Efficient access to user-related data for determining usage of enterprise resource systems

摘要

An example embodiment may involve a method performed by a software application executable on a central enterprise resource planning (ERP) client of a plurality of ERP clients. The ERP clients may be contained within a managed network. Each ERP client may be associated with one or more computing devices of the managed network on which ERP software is executable. Each ERP client may include a database that stores user-related data for individual users of the managed network whom are authorized to access the ERP client. The method may involve communicating with other ERP clients of the plurality of ERP clients to retrieve the user-related data stored in databases of the other ERP clients, storing the user-related data from the other ERP clients, and transmitting the user-related data to a computing device of a computational instance contained in a remote network management platform associated with the managed network.