Patent ID: 8370371

Claim:
A system for processing data, the system comprising: an enterprise information platform including at least one processor and at least one business construct stored in a computer-readable medium of the enterprise information platform; at least one data mart in the enterprise information platform and supporting analytical requirements of a business function related to a corporate entity associated with the enterprise information platform; at least one analytic engine in the enterprise information platform operatively associated with the at least one data mart and implementing data derived from the at least one business construct to perform analyses related to the business function of the corporate entity; and wherein the at least one business construct is a standard interface file (“SIF”) that communicates data into an enterprise data exchange layer of the enterprise information platform and that comprises multiple attributes representing a business object of the corporate entity, wherein the attributes of the business object are commonly applicable to multiple versions of the same business object across multiple data sources; and wherein the at least one business construct maps data from at least one data source at an interim stage prior to loading the data into a data warehouse component operatively associated with the enterprise information platform; and wherein the at least one data mart supports generating reports associated with the business function of the corporate entity using the at least one business construct.