Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a customer project invoicing agreement, an engineering change case, a product design, a product design version hierarchy, and/or a project expense view business object.

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing alerts in a database are provided, whereby the alerts originate from at least one business application due to exceptional situations, and whereby the alerts are represented as objects, each object corresponding to one of a number of configurable alert types. Each of the alert type may be configured, so that alerts of that alert type comprise at least one of: an ID for uniquely identifying the alert, information representative of the type of alert, message text being descriptive of the alert, a set of parameters representative of business or control objects associated with the alert, an alert scope being representative of the relevance for partners or users, feedback information being representative of time and identity of acknowledging the alert by a partner or user, status information for controlling follow-up actions, validity time information, and priority information.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for encapsulating functions to select or filter alerts relevant for messaging to specific recipients, to create appropriate alert notification messages and to actively send them through various message channels. This may be done according to rules depending on content of alert, recipient, and time. As an example, the present invention allows selecting alerts from connected applications, to process them, and to send alert notification messages to the intended recipients.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and framework for administrating data objects in an information technology architecture comprising data objects and applications, wherein each application processes at least one of the data objects, the data objects being subject to changes, and wherein entries representative of data objects are registered in a first data structure; entries representative of applications are registered in a second data structure, each entry comprising specifying data objects whose changes are relevant for the respective application, the method performing the following elements: receiving notifications regarding registered data objects as to changes of the data objects; upon each receipt of a notification, getting changed data from the notifying data object; checking, among the registered applications, as to whether the change is relevant for the applications, notifying each application about the change if the change is relevant for the application; and transmitting the relevant changed data to th

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing alerts in a database are provided, whereby the alerts originate from at least one business application due to exceptional situations, and whereby the alerts are represented as objects, each object corresponding to one of a number of configurable alert types. Each of the alert type may be configured, so that alerts of that alert type comprise at least one of: an ID for uniquely identifying the alert, information representative of the type of alert, message text being descriptive of the alert, a set of parameters representative of business or control objects associated with the alert, an alert scope being representative of the relevance for partners or users, feedback information being representative of time and identity of acknowledging the alert by a partner or user, status information for controlling follow-up actions, validity time information, and priority information.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for encapsulating functions to select or filter alerts relevant for messaging to specific recipients, to create appropriate alert notification messages and to actively send them through various message channels. This may be done according to rules depending on content of alert, recipient, and time. As an example, the present invention allows selecting alerts from connected applications, to process them, and to send alert notification messages to the intended recipients.