Patent ID: 8214325

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a query requesting information about an event in an enterprise system having multiple separate event data sources distributed among separate enterprise nodes, the receiving via a query routing node of the enterprise system, where the event includes a change in one or more structured data objects, the data sources being separate enterprise subsystems that generate the changes; parsing the query into component parts, where each component part relates to an item of information about the event needed to respond to the query as a whole, each component part is separately answerable by a different response from a data source, and where at least two component parts are related to events from data sources at different enterprise nodes; sending each component part to be routed to an enterprise node local to, and associated with, a data source advertised in the enterprise system as a source of the item of information; receiving responses to component parts from the separate enterprise nodes, at least one response including information about the event from the data source associated with each enterprise node, and not from a data warehouse that aggregates event information; and combining the responses to generate an event query response indicating a change of data at a data source.