Patent ID: 8463660

Claim:
A system for managing data for assets, the system comprising: a system server having a plurality of applications executing thereon, including at least one input template procedure, to determine input data fields for at least one of the assets, based, at least in part, on a category of the at least one of the assets, so as to generate a form with a form generator, the form containing the input data fields for the category, the input data fields being specific to, and particularly relevant for, the category, wherein the at least one input template procedure includes an output point generator that receives at least one user-selected output system accessible by a user, from a plurality of output systems, on which data entered via the input data fields is to be displayed, the output point generator, generates output points specific to the selected at least one output system, wherein the at least one input template procedure further includes a linking definition generator that, based upon the output points generates linking definitions specific to the category, wherein the at least one input template procedure further includes an input data field generator that generates the input data fields to contain in the form based upon the linking definitions; a system database in communication with the system server that stores each form corresponding to each category, respectively; and wherein the at least one input template procedure generates a plurality of data exports that the user selects to load on each of the plurality of output systems.