Patent ID: 7725429

Claim:
A computer-implemented system, comprising: a storage medium stored therein a centralized master repository comprising core enterprise reference data; a storage medium stored therein an internal services framework coupled with the centralized master repository and providing internal services for managing the core enterprise reference data within the centralized master repository, one or more of the internal services having direct access to the core enterprise reference data stored in the centralized master repository for management purposes; a storage medium stored therein an infrastructure services layer coupled with the centralized master repository, comprising: a back side data access layer having an object-based control layer configured to: provide bulk data transfers of core enterprise reference data between the centralized master repository and one or more external operational systems having one or more enterprise solution components, according to one or more enterprise-level business workflows; provide the external operational systems with indirect access, for operational purposes, to associated external operation services within the system that indirectly access the core enterprise reference data stored in the centralized master repository; and map between the centralized master repository and the one or more enterprise solution components of the one or more external operation systems, the mapping having fixed transformations; and a front side data access layer configured to: transfer control data from the external operational systems to the system to control operations of the system; and provide the external operational systems with direct access to certain of the internal services that directly access the core enterprise reference data within the centralized core repository; and a database coupled with the centralized master repository storing the core enterprise reference data.