Data Privacy Integration Reconfiguration Across Multi-System Landscapes

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Solution Overview

Problem

In complex cloud landscapes, maintaining consistent data across multiple systems with varying technologies and configurations is challenging, leading to inefficiencies and non-compliance with data processing and storage regulations.

Innovation Solution

A data stocktaking system collects inventory information to identify misconfigurations and inconsistencies, enabling automatic evaluation and reconfiguration of data privacy integration protocols and replication services to ensure consistent data management across systems.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual data consistency monitoring is performed across multiple systems, then data accuracy can be maintained, but resource consumption and time requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata consistencyVSAvoidmonitoring time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-monitoring of data consistency across multiple systems through integrated monitoring agents that continuously track data objects without requiring manual intervention. The monitoring system automatically detects misconfigurations and triggers reconfiguration processes, allowing the system to service itself and maintain data consistency while minimizing resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If comprehensive data monitoring is implemented across all systems, then misconfigurations can be detected, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconfiguration accuracyVSAvoidmonitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A centralized monitoring system acts as an intermediary between multiple distributed systems, coordinating data consistency monitoring and reconfiguration activities. The monitoring system receives data objects from various systems, evaluates their consistency, and manages reconfiguration processes, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If frequent data stocktaking is performed, then data inconsistencies are identified quickly, but processing overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinconsistency detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing energy
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs data stocktaking periodically at scheduled intervals rather than continuously, balancing the need for timely inconsistency detection with resource conservation. The monitoring system evaluates data objects at regular intervals, triggering reconfiguration processes only when inconsistencies are detected, thereby reducing unnecessary processing overhead while maintaining effective monitoring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS20260064434A1Landscape reconfiguration based on cross-system data stocktaking
Publication Date: 2026.03.05 SAP SE
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AI summary

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for data privacy. One example method includes receiving, from multiple systems in a multi-system landscape, data stocktaking data regarding objects in respective systems. The data stocktaking data comprises, for each respective system, a list of objects under processing in the respective system and a list of objects not under processing in the respective system. The data stocktaking data is evaluated at a central monitoring system to determine at least one misconfiguration of a data privacy integration component that manages data privacy integration in the multi-system landscape. For each identified misconfiguration, a reconfiguration of the data privacy integration component is identified. The identified reconfiguration of the data privacy integration component is applied to correct the misconfiguration.