Patent ID: 6922686

Claim:
A database integration management method for managing integrated material-object information into which material-object information about a material object distributed through a plurality of business categories is integrated, comprising the steps of: associating a material-object identification code identifying each individual material object with material-object information representing information about material object identified by the material-object identification code and storing the material-object identification code and the material-object information in a material-object information database in each of the business categories; sending the material-object identification code and the material-object information stored in the material-object information database in each business category to a database integration management apparatus; integrating items of material-object information having the same material-object identification code with each other among the material-object identification codes and items of material-object information received from the material-object information database in each business category to generate integrated material-object information, associating the material-object identification code with the integrated material-object information identified by the material-object identification code and storing the material-object identification code and the integrated material-object information in an integrated database of the database integration management apparatus; requesting the database integration management apparatus to send integrated material-object information associated with a given material-object identification code; reading the requested integrated material-object information from the integrated database and sending the integrated material-object information to the requester of the integrated material-object information; and, receiving and outputting said sent integrated material-object information.