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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2006
Burra Gopal, Redmond, WA (US);
Oleg Gregory Ovanesyan, Redmond, WA (US);
Rahul Kapoor, Redmond, WA (US);
Parul Manek, Redmond, WA (US);
Sandhya Jain, Redmond, WA (US);
Muthiah K. Annamalai, Redmond, WA (US);
Sharon E. Edelstein, Redmond, WA (US);
Peiwei Cao, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexandru Croicu, Redmond, WA (US);
Burra Gopal, Redmond, WA (US);
Oleg Gregory Ovanesyan, Redmond, WA (US);
Rahul Kapoor, Redmond, WA (US);
Parul Manek, Redmond, WA (US);
Sandhya Jain, Redmond, WA (US);
Muthiah K. Annamalai, Redmond, WA (US);
Sharon E. Edelstein, Redmond, WA (US);
Peiwei Cao, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexandru Croicu, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products detect and manage changes in business data integration (BDI) solutions. BDI solutions include extracting, mapping, or loading source information from disparate sources as targets presented to business applications that consume targets. A method involves detecting changes in a BDI solution, classifying each of the changes based on change severity, analyzing what objects would be impacted by the changes, determining whether the objects impacted by the changes can be change handled without user intervention, and change handling without user intervention all the objects impacted by changes that are not severe. Still further, the method involves committing changes to a metadata repository and creating a deployable checkpoint of the metadata repository where the deployable checkpoint is consistent for all the changes handled in the BDI solution. The modularized metadata describes an end-to-end information flow and underlying dependencies between the source information, mappings, targets and business applications.