Patent ID: 8091082

Claim:
A method for updating enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, comprising: receiving a requested change for a object being generated or mitigated across a system landscape; comparing the requested change to a predetermined guideline to provide a real-time risk analysis of the object in a composite ERP framework of multiple change types at the same time; and preventing the requested change from propagating across the system landscape if the requested change violates the predetermined guideline based on the comparing; wherein the real-time risk analysis including: determining a system landscape route to transport the request change comprising: identifying transport origin and system identification, obtaining a customer defined transport route from a repository database, obtaining the system landscape for the system identification, and outputting the system landscape route if the system landscape route found in the repository database; and processing user based analysis comprising: receiving as inputs a name of a user, a date range, and exclusion parameters, excluding values from the input parameters according to the exclusion parameter, reading open transport requests for the user within the data range, determining if any objects included in the transport request are critical objects and output to web format; and performing mitigation exclusion based on the determination.