The Universal Enterprise Infrastructure ("the infra") is an online database application system that conforms to standards promulgated by Neutral Third Party ("N3P"). The infra is a service that operates over the Internet.
Description
The Universal Enterprise Infrastructure ("the infra") is an organized body of related information similar in design to any privately-owned database application. Unlike an organization's private database software, however, business procedures and data stored on the infra can be shared by multiple organizations and consumers via the Internet.
In an organization's internal database application data can only be related—and procedures applied—to the information the database contains, or to other database applications with which it is compatible. The organization must employ custom software or web services to relate the application to incompatible database software. On the infra, business procedures and data are stored in a distributed, central repository by many owners—organizations and individuals. These owners retain separate, iron-clad control over their information, enjoying a level of security and privacy that meets or exceeds the level found in today's well-run organizations. Standardization lets developers easily relate data and apply procedures of one organization or individual to another, providing seamless interactivity among participating database applications.
Developers create infra applications in much the same way as standalone database programs except that, to avoid redundancy, individual procedures are stored in reusable templates and data replications are avoided. This approach lets developers assemble commonly-used data and procedures to create an unlimited variety of innovative applications.
A product of collaboration in a neutral environment, the infra is based on readily-available technologies and well-known principles. Members of the N3P ([1]) community contribute data and business procedures common to every industry and country, store them in a distributed database, and make them available to any device or computer connected to the Internet. Organizations use these shared, online components to achieve interoperability among existing database applications—-regardless of ownership, location, make, version or design. The infra also enables database applications to be designed expressly for delivery via the Internet.