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Christian Muenkel

Frank Brunswig

Peter Weddeling

Andreas Balzar

Stefan Unnebrink

Marco Pesarese

Peter John

Selcuk Imal

Atul Rajendra Prasad Tiwari

Guido Schroeder

Christopher Forkin

Jens Hertweck

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for retrieving metadata associated with data stored within a database system of an enterprise, the metadata being provided in a first format and being used by the first system to store and access the data, providing a document including the metadata provided in an interoperable format, processing, by a deployer, the document to provide analytics engine metadata in a second format, the analytics metadata being stored in the second system and being consumable by the DB-based analytics engine to access the data from the database system of the enterprise, and retrieving, by the DB-based analytics engine, the data from the database system of the enterprise based on the analytics metadata to provide analytics data based on the data.

Enabling data access by external cloud-based analytics system

A spreadsheet application platform facilitates accessing a spreadsheet stored using a spreadsheet database at a server computer. The spreadsheet application platform includes a computer-implemented social network, and a publisher may use the social network to publish a spreadsheet so that other users of the social network may subscribe to and access the spreadsheet's data. Further, a subscribed user may generate other spreadsheets that reference the publisher's spreadsheet via the application platform. When a stored value for a cell of the publisher's spreadsheet is updated at the spreadsheet database, the application platform may generate update requests for one or more target spreadsheet cells that reference the updated cell. An update request may indicate that a target cell is to be updated, and the application platform may process a plurality of update requests in parallel to update the stored values for a corresponding plurality of spreadsheet cells.

Methods and systems to facilitate providing spreadsheet and database data to users via a social network

A system and method for generating a display of a dataset for optimized visualization of the dataset are disclosed. A data area of the display is defined. The data area includes two or more dimensions, the intersection of which defines a graphical object having a set of visual attributes. One or more of the set of visual attributes of each graphical object in the data area is modified based on a value associated with each graphical object relative to a user-selectable measure.

Optimized visualization and analysis of tabular and multidimensional data

A system and method for enabling a Meta Object Facility (MOF) and a Java Metadata Interface (JMI) compliant service to access program resources. A system includes a metamodel repository and an application server. The metamodel repository is configured to store the program resources including metadata and one or more metamodels. The application server includes at least one application providing a first portion of the program resources. A first portion of the program resources are stored in a database associated with the application server. A second portion of the program resources are provided in at least one application of the application server, and programming language instances of the program resources are received by one or more applications independent of where the program resources are stored or provided.

Flexible access to metamodels, metadata, and other program resources

A method of managing user access to data includes detecting that a user seeks access to a data portion that belongs to a specified category. One or more authorizations are evaluated, each authorization having an authorization segment corresponding to the specified category. The method includes permitting the sought access to the data portion if at least one of the authorization segments corresponding to the specified category identifies the data portion to which access is sought. The method may permit access to data that falls within a union of granted authorizations. An authorization segment may correspond to a data dimension or to a meta dimension, such as an authorized action or data source, that does not directly relate to a data dimension.

Managing user access to data

Systems and methods for enabling a Meta Object Facility (MOF) compliant service for a metadata resource. The systems and methods employ a connector adapted to receive metadata from the metadata resource via a resource-specific application programming interface, and a metamodel repository storing one or more MOF models. The systems and methods further employ a persistence interface between the connector and metamodel repository. The persistence interface is configured to instantiate at least one MOF compliant service for the connector based on one of the MOF models in the metamodel repository.

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Schriesheim, Germany

Christian Muenkel