Abstract: The present invention comprises a centrally-maintained electronic grid-based calculator and requisite service-oriented architecture to expose the calculator's computational facilities as a service to remote users. Furthermore, the present invention provides a server-side automation architecture of the electronic grid-based calculator which facilitates the distribution of intellectual capital throughout the business enterprise while providing real-time collection, analysis, and reporting of each distributed calculator while facilitating data production, data concurrency, data validation, data security, version control, audit trail, centralized reporting, internal control, quality control, computation, editing and communication.