Patent ID: 8046441

Claim:
A method, comprising: a computer-implemented act of providing a hub environment, the hub environment comprising a hub web service access point, a hub transaction router, a hub messaging system, a hub adapter container, a hub adapter generator a hub enterprise information system (EIS) connector, and a hub management console; generating a plurality of spoke environments, at least one of the plurality of spoke environments comprising: a spoke web service access point; a spoke messaging system; an adapter container comprising: (i) one or more adapters configured to map data elements of one or more transaction types used for interactions between at least one EIS local to a first computer and at least one EIS local to a second computer to data fields of the at least one enterprise information system local to the second computer; and (ii) a pre-filter and a post filter for at least one of the one or more adapters, wherein the pre-filter and the post filter are used as part of an auditing service; a spoke EIS connector; a spoke configuration manager configured to define new transaction types, in communication with the hub environment, and process web service requests therefrom, wherein the spoke configuration manager configures the pre-filter and the post filter; and a spoke management server; deploying the plurality of spoke environments to one or more remote computers, at least one spoke environment of the plurality of spoke environments being deployed to the second computer for installation on the second computer; and exerting control over the plurality of at least one spoke environment deployed to the second computer via the hub environment, the exerting comprising: defining one or more new transaction types via the hub management console; generating, via the hub adapter generator, one or more new adapters configured to map data elements of the one or more new transaction types to data fields of at least one EIS local to the second computer; deploying the one or more new adapters and the one or more new transaction types from the hub environment to the at least one spoke environment deployed to the second computer; and deploying the one or more new adapters into the spoke adapter containers of the at least one spoke environment deployed to the second computer via at least one spoke configuration manager of the at least one spoke environment deployed to the second computer.