Integrating software applications

US8671392B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Jahr · Walldorf, DE
• Dennis W. Koerner · Memphis, US
• Ralf Mueller · Waldenbuch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 23, 2012
• Grant date: Mar 11, 2014
• Expiry date: May 22, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/60
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for integrating software applications include identifying an enterprise application executable in a first computing environment, where the enterprise application is compatible with a first version of a network application executable in a second computing environment so that a first set of functionality of the first version of the network application is exposed through the enterprise application. The features include identifying a second version of the network application executable in the second computing environment. The second version of the network application includes a second set of functionality at least partially distinct from the first set of functionality. The features include delivering an integration component from the second computing system to the first computing system. The integration component includes a non-modifying add-on component to the enterprise application that exposes at least a portion of the second set of functionality of the second version of the network application through the enterprise application.