Database system for facilitating comparison of related information stored in a distributed resource

摘要

A database system and application for facilitating comparison of data between manufacturing lines or other business processes which are geographically separated or distributed includes a storage arrangement in which data from remote locations is shadowed and can be updated as necessary only from remote locations. The Intersite Line Comparison system (ILC) also controls the invoking of other applications in a manner which is transparent to the user and dynamically builds data comparisons in desired formats under user-friendly, menu-driven control. Automatic data conversion, including tables of equivalent groups of operations at different sites is provided to facilitate meaningful comparison of data from different sites.