Unified Key Figure Catalog for Distributed Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Businesses face challenges in measuring performance across distributed systems and accessing unified key figures due to limited access protocols and disparate data sources, which hinders consistent data management and efficient business assessments.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that makes key figures available for selection across distributed systems, allowing for unified access to data sources, computation of key figure values, and storage, while providing a common interface for accessing and publishing key figures, enabling comparisons and automatic updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If businesses use multiple distributed systems with different access protocols to access data from various electronic storage devices, then the software can access a wider range of data sources, but the complexity of data access and management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a key figure catalog and access function as an intermediary layer between distributed systems and electronic storage devices. The catalog stores standardized access paths to multiple data sources, allowing systems to access diverse data through a unified interface without directly implementing multiple access protocols, thus resolving the contradiction between access versatility and system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The key figure catalog serves as a universal access mechanism that can retrieve data from multiple different electronic storage devices through standardized paths. This multi-functional catalog allows any distributed system to access any stored key figure through the same interface, eliminating the need for system-specific access logic and reducing overall system complexity while maintaining broad access capability
2Productivity
If each software application accesses data from its own subset of electronic storage devices, then access protocols remain simple, but the ability to perform unified business assessments across the entire business is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges access paths to multiple electronic storage devices into a single key figure catalog that is accessible by all distributed systems. By combining previously fragmented data access into one centralized catalog, the system enables unified business assessments across the entire business while maintaining simple standardized access protocols, thus resolving the contradiction between assessment efficiency and data accessibility
3Reliability
If businesses maintain separate key figure definitions and data access methods in different distributed systems, then each system operates independently, but consistency of key figure values across systems deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The key figure catalog acts as an intermediary that centralizes the definition and storage of key figure identifiers and access paths. All distributed systems reference the same catalog entries, ensuring that key figure values remain consistent across systems. This centralized mediation approach maintains data consistency while avoiding the complexity of implementing and synchronizing separate key figure definitions in each system
Data Source
AI summary
In a computing system, key figures are made available for selection in an electronic data repository. The key figures are selectable by any of a plurality of distributed systems. A request for a key figure value calculation is received from one of the distributed systems, and request is made for an identifier of one of the key figures. Data is accessed for the key figure from at least one electronic data source, and the data is used to compute a value for the key figure. The value for the key figure is stored in an electronic storage location.