Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a standardized interpretive engine

A system, comprising:

• a host system comprising a computer processor;
• and
• a standardized interpretive engine executing on the computer processor, the standardized interpretive engine performing:
• externalizing a business requirement into a component class of a data control structure, the component class independent of other component classes in the data control structure such that a business rule for the component class is applied to a single set of raw data without impacting business rules of the other component classes, the component classes representing both real-world physical elements and logical elements created for business analysis;
• defining a solution to the business requirement;
• entering the solution into metadata within the component class;
• pulling data from a data warehouse into the component class based upon the business requirement, the pulling data comprising aggregating sub-tending data from the data warehouse, the aggregating specified to a level requested via the component class;
• and
• performing a calculation on the data in accordance with the business requirement;
• wherein the pulling data includes pulling the data away from the data warehouse and forward to the component class, such that a single data source associated with the data is usable multiple times for a plurality of component classes.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodied with instructions, which when executed by a computer processor cause the computer processor to implement a method, the method comprising:

• externalizing a business requirement into a component class of a data control structure, the component class independent of other component classes in the data control structure such that a business rule for the component class is applied to a single set of raw data without impacting business rules of the other component classes, the component classes representing both real-world physical elements and logical elements created for business analysis;
• defining a solution to the business requirement;
• entering the solution into metadata within the component class;
• pulling data from a data warehouse into the component class based upon the business requirement, the pulling data including aggregating sub-tending data from the warehouse, the aggregating specified to a level requested via the component class;
• and
• performing a calculation on the data in accordance with the business requirement;
• wherein the pulling data includes pulling the data away from the data warehouse and forward to the component class, such that a single data source associated with the data is usable multiple times for a plurality of component classes.