International Business Machines Corporation

Derdre A Wessel

William Reilly

Anandakrishnan Narayanan

Charles Sidney Atkinson

Daniel P Huskey

Allen J Scribner, Iii

Shrish Javalkar

Hima K Goverdhana

A process and methodology are disclosed to maintain consistency across disparate systems. An interface is provided comprised of a fulfillment client in which to place orders, a middleware to pass data, manufacturing and shipment systems to process orders, and a shipping and packing information repository system to house data. The methodology implements, inter alia, remote function calls to the asynchronously/synchronously interfaced systems during defined points of order processing to establish the status of the systems availability and the status of the order at the exact time of a predetermined activity. Also, information regarding the order status is posted as both a displayed on-line message to a user and in distinct status fields for future review. Furthermore, this method dynamically reacts to failed communication through the resetting of orders to a previous state to ensure data integrity across the distributed computing environment.

Process and methodology to maintain consistency across disparate interfaced systems

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Derdre A Wessel