Method and system for managing enterprise content

Abstract

A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store.

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PRIORITY CLAIM[0001]This application claims benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 981,759 titled “Method and System for Managing Enterprise Content” filed on Oct. 22, 2007, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.COPYRIGHT NOTICE[0002]The present application includes material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner does not object to the facsimile reproduction of the application by any person as the application appears in the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but otherwise reserves all rights in the copyright.BACKGROUND[0003]There are business processes wherein a worker needs to access data (also referred to as “structured data”) and documents (also referred to as “unstructured data” and as “content”) that are generated by a variety of different enterprise systems and stored in a variety of different data stores in order to perform some task that is consistent with their functional rol...

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Benefits of technology

[0012]A method and system can be directed to providing a consistent flow of documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system can include a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Using this method a business analyst can create solutions (design content flows) without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store (or object context).

Problems solved by technology

This problem grows proportionally when considering that a typical organization will have many departments, each with many department processes, and many different types of content that is accessed by individuals in departments other than the department that maintains the content.

These are sufficient for many, but not all purposes.

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