one of the distributed computing systems associated with the user, and requesting an identifier of one of the key figures; accessing, using the one or more processors, key figure data for the key figure from two or more electronic data sources, each accessed electronic data source having stored therein key figure data associated with the requested key figure value calculation, wherein accessing the key figure data includes using an access function that defines a path to each of the two or more electronic data sources, and that defines protocol information for gaining access to each of the two or more electronic data sources; determining, using the one or more processors and the accessed key figure data, a value for the key figure; and providing the determined value for the key figure to the one of the distributed computing systems associated with the user in response to the request.