Modeling of employee performance result data

• US 20070226049A1
• Filed: 05/21/2004
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Siebel Systems Inc. (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Muralitharan, Caroline, Barnes Leon, Maria, Mistry, Darayush, Vasquez Rico, Marcelo
• Granted Patent: US 7,865,390 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function

Abstract

An employee performance result class is defined that represents an employee performance result and identifies relationships of the employee performance result with various entities related to the employee performance result.

Claims

1. A method in a computer system for representing a class definition, the method comprising:

defining an employee performance result class representing an employee performance result, the employee performance result class identifying a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of entities related to the employee performance result includes entities selected from the group consisting of a related employee, related reviews, and a related time period.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the employee performance result class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the employee performance result class.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the one or more custom data fields of the employee performance result class are specific to an application.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

instantiating the employee performance result class; and

initializing data elements of the instantiated employee performance result class.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

transforming data received from a source application into a common format of the employee performance result class;

transforming the data from the common format into a target format of a target application; and

sending the data in the target format to the target application.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein a definition of the employee performance result class is represented as an XML schema.

8. A method for data transformation, the method comprising:

receiving employee performance result data from a source application; and

transforming the employee performance result data into a common format provided by an employee performance result class,

wherein the employee performance result class identifies a set of relationships of an employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the plurality of entities related to the employee performance result includes entities selected from the group consisting of a related employee, related reviews, and a related time period.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the employee performance result class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the employee performance result class.

11. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause a machine to perform a method comprising:

defining an employee performance result class representing an employee performance result, the employee performance result class identifying a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the plurality of entities related to the employee performance result includes entities selected from the group consisting of a related employee, related reviews, and a related time period.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the employee performance result class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the employee performance result class.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein a definition of the employee performance result class is represented as an XML schema.

15. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause a machine to perform a method comprising:

receiving employee performance result data from a source application; and

transforming the employee performance result data into a common format provided by an employee performance result class,

wherein the employee performance result class represents an employee performance result and identifies a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 15 wherein the plurality of entities related to the employee performance result includes entities selected from the group consisting of a related employee, related reviews, and a related time period.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 15 wherein the employee performance result class includes a custom data element for defining one or more custom data fields for the employee performance result class.

18. A system comprising:

a memory; and

at least on processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a set of instructions which cause the processor to define an employee performance result class representing an employee performance result, the employee performance result class identifying a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein the plurality of entities related to the employee performance result includes entities selected from the group consisting of a related employee, related reviews, and a related time period.

20. A system comprising:

a memory; and

at least on processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing a set of instructions which cause the processor to

receive employee performance result data from a source application, and

transform the employee performance result data into a common format provided by an employee performance result class,

wherein the employee performance result class represents an employee performance result and identifies a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.

21. The system of claim 20 wherein the plurality of entities related to the employee performance result includes entities selected from the group consisting of a related employee, related reviews, and a related time period.

22. An apparatus for representing a class definition, the apparatus comprising:

means for defining an employee performance result class representing an employee performance result of different types, the employee performance result class identifying a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.

23. An apparatus for data transformation, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving employee performance result data from a source application; and

means for transforming the employee performance result data into a common format provided by an employee performance result class,

wherein the employee performance result class represents the employee performance result and identifies a set of relationships of the employee performance result with a plurality of entities related to the employee performance result.