Patent ID: 8914516

Claim:
A computerized method for providing an integrated suite of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications, the method comprising: receiving, at a server computing device from a client computing device, a request to access a portal comprising a plurality of cloud-based, hosted, and internal applications, the request to access including credentials associated with a user of the client computing device; determining, at the server computing device and based on the credentials, an identity of the user, and one or more applications of the plurality of applications available for access by the user; establishing, by the server computing device with one or more computing devices hosting the one or more available applications, a link for providing functionality of the available applications, wherein the establishing step includes authenticating the user automatically for each of the available applications; receiving, by the server computing device, a communication from a first available application, the communication intended for a second available application and including changed data associated with the first available application; determining, by the server computing device, an urgency type of the communication; mapping, by the server computing device, the changed data to a data structure associated with the second available application based on a mapping configuration stored at the server computing device; generating, by the server computing device, a request based on the urgency type and the second available application, the request including the data structure for updating a database associated with the second available application; sending, by the server computing device, the request to the second available application based on the urgency type; updating, by the server computing device, data in a database associated with the server computing device, the updating based on the changed data; integrating, by the server computing device, the established links into a user interface that provide access to each of the available applications; and providing, by the server computing device, the integrated user interface to the client computing device.