Business Application Integration via XML Standardization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Integrating data and user interfaces from external business applications with internal business applications is complex and difficult, requiring a method to efficiently combine them in a consistent and user-friendly manner.
Innovation Solution
A system that maps external business application outputs to XML format, allowing internal applications to specify data and user interface elements, with transform options and format overrides for seamless integration, using a web engine, logical UI, and XML layers to process requests and responses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If companies integrate external business applications with internal business applications using traditional methods, then data and user interface elements can be combined, but the integration process becomes complex and difficult requiring developers to learn various formats
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a common interface layer that standardizes interactions between internal and external business applications. The integration framework provides universal data models, authentication mechanisms, and communication protocols that work across different application types, eliminating the need for format-specific integration code and reducing developer learning requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements an intermediary integration framework that sits between internal and external business applications. This mediator layer handles format conversion, data mapping, and protocol translation automatically, shielding developers from the complexity of direct integrations while maintaining flexible adaptability to different external application interfaces
2Adaptability or versatility
If developers work with multiple external business application formats, then they can access diverse data sources, but they must learn and maintain knowledge of various different formats
Solution Approach 1:
The integration framework provides a universal data access layer that presents a consistent interface to developers regardless of the underlying external application format. Standardized data models and abstraction layers allow developers to access diverse data sources using uniform syntax and methods, eliminating the need to learn multiple format-specific APIs
3Productivity
If traditional integration methods are used to combine data and user interfaces, then integration is achieved, but the result lacks consistency and user-friendliness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes universal design guidelines and standardized component libraries that ensure consistent user interfaces across integrations of different external applications. The framework provides uniform navigation patterns, data presentation formats, and interaction models that maintain interface consistency while enabling efficient integration of diverse applications
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AI summary
A method and system for integrating business application elements of an external business application into an internal business application where the integration system maps the output of external business applications to a Extensible Markup Language (“XML”) format. The XML format defines a standard format for the business application elements generated by the external business applications and provided to the internal business applications by the integration system. When developing a new internal business application, developers can work with the XML formatted elements provided by the integration system without having to learn the different formats provided by the various external business applications. The integration system is responsible for converting the data generated by the external business application to the XML format.