International Business Machines Corporation

Cognos, Inc.

David S Bowen

Rasmus Borgsmidt

Jon M Sandles

Mark Antrobus

George Duncan Pearson

Brian S Humenansky

Leonard Roy Oppenheimer

Clarence Anthony Aschenbrener

John Martin Pitstick

Finuala Tarnoff

Techniques are described for sharing multidimensional data between software systems, such as enterprise software systems. Specifically, the techniques provide mechanisms for defining inter-application 'links' for automatically moving data among different databases associated with the enterprise software systems. For example, a system may include a first database storing multidimensional data for a first software application, and a second database storing multidimensional data for a second software application. The system further includes an interface by which an administrator defines a link that specifies a source area of the first database and a target area of the second database. A link control module automatically moves multidimensional data from the source area to the target area in accordance with the link. The link control module may automatically move the multidimensional data directly between live portions of the respective databases.

Automatically moving multidimensional data between live datacubes of enterprise software systems

Job scheduling for automatic movement of multidimensional data between live datacubes

An enterprise planning system includes a plurality of application servers, and an administration console to generate a deployment map that associates each of a set of enterprise planning models with a respective set of the application servers. The administration console, either automatically or in response to input from a system administrator, may finely control the allocation of computing resources to enterprise planning. The administrator console may adjust the deployment map based on approaching deadlines for the enterprise planning activities. When administrating a task associated with an enterprise planning activity, the administration console may break the task into a number of jobs, each job associated with a different slice of the model in accordance with the organizational hierarchy defined by the model. Consequently, allocation of computing resources to enterprise planning may be finely controlled, and may be adjusted to meet the current needs within the organizational hierarchy.

Deploying multiple enterprise planning models across clusters of application servers

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York, United Kingdom

David S Bowen