Method for tracking transport requests and computer system with trackable transport requests

US7853651B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Demuth · Thornton, US
• Volker Schulz · Heppenheim, DE
• Herbert Stegmuller · Bruchsal, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 2005
• Grant date: Dec 14, 2010
• Expiry date: Feb 17, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/08
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for tracking transport requests in a system landscape comprising a central control system and a plurality of logical systems interconnected by logical transport paths, a transport request defining a software service for a system in the landscape, is described. The method includes feeding a transport request into a logical system of the plurality of logical systems; providing a data supplier in the logical system for supplying, to the central system, data supplier information containing information about the transport request; providing a data collector in the central system for obtaining the data supplier information and accordingly updating status data; and providing a tracking service in the central system, the tracking service allowing to analyze the status data.