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Apparatus and method for integrating variable subsidiary information with main office information in an enterprise system

US7590987B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SAP AG · DE

Inventors

Christoph Behrendt · Schallstadt, DE
Werner Wolf · R. José Sebastião Soares, AT
Steffen Riemann · St. Leon-Rot, DE
Björn Müller-Punge · Blankenloch, DE
Hua Wang · Milpitas, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 4, 2003
Grant date	Sep 15, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 5, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L67/56
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention pertains to an enterprise-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, and in particular, to methods and systems for interfacing the enterprise-wide ERP system with ERP systems at subsidiary organizations. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method includes connecting to an enterprise data management system through a data base server, a web service and a data interface application programming interface (API) in a remote data system and through a data mapping component and an intermediate documents (IDOC) adapter in a data exchange interface using simple object address protocol (SOAP) messages and extensible markup language (XML) messages.

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