Abstract: A financial computer system in response to receiving a business object to be changed, a change type, and a effective date of the change, identifies all first transactions directly associated with the business object and identifies all second transactions not directly associated with the business object but that may be posted to the business object in the future. The system then displays the first transactions and the second transactions in a user interface.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a business process including a business process, an indicator for determining a value representing the performance of the business process, and a performance monitor adapted to evaluate the indicator to determine the performance of the business process. The indicator can be associated with workflow-enabled business process or with a control associated with the business process. The performance monitor compares the value of the indicator with a target value. The target value can be inherited from an organizational unit associated with the business process, a control, or set by a user. The performance monitor creates a report summarizing a change in the value of the indicator over a period of time. The performance monitor also initiates an audit process of the business process when the difference between the value of the indicator and the target value exceeds a tolerance range associated with the target value.

Abstract: An audit planning system enables users to plan effective audits by identifying audit units having potentially large impacts and risks on an enterprise and enabling users to select audit units to include in audits based on a variety of different criteria. The audit planning system displays the audit units of the enterprise and a visual indicator of the impact and risk associated with each audit unit. The audit planning system enables users to select the displayed audit units to plan an audit. The audit planning system may display audit units in an impacted financial statement, a tree map, a graph, and/or a table. The audit planning system may sort and/or display audit units with visual indicators specifying associated risks, impacts, materiality values, exposures, coverages, and/or audit costs. The audit planning system can further display visual indications of the changes in audit units' associated attributes over time.

Abstract: A system for displaying financial information includes a financial statement having a set of financial accounts, a set of business processes associated with the set of financial accounts, and an financial statement manager for displaying the financial statement and the associated set of business processes. The financial statement manager is further adapted to display the financial statement and the set of risks associated with the set of financial accounts, the financial statement and a set of risk controls associated with the set of financial accounts, and/or the financial statement and a set of sample transactions associated with the set of financial accounts. The financial statement manager is further adapted to import the financial statement, which can be encoded in XML format. The system includes a web server for displaying the financial statement and the associated set of business processes as a web page on a user's web browser.

Abstract: An audit system includes business processes that describe the operations of an enterprise, risks associated with the set of business processes that describe the dangers arising from the set of business processes, and risk controls associated with the risks that are intended to mitigate the effects of the risks. An audit manager can create an audit project from an audit project template derived from the business processes, the risks, and the risk controls. The audit manager can display the associations between the business processes, the risks, and the risk controls. A set of workflow-enabled applications are adapted to implement the business processes and the risk controls. A set of process procedures associated with the business processes provides documentation to employees assigned to perform the business processes. The set of process procedures also provide auditors with documentation on auditing the business processes.

Abstract: An audit planning system enables users to plan effective audits by identifying audit units having potentially large impacts and risks on an enterprise and enabling users to select audit units to include in audits based on a variety of different criteria. The audit planning system displays the audit units of the enterprise and a visual indicator of the impact and risk associated with each audit unit. The audit planning system enables users to select the displayed audit units to plan an audit. The audit planning system may display audit units in an impacted financial statement, a tree map, a graph, and/or a table. The audit planning system may sort and/or display audit units with visual indicators specifying associated risks, impacts, materiality values, exposures, coverages, and/or audit costs. The audit planning system can further display visual indications of the changes in audit units' associated attributes over time.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide for licensed feature enablement management for deploying software to be used in conformance with a software license agreement. The system includes a software application provider server that deploys a software application and a role hierarchy enumerating a list of roles and features of the software application that each role in the list of roles is licensed to use in accordance with a license agreement. The software application provider server further comprises a role examiner server that determines whether the deployed software application is being used in compliance with the software license. The system also includes a customer enterprise application server that receives the deployed application and role hierarchy and enables use of the application to customer employees based on their assigned roles. The customer enterprise application server comprises a role directory server that responds to queries from the role examiner to maintain conformance with the software license.

Abstract: Techniques implementable in an enterprise application or application suite for managing the organizational structure of an enterprise. In one set of embodiments, a single, unified hierarchy can be defined for the organizational structure of an enterprise. The unified hierarchy can include high-level nodes that correspond to entities common to different manifestations of the organizational structure (e.g., reporting structure, cost structure, etc.). The unified hierarchy can also include lower-level nodes that are unique to a particular manifestation. By defining a single, unified hierarchy in this manner, organizational changes in the enterprise can be modeled in the application/application suite by simply updating the unified hierarchy (rather than updating multiple hierarchies). In addition, the unified hierarchy can be used to facilitate security provisioning and reporting.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a platform for facilitating organizational restructuring. The system receives an organizational chart representing the organizational restructuring and applies business processes defining tasks that implement the organizational restructuring. The system manages communication among organizational entities based upon a task dependency model for the various tasks that implement the reorganization. The system then uses the task dependency model to determine that the organizational restructuring is complete.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that comprise a security policy verification system for verifying security policies. The system parses programming language code that implements security policies, and identifies annotations in the programming language code. The system then matches the annotations to the security policies to which the annotations correspond. The system then displays a natural language description of the security policy in a user interface.

Abstract: Techniques for supporting shared procurement services in an enterprise application. According to one set of embodiments, associations between procurement service providers and procurement clients are stored, where the associations represent outsourcing relationships between these entities in the operational structure of an enterprise. The associations are then used by the application to facilitate the management of procurement-related content and the processing of procurement transactions. In one embodiment, the associations enable procurement-related content to be created/managed centrally by a procurement service provider and then made accessible to procurement clients serviced by the procurement service provider. In another embodiment, a rules-driven mechanism is provided for routing procurement requisitions from procurement clients to associated procurement service providers for processing.

Abstract: Techniques for supporting shared procurement services in an enterprise application. According to one set of embodiments, associations between procurement service providers and procurement clients are stored, where the associations represent outsourcing relationships between these entities in the operational structure of an enterprise. The associations are then used by the application to facilitate the management of procurement-related content and the processing of procurement transactions. In one embodiment, the associations enable procurement-related content to be created/managed centrally by a procurement service provider and then made accessible to procurement clients serviced by the procurement service provider. In another embodiment, a rules-driven mechanism is provided for routing procurement requisitions from procurement clients to associated procurement service providers for processing.

Abstract: A wireless broadband communications system that provides increased reliability in environments in which portions of the available operating frequency band are subject to interference. The system determines whether the operating frequency band is being subjected to interference. If so, then the system determines whether such interference is affecting one or more portions of the band. If interference is affecting just portions of the band, then the system reduces the data rate and the number of sub-carriers used to transmit data. Next, the system allocates the data to be transmitted to the sub-carriers currently being subjected to the lowest levels of interference, while allocating no data to the sub-carriers currently being subjected to the highest levels of interference. In this way, the system allocates the data to be transmitted to the sub-carriers occupying optimal portions of the operating frequency band, in response to detected changes in the interference environment.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a security audit performed on a displayed page generated from an executing application are described. One example method includes determining one or more current objects on the displayed page and determining access rights to the one or more current objects. The method may further include comparing access rights of the one or more current objects to access rights assigned to a user to determine accessible objects and non-accessible objects. The accessible objects and the non-accessible objects are visually distinguished on the displayed page.

Abstract: A search system receives business intelligence dimensions and at least one text search term. The system generates and displays key performance indicators based on the business intelligence dimensions, and generates and displays search results based on the text search term. The search results are restricted by facets, and the facets are derived from the business intelligence dimensions.

Abstract: A framework for provisioning security in an enterprise application. In an embodiment, a set of in-house roles and a set of outsourced roles are defined for a business function in the application. When a business unit is selected to perform the business function in-house, data roles specific to that business unit/business function association are created based on the set of in-house roles. When a business unit is selected to perform the business function in an outsourced capacity, data roles specific to that outsourcing relationship are created based on the set of outsourced roles. The data roles may then be associated with one or more users in the selected business unit. Using this framework, the appropriate security roles and privileges for performing a business function in an outsourced and/or in-house context may be explicitly defined within the application system. In addition, the roles and privileges may be provisioned in an automated manner.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provide for providing role navigation design and verification. An embodiment includes displaying user interface having at least one secured element, identifying a first privilege needed for access the secured element, and associating the privilege with a role, whereby a user having the role may access the at least one secured element.

Abstract: Computer implemented methods provide a unified framework for the creation, evaluation and selection of requests for funding, of proposed projects and of proposed products within an enterprise. Processes enable the systematic gathering of assumptions that form the basis for generating proposals and project or product scenarios based upon changes in the assumptions. The generated scenarios may be evaluated against predefined criteria and predefined strategic objectives for the enterprise.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that logs the use of privileges in a distributed computing environment. The distributed computing environment includes a database system, one or more client applications, and a unified security management layer between the database system and the one or more client applications. During operation, the system receives a request from a client application to execute a business function in the distributed computing environment. The system determines a privilege associated with the requested business function, and logs that the request is associated with the privilege. The system then checks, in the unified security management layer, whether a user associated with the request is associated with a role that has the privilege. If the user is associated with a role that has the privilege, the system performs the requested business function.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and software associated with the development of a resource or production plan within an enterprise's integration system are described in the present disclosure. In one of many embodiments, a method is described. Upon obtaining a master planning schedule, the method includes evaluating an inventory of resource associated with the master planning schedule. A production schedule associated with the master planning schedule is evaluated. Also, the method includes estimating carbon emission information associated with the master planning schedule.