Patent ID: 7072822

Claim:
A method comprising: generating a deployment map that associates each of a set of enterprise planning models with a respective set of application servers, wherein each of the enterprise planning models is associated with a different enterprise planning session and defines a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes to represent an organization of an enterprise; processing jobs associated with the enterprise planning models with the respective sets of application servers according to the deployment map to perform one or more tasks associated with the enterprise planning sessions; receiving input modifying one or more of the enterprise planning models that defines a set of enterprise contributors, wherein each of the contributors is associated with a different slice of the modified enterprise planning model; upon accesses to an enterprise planning system by the contributors, communicating the input and data associated with the respective slices of the modified enterprise planning model to computing devices of the contributors; and processing the input to update the slices of the modified enterprise planning model on the computing devices of the contributors.