APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPING AND MANAGING SOFTWARE INTER-OPERABILITY AND DATA INTEGRATION ACROSS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

摘要

The present invention provides apparatus and methods to achieve software inter-operability and data integration among information systems (100). Project data is retrieved from different software and encapsulated by developed objects. Developed objects are grouped into object groups. The encapsulated data is accessible from a centralized data repository (104) across a network (102). When requested by a client computer (106), encapsulated data is converted into network compatible format, a report is generated from the data and sent to the client computer (106).