Architectural design for internal projects application software

US8321831B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Volker Faisst · Ilvesheim, DE
• Otfried Von Geisau · Sinsheim, DE
• Michael Meyringer · Wiesloch, DE
• Ralf Klein · Midlothian, US
• Dieter Krisch · Karlsruhe, DE
• Daniel Bock · Heidelberg, DE
• Edwin Himmelsbach · Heidelberg, DE
• Jens Freund · Heidelberg, DE
• Stefan Kaetker · Dossenheim, DE
• Gerd Moosmann · Pforzheim, DE
• Peter Latocha · Malsch, DE
• Bernd Schmitt · Lohr am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2012
• Expiry date: Aug 16, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing an internal projects application useful for planning and executing internal projects and measures, including network scheduling, resource staffing, cost estimation and management, time confirmation, and progress monitoring. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service interface operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Costing process component that maintains project cost estimates; an Accounting process component that records relevant business transactions; a Project Processing process component that structures, plans and executes simple, short-term measures and complex projects; and a Time and Labor Management process component that supports the definition of employees' planned working times as well as the recording of the actual working times and absences and their evaluation.