Patent ID: 8352427

Claim:
A method for inter-system communications between diverse participating systems having different data formats, the method comprising: receiving data from a first system; storing the received data in physical indexes in an in-memory database, wherein each physical index is associated with data related to a respective one or more types of business objects and wherein the each physical index is linked to a mapping view having mapping information of various data formats used by the diverse participating systems for the respective one or more types of business objects; determining a second system to inform of the received data using a system assignment table, wherein the first system and second system are designated as a source system and a target system, respectively, wherein the system assignment table includes a source system identifier, a target system identifier, an index identifier, an index field, and an index field value; and informing the second system of the received data only when the index identifier has a particular value and when the index field value matches a value-associated with an index field of the received data.