Enterprise services
enable you to carry out tasks related to Intellectual Property management by way of composite applications or within integration scenarios involving third-party systems.
For more information about enterprise services, see Service Oriented Architecture
on SAP Community Network
, at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/soa.
Process Component Intellectual Property Rights Inventory Management
The process component Intellectual Property Rights Inventory Management
enables access to the rights inventory in the Intellectual Property Management application in SAP CRM. In this way, companies can receive accurate and up-to-date information about the rights
availability of intellectual property (IP).
Business object — Intellectual Property Rights Availability Inquiry
This process component features the business object Intellectual Property Rights Availability Inquiry
, which is an inquiry into the rights to an Intellectual Property,
which can be restricted to a certain period of time, a certain market segment, and a certain quantity.
Operations
Simulate Inquiry Confirmation Rights Group
Used to check the rights availability status for several pieces of intellectual property
Simulate Inquiry Confirmation Rights Group as Bulk
Used to submit multiple simulated rights availability requests within the same service operation
Simulate Inquiry Single Product
Used to simulate the detailed rights availability of a single piece of intellectual property
Process Component License Usage Confirmation Processing
Business object — License Contract Usage Report
This process component features the business object License Contract Usage Report
, which is a master data object that contains license usage confirmation data.
Operations
Maintain Report as Bulk
Used to send a license usage confirmation report
Confirm Report as Bulk
Used to confirm receipt of license usage data
Process Component Product Data Maintenance
The process component Product Data Maintenance
enables a company to manage all product data that describes its tangible and intangible products and that is relevant to control its business processes, such as sales, purchasing, planning, production, and accounting
processes.
Business object — Intellectual Property
This process component features the business object Intellectual Property
which is a master data object that represents an Intellectual Property.
Operations
Create Intellectual Property
Used to create an instance of an Intellectual Property business object
Update Intellectual Property
Used to update an instance of the Intellectual Property business object
Find Intellectual Property Basic Data by Elements
Used to find Intellectual Properties according to search criteria and to display their basic data
Read Intellectual Property
Used to read the details of an Intellectual Property
To use the Enterprise Services associated with this business object, you must activate the business function Intellectual Property Management (CRM_IPM_1
).