SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACING AND/OR EVALUATING THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION

The invention relates to a system and a method for tracing and evaluating the communication of software applications, especially MES applications in an entire system. The tracing and evaluation can be carried out progressively or step-by-step on a project level, an adapter level and a port level, i.e. individual communication connections and individual applications, but the entire project is also traced by (even heterogeneous) application environments. The tracing and evaluation mechanisms enable higher-level services to access online the archived trace and error data at all times. An example of one such service is the generation of a report in the pharmaceutical field, indicating the materials used and sent in production orders.