Change notification agent

A computer-implemented method and framework for administrating data objects in an information technology architecture comprising data objects and applications, wherein each application processes at least one of the data objects, the data objects being subject to changes, and wherein entries representative of data objects are registered in a first data structure; entries representative of applications are registered in a second data structure, each entry comprising specifying data objects whose changes are relevant for the respective application, the method performing the following elements: receiving notifications regarding registered data objects as to changes of the data objects; upon each receipt of a notification, getting changed data from the notifying data object; checking, among the registered applications, as to whether the change is relevant for the applications, notifying each application about the change if the change is relevant for the application; and transmitting the relevant changed data to the application.