Use of separate rib ledgers in a computerized enterprisere source planning system

Abstract

Enterprise management applications perform a “revenues increasing the budget” (RIB) operation on general ledger data and store elements of the general ledger data that have a RIB effect in another ledger, called the “RIB ledger”. RIB ledgers may include sets of RIB rules, storage for documents reflecting all relevant delta values together with the corresponding links to the underlying original transaction documents as well as storage for all relevant aggregated data. Accordingly, when audit operations are performed for RIB budget increases, relevant transaction data is readily available in the RIB ledger. Such copies of the data are more easily accessed than through a search of the larger set of general ledger data, thus facilitating and accelerating use of the RIB techniques in an online system.

1 . An enterprise management system, comprising:
 a transaction management system,   a transaction database to store data representing transactions accepted by the transaction management system,   a RIB rule manager executing RIB rules of a RIB ledger, and   a RIB ledger comprising a RIB rule set and a RIB database, the RIB database having objects storing data representing admitted transactions that are relevant to the RIB rules.   
   
   
       2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the RIB database stores aggregations of relevant actual revenues, of reference revenue budget and of budgetary updates generated by the RIB rules based on admitted transactions. 
   
   
       3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the transaction database stores data of actual revenue items already admitted, of reference revenue budget items and of budgetary updates generated therefrom pursuant to the RIB rules. 
   
   
       4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the RIB database stores pointers to documents and to data of the transaction database with the underlying RIB relevant transaction data and documents of the original transactions being stored in the transaction database. 
   
   
       5 - 18 . (canceled) 
   
   
       19 . A revenues increasing a budget (RIB) processing method, comprising:
 accepting a transaction into a transaction management system;   storing data representing the transaction in a transaction database;   determining that the transaction is relevant to one or more RIB rules of a RIB ledger, the RIB ledger comprising a RIB rule set and a RIB database, the RIB database having objects storing data representing admitted transactions that are relevant to the RIB rules; and   executing the relevant RIB rules by a RIB rule manager.   
   
   
       20 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the RIB database stores aggregations of relevant actual revenues, of reference revenue budget and of budgetary updates generated by the RIB rules based on admitted transactions. 
   
   
       21 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the transaction database stores data of actual revenue items already admitted, of reference revenue budget items and of budgetary updates generated therefrom pursuant to the RIB rules. 
   
   
       22 . The method of  claim 19 , wherein the RIB database stores pointers to documents and to data of the transaction database with the underlying RIB relevant transaction data and documents of the original transactions being stored in the transaction database. 
   
   
       23 . A computer readable storage medium storing program instructions related to revenues increasing a budget (R(B) that, when executed by a processing system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
 accepting a transaction into a transaction management system;   storing data representing the transaction in a transaction database;   determining that the transaction is relevant to one or more RIB rules of a RIB ledger, the RIB ledger comprising a RIB rule set and a RIB database, the RIB database having objects storing data representing admitted transactions that are relevant to the RIB rules; and   executing the relevant RIB rules by a RIB rule manager.   
   
   
       24 . The computer readable storage medium of  claim 23 , wherein the RIB database stores aggregations of relevant actual revenues, of reference revenue budget and of budgetary updates generated by the RIB rules based on admitted transactions. 
   
   
       25 . The computer readable storage medium of  claim 23 , wherein the transaction database stores data of actual revenue items already admitted, of reference revenue budget items and of budgetary updates generated therefrom pursuant to the RIB rules. 
   
   
       26 . The computer readable storage medium of  claim 23 , wherein the RIB database stores pointers to documents and to data of the transaction database with the underlying RIB relevant transaction data and documents of the original transactions being stored in the transaction database.