Managing consistent interfaces for financial instrument business objects across heterogeneous systems

• US 8,566,185 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2008
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Bartelt, Joerg, Endesfelder, Dirk, Erdelmeier, Martin, Richter, Rainer, Wanninger, Manfred, Von Glan, Sarah
• Primary Examiner(s): Gart, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): PARIKH, HARSHAD R
• Application Number:
  US12/147,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20090327106A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,944 Days
• Field of Search: 705/30, 705/10, 705/35
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting

Abstract

A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result, a financial instrument position accounting valuation analytical result, a financial instrument position accrual analytical result, a financial instrument position fair value analytical result, and/or a financial instrument position period average volume analytical result business object.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result service, the medium comprising:

program code for receiving via a message-based interface derived from a common business object model, where the common business object model includes business objects having relationships that enable derivation of message packages, the message-based interface exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry and from a heterogeneous application executing in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services, a first message for requesting creation of a profitability analysis scenario for providing a key figure-based view of the performance of a bank, including information that a ledger for financial instruments can use to create or cancel one or more analytical results for an accounting period total, the first message including a first message package derived from the common business object model and hierarchically organized in memory, the hierarchical organization of the first message package including;

at a first hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result create request message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result package, where the financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result package includes, at a second hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result entity and an item package, where the financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result entity includes, at a third hierarchical level within the first message package, a group ID, a financial instrument ID, a company ID, a set of books ID, a fiscal year ID, an accounting period ID, a financial instrument category code, and a creation date time, where the item package includes, at the third hierarchical level within the first message package, at least one item entity, where each item entity includes, at a fourth hierarchical level within the first message package, an ID and at least one posting key figure, and where each posting key figure includes, at a fifth hierarchical level within the first message package, a financial instrument posting key figure code and a financial instrument posting key figure value;

program code for processing the first message based on the hierarchical organization of the first message package, where processing the first message includes unpacking the first message package based on the first message package'"'"'s structure and the first message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, wherein the particular structure of the first message package is used at least in part to identify the purpose of the first message; and

program code for sending a second message to the heterogeneous application responsive to the first message, where the second message includes a second message package derived from the common business object model to provide consistent semantics with the first message package.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result package further includes a characteristic value package, where the characteristic value package includes at least one characteristic value entity, where each characteristic value entity includes a financial instrument position characteristic ID and a financial instrument position characteristic value.

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein the financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result entity further includes at least one of the following:

a standardized financial instrument account ID, a financial instrument position characteristic value combination ID, an organizational center ID, and a validity end date.

4. A distributed system operating in a landscape of computer systems providing message-based services defined in a service registry, the system comprising:

at least one processor operable to execute computer readable instructions embodied on tangible media;

a graphical user interface comprising computer readable instructions executable by the at least one processor, embedded on tangible media, for requesting creation of a profitability analysis scenario for providing a key figure-based view of the performance of a bank, including information that a ledger for financial instruments can use to create or cancel one or more analytical results for an accounting period total, using a request;

a first memory storing a user interface controller for processing the request when executed by the at least one processor and involving a message including a message package derived from a common business object model, where the common business object model includes business objects having relationships that enable derivation of message-based service interfaces and message packages, the message package hierarchically organized, the hierarchical organization of the message package including;

at a first hierarchical level within the message package, a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result create request message entity; and

at the first hierarchical level within the message package, a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result package, where the financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result package includes, at a second hierarchical level within the message package, a financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result entity and an item package, where the financial instrument position accounting period total analytical result entity includes, at a third hierarchical level within the message package, a group ID, a financial instrument ID, a company ID, a set of books ID, a fiscal year ID, an accounting period ID, a financial instrument category code, and a creation date time, where the item package includes, at the third hierarchical level within the message package, at least one item entity, where each item entity includes, at a fourth hierarchical level within the message package, an ID and at least one posting key figure, and where each posting key figure includes, at a fifth hierarchical level within the message package, a financial instrument posting key figure code and a financial instrument posting key figure value; and

a second memory, remote from the graphical user interface, storing a plurality of message-based service interfaces derived from the common business object model to provide consistent semantics with messages derived from the common business object model, where one of the message-based service interfaces is operable to process the message via the service interface when executed by the at least one processor, where processing the message includes unpacking the message package based on the message package'"'"'s structure and the message package'"'"'s derivation from the common business object model, where the specific hierarchical organization of the message package is used at least in part to identify the purpose of the message.

5. The distributed system of claim 4, wherein the first memory is physically remote from the graphical user interface.

6. The distributed system of claim 4, wherein the first memory is physically remote from the second memory.