Patent ID: 7159209

Claim:
For an integrated enterprise having, at least two applications, tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium executing on a computer, coupled together by an enterprise application integration system, a tool for analyzing inter-application calls between said at least two applications of said integrated enterprise, comprising: means for selection at least two inter-application calls for analysis thereof; and means for generating a data attribute matrix for said at least two inter-application calls; wherein a row of said data attribute matrix is assigned to each data attribute contained in at least one of said at least two inter-application calls and a column of said data attribute matrix is assigned to each one of said at least two inter-application calls; and means for marking said data attribute matrix to indicate which data attributes are contained in each one of said at least two inter-application calls; and means for generating and displaying on a graphical display of said data attribute matrix marked to indicate which data attributes are contained in each one of said at least two inter-application calls.