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Ingo Bruss

Horst Schaude

Knut Heusermann

Christiane Kuntz-Mayr

Michael Bauer

Andreas F Morsch

Juan Carlos Martinez

Bare Said

Bernd Schmitt

Michael Neumann

Michael Meyringer

Dirk Henrich

Toralf Grossmann

Andreas Huppert

Matthias Schmitt

Christoph Kernke

Andreas Neumann

Joachim Brechtel

Silke Storch

Florian Rehfeld

Hendrik Geipel

Martin Rogge

Joachim Puteick

Ashwin Reddy Yeddula

Andrea Pluemper

Kai-Uwe Pielka

Stefan Miller

Klaus Bahr

An object may be categorized upon distribution of the object from a sender system to a recipient system. The object may be assigned to at least one recipient category in a recipient category hierarchy according to a first predefined mapping from a sender category hierarchy to the recipient category hierarchy. The object is initially assigned to a sender category in the sender category hierarchy. There is applied to the object a second predefined mapping from the recipient category hierarchy to the sender category hierarchy. It is determined whether the first and second predefined mappings converge. If the first and second predefined mappings do not converge, there may be executed a rule-based reassignment algorithm to make the first and second predefined mappings converge.

Categorizing an object

Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having foundation layer functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.

Foundation layer for services based enterprise software architecture

In an embodiment of a computer-based system, a database and attributes to access that database are provided. The computer-based system is configured for one or more process controls, each of the one or more process controls comprising a subset of the plurality of attributes. The computer-based system is further configured to enable access to the database using the one or more process controls.

System and method for process controls in master data modeling

A method of controlling transactions includes segmenting master data into separate process control data for a particular business process of a business organization, such as for example, materials to be the subject of transactions. A status may be set for each process control data. The method includes controlling storing of the process control data into the master data as a function of the status. Transactions may be processed using process control data as a function of the status of the corresponding process control data status.

Process control segmentation of master data

Data administration may be managed by receiving in a computer system a first input identifying a data object to be assigned to a control object in the computer system. A second input for the control object is received in the computer system. The second input specifies a relationship between 1) model-level changes to the data object, and 2) instance-level changes to the data object. After the first and second inputs are received, the control object is sent to another computer system. The control object may be accessed to determine whether a system is authorized to make an object change. This access can be by the system about to make the change, or by a system that receives the object change from another system.

Managing data administration

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