EXTENDABLE BUSINESS TYPE SYSTEM IN A PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

• US 20100146014A1
• Filed: 12/04/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ionescu, Marius, Yang, Mark Xiaohong, White, Kevin P., Dong, George Randy, Wang, Luming
• Application Number:
  US12/328,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20100146014A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Architecture for operating an industrial solution on top of a performance management platform using a custom business type library. The platform can plug/unplug the custom business type library, interacts with the type library to ensure data integrity and enforce business rules, and simplifies localizations of the industrial solution. The custom type library extends the capability to define specific behavior for models and dimensions, and create and define content specific to any industry, reuse, and packaging. The custom type library inherits from a generic type library of the platform. The customized type library defines business object types and associates business rules therewith. Through a common interface, the performance management platform can iterate through the business rule chains and enforce/apply the business rules during the operations.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented business customization system, comprising:

a definition component for declaratively defining business models and business dimensions for an industrial application as a custom business type library; and

an abstraction component for operating the industrial application on top of a performance management platform by seamlessly exposing functionality of the performance management platform to the industrial application via the custom business type library.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the definition component facilitates declaration of a model type, model properties, business rules, and business templates for the models.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the definition component facilitates the declaration of dimension attributes, dimension hierarchies and, dimension view metadata and associated reference data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the custom business type library is an XML file that imports to the performance management platform.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the custom business type library inherits from a generic type library of the performance management platform.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the abstraction component facilitates plugging and unplugging of the custom business type library into the performance management platform.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the custom business type library facilitates localization of the industrial application relative to a regional or enterprise implementation.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a validation component for validating correctness of the custom type library when importing the custom business type library into the performance management platform.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the abstraction component facilitates concurrent operation of multiple custom business type libraries for corresponding industrial applications.

10. A computer-implemented business customization system, comprising:

a definition component for declaratively defining business models and business dimensions for an industrial application as a custom business type library;

an abstraction component for operating the industrial application on top of a performance management platform by seamlessly exposing functionality of the performance management platform to the industrial application via the custom business type library, the custom library inheriting from a generic type library of the performance management platform; and

a validation component for validating correctness of the custom business type library when interfacing the custom type library to the performance management platform.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the definition component facilitates declaration of a model type, model properties, business rules, and business templates for the models and the declaration of dimension attributes, dimension hierarchies and, dimension view metadata and associated reference data.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the custom business type library is an XML file that imports to the performance management platform.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the abstraction component facilitates plugging and unplugging of the custom business type library into the performance management platform.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the custom business type library is stored as tables that list types and hierarchical structure, rules, and ownership constraints.

15. A computer-implemented method of customized implementation of an industrial application, comprising:

declaratively defining business models and business dimensions for an industrial application as a custom business type library;

exposing functionality of the performance management platform to the industrial application via the custom business type library; and

seamlessly operating the industrial application on top of a performance management platform using the custom business type library.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the business model is declaratively defined according to model type, model properties, business rules and business templates for the models.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the business dimension is declaratively defined according to dimension attributes, dimension hierarchies and, dimension view metadata and associated reference data.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising validating the custom business type library as part of importing the custom business type library into the performance management platform.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising creating rules templates and report templates for the business models.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the custom business type library inherits from a generic type library of the performance management platform.