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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2009
Daniela Kantorova, Belmont, CA (US);
John Thuringer, Staines, GB;
Neil Ramsay, Madrid, ES;
Nigel King, San Mateo, CA (US);
Seamus Moran, Redwood City, CA (US);
Daniela Kantorova, Belmont, CA (US);
John Thuringer, Staines, GB;
Neil Ramsay, Madrid, ES;
Nigel King, San Mateo, CA (US);
Seamus Moran, Redwood City, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques implementable in an enterprise application or application suite for managing the organizational structure of an enterprise. In one set of embodiments, a single, unified hierarchy can be defined for the organizational structure of an enterprise. The unified hierarchy can include high-level nodes that correspond to entities common to different manifestations of the organizational structure (e.g., reporting structure, cost structure, etc.). The unified hierarchy can also include lower-level nodes that are unique to a particular manifestation. By defining a single, unified hierarchy in this manner, organizational changes in the enterprise can be modeled in the application/application suite by simply updating the unified hierarchy (rather than updating multiple hierarchies). In addition, the unified hierarchy can be used to facilitate security provisioning and reporting.