Patent ID: 7454423

Claim:
A system, comprising: at least two enterprise applications installed in sites across an organization; an enterprise link coupled to the at least two enterprise applications over a network, the enterprise link configured for real-time integration of disparate data from the at least two enterprise applications, the enterprise link continuously accepting data feeds from the at least two enterprise applications, and reformatting, synchronizing, and consolidating the disparate data; a data flow service coupled to the at least two enterprise applications and the enterprise link, the data flow service containing data flow plans for processing the disparate data received from the at least two enterprise applications through to the enterprise link in real-time, as soon as the data appears; and a data cache coupled to receive and store the reformatted, synchronized, and consolidated data from the enterprise link, wherein changes to the data in the data cache occur at a rate substantially matched with real-time data changes occurring in the at least two enterprise applications.