Unified data architecture for business process management

A computer-implemented method of processing business data, the method comprising:

• specifying a plurality of ontologies that are based on axioms and rules for processing the axioms, the ontologies written in subject-predicate-object (SPO) triplet format;
• generating a request to a presentation engine for presenting data to a user;
• specifying a representation of the SPO triplets in a particular context;
• wherein the context is specified by a particular ontology and representing an environment surrounding a particular event, object or individual that defines an interpretation of the user data, and any actions or operations on the user data in a particular situation, including a method of processing the user data;
• using a user-selected ontology, preparing a requested data representation,
• wherein rules needed to respond to the request from the user, based on one of the elements of the SPO triplet being responsive to the request, are compiled and processed by the engine, without re-compiling previously compiled rules,
• wherein a particular business application stores its data in multiple databases, and
• wherein the data in the SPO triplet format is processed and presented to the user in the particular context, including filtering the user data based on connections between objects established by the ontologies and the SPO triplets and adding new ontologies that include new rules, such that the processing includes performing operations on the axioms based on event-defined triggers specified by the rules and generating new axioms in the particular context, and transforming one set of SPO triplets into different set of SPO triplets.

A computer-implemented method of processing and presenting business data, the method comprising:

• storing rules and axioms in SPO (subject-predicate-object) format in multiple databases, wherein a particular business application stores its data in the multiple databases,
• the axioms representing facts;
• using a storage layer to connect to the multiple databases and maintaining a record of which data is stored in which database, the data comprising rules and axioms, the axioms representing user data;
• at least one ontology based on the rules and axioms, wherein the ontology corresponds to a particular data interpretation;
• wherein the storage layer permits working with the multiple databases simultaneously and permits a user to use the SPO triplets from the multiple databases simultaneously;
• transforming the axioms and their corresponding SPO triplets into a different set of SPO triplets, based on context provided by a business application that works with specific objects and ontologies, the context being defined by a particular ontology and representing an environment surrounding a particular event, object or individual that defines an interpretation of the user data, and any actions or operations on the user data in a particular situation, including a method of processing the user data;
• performing operations on the axioms based on event-driven triggers specified by the rules;
• adding new ontologies that include new rules and generating new axioms in the same context;
• processing requests from a business layer to transform the SPO triplets into the different set of SPO triplets;
• and
• presenting the different set of SPO triplets to the user based on the context, including filtering the user data based on connections between objects established by the ontologies and the SPO triplets.