Patent ID: 7865390

Claim:
A method in a computer system comprising: defining, using a processor of the computer system, an employee performance result class, wherein the computer system is an integration server, the employee performance result class represents an employee performance result, and the employee performance result class is configured to identify a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result, allow employee performance result data in a source format to be transformed into employee performance result data in a common format, using a first transformation, and allow the employee performance result data in the common format to be transformed into employee performance result data in at least one target format, using a second transformation, the first transformation and the second transformation are different from one another, and the common format is provided by the employee performance result class; defining, using the processor, a business process,wherein the business process is configured to be used in controlling a plurality of business applications, the plurality of business applications are maintained on a plurality of business systems, and the plurality of business systems are coupled to the integration server; and transforming, using the processor, employee performance result data from a source business application into employee performance result data for a target business application, wherein the source business application is configured to use the source format, the target business application is configured to use the target format, the transforming uses the common format, and the transforming comprises creating an employee performance object by instantiating the employee performance result class, and invoking function of the employee result object in accordance with the business process.