Patent ID: 7774224

Claim:
A method performed in an Enterprise Information System (EI system) of an organization, wherein the method comprises: retrieving, via a processor synchronizer of the EI system, a first event data set representing one or more events scheduled via a first electronic calendar system that is external to the organization, wherein the first electronic calendar system stores event data in a format that is incompatible with a plurality of user calendar applications within the organization and provides the first data set to the processor synchronizer in a corresponding incompatible format; transforming, via the processor synchronizer of the El system, the first event data set to a standardized defined event data format and transforming the first event data set from the standardized event data format to a third data format recognized by the plurality of user calendar applications within the organization when the plurality of user calendar applications within the organization do not support the standardized defined event data format; storing, via a centralized server database of the EI system, the first event data set as transformed by the processor synchronizer of the EI system; storing, via the centralized server database of the EI system, a second event data set representing one or more events scheduled by a second electronic calendar system, wherein the second electronic calendar system operates within the organization in conjunction with the plurality of user calendar applications of the organization; and presenting, via a graphical user interface of one of the plurality of user calendar applications within the organization, a scheduling view having at least a subset of the first event data set representing the one or more events as scheduled by the first electronic calendar system as transformed by the processor synchronizer into the standardized event data format or as transformed into the third data format, and further presenting within the same scheduling view, at least a subset of the second event data set representing the one or more events as scheduled by the second electronic calendar system.