Business intelligence OLAP provider model and architecture

• US 20070027829A1
• Filed: 07/29/2005
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Graf, Arnd Peter
• Granted Patent: US 8,606,814 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/283 Multi-dimensional databases or data warehouses, e.g. MOLAP or ROLAP
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70

Abstract

According to some embodiments, a system, method, means and computer program code is provided including identifying a provider interface, the provider interface configured to map data items from a provider data model to a system data model, identifying a set of capabilities of the provider data model, transmitting data from the information provider to the business information system through the provider interface, and communicating the set of capabilities of the provider data model to the business information system.

Claims

1. A method for interfacing an information provider with a business information system, the method comprising:

identifying a provider interface, the provider interface configured to map data items from a provider data model to a system data model;

identifying a set of capabilities of the provider data model;

transmitting data from the information provider to the business information system through the provider interface; and

communicating the set of capabilities of the provider data model to the business information system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the business information system includes a consumer services layer and the transmitting data from the information provider to the business information system further includes:

transmitting result set data from the information provider to the consumer services layer.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

operating the consumer services layer to identify a missing capability of the result set data.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

operating the consumer services layer to supplement the result set data with at least a portion of the missing capability.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the identifying a missing capability includes:

identifying a response to a selection capability query from a consumer services layer.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

providing the supplemented result set to a front-end of the business information system.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the consumer services layer supplements the result set data by performing client functions including at least one of:

exception reporting, list calculation and document integration.

8. A system, comprising:

an information provider apparatus to (i) receive a query request, (ii) to present a response including provider data and a set of capabilities; and

a business information apparatus having a consumer services layer to (i) route the query request to the information provider apparatus, (ii) receive the response and identify at least one missing capability, (iii) supplement the response to include the at least one missing capability, and (iv) transmit the supplemented response to a user.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the consumer services layer further performs client functionalities including at least one of:

exception reporting, list calculation and document integration.

10. A medium storing processor-executable process steps, the process steps comprising:

identifying a provider interface, the provider interface configured to map data items from a provider data model to a system data model;

identifying a set of capabilities of the provider data model;

transmitting data from the information provider to the business information system through the provider interface; and

communicating the set of capabilities of the provider data model to the business information system.

11. The medium of claim 10, wherein the business information system includes a consumer services layer and the transmitting data from the information provider to the business information system further includes:

transmitting result set data from the information provider to the consumer services layer.

12. The medium of claim 11, the process steps further comprising:

operating the consumer services layer to identify a missing capability of the result set data.

13. The medium of claim 12, the process steps further comprising:

operating the consumer services layer to supplement the result set data with at least a portion of the missing capability.

14. The medium of claim 12, wherein the process step of identifying a missing capability includes:

identifying a response to a selection capability query from a consumer services layer.

15. The medium of claim 13, the process steps further comprising:

providing the supplemented result set to a front-end of the business information system.

16. The medium of claim 13, wherein the consumer services layer further supplements the result set data to perform client functionalities including at least one of:

exception reporting, list calculation and document integration.