Change management

US7031787B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Kalthoff · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
• Thomas Vogt · Regensburg, DE
• Guenter Huber · Oberkirch, DE
• Guido Hoeckele · Maulbronn, DE
• Beate Koch · Echterdingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 18, 2006
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing change. The technique includes changing an object of a product creation process and accumulating the change without changing a baseline of a product structure associated with the product creation system if the change to the object is a soft change.