Consolidation Spaces for Multi-Instance Application Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Complex software use scenarios involving multiple software applications or instances are challenging due to varying landscape configurations and the need for cross-content integration, which can increase application size and complexity, and make installation and data management difficult.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of consolidation spaces and grouping technologies allows for the organization of applications and content across multiple instances, enabling consolidated access to data and separate management of cross-content, reducing complexity and improving installation processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cross-application content is included in application A to provide additional functionality, then application functionality is improved, but application size and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments cross-application content into separate, identifiable units that can be independently managed. Consolidation spaces divide the software landscape into distinct application boundaries while allowing controlled access to cross-content, preventing monolithic complexity growth in individual applications.
Solution Approach 2:
Consolidation spaces act as intermediary structures between applications. They provide a neutral layer that manages cross-application content access without requiring direct integration between applications, thereby maintaining application independence while enabling functionality sharing.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple software applications are made available to users for complex use scenarios, then functionality and data access are improved, but installation and data management complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
Consolidation spaces provide universal access mechanisms that work across multiple applications and instances. A single consolidation space can serve multiple applications, allowing users to access consolidated data through a unified interface rather than managing each application separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges access to multiple application instances through consolidation spaces. By combining data access pathways into a unified consolidation layer, the system simplifies user interaction while maintaining the underlying multiple-application architecture.
3Reliability
If separate instances of software are run for different regions or operations, then data security and compliance are improved, but data consolidation and access become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new dimensional layer (consolidation space) above the instance level. This allows data from multiple region-specific instances to be consolidated along a new dimension without compromising the security and compliance boundaries of individual instances. The consolidation space operates at a higher abstraction level.
Solution Approach 2:
Consolidation spaces create virtual copies or views of data from multiple instances without moving or duplicating the actual data storage. This allows consolidated access to instance data while maintaining the original security and compliance structures of each instance.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques and solutions are provided for grouping of applications, including application content, or other content useable by a computer-implemented process. In particular, a consolidation space is provided as a lightweight mechanism for this purpose. Identifiers are received for multiple landscape elements, where a landscape element can be an application, application content, or other content. A given landscape element has a type and has one or more artifacts. A consolidation space is generated for at least first and second landscape elements having a first type. A consolidation artifact is generated in the consolidation space, where the consolidation artifact references respective first and second instances of a first artifact in the first and second landscape elements.