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20110082715 | META DATA MODEL FOR MANAGING WORK PRODUCTS AND DELIVERABLES - A method and program product for managing work products by utilizing a data model that provides traceability between business requirements and implemented services. The data model includes functional requirement, process element, business service, service design and service component asset types, and the relationships between the asset types. The asset types and the relationships provide a tracing between the functional requirement and the implemented service. In one embodiment, the tracing includes generating a series of displays in response to hyperlink selections. The series of displays include details of related instances of the functional requirement, process element, business service, service design, and service component asset types. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082716 | System for Discovering Business Processes from Noisy Activities Logs - A system for discovering business processes from noisy activities logs from various activities performed during the execution of the process. Activities are observed from the noisy activity logs that may include text from manually entered activity logs, chat scripts, emails, voice transcripts, desktop captures, and tool logs, wherein the noisy activity logs are received from multiple person/tool actors with each of the actors performing one or more activities related to one/more business tasks. Extracting information from the noisy activity logs to capture activity based information, and then analyzing similar activities and finding possible paths in the similar activities. The results are used to build a process graph based on the similar activities and the possible paths in the similar activities. | 04-07-2011 |
20110087507 | Cost Standard Determining System for Calculating Commitment Fee - A cost standard determination system and a cost standard calculation module are provided. The system enables the operational effort of a store operation by a store operator to be reflected in a commitment fee, thereby promoting the independence support of employees. A cost standard is a value serving as a basis for the calculation of a commitment fee paid by a store owner who owns the store to the store operator to whom the store operation is committed and is used as a reference value for evaluating the operation of the store by the store operator. The cost standard calculation module has five cost standard calculation processing functions corresponding to five cost attributes (controllable attribute, permittable attribute, controllable & permittable attribute, uncontrollable attribute, and uncontrollable-based-charge attribute) and calculates a proper cost standard for each of a plurality of accounts on the cost by selectively using the five cost standard calculation processing functions. | 04-14-2011 |
20110087508 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND MANAGING VARIOUS OPERATING PARAMETERS OF ENTERPRISE ASSETS - Various embodiments of methods and systems described herein relate to tracking and/or managing any combination of energy consumption, GHG emissions, carbon credits, and/or costs associated with one or more pieces of equipment, one or more sites, or an entire enterprise. | 04-14-2011 |
20110099039 | ASSISTING FAILURE DIAGNOSIS IN A SYSTEM - A method of assisting failure diagnosis in a system includes obtaining data including a probabilistic Bayesian Network describing a set of failures, a set of symptoms and probabilities of at least some of the symptoms being associated with at least some of the failures in a system. A cost value representing a cost associated with learning of a presence or absence of the symptom is obtained for at least some of the symptoms, as well as a plurality of information values, e.g. values representing measures of information gained by learning of the presence or absence of the symptom in relation to a respective plurality of the failures, associated with the symptom. The method then computes an information-for-cost value for the symptom based on the cost value and the plurality of information values. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106575 | INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY (IT) ESTIMATION MODELING - In general, the present invention provides a technique for IT estimation modeling of any organization. Although this estimation model is applied to SOA herein, it is not limited to solely estimating SOA activities; the maturity-based estimation modeling can be applied to other areas and disciplines, even beyond the IT industry. The maturity-based model of the present invention also offers executives and project managers a very effective estimating tool to analyze the impact of project variances. Resources do not need to be taken off projects and assigned to perform estimations, as this model acquires knowledge over time and delivers ever more precise estimates with each successive project. Executives and project managers may analyze the effects of additional staff, function changes, or other events to an overall project. Additionally, new projects may be estimated without utilizing current personnel with this adaptive learning model. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112875 | SITE SURVEY AND INSTALLATION FOR REMOTE FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Methods, systems, apparatuses and/or computer program products are directed to a site survey tool for streamlining installation of a remote facility management system. The site survey tool includes at least one module to receive site survey information about a facility where components of the remote facility management system are to be installed, the site survey information associated with energy-consuming operations of the facility. The module is also configured to transmit the site survey information to a control center configured to generate an installation plan and kit based on the site survey information gathered by the site survey tool. | 05-12-2011 |
20110112876 | Method and Tools for Progressively Scaling Maturity of Information Technology Organizations - A method of assessing and improving capability of information systems (IS) management in an organization using a computer system is provided. The method gathers responses related to strategic aspects of the IS management from a plurality of stakeholders in the organization, determines incongruence between the responses using the computer system, determines a change management efficiency for each of the strategic aspects based on the responses using the computer system, and provides an assessment of the capability based on the responses, the incongruence, and the change management efficiency. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119100 | Method and System for Displaying Anomalies in Time Series Data - A graphical user interface is used for presenting time series data and anomalies associated with a data source on a computer display. The graphical user interface has first and second windows. The first window includes a graph of time series data values for an attribute of the data source and a histogram of anomalies of the data source, each corresponding to a value of a respective attribute that is substantially different from an expected value of the attribute. The second window includes a list of automatic alerts characterizing a set of anomalies of the data source at a particular time. In response to a user adjustment of a sensitivity threshold, a new histogram of anomalies is rendered to replace the existing histogram of anomalies in the first window and a new list of automatic alerts is rendered to replace the existing list of automatic alerts in the second window. | 05-19-2011 |
20110137693 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MAINTENANCE AND MODERNIZATION BACKLOGGING - According to one embodiment, a computer program product for determining future facility conditions includes a computer readable medium having computer readable program code stored therein. The computer readable program code includes computer readable program code for calculating a time period specific maintenance cost, for calculating a time period specific modernization factor, and for calculating a time period specific backlog factor. Future facility conditions equal the time period specific maintenance cost plus the time period specific modernization factor plus the time period specific backlog factor. In another embodiment, a computer-implemented method for calculating future facility conditions includes calculating a time period specific maintenance cost, calculating a time period specific modernization factor, and calculating a time period specific backlog factor. Future facility conditions equal the time period specific maintenance cost plus the time period specific modernization factor plus the time period specific backlog factor. Other embodiments are also presented. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145026 | SOFTWARE-CENTRIC METHODOLOGY FOR VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF FAULT MODELS - A method for verifying and improving a vehicle fault model is disclosed. The method includes analyzing the available field failure data that includes vehicle symptoms and failures for many vehicles. The method performs an analysis using the field failure data that includes using subject matter expert knowledge to determine the most significant failure modes and the most significant symptoms. The method also includes learning simulation parameters from the field failure data and simulating faults using the learned simulation parameters. The method further includes verifying and validating the fault model based on the most significant failure modes and the most significant symptoms from the what-if analysis and the faults identifies by the simulation, and using a diagnostic reasoner to analyze the revised fault model to generate estimated faults. The method then compares the estimated faults to the simulated faults to determine true detection and false alarm rates for a benefit analysis. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145027 | SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY PROCESSING AND PRESENTING COST ESTIMATES - A system and method for visually processing and presenting cost estimates includes a CPU; primary input hardware for entering data and commands to the CPU; output hardware including a display for displaying information; a memory unit having a stored 2D/3D puzzle database, a stored assembly information record list database, and a stored item information record list database. Drawing board windows, puzzle takeoff windows, item takeoff windows, and assembly takeoff windows allow an operator to create puzzles by drawing or importing images and associate assemblies or material items with them, and by dragging and dropping (copying and pasting) selected puzzles to a drawing board window create a more complex image comprising all previously selected puzzles and generating a cost estimate containing all the assemblies and items associated with the puzzles dragged and dropped (copied and pasted) to the drawing board, without the need for third-party imaging or estimating software. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145028 | ESTABLISHMENT AND SUSTENANCE OF KNOWLEDGE CONTINUITY PROCESS - A system and method for establishment and sustenance of Knowledge Continuity Process in a phase wise manner within an organization and/or among multiple organizations comprising knowledge drivers, business drivers, a leadoff team, a knowledge expert team, a knowledge administrator, knowledge distillation and diffusion, learning's from the past archive, business leagues, expert knowledge base, knowledge delivery characterized in that said system and method comprising: identifying a predetermined stage “n” of the organization; forming the leadoff team of individuals from the organization and from knowledge vendor; linking the knowledge drivers with the business drivers by said leadoff team; measuring a stage ‘n+1’ of the organization by individuals of the knowledge vendor; and providing a continuous improvement. | 06-16-2011 |
20110145029 | TRACKING AND REPORTING CONSTRUCTION, COMPLETION, AND INSPECTION STATUS - A user interface enables a user to associate a poly-line representation of a facility floor plan, having a plurality of shapes that correspond to contiguous areas of the facility floor plan, with a database of business parameters relating to condition of the contiguous areas. A report generator generates a visual representation of the facility floor plan that maps the business parameters of the database onto the contiguous areas of the poly-line representation and that modifies the visual representation in accordance with updated business parameters values of the database. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A PLURALITY OF PARTS - The present invention includes a method and system configured to analyze a plurality of parts, each of the parts having at least one part characteristic. The method includes the steps of establishing at least one repository of the part characteristics, establishing a relationship between at least a portion of the parts and a cost characteristic; and, analyzing the portion of the parts in response to the relationship. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153377 | Mixing and Targeting Content Types/Items for Users to Promote Optimization Goals - A social networking system uses information that it obtains from and about its users to select social networking content and advertising for presentation to users in a way that optimizes for one or more optimization goals. Example optimization goals include monetization, user sharing, user engagement, system growth, and user communication. The social networking system may select social networking content and advertising based on their relevance to a particular user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be related to each other to provide a more interesting display to the user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be presented in a supplemental portion of a display, and be selected based on their relatedness to content in the main portion of the display. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161122 | PROGRESS INFORMATION IN A SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE - A system may include reception of an instruction to execute a business process from a client application, execution of the business process in a first software work process, and storage, during execution of the business process, of progress information associated with the business process within a memory. A system may further include reception, at a second software work process, of a request from the client application for progress information, retrieval, in the second software work process, of the progress information from the shared memory, reception, at the second software work process, of the progress information from the memory, and provision of the progress information to the client application from the second software work process. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161123 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCURATELY DETERMINING SERVICE PROVIDER ASSETS - An approach for automatically generating system asset inventory discrepancies and matches and for identifying system asset accuracy information based on comparison of asset data in subsystems thereof, and for providing a list of actual assets based on comparison of trouble ticket information and a cumulative matching data set. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENTERPRISE BUILDING AUTOMATION - A method and system for an enterprise-level building automation system, the method includes providing building level building data to a building level building automation system (BAS) associated with a property, the building level building data including a status of building equipment; communicating building level building data provided to a plurality of different building level building automation systems (BASs), each of the plurality of different building level BASs being associated with a distinct property to an enterprise level BAS; providing energy utility data to the enterprise level BAS; monitoring the building level data associated with each distinct property in real time by the enterprise level BAS; and generating, based on the building level data and the energy utility data, a report including a graphical visualization of the building level data and the energy utility data associated with each distinct property by the enterprise level BAS. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161125 | CATTLE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A highly automated method and system for providing individual animal electronic identification, measurement and value based management of cattle in a large cattle feedlot. Through the use of (1) a computer system integrated with (2) automatic individual animal identification (3) multiple measurement and remeasurement systems with automatic data input and (4) a cattle handling and sorting system, animals are individually (a) identified and (b) measured by weight, external dimensions and characteristics of internal body tissue. With this information together with animal physiological characteristics and historical data, the computer system calculates the optimum (c) slaughter weight, (d) economic end point and (e) marketing date for shipment to a packing plant. After measurement, individual animals are (f) sorted by direction of the computer in response to calculations from the measurements. The computer system also calculates from individual animal data and other data (g) each animal's pro rata share of total feed intake for the animal's feed group. The computer system (h) stores individual animal measurement, performance and location data, which is used by management to (i) select animals for shipment from the feedlot for slaughter at the optimum time. Following an animal's shipment to a slaughter facility, its identification in the computer system is used to (j) correlate the live animal physical characteristics and performance data to the measured and evaluated carcass characteristics data obtained during the slaughter process and (k) build a data base to more accurately identify and measure value-based characteristics in subsequent animals produced and fed for more effective value-based selection and management of those animals. | 06-30-2011 |
20110166900 | Testing and Evaluating the Recoverability of a Process - Aspects of this disclosure relate to a computer for determining the recoverability of a process which may include a processor and memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed, cause the computer to determine the recoverability of a process, by receiving data relating to a contingency plan for recovering the process, receiving data relating to an organization's execution of the contingency plan during a test of the recoverability of the process, and determining the recoverability of the process based on the data by calculating a cumulative overall score for the recoverability of the process, comparing the cumulative overall score with a rating chart stored in the computer, which includes numerical ranges defining a level of assurance of the recoverability of the process, and determining the recoverability of a process based on the comparison of the cumulative overall score with the rating chart. | 07-07-2011 |
20110166901 | User-Activity Management System - A sales activity management device adapted to monitor, manage, and/or track a plurality of sales activities constituting a sales cycle. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173033 | Systems and methods for utilizing an enterprise map to determine affected entities - Systems and methods for utilizing an enterprise map to determine affected entities are provided. In exemplary embodiments, the entities comprise people and systems in, or associated with, an enterprise. The method comprises receiving at least one scope parameter. Utilizing the at least one scope parameter and relationships in the enterprise map, affected people and systems are determined. Workflow may automatically be generated based on a list of the affected people and systems. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173034 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPLY PLAN GENERATION AND OPTIMIZATION - The disclosure relates generally to methods and apparatus to optimize a supply plan through a hybrid meta-heuristic approach based on genetic algorithms to optimize inventory and generate a supply plan. The apparatuses include a supply chain planner that interacts with the processes of a supply chain network. To provide a complete optimization for the type of platform being deployed in theater a heuristic algorithm is devised to decompose the supply plan problem in to separate sub-problems, which will be tackled one after the other. The two separated sub-problems are solved with different heuristic algorithms. Namely, genetic algorithms are used to optimize the supply plans based on ever changing set of operational demands from in theater and the priority of those demands to the assigned depots, while efficient constructive heuristics are used to deal with footprint and timing constraints. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173035 | INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - An intelligent enterprise architecture (LEA) for an enterprise is defined. One or more IEA entry points are selected. IEA entry points represent a starting point for defining the IEA, which is an architectural development process for defining an enterprise computing architecture within a smart computing system. One or more business drivers for pain points in the enterprise are associated with a selected IEA entry point. A business value model is generated and utilized to focus a scope of the business drivers for the selected IEA entry point. An optimal IEA that satisfies the business drivers to ameliorate the pain points in the enterprise is then defined. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173036 | ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN INDICATING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - An environmental burden indicating apparatus includes a first history acquiring unit that acquires history of positional information which indicates position of at least one user, wherein the history of the positional information corresponds to first time information, and a second history acquiring unit that acquires history of environmental burden information which indicates the amount of burden against an environment produced in a facility where the at least one user is positioned, wherein the history of the environmental burden information corresponds to second time information. The environmental burden indicating apparatus further includes a environmental burden calculation unit that calculates personal environmental burden information of each user after allocating the environmental burden information acquired from the facility into each user based on the positional information; and a environmental burden indicator unit that indicates the personal environmental burden information of the at least one users. | 07-14-2011 |
20110173037 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR PROVIDING DIRECT AND HYBRID DATA ACQUISITION APPROACHES - Methods, systems, and media for providing direct and hybrid data acquisition approaches are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method of data acquisition for construction of classification models that incorporates multiple human reviewing resources is provided, the method comprising: receiving a cost structure for constructing a classification model using a data set; instructing a plurality of human reviewing resources to search through the data set and select one or more instances of a class that satisfy at least one criterion, wherein the plurality of human reviewing resources are provided with a definition of the class; training the classification model with the one or more instances from the plurality of human reviewing resources; determining when an expected gain for performing additional searches by the plurality of human reviewing resources as a function of the cost structure is lower than a given threshold; and, in response to determining that the expected gain as a function of the cost structure is lower than the given threshold, instructing the plurality of human reviewing resources that was searching through the data set to label one or more examples from the data set. | 07-14-2011 |
20110178829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN INCLUSIVITY INDEX OF AN ORGANIZATION - The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for generating an inclusivity index of an organization. The inclusivity index is generated for various groups of individuals employed by the organization. Various parameters associated with the organization are identified. Further, a relative weight is generated for the parameters. Thereafter, a primary feedback is received for various parameters by individuals associated with a group. Subsequently, a secondary feedback is generated for each parameter. The inclusivity index is then calculated on the basis of the secondary feedback and the relative weight. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178830 | Computer-Implemented Tools and Method for Developing and Implementing Integrated Model of Strategic Goals - By building a computer model operating on a computerized device that integrates a strategy model and an operations model, it may be possible to better project the impact of implementing business strategies. And by computerized monitoring of the business's status, as indicated by its current financial data in comparison to the projections arising from the computer model, it may be possible to determine whether the business strategies are being successfully implemented. It would also be useful to have an automated system that would automatically notify personnel within a business if the business strategy is not being successfully implemented, allowing those personnel to intercede more quickly to correct problems. In addition to providing such a warning, it would also be useful to present the consequences, including the impact on financial data, people, processes, and technology, arising from the actual implementation of these strategies, along with a means of capturing the business correction measures used to correct such deviations. The present computerized framework, device, and method disclose embodiments for developing and using an integrated, closed-loop computerized business model, typically using a plurality of linked database tables. | 07-21-2011 |
20110178831 | UNAFFILIATED WEB DOMAIN HOSTING SERVICE CLIENT RETENTION ANALYSIS - Based on usage patterns of clients who have purchased web domain offerings, using statistical analysis to determine factors that cause clients not to be retained. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184770 | CROSS DOCKING IN ROUTE DETERMINATION - Apparatus comprising a data storage device which stores at least one route graph, the at least one route graph describing a plurality of route paths between a plurality of locations, wherein at least one route path in the at least one route graph comprises at least two consecutive direct routes connected by a cross-docking location, the at least one route path connecting a first location with a second location, the cross-docking location in combination with the connected at least two direct routes building up a cross-docking route; the route graph comprising at least one cross-docking route; wherein the apparatus determines at least one transportation route from a source location to a destination location using at least one cross-docking route, a source location and a destination location, the at least one cross-docking route describing at least one of a local graph of direct routes and a global graph of direct routes. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191128 | Method and Apparatus for Creating a Monitoring Template for a Business Process - Methods and apparatus are provided for creating a monitoring template for a business process. A monitoring template for a business process monitoring system is generated by providing a predefined schema definition for the monitoring template, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a predefined format for describing the business process monitoring system using one or more predefined keywords, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises at least one monitoring model element that allows a user to specify one or more monitoring elements required to generate the business process monitoring system; and receiving a specification of the one or more monitoring elements from the user. The monitoring template can be used, for example, to generate deployable code for an operational runtime version of the business process monitoring system. The monitoring template allows monitoring models and business process monitoring systems to be reused. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191129 | Random Number Generator Generating Random Numbers According to an Arbitrary Probability Density Function - A method for generating a stream of random numbers which is representative of a probability distribution function, the method comprising receiving a set of K values x | 08-04-2011 |
20110191130 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING SELECTION OF SUBJECT FOR RESTRICTION COUNTERMEASURE AND SYSTEM IN THE SAME - Disclosed is a method for supporting the selection of a component or chemical substance for countermeasure in compliance with a restriction or the like to limit a content rate or content amount of a chemical substance of a product coming in or going out from each enterprise. The method accepts the products to inspect a situation in compliance with the restriction and an evaluation subject restriction that are inputted by a user; acquires a threshold value of the chemical substance content rate for every subject substance under the restriction, composing components of the subject product, weight and a category of the components, and chemical substance content rates of the components; extracts components with no information on the chemical substance content rates out of the components; searches similar components with the same categories as those of the extracted components; acquires chemical substance content rates of the similar components; allocates statistic values, such as the maximum value or average value of the chemical substance content rates of the similar components to chemical substance content rates of the extracted components; calculates a chemical substance content rate of the product from the information on the composing components of the product, the weight of the components and the chemical substance content rates of the components or similar components; compares the chemical substance content rate of the extracted product with the threshold value; categorizes the chemical substances into the one that exceeds the threshold value and the other that does not exceed the threshold value as a comparison result; stores the categorized data at the memory device; and displays the comparison result on a display device. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191131 | APPROPRIATE PRINTER SELECTION SIMULATION SYSTEM, INK CONSUMPTION AMOUNT SIMULATION DEVICE, AND COST SERVER - An appropriate printer selection simulation system for selecting an appropriate printer providing more expressive output with lower running cost is disclosed. The system includes a user terminal, a printer, and a server connected to each other via a network. The printer includes an e-mail generating unit extracting printer information including the ink consumption amount with respect to the printer and generating e-mail including the extracted printer information, and an e-mail transmitting unit transmitting the e-mail generated by the e-mail generating unit to the server. The server includes a cost report generating unit generating the cost report indicating that the cost of the ink consumption amount when a color copy is printed in color is less than the cost of the ink consumption amount when the color copy is printer in monochrome, and a transmitting unit transmitting the generated cost report to the user terminal. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191132 | METHOD FOR ANALYSING BUSINESS SOLUTIONS - A system compares a plurality of business solutions by receiving one or more solution requirements from a user and creating a subset of at least one solution based on the user's solution requirement(s). If the subset comprises a plurality of solutions; (a) the solutions within the subset are prioritised based on the fit of each to the user's solution requirements and (b) optionally, a means for the user to compare the selected solution is provided. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196712 | ENERGY AND ENTROPY ASSESSMENT OF A BUSINESS ENTITY - Embodiments of the present invention provide an energy and entropy analysis of a business entity. Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for calculating a metric indicative of a business entity's strategic health at a specific point in time, comprising obtaining a measurement of energy, obtaining a measurement of entropy, identifying at least one linkage between the energy measurement and the entropy measurement, and calculating a metric indicative of the business entity's current strategic health at the specific point in time. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202377 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SEGMENT BASED DIFFERENTIATED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SOLUTION - A method for providing a segment based differentiated customer service solution. The method comprises a step of first receiving information about online status of a customer. The method includes providing one or more personalized offers based on the received information. Further, a remote financial advisor application for facilitating interaction between the customer and an advisor in an advisement session is invoked and financial analysis related to the purchase of one or more personalized offers is provided to the customer. The purchase of the personalized offer is then provisioned which comprises completing transaction details for the purchase. The method also includes facilitating the provision of real-time advice to the customer through a remote advisement session. | 08-18-2011 |
20110208552 | LEVERAGING BUSINESS SERVICES FOR SOA SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT - The present invention comprises a method for treating business services identified in CBM as service categories, a top-down concept prior to identification of actual services—of SOA. It provides new algorithms to group the services identified from process maps by business services and services categories. It reconciles a granularity gap between business capabilities that are offered as business services at business architecture level and SOA services at the IT level. The present invention provides a tooling enhancement to map business process elements (process, sub-process, task) and business activities to suitable business services, new algorithms to group services identified from process maps by business services, an efficient way of leveraging Business Services for SOA solution development and an elimination of manual effort, time, and inconsistent approaches to group the services identified from process maps. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208553 | INTEGRATED CHANGE MANAGEMENT UNIT - An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food, drug, cosmetic, and medical treatment and device activities, are discussed as examples. The system: provides one or more databases that contain information on operations and requirements concerning an activity or area of business; receives information on regulatory and non-regulatory changes that affect operations of the business; converts these changes into changes in data entry forms, data processing and analysis procedures, and presentation (by printing, electronic display and/or distribution) of data processing and analysis results to selected recipients, without requiring the services of one or more programmers to re-key and/or reformat the items affected by the change; and implements receipt of change information and dissemination of data processing and analysis results using the facilities of the Internet. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208554 | METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING AND COMPARING RECYCLING AND REUSE - Embodiments of the invention relate to an index for measurement and comparison of recycling, reuse, and disposal of waste within and among organizations. Some embodiments feature computer display of information regarding recycling, reuse, and disposal. Other embodiments include computer storage media including instructions that, when implemented, allow one to display information regarding recycling, reuse, and disposal. | 08-25-2011 |
20110213631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING PROJECT MANAGEMENT ATTENDANT TO ANY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECTS - Provided herein is a system, method and computer-readable-storage medium for performing project management of, and/or attendant to, one or more projects; each project including a set of tasks. The system may include a server having a framework adapted to configure the server to manage one or more aspects (e.g., any of a scope, cost and schedule) of, and/or attendant to, any project and/or portion thereof. The server, so configured, may manage the managed aspects in a number of ways. For example, the server may obtain, from one or more users, information associated with the set of tasks; apply one or more directives of the framework to the information to determine one or more states of, and/or attendant to, the managed aspects; compare the managed-aspect states to respective sets of predetermined conditions; and report at least an indication of the managed-aspect states responsive to such satisfying the sets of predetermined conditions. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213632 | ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION DOCUMENTING APPARATUS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION DOCUMENTING METHOD - An apparatus and a method for documenting environmental information are to be provided to facilitate environmental load evaluation of the whole life cycles of system products and to reduce the length of time required for evaluation. Environmental information is documented by computing the environmental load level of each of individual life cycles and their totals by estimating environmental load factors and the quantities thereof with a section for inputting indicators representing costs correlated to the environmental load levels and the scales of use of system products together with indicators representing the class of the system products and a section for storing evaluating conditions found in existing cases of such evaluation. | 09-01-2011 |
20110231213 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS - The present application provides methods and systems for quantitatively predicting an effectiveness of a proposed capital improvement project based on one or more previous capital improvement projects representative of one or more physical assets and including one or more attributes that includes defining a first sample pool from the previous capital improvement project data in which said previous capital improvement project has been performed, defining a second sample in which the previous capital improvement project has not been performed, the second sample pool including one or more attribute values that are the same as, or similar to, the attribute values for the first sample pool, generating a performance metric for each of the first and second sample pools, comparing the performance metric from the first sample pool with the performance metric from the second sample pool to determine a net performance metric, and, generating a prediction of effectiveness of the proposed capital improvement project concerning based on said net performance metric. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231214 | AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE PROGRAM ANALYSIS TOOL - The invention provides automatically examines an Aerospace and Defense (A&D) company's financial data and evaluating factors affecting the company's value, and using this evaluation to assess the desirability of proposed changes in various stages of an A&D project. Specifically, the present invention evaluates changes in an A&D company's value through that company's profits and capital efficiency. The Program Profitability asset is a methodology and tool that helps teams quickly and systematically analyze high impact areas in the structure of a program to determine the key drivers of savings that are actionable for the client. | 09-22-2011 |
20110238455 | ANALYZING MARKETPLACE LISTING STRATEGIES - A method and system analyze marketplace listing strategies. In some embodiments, the method accesses data associated with multiple marketplace listings. Each marketplace listing is associated with a product category. A state-action model, associated with the product category, is created based on the data associated with the multiple marketplace listings. The state-action model is then analyzed to identify a marketplace listing strategy associated with the product category. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246249 | SIMULATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN PLANS USING WEB SERVICE - A new computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system is provided which can allow a user to make changes to the planning data, generate a new plan, generate a new solution based on the generated plan, or perform an alternative scenario analysis on the generated plan. In one embodiment, a new model for representing planning data, identified as a “base-plus-delta” model is provided. In another embodiment, a new web service implementation for a planning engine is provided. In another embodiment, a new technique for copying plans to perform an alternative scenario analysis on the copied plan is provided. In another embodiment, an automatic propagation of user changes from a database directly to an in-memory object is provided. In certain embodiments of the invention, two or more of the described features can be combined to provide an interactive supply chain planning system. | 10-06-2011 |
20110251864 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MITIGATING SURVEY FRAUD - A method and system for mitigating survey fraud is provided. Survey responses stored in storage of a computer system are analyzed. The survey responses include identifiers associated with computing devices of users providing the survey responses. The number of the survey responses is totaled for each of the identifiers. The identifiers for which the number of the survey responses meets a threshold are identified as belonging to suspected gamers. At least some of the survey responses for the identifiers identified as belonging to suspected gamers are flagged as invalid. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251865 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MANUFACTURING ESTIMATION PRODUCTION ASSEMBLY AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT - The present invention relates to novel systems and methods for manufacturing estimation, production assembly and inventory management. In an embodiment, a system is provided to create and respond to RFPs, perform capacity planning for an eventual production line, efficiently implement the production line in software, and track detailed warehouse data, including transaction data. Such tracking may allow process improvement, report generation, and market research analysis. In an embodiment, one or more systems may be used to implement one or more aspects of the present invention. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258007 | DATA SUBSCRIPTION - A method for managing oil field data based on one or more subscription elements. The method includes receiving the subscription elements having an area of interest, one or more data types and one or more dataset requirements. The area of interest includes one or more geographical properties that correspond to the oil field data, and the dataset requirements define how the oil field data is to be presented. After receiving the subscription elements, the method sends the subscription elements to a database engine. The method then receives the oil field data from the database engine such that the oil field data corresponds to the subscription elements. | 10-20-2011 |
20110258008 | BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL DESIGN MEASUREMENT - Systems and methods are provided for aiding in the development of Business Process Model (BPM) design. A BPM Design is created by a design editor, and contains model data that describes the design. The design is stored in a datastore. Sets of measurements are derived from the model data that express measures such as complexity, maintainability, or productivity of the design. A measurement calculator derives sets of measurements based on model data from designs. A design planner accesses the datastore and makes use of measurements as an aid to BPM Design. A display generator receives measurements and processes them so that they may be displayed to a user and readily interpreted as an aid to BPM Design, development, or management. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264476 | System and method for maximizing the value of allocation of processes to resources within an operational system - A system for maximizing the value of allocation of processes to resources within an operational system includes a capability engine responsive to data representing measures of effectiveness and associated measures of performance, one or more operational objectives, and failure modes of the operational system and configured to generate workload requirements and an operational event timeline. A coarse-grained allocation engine is responsive to the workload requirements and the operational event timeline and is configured to generate a coarse-grained resource lineup and an operational value. A fine-grained optimization engine is responsive to the coarse-grained resource lineup and the operational value and is configured to generate a fine-grained resource lineup, a maximized operational value, and a total resource utilization. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264477 | METHODS AND A SYSTEM FOR USE OF BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT FOR DEMAND RESPONSE - In one embodiment, a method for managing a demand response process which includes at least steps of: providing an interface having a plurality of programmable elements, wherein each programmable element can be associated with a particular action to be performed during the demand response process when a particular programmable element is programmed and incorporated into at least one business process modeling diagram associated with the at least one demand response process, and wherein the demand response process is initiated in response to at least one trigger condition of at least one first enterprise process; monitoring the at least one first enterprise process for a presence of the at least one trigger condition; and executing, by a computer system, the demand response process in accordance with the at least one business process modeling diagram when the at least one trigger condition is present. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264478 | ATTACHMENT DEVICE, INFORMATION COLLECTION DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION ABOUT REASONS FOR RETURN - An attachment device is provided to be attached to each product and includes an option storing unit which stores a plurality of options indicating reasons for return, and a selection receiving unit which presents each of the options so as to guide a user to select one of the options as a reason for return of the product. The device obtains information specifying the selected one of the options as return reason information. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270638 | Method of assisting a sales representative in selling - A computer implemented method of providing feedback to a sales representative for a sales opportunity to a customer, comprising: determining, in dependence on information received from the sales representative, a probability that the sales opportunity will result in a sale by the sales representative; determining, in dependence on information received from the sales representative, a location on a sales cycle time line for the sales opportunity; assigning a priority to the sales opportunity in dependence on the location on the sales cycle time line and the probability that the sales opportunity will result in a sale; and rendering on a display a visual representation of the probability and the priority. | 11-03-2011 |
20110270639 | AUTOMATED BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL DISCOVERY - A computer-implemented method includes:
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20110276353 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPLEMENT A BUSINESS MODEL FOR DETERMINING A RELIABLE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE OF A SPECIFIC PRODUCT - A system and a method implements a business model for determining a reliable eco-balance of a specific product. An eco-balance typically has consumption of resources, e.g. water consumption, energy consumption and waste products, e.g. CO2 production. Incoming products and outgoing products having a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag for storing their own ecological balance. A calculation unit for each link of a whole product chain of the specific product, is calculating an aggregated ecological balance from parameters of the process of the actual link and from ecologic balances of incoming products, if there are any, and storing it to the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag of the outgoing product of the actual link. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276354 | ASSESSMENT OF SOFTWARE CODE DEVELOPMENT - A cost per unit of processed code metric is determined based on a quantity of processed code during a given time period that is attributable to one or more developers, and a cost to develop the quantity of processed code during the time period attributable to the one or more developers. Also, a quality scaling factor is calculated based on quality measurements for the quantity of processed code. Thereafter, the cost per unit of processed code metric is scaled (or discounted) by the quality scaling factor to provide a cost of development index (CDI). Because the inputs to the quality scaling factor may be determined in an automated fashion, this CDI determination permits more rapid response to any adverse assessments. Furthermore, because direct measurement of code quality is employed, more meaningful insight is provided into the likelihood that end product, i.e., the software code, is of good quality. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282703 | CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS INFORMATION FOR UTILITY SERVICE NETWORK - A system and computer-implemented method of providing contingency analysis information for a utility service network that includes obtaining contingency analysis information from a plurality of external sources, integrally combining the contingency analysis information obtained from each of the plurality of external sources into a single application and prioritizing the contingency analysis information in a predetermined order, dynamically updating, the contingency analysis information obtained from each of the plurality of external sources and the prioritization of the contingency analysis information based on status information, and displaying the contingency analysis information to a user via a graphical user interface. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282704 | ANALYZING BUSINESS DATA FOR PLANNING APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing efficient planning through analyzing data. One process includes operations for generating a business object containing parameters and plan data of a business plan, the plan data represented by a plurality of aggregation levels. A change to a particular item in the plan data is identified, the change associated with a particular aggregation level. The change to the particular item is automatically propagated to a lowest level of granularity of the plan data, and the change to the particular item is available to each of the plurality of aggregation levels. | 11-17-2011 |
20110295626 | INFLUENCE ASSESSMENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Social networks have become platforms to disseminate and market information and ideas. A social network, users, and interactions of users may be modeled by graphs, which may be analyzed to determine influential users. In one example, nodes within a graph may be concurrently grouped into node groupings. Influence values corresponding to node counts within node groupings may be assigned to nodes within node groupings. Influential nodes may be determined based upon the assigned influence values. In another example, degrees of nodes (e.g., an edge count of a node) may be used to determine influential nodes within the graph. Upon selecting a node, degrees of neighboring nodes of the selecting node may be discounted because the node was selected. In another example, trees corresponding to a current node and (e.g., maximum) influential paths from other nodes to the current node may be constructed and evaluated to determine a group of nodes. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295627 | System and Method for Calculating an Order Flowthrough - An ordering system backend includes an ordering system module, an exclusion system module, an exception system module, a summary system module, and a display device. The ordering system module is configured to receive ordering data for a plurality of orders and to receive information concerning the flowthrough status of the order. The exclusion system module is configured to generate or receive a plurality of exclusions associated with a plurality of exceptions for the plurality of orders. The exception system module is configured to generate or receive exception data associated with the plurality of orders, to receive the plurality of exclusions from the exclusion system module, and to update the exception data based on the plurality of exclusions. The summary system module is configured to calculate summary level data based on the plurality of orders and the exception data, and to create summary tables based on the summary level data. The display device includes a graphical user interface configured to display the summary tables. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295628 | AUDIENCE TARGETING BASED ON PERFORMANCE HISTORY OF INVITATIONAL CONTENT - Systems and methods are provided for audience targeting based on a performance history of invitational content from secondary content providers, such as advertisements. In operation, responsive to request from a user for content package, a queue of available invitational content is retrieved. Thereafter, based at least on a performance history of the available invitational content in the queue, a context of the primary content, and a performance history of invitational content previously presented to other users, the queue can be at least partially reordered to provide an adjusted queue. The invitational content for the content package can then be selected based on the adjusted queue. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295629 | MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A monitoring system includes a communication information acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a condition information acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a determination information output unit. The communication information acquisition unit acquires communication information contained in each piece of electronic document data and containing identification information about a project and time information corresponding to acquisition time of each piece of electronic document data as target communication information. The information acquisition unit acquires progress information concerning a progress situation about the project based on the target communication information. The condition information acquisition unit acquires condition information relevant to the acquired progress information. The determination unit determines whether or not information corresponding to the target communication information matches a condition indicated by the condition information. The determination information output unit outputs determination information based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295630 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING FINANCIAL SECURITIES BACKED BY CASHFLOW DERIVED FROM ENERGY SAVINGS - A method and system are provided for creating and measuring cashflows based on energy saving improvements made to a structure, e.g., a building, underground facility, or a ship. In one implementation, the invention is directed to a system and method for improving and measuring the energy efficiency of a structure. The system and method may be implemented in hardware or on a computer-readable medium that is non-transitory. A method and system for creating a financial security collateralized by such cashflows associated with an individual structure are disclosed. A method and system for creating a financial security collateralizing a pool of multiple financial securities discussed above are disclosed. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295631 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MANAGING AND COLLECTING RECEIVABLES - A method, system, and computer-readable medium for managing and collecting receivables are disclosed. Such a method includes providing at least one pre-existing account with first account information, the first account information having first account party data and providing at least one new account, each new account comprising new account information, the new account information having new account party data. The method also includes determining whether the first account party data of the pre-existing account matches the new account party data of the at least one new account and if so, tying the at least one new account with the matching pre-existing account to create a tied account. The method further includes calculating a score for any unmatched new account and any tied account based on at least one financial parameter and applying one or more collection strategies. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295632 | Systems And Methods For Predicting a Livestock Marketing Method - The present invention is directed to methods and systems for improving the efficiency of livestock production using genetic information obtained from the animal. The methods of the invention comprise obtaining a genetic sample from an animal or embryo, determining the genotype of the animal or embryo with respect to specific quality traits, grouping animals with like genotypes, and optionally, further sub-grouping animals based on like phenotypes. The invention is further directed to a method of predicting the carcass quality of an animal by correlating the rate of change in carcass traits with the genotype of the animal. | 12-01-2011 |
20110295633 | AUTOMATED APPLICATION DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - An object oriented design for an automated modeling system for mapping and monitoring the business roles and impact of elements within an IT Infrastructure that make up specific applications or business processes, spanning not only network elements, hosts, servers and programs but also users, company structure and processes. The design including: a series of collector modules for collecting relationship, modeling and status information from both IT and external non IT specific sources used to build a model of the application or process in the database and to gather data about activities occurring on the computer network from a business impact perspective; a series of visualizer modules for reporting monitoring activities conducted by the monitoring system; a modeling database for storing information collected by the collector modules; a series of correlator modules for automatically determining relationships between data objects stored in the database to build application models of individual applications in the context of business process and IT service delivery. | 12-01-2011 |
20110301987 | REAL ESTATE DRIVE BY TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM - A method and system for tracking real estate drive by traffic monitors locations of the mobile devices of interested parties relative to real property for sale. Visits to the real properties are counted, monitored and tracked to determine the amount of traffic of interested parties that each real property is receiving. Durations of visits are also monitored. Identifying profile information of the interested parties can be provide with the consent of the interested parties, optionally in exchange for increased access to additional information regarding the real properties. | 12-08-2011 |
20110301988 | SERVICE PLATFORM SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR FLEET MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT - A service platform method and system for enabling readiness and sustainability services for a fleet of deployed and fielded equipment units, comprising generating condition based operational status data dependent on equipment status data and dependent on predetermined relations between said equipment status data and predetermined weighting parameters; providing said condition based operational status data for use by on-board functions and central functions. The service platform enables a support system for condition base maintenance of a fleet of equipment. | 12-08-2011 |
20110301989 | LICENSED PROFESSIONAL SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A quantitative system and method that utilizes data sources external to a company, and when available, traditional data sources, e.g., internal company information, to (i) provide an easily accessible means for matching criteria such as, for example, demographic needs, to a database that can quickly provide a number of potential recruits or customers and that can also be used to screen both current and prospective company employees matching the criteria, and (ii) generate a statistical model that can be used to accurately and consistently predict future profitability and productivity of licensed professionals. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307281 | MODEL INVENTORY MANAGER - A method and apparatus for managing a building model inventory, including a database structured for storing element specification and instance data from both a previous version and a latter revision of building information modeling datasets, respectively. In addition to the building information modeling element data, the database associates completed assembly pass, unit cost, work breakdown structure, and other inventory management data with the element type definitions and element instance data. Application software compares the first and second inventory revisions to identify all changes, additions and/or deletions of building elements between the previous version and the latter revision of the building information modeling datasets. By tracking the elements that change, the changes that affect the construction schedule and quantity, configuration and specification of materials are identified. An engineering cost analysis based on the changed data provides a rapid understanding of the implications of any design change. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307282 | System and method for operating a service to arrange transport between a customer and a transport party - A system and method are described for enabling transportation to be arranged for individuals carrying handsets or mobile devices. In some embodiments, a customer can transmit a request for transport from a given customer geographic location. A service may handle the request by selecting a driver for the customer. | 12-15-2011 |
20110313800 | Systems and Methods for Impact Analysis in a Computer Network - In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a computer-implemented apparatus and method is provided for determining the impact of certain actions on the performance of a pre-specified or modeled system is provided. A manifest variable database is utilized for storing manifest variable data relating to user interaction with a system of interest. An imputation module may be coupled to the manifest variable database for calculating any missing manifest variables. Embodiments of the invention may further include a statistical weights calculator for determining strength of correlation among manifest and latent variables, a latent score calculator, a fuzzy clustering module that derives clusters or segments that have their own impacts and scores for a fitted model and constraining impact calculator that determines the impact of certain operations on the fitted model. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320228 | Automated Generation of Markov Chains for Use in Information Technology - Disclosed are methods and systems to automatically generate a model for pro-active rather than reactive enterprise systems management. In one embodiment, a Markov Chain model is constructed from a Configuration Management Database (CMDB), Service Impact models, event logs and system logs. The model can then be maintained and automatically updated or regenerated based on changing conditions and attributes of configuration items (CIs) being modeled. As part of model generations probabilities associated with potential state transitions of CIs can be calculated. The model can then be used to predict anticipated availability of a corporate enterprise or specific portions of a corporate information technology (IT) environment. In another embodiment, a model can be used to perform what-if scenarios to assist in planning or deferring change requests for the corporate IT environment. | 12-29-2011 |
20120004938 | Means for incorporating sustainability metrics and total cost benefit analysis in decision-making - Methods are disclosed for the simplification and integration of data from a diverse set of sources for environmental costs and societal benefit data. The methods allow for the computation of five basic metrics: material use, water use, energy use, toxics emitted, land use and overall pollutants emitted. Further, they facilitate the computation of complementary metrics, as well as the estimation of net present value of costs of unrealized environmental impacts. | 01-05-2012 |
20120010914 | Dynamic, Privacy-aware Workforce Assignment - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first activity map. A first mobile client determines first positioning information based on a first position of the first mobile client. The first mobile client generates a second activity map using the first positioning information of the first mobile client as a damping factor for activity in the first activity map. The first mobile client sends the second activity map to a balancing manager. A third activity map is received from the balancing manager. The third activity map is based on the second activity map from the first mobile client and a second activity map from a second mobile client. The second activity map from the second mobile client is generated using second positioning information for a second position of the second mobile client as the damping factor. | 01-12-2012 |
20120010915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING SERVICE BASED SYSTEMS - The invention provides a method, system and computer program product for analyzing a service based system. Business model data including one or more activities is received. A plurality of service characteristics is determined from the business model data for each activity group. The plurality of service characteristics are used to determine inferences regarding candidate service identification, service portfolio evaluation, service impact analysis, and so forth corresponding to the service based system. | 01-12-2012 |
20120010916 | SAVING TRACKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - System and method for analysis of cost saving in a procurement process are provided. The system includes a processor unit and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium stores instructions executable by the processor unit. The instructions are programmed to perform the steps of receiving baseline cost information, receiving purchase cost information, and computing a plurality of components of cost saving. Moreover, the instructions are programmed to transfer indication of the computed components of cost saving to display device and/or financial accounting system. | 01-12-2012 |
20120016701 | INTELLIGENT TIMESHEET ASSISTANCE - A timesheet assistant mines development items in a repository of a computer to form identified development items. Development context information and effort indicators, associated with the identified development items, are extracted. Statistical analysis is applied to tasks of the identified development items using the effort indicators. Efforts expended on the tasks are predicted using historical data to create effort estimates. Developer reported efforts for the identified items are received, and a timesheet is generated using the development context information, the effort estimates and the developer reported effort. The timesheet is presented for review, verification, and approval. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016702 | CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT FOR A FLEET OF EQUIPMENT UNITS - A method for configuration management of a fleet of deployed equipment units, each unit being provided with an on-board data processing module and a data storage module in a local service platform system being communicatively coupled to a central service platform system, comprising the steps of: generating, in a local service platform system associated with an equipment unit, condition based operational status data; generating in said local service platform system operational data comprising said condition based operational status data; generating by means of a local configuration manager software a definition of the configuration of components; storing said configuration definition in said local service platform system; communicating the configuration definition to said central service platform system; and analyzing configuration definitions for said fleet of equipment units dependent on said operational data generated in the local platform system of the respective equipment units and communicated to the central service platform system. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016703 | Organization Health Analysis Using Real-Time Communications Monitoring - The present invention provides a communication monitoring and analysis method and system. More specifically, the present invention provides a method for determining the health and overall satisfaction of employees in an organization. The determination may be made by monitoring communications generated by employees for their tone and other parameters related to their satisfaction with various decisions made within the organization. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016704 | Automated Execution of Business Processes Using Dual Element Events - Systems and methods for providing interaction of multiple business process events by using management and transactional events, where the management event accepts initial transaction information, maintains state information, and initiates one or more of the transactional events. One of the transactional events receives initial transactional information and state information from the management event, performs a transaction based upon the initial transactional information and the state information, and provides resulting transactional information to the management event. The management event then completes execution of the business process based upon the resulting transactional information. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING A COMPUTER-BASED PRODUCT - A technique includes providing a cost model to predict a total cost for supporting a computer-based product system. The cost model predicts preventive, reactive and deferred components of the total cost. The technique includes determining features of the support and computer-based product system based at least in part on the cost model. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016706 | AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF AGENT-BASED OR AGENTLESS MONITORING - Presented is a method and system for automatically selecting agent-based or agentless monitoring using a configuration management database (CMDB). The method includes determining whether a system is business critical or business non-critical, selecting agent-based monitoring if the system is business critical and selecting agentless monitoring if the system is business non-critical. | 01-19-2012 |
20120029956 | COMPREHENSIVE EXPOSURE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention allow an institution to obtain a more comprehensive view of its exposure to one or more entities or groups of entities and, in some cases, to use this information to identify opportunities for and/or risks to the institution. For example, embodiments of the invention involve systems and methods for: (1) selecting an entity; (2) determining exposure to the entity in isolation; (3) determining one or more related entities based on transaction data associated with the selected entity; (4) determining exposure to the one or more related entities; and (5) combining the exposure data for the selected entity and the related entities to obtain comprehensive exposure metrics for the selected entity. Some embodiments of the invention further involve aggregating the comprehensive entity exposure metrics for several entities based on entity characteristics to create other exposure metrics, and then displaying exposure metrics to a user on a display based on user-selected entities or entity characteristics. | 02-02-2012 |
20120029957 | FACTOR ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS METHOD THEREOF - A factor analysis system and method thereof is disclosed. The factor analysis system comprises a data receiving module for receiving a plurality of factors having influence on a target total value, a plurality of base values corresponding to the factors, and a target improvement percentage; a first computing unit for computing a reference target total value and a plurality of upgraded target total values; a second computing unit using the upgraded target total values and the reference target total value to compute the sensitivity of each of the factors; and a processing module for multiplying a factor improvement of each factor in percentage point by the factor sensitivity of each factor to obtain the level of contribution of each factor to the target total value. Through the factor analysis, a decision maker can decide the optimal combination of different factor improvements for achieving the planned target total value. | 02-02-2012 |
20120029958 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADAPTING A COMPLEX SYSTEM TO VARIOUS CONTEXTS OF USE OF THE COMPLEX SYSTEM - A device for dynamically adapting a complex system to various contexts of use of the complex system, by executing business processes adapted automatically by the said device to a current context, the device taking as input a variable business process model that can vary as a function of context. | 02-02-2012 |
20120035968 | Business Process Diagram Visualization Using Heat Maps - System and method for displaying information regarding a business process. A diagram of the business process may be displayed on a display. The diagram may include a plurality of icons connected by lines, where each of the icons represents a respective step in the business process and the lines indicate flow paths between the steps. Historical data regarding the business process may be received. The historical data may be analyzed to determine information regarding steps and/or flow paths in the business process. Graphical indications associated with one or more icons and/or lines in the diagram may be displayed. The graphical indications may visually indicate characteristics of corresponding steps and/or flow paths in the business process. For example, the graphical indications may indicate lengths of time, costs, or other characteristics associated with various ones of the steps. The graphical indications may indicate path traversals of ones of the flow paths. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041794 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO VALIDATE COMPONENT-BASED IMPLEMENTATIONS OF BUSINESS PROCESSES - A computer-implemented method and system to validate component-based implementation of business processes are provided. The method comprises accessing an abstract business process and a specific business process. The specific business process includes sub-steps that refine a step in the abstract business process. A refinement between the abstract business process and the specific business process is validated using a first Petri Net. Component models are accesses, where the respective component models describe an operation performed by a component corresponding to the component model. A grounding between the sub-steps and the component models is validated using a second Petri Net. | 02-16-2012 |
20120041795 | DEMAND WEIGHTED AVERAGE POWER - A system, method, and computer program that provide demand weighted average power information. The information may be communicated to management in both graphical and report form. The information provides management with an immediate understanding of energy consumption in a time frame where the energy usage can be associated with underlying causes. The result is that the need to devote considerable time and expertise to obtain and understand important energy consumption data are eliminated. | 02-16-2012 |
20120046978 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING, MANAGING, SHARING, AND VISUALISING ASSET INFORMATION OF AN ORGANIZATION - A system for semantically modeling relationships and dependencies between groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities according to an industry specific manner. An exemplary system includes a user interface device, a relational database and a processor. The processor receives relationship information and receives attributes with associated measurements for the groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities for the corporation from the user interface device. The attributes with associated measurements are formatted according the specific industry of the corporation. The processor generates a three dimensional (3D) visualization of the groups, enclosures, assets, and support entities and allows a virtual walkthrough of the 3D visualization as presented on the display device based on user entered commands from the user input device. | 02-23-2012 |
20120046979 | USING COMMERCIAL SHARE OF WALLET TO RATE BUSINESS PROSPECTS - Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. Research analysts can use CSoW/CSoSW to provide a comprehensive and robust indication of the business prospects of a rated company. | 02-23-2012 |
20120059680 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating Information Technology Assessments - Embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for facilitating IT assessments. According to one embodiment, a method for representing information technology impact on an enterprise is provided. The method may include characterizing each of multiple IT applications according to multiple factors; and generating an operational impact index value for each of the IT applications based at least in part on the characterization of the respective IT application. Each operational impact index value may relate to an impact index scale representing a relative impact of the respective IT application on an enterprise. | 03-08-2012 |
20120072250 | SOLUTION PACKAGES INCLUDING SEGMENTS OF A PROCESS CHAIN - In one general aspect, a computer system can include an existing process chain module configured to receive a plurality of segment definitions representing a plurality of existing segments defining an existing process chain implemented in a target system. The computer system can include a proposed process chain module configured to select, based on the plurality of segment definitions, a proposed process chain including a first proposed segment corresponding with an existing segment from the plurality of existing segments, and including a second proposed segment different from each existing segment from the plurality of existing segments. The computer system can include an operational relationship module configured to define an option for an operational relationship between the existing segment from the plurality of existing segments and the second proposed segment of the proposed process chain. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072251 | Method, management procedure, process, an instrument and apparatus for delay estimation and mitigation of delay risks in projects and program - In a method of delay estimation and a project management tool with at least a delay estimation module, the delay estimation module and the method of delay estimation estimating delays at least by dividing a work breakdown structure of a project plan in a plurality of elements, identifying a plurality of risks and uncertainties in connection with the plurality of elements provided in the work breakdown structure, estimating a plurality of best duration uncertainty distributions for each element of the plurality of elements, synthesizing, using the plurality of best duration uncertainty distributions, a work breakdown structure of a project plan with uncertainties, and creating an estimate of delays for the project plan. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072252 | TALENT MANAGEMENT DASHBOARD - A dashboard is developed to assess the ability of workers in an organization to accomplish one or more goals of the organization. The dashboard permits defining one or more competencies employees in the organization are required to have, and defining a skill set for each competency. Each skill set has one or more skills the employees are required to have to carry out each competency. Each skill under each competency for each employee is rated according to degree of experience in that skill. A discrete skill level in each competency for each of the employees is determined or calculated from the above rating information. Once the rating information is processed, the information can be instantaneously displayed in various viewing formats to give a snapshot look at the breadth of skill in the organization. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078669 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED DATA COLLECTION, ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A work information system includes a user interface; an analysis system connected to the user interface, the analysis system comprising a plurality of analysis modules including an interactively-developed analysis module; a self-learning database connected to the analysis system; a solution development and design system connected to the self-learning database, where the solution development and design system includes modules for generating reports reflecting skills/knowledge; performance capacity; motivation self-concept; expectation/feedback; tools/processes; and rewards/motivation/incentive; an implementation system connected to the solution development and design system, the implementation system including modules for training; job aids; toolbox; policy; procedures; and a user defined module; an evaluation system; and a feedback system connecting each of the evaluation system, implementation system, solution design and development system, self-learning database, and analysis system to all precedent systems in the work information system. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078670 | OPERATION INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, MONITORING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MONITORING DEVICE, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An operation information output device includes: a power data acquirer that acquires time-series data of a physical quantity consumed or generated when production equipment executes a process; a single-cycle detector that detects time-series data of predetermined duration from the time-series data acquired by the power data acquirer, and an operation information acquirer that acquires operation information of the production equipment by use of the time-series data detected by the single-cycle detector, hence it becomes possible to easily calculate and determine detailed operation information. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084106 | System And Method For Designing Supply Chain For Commodity Product Distribution - Techniques are disclosed for designing a supply chain distribution network. A network design tool may be configured to facilitates strategic decision making for a producer/distributor of a commodity products (e.g., molecular gas mixtures stored in cylinders) by incorporating transportation costs (i.e., operational decisions) into the strategic decision making process. Further, the network design tool may also integrate investment decision costs, which are usually considered ‘tactical decisions’, into the strategic decision process (e.g., which filling tools are assigned to which plant/hub location). The network design tool implements different algorithm approaches allowing a user to obtain optimal, near-optimal, and approximate solutions. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084107 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MATCHING BUYERS AND SELLERS IN AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE MARKETPLACE - In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace. One embodiment of a method for defining a community of network users includes collecting data relating to the network users, where the data is of at least one of the following types: demographic information relating to the network users, Internet Protocol address information relating to the network users, and Internet Protocol traffic information relating to the network users. The collected data is then anonymized, where the anonymizing is performed individually for each type of data. The anonymized data is aggregated to generate an activity-to-demographic mapping representative of network activity associated with particular demographics of the community of network users. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089428 | PEN Analysis for Quantified Perspectives in Decision Making - Organisations make decisions based on its Perspectives. These Perspectives exist within an environment with ever changing variables. It is of utmost importance that those Perspectives are relevant and valid in the current environment. Perspectives which are outdated or invalid, causes decisions and business activities which are inefficient for the Organisation. They will lead to business processes which are not integrated with the main thrust of the Organisation's workings. Hence, Perspectives need to be validated constantly, to ensure that all business processes are well integrated and exist in accordance to the objectives of the Organisation. However, there is no Analysis Technique which exists for Organisations to validate their Perspectives for Decision Making. In this paper, a Statistics based Analysis technique called PEN Analysis, is introduced. Using this technique, Organisations can validate their Perspectives for Decision Making and cumulative business process integration. | 04-12-2012 |
20120089429 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATHERING AND ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA - Systems and methods are provided for gathering and analyzing social media data, business platform data, and/or gatekeeper data. Priorities are assigned to a plurality of strategic outcomes and business platforms. Scores and recommendations associated with the plurality of strategic outcomes and business platforms are generated. | 04-12-2012 |
20120095793 | Business intelligence exception analysis by cause and effect - A computerized Cause and Effect exception analysis mechanism for multi-dimensional data, comprising: displaying a business report comprising data cells, each data cell pertaining to coordinates of one row and one column representing dimensions of the report, marking one or more of the displayed cells as exceptions according to an exception rule, receiving a selection of one or more of the marked cells, defining the coordinates of the selected cells as fixed coordinates, displaying a list of dimensions, receiving a selection of one or more dimensions from the displayed list, receiving a number N of reports to be displayed, compiling a list of combinations of the selected dimensions, slicing each combination in the list by the fixed coordinates, applying the exception rule to the sliced combinations, prioritizing the sliced combinations, selecting the N highest priority combinations, creating reports for the N selected combinations, and displaying the N created reports, each displayed report comprising at least one cell marked as exception. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095794 | ECO SCORE ANALYTICS SYSTEM - A system and method are configured to perform eco score analytics for an energy program associated with potential targets. A factor profile initiator determines categories and subcategories of parameters to be included in a model for the energy program based on attributes of the energy program. The model is built and used to determine eco scores for the potential targets. The eco scores estimate propensity of the potential target to participate in the energy program. A campaign engine determines ranking of the scores and a subset of the potential targets are selected as targets for the energy program based on the rankings. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095795 | Method to Facilitate Obtaining, Storing, and Subsequently Conveying an Organization's Information for the Benefit of Successor Organization-Based Agents - A party obtains ( | 04-19-2012 |
20120101860 | PROVIDING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method of processing a business intelligence client request in real-time using Unified Information Access System architecture. The method includes receiving a business intelligence client request and acquiring data from a plurality of data sources relevant to the business intelligence client request. A first portion of the data is acquired from a first data source in a first data format native to the first data source, and a second portion of the data is acquired from a second data source in a second data format native to the second data source. The method also includes converting the data into a common data format and storing the data to a common data store. The method also includes processing the business intelligence client request on the common data store. | 04-26-2012 |
20120101861 | WIDE-AREA AGRICULTURAL MONITORING AND PREDICTION - A system for agricultural monitoring and prediction comprises a first reporting agent a second reporting agent a database, and a processor. The first reporting agent is configured for reporting aerial data representing relative measurements of an agricultural metric in a geographic area, the relative measurements having an unknown bias. The second reporting is configured for reporting ground-based data representing absolute measurements of the agricultural metric for a portion of the geographic area. The database is configured for storing the absolute measurement data and the relative measurement data along with other farming data for a wide geographic area. The processor is configured for accessing the database and using the ground-based data for the portion of the geographic area to calibrate the aerial data, thereby synthesizing absolute measurements of the agricultural metric for the geographic area from the aerial data. | 04-26-2012 |
20120101862 | Property-Space Similarity Modeling - The present invention relates to modeling systems for designing consumer products and selected components for use in consumer products, consumer products and components selected by such models and the use of same. In addition, a system that minimizes the risks associated with a collaboration yet promotes the rapid advance of the subject/goal of the collaboration is disclosed. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109697 | ASSESSING HEALTH OF PROJECTS - Determining vectors for a set of project features and determining an indication of health of some aspect of the project using a classifier trained for the set of project features is useful in assessing project health. Classifiers can be trained for such methods by determining a set of training elements for one or more projects of a data set, and training the classifier using the set of training elements. Each training element comprises a feature vector for a particular project at a particular time interval and a health classification deemed to be correct for that particular project at that particular time interval. | 05-03-2012 |
20120116826 | EVALUATING CAPITAL FOR REPLACEMENT - A method for evaluating an asset for replacement includes retrieving one or more pieces of information corresponding to the asset, each piece of information corresponding to one or more factors, wherein each factor has an associated factor weight, determining, by a processing device, an associated factor score for each factor based at least in part on the pieces of information corresponding to the factor, the factor score for each factor also based at least in part on the associated factor weight, and determining a replacement eligibility score based upon the factor scores associated with two or more of the factors. In some embodiments, the method includes comparing a plurality of replacement eligibility scores corresponding to a plurality of assets and initiating creation of a schedule for the plurality of assets based on the comparison. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116827 | PLANT ANALYZING SYSTEM - A plant analyzing system which can include an accepting section that accepts a definition of a soft-sensor for creating key information used for diagnosing the plant based on the data obtained from the plant; a storage section that stores the soft-sensor; a monitoring data generating section that generates the key information in real time as data for monitoring the plant based on the data obtained from the plant and using the stored soft-sensor; a monitoring data display section that displays in real time the data for monitoring the plant on a screen for monitoring an operation; a history data accumulating section that accumulates the data obtained from the plant as history data; and an analyzing data generating section that generates the key information, as data for analyzing a plant state of the past, based on the accumulated history data and using the stored soft-sensor. | 05-10-2012 |
20120123814 | PRODUCT ASSORTMENT PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING SCALED PERFORMANCE METRIC VALUES - A product assortment planning system determines scaled performance metric values for an assortment of products. The system includes a data store storing performance metric values for an assortment of products including a target assortment of products and a source assortment of products, an equivalization unit and a scaling unit. The equivalization unit equivalizes the performance metric values for the source assortment of products. The scaling unit determines incrementality assumptions. The incrementality assumptions are an estimation of an amount of cannibalization that occurs for the target assortment of products as a result of combining the source assortment of products with the target assortment of products. Scaled performance metric values are calculated for each product in the assortment of products based on the equivalized performance metric values and the incrementality assumptions. | 05-17-2012 |
20120123815 | WAVELENGHT REGENERATION IN A NETWORK - An optical network including a plurality of gateway nodes interconnected with a plurality of intermediate nodes with segments of fiber. The network includes a plurality of devices, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexors, optimally placed at various nodes throughout the network. The device placement is optimized with an integer linear programming analysis considering span definition such that any given span involves some number of segments not exceeding a number of segments that would require wavelength regeneration, cost of placement of a device at a given node, cost of wavelength regeneration, and various parameters and constraints. | 05-17-2012 |
20120123816 | SELECTING SUPPLIERS TO PERFORM SERVICES FOR AN ENTERPRISE - One embodiment is a method that receives historical data of suppliers and applies, to the historical data, a mathematical optimization system that includes a set of mathematical equations and inequalities that express capabilities and capacities of the suppliers. The mathematical optimization system includes an objective function that minimizes a number of the suppliers to perform third-party labor services for an enterprise. The method selects a sub-set of the suppliers to perform the third-party labor services for the enterprise. | 05-17-2012 |
20120130756 | AUGMENTATION OF A USER PARTICIPATION OF A SALES AND OPERATIONS PLAN THROUGH AN OFF THE SHELF SPREADSHEET APPLICATION WITH A PLUG-IN - In one embodiment, a method of a server device includes determining a date to send an e-mail alert based on a flexible calendar of a sales and operations plan. The method also includes recording a response of a user to the e-mail alert. The method further includes tracking a participation of the sales and operations plan based on the response of the user to the e-mail alert. The method also includes generating a report based on the participation. In addition, the method includes generating a reminder when the participation is below a threshold of the participation. The method also includes increasing the participation of the sales and operations plan such that a percentage of the response of the user is increased. | 05-24-2012 |
20120130757 | FRAMEWORK FOR VIRTUAL TEAM EFFECTIVENESS - A framework method for virtual team effectiveness. The method includes identifying members of the virtual team for a common project; determining a level of objective agreement (OA) among the virtual team members wherein OA is a shared understanding by the virtual team members of the objectives of the virtual team; determining a level of contextual appreciation (CA) among the virtual team members wherein CA is a shared understanding of an operating context under which the virtual team members operate; determining a level of style alignment (SA) among the virtual team members wherein SA is the alignment of workplace behavioral traits of the virtual team members; determining a qualitative measure of virtual team effectiveness (VTE) according to the relationship: VTE=OA*CA*SA. Also disclosed is a service method and a computer program product. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136684 | FAST, DYNAMIC, DATA-DRIVEN REPORT DEPLOYMENT OF DATA MINING AND PREDICTIVE INSIGHT INTO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) TOOLS - A Business Intelligence (BI) meta model template is selected based on one or more meta model object types in a model structure. A BI meta model is generated from the selected BI meta model template. One or more BI report specification templates are selected based on a mining model type. A BI report specification is generated from the selected one or more BI report specification templates, a schema of the model structure, and content of the model structure. The BI meta model and the BI report specification are deployed to a BI server for use in generating a BI report using a BI tool at the BI server. In response to a user request for a BI report, the BI report is generated with a BI tool at the BI server that uses the BI meta model and the BI report specification. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143640 | TRACEABILITY SYSTEM APPLIED TO FARM PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF BEE PRODUCTS - is a technological solution that mixes administrative, computational and electronic engineering knowledge, and aims to modernize the whole apicultural production chain. The administrative part of the ensemble proposes the use of small electronic equipment for all the activities of the field and industrial jobs. The equipment is carried attached to the user's body, in such a manner that its presence influences the minimum possible in the user's quotidian activities, maximizing its ergonomics quality. The equipment can be activated without using hands. Still from an administrative point of view, logistic processes for transferring and storing items, coupled with a complex but intuitive system of classes and subclasses of codes, assessed and monitored by the electronic equipment, register everything, in an automatic and inductive manner, leading the user to an inevitable recording of all the details in its daily activities. The computational and electronics knowledge used make possible that all the details idealized to register activities, the transfers and assets used, can be executed in practice. The result of the use of this solution is a conscious consumer, aware of the quality of the products consumed, a producer who is able to highlight the quality of his products produced with care, and a sector that learns how to know its potentials and can have modern and efficient tools to augment its productivity. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143641 | Systems and Methods for Computing Business Value - The present invention relates to systems and methods for computing business value, thereby enable interested parties to accurately and efficiently determine the value of a given solution to a stakeholder. The system collates solution attributes. The solution may include any goods or services that a vendor, or other supplier, is offering to a purchaser. The solution attributes include the cost of the solution, the areas of a business that the solution impacts and degree of improvement that the solution provides to key performance indicators that are relevant to the areas impacted. The system also provides community aggregated values for the key performance indicators and other metrics for the impacted areas. The system collates stakeholder specific information, including revenue for the stakeholder and key objectives. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143642 | Fleet Management Revenue Assurance - Methods and systems for automatic inventorying and reporting of field operations are presented. The invention provides a method for automatically reporting the completion of a field harvest or product application. An apparatus data unit can transmit apparatus location and state data to a central inventory system (CIS), preferably embodied as a central server. The CIS can convert the apparatus data to agricultural elements that can be mapped to a business state for a particular field. The CIS can provide a report of the field business state to an administrative service for scheduling or billing purposes. The invention provides a layer of abstraction so that a report recipient need not have familiarity with agricultural terms in order to perform administrative tasks related to field and fleet management. The invention enables resource management and billing services to be performed in a timely, efficient and accurate manner. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150573 | REAL-TIME SITE MONITORING DESIGN - A method for designing a system for real-time site monitoring disclosed. A three-dimensional (3-D) model of a site is accessed by a computer system. The computer system determines a location for placing a monitoring sensor at the site. The computer system determines whether there is an obstruction at the site which inhibits receiving monitoring data by the monitoring sensor when at the location. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150574 | CONTENT FEEDBACK IN A MULTIPLE-OWNER CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - New functions for a contact center system include: testing user's comprehension of informational messages; capturing insight users having a KPI score above a threshold by having those users submit information on why they perform well; dynamically ordering solutions to issues by re-ranking the solutions periodically based on recency and frequency; integrating information for use by a contact center representative while online with a customer and information for use when not online; storing content items in a telecommunications industry taxonomy; directing user feedback on a content item to the proper owner/manager of that content; communicating solution information using a solutions taxonomy; displaying a dual information system having a CRM application and reference material that's context-appropriate; enforcing completion of a group of templates when creating a content item to be published; ensuring a group of templates for a content item are complete before publishing them; and searching within a contact center system. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150575 | QUOTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A quotation system and method are provided (see FIG. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158445 | Geo-Spatial Mapping and Service Provision Analysis - A Geo-spatial Enterprise Mapping System (GEMS) application may be utilized for determining a cost associated with providing a service to a point of interest by utilizing data from a web-based mapping service application in conjunction with data from a service provider database. Maps may be utilized with polylines representing fiber and coax spans, and markers to display device, customer, and prospect information to provide a user with a quick overview of a potential profitability of a particular area or point of interest. A proximity of customers and groups of customers to a service provider network may be displayed and visible to a user in an intuitive manner. A serviceability and profitability of potential customers may be determined, as well as locating prospective customers. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158446 | Determining Impacts Of Business Activities - A first entity responsible for a first stage in a life-cycle of at least one of a product can receive a service, an entity, a process, and a business unit, a data container from a second entity responsible for a second stage in the life-cycle. The second stage can precede the first stage in the life-cycle. The data container can include second impact data quantifying impacts of each second activity of the second entity relating to the life-cycle and third impact data quantifying impacts of each third activity of a third entity relating to the life-cycle. The third entity can be responsible for a third stage in the life-cycle that either precedes or follows the first stage. First impact data quantifying impacts of each first activity of the first entity relating to the life-cycle can be calculated and added to the data container. An aggregate impact of all or part of the life-cycle can be calculated by applying an impact calculation algorithm whose inputs comprise the first impact data, the second impact data, and the third impact data. The data container can be passed to the second entity and the third entity, and the aggregate impact can be promoted. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are described. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166233 | Method And Apparatus For Enhancing Consumer Awareness Of Utility Consumption And Cost Data - A user platform (“Smart Grid Phone” (SGP)) facilitates enhanced consumer awareness of utility consumption and cost data associated with a user premises. In one example, the SGP provides electrical energy consumption and cost data and may be implemented with interfaces to either legacy electric meters or next-generation smart electric meters. Novel methods are described herein for coupling the SGP to an external energy monitoring service to receive externally-produced content (such as historical energy usage displays) and deriving supplemental content such as annotated energy events, time-varying pricing data, and customized displays which may be displayed simultaneously with or alternatively to the externally-produced content. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166234 | BUSINESS PROCESS VISIBILITY AT REAL TIME - Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing business process visibility at real time are described herein. One or more business activity events are received at a local business activity event manager. Further, business process binding information associated with the one or more business activity events is retrieved at the business activity manager from a business process model manager. A relationship of the one or more business activity events with a business process using the business process binding is identified at the business activity event manager. Upon determination, a business process log manager is triggered for logging a business activity log of a business process instance at real time. Furthermore, the business activity log is extracted to monitor and analyze the business process instance at real time. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROGRAMMATICALLY BENCHMARKING PERFORMANCE OF CONTACT CENTERS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for benchmarking the performance of a contact center of an enterprise with respect to online communications channels. A system configured to practice the method first identifies messages posted by users on an online communications channel during a first time interval. Each of these messages includes an identification of user problems encountered by the users. The system then identifies messages posted by agents of the enterprise on the online communications channel. Specifically, the messages identified are those consisting of an agents responding to the user problems identified in messages posted by the users. The system can then generate response performance measures for the enterprise. The response performance measures can be based on a temporal relationship between corresponding messages posted by a users and agents. Alternatively, the performance measures can be based on users' response to the responses provided by the agents. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166236 | EFFICIENT FRONTIER AND ATTAINMENT RATE FOR BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OUTSOURCING - A method and system for establishing an Efficient Frontier (EF) and Attainment Rate (AR) for Business Transformation Outsourcing (BTO) is presented. EF is the maximum service level achievable at a point in time for a specific business process or business process area. AR is the pace at which the EF can be reached from an initial value. Clients, outsourcers, and third-parties determine whether proposals are infeasible (above EF) or inefficient (below AR). Fact-based discussions of the merits and limitations of various implementation initiatives are supported. A determination is made as to whether there are any business segments to which different EF and AR apply. Any underlying factors for the EF and AR of each business segment are determined, and any change (rise or fall) of EF over time is predicted to maintain an optimally accurate EF and/or AR for each business segment. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166237 | METHOD OF PREDICTING PRODUCTIVITY OF EMBROIDERING MACHINE, METHOD OF MANAGING PRODUCTIVITY AND METHOD OF ANALYZING RETURN OF INVESTMENT AND MACHINE RESIDUAL VALUE USING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM FOR PERFORMING METHOD OF PREDICTING PRODUCTIVITY OF EMBROIDERING MACHINE - A method of predicting expected work contents based on the analysis of an embroidery design, and a method of managing productivity and method of analyzing the return of investment and machine residual value using the method are provided. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166238 | Requirement Generator - A requirement generation system receives user input selecting, from among key performance indicators stored in key performance indicator data defining key performance indicators available for selection in defining a requirement for a project, one or more key performance indicators to include in a requirement for a project. The requirement generation system defines the requirement for the project based on the received user input selecting the one or more key performance indicators and determines technical requirements for the requirement for the project based on mapping data defining formula and one or more data structures used in determining a measure of the one or more selected key performance indicators. The requirement generation system generates a data model mapping document for the project based on the determined technical requirements and outputs the generated data model mapping document. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166239 | Balanced Scorecard And Reporting Tool - Methods and systems for developing key performance indicator (KPI) systems are provided. A centralized data store contains an indexed collection of KPIs. The KPIs may be arranged in a manner that facilitates rapid searching and retrieval. Multiple computer devices are connected to the centralized data store. The computer devices are programmed with computer-executable instructions for searching the data store and creating balanced scorecard applications that utilize one or more of the KPIs. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173293 | Systems and Methods for Carbon Emission Calculation, Tracking and Analysis - A system and method for determining and reducing carbon emissions associated with the transportation of products around the world. An origin, a load, a discharge and a destination are entered on a computer interface. A processor determines carbon emissions for a plurality of routes from the origin to the destination using the origin, the load, the discharge, and the destination to determine and by considering one or more legs from the origin to the destination and by considering a plurality of modes of transportation for each of the legs. The processor determines which of the plurality of routes and which of the plurality of mode of transportations will generate the least carbon emission. A variety of parameters, including but not limited to, vehicle type, fuel time, arrival/departure times, can also be considered in determining carbon emissions. The route with the least carbon emissions can be graphically displayed. Additionally, other alternate routes can also be displayed. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173294 | Integrating Report Actions for a Series of Reports Within a Single User Interface - A user interface may be provided for initiating communication of a business process from a single report user interface. The user interface may include a report area, a selected report in the report area and a group of integrated action buttons for initiating communication of one or more business processes against the selected report. The integrated action buttons in the user interface may be selected by a user to apply the one or more business processes against the selected report. The one or more business processes may then be initiated against the selected report from the user interface. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179501 | DECISION SUPPORT - Information relating to an entity's objectives is received, a utility function based on the received objectives is derived, the utility function is compared with results from a number of simulated investment options, and the comparisons are presented to a user associated with the entity. | 07-12-2012 |
20120191493 | DETERMINING TECHNOLOGY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH A FINANCIAL PRODUCT - The present invention provides for methods, apparatus and computer programs for determining technology costs associated with a financial product, and, in specific embodiments, an equity trade. In specific embodiments of the invention the technology application costs may be determined on a per-process basis and subsequently totaled to determine the overall cost. The invention provides for identifying a plurality of processes and a plurality of technology applications each of which are associated with a financial product. Once the processes and technology application have been identified, process allocation percentages are determined for each of the technology applications and identified processes associated with each of the technology applications and a per-financial product technology cost for each of the plurality of technology applications is determined over a predetermined time period. Additionally, the per-process technology cost is determined for the financial product based on the per-financial product technology cost for each of the plurality of technology applications and the process allocation percentages associated with a respective process and a respective technology application. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191494 | INCIDENT COST MODEL - Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods for determining the cost of poor quality of an incident within a business. One way to measure costs associated with an incident is by measuring failed customer interactions (“FCIs”). FCIs are defined as incidents that occur within the business that either directly or indirectly affect a customer's ability to use a product or service offered by the business. In most situations an FCI relates to a failed interaction between the business and the customer through a channel that affected the customer's use of a product or service through the channel. The cost of poor quality application calculates the total cost of an incident through a multifaceted valuation that factors in hard metrics, such as but not limited to actual costs, duration, channel costs, FCI severity, etc. in order to calculate a remediation cost, a channel FCI cost, and a reputation cost. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191495 | TIRE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A web-based tire management system tracks both tire-related and vehicle-related information for multiple fleets and for multiple models and brands of tires to enable sophisticated analysis of tire-related issues to be performed on behalf of individual fleets, as well as for tire dealers and manufacturers. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197674 | ESTIMATING A FUTURE PROJECT CHARACTERISTIC BASED ON THE SIMILARITY OF PAST PROJECTS - Disclosed embodiments relate to estimating a future project characteristic based on the similarity of past projects. For example, a processor may estimate a future project characteristic based on past projects and a similarity of each past project to the future project. In one embodiment, the processor then provides the estimation. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197675 | AUTOMATED CONTROL PLAN - Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods for automatic control plan monitoring. Users can enter the steps of the business process that requires monitoring, the metrics that the user wants to track for a specific control plan, the control limits for the metrics, and/or the location where the metric data can be captured. Thereafter, an automated control plan captures the data and provides customized dashboards so that users can track the metrics associated with the control plan from the beginning of the process until the end, as well as make comparisons of the process over time. Furthermore, notification alerts can be set that alert the proper employees within the business when the control plan is outside of the control plan limits. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203583 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MISSING RULES MATCHING A MINIMAL SET OF OBJECTS | 08-09-2012 |
20120203584 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS - A system and method for identifying potential customers is provided. Information in a proprietary data repository of a company may be analyzed to thereby determine a first set of textual terms. Publicly available information related to the existing customer set may be analyzed to thereby determine a second set of textual terms. Terms in the first and second sets may be associated with scores. A customer profile may be generated based on the textual terms and associated scores. Potential customers may be identified based on the buyer profile. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MISSING RULES MATCHING A MINIMAL SET OF OBJECTS | 08-09-2012 |
20120209642 | IDENTIFICATION OF TRADING ACTIVITIES OF ENTITIES ACTING IN CONCERT - Market participants that are ostensibly unrelated but acting in concert are identified using vector algebra. Position data for the market participants is collected using the large trader reporting system or through another method. The position data includes the position for a specific financial derivative for each of the market participants. Information derived from position data is used to populate a vector for each market participant. At least one pair of vectors is analyzed by calculating a parallel score indicative of an angle between the two vectors. The parallel score may be a cosine of the angle. The parallel score may be compared to a threshold parallel score to determine the likelihood that the pair of market participants are acting in concert. The threshold parallel score differs from market to market and may be determined by analyzing the distribution of parallel scores for the specific market. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209643 | PROFIT COMPARISON - Systems, methods, and machine-readable and executable instructions are provided for profit comparison. Profit comparison can include determining a first profitability function of a flexible duration extended warranty offering with respect to a first plurality of warranty parameters and determining a second profitability function of a fixed duration extended warranty offering with respect to a second plurality of warranty parameters. Profit comparison can also include comparing the first function and the second function for at least one level of at least one of profit lift and flexible duration warranty offering coverage duration. Presenting results of the comparison for a range of values of the first and second plurality of warranty parameters can also be included in profit comparison. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209644 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING CREATION OF BUSINESS PLANS AND REPORTS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for generating business reports. According to one or more embodiments, information corresponding to a business entity is received. Such information may include a particular category of the business entity and financial information about the business entity. The financial information of the business entity is then compared to financial information collected from one or more businesses in the particular category. A predictive success score for the business entity is then generated based on the comparison. Additionally, descriptive text and financial forecasts, performance reviews and/or a dated Certificate of Performance with unique numbering are also automatically generated. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209645 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA RELATING TO BUSINESS EVENTS WITHIN BUSINESS PROCESSES - The invention proposes a central data service unit (ZDE), which provides data (DA-Dm) relating to business events (GE | 08-16-2012 |
20120221365 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus which provides minutes-of-meeting information corresponding to a request for minutes of a meeting, including: an importance level evaluation unit which evaluates a first importance level corresponding to a user who requests browsing of the minutes of the meeting. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221366 | Site Selection Data Analysis and System - A method for site selection data analysis, including providing a distributed computer network for site selection data analysis with a computer and a plurality of databases coupled to a computer network and providing an interface associated with a selected site location for receiving site selection data from the computer. The site selection data may include quantifiable values associated with business operating expenses. The method also includes selectively retrieving rates from a rate database, where the rates are updated dynamically and are selected based on the site location and site selection data. The method also includes providing an algorithm for calculating monthly and annual values of the site selection data and calculating a data set using the algorithm. The method also includes transmitting the data set to the computer to be displayed on a display device and storing the data set and site selection data on a data storage device. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221367 | One View Integrated Project Management System - Projects of any type require sophisticated management software programs. In reality, these management software programs are provided by various vendors and for different professional fields. For example, scheduling programs for construction professionals, blue print programs for drafting professionals, accounting programs for cost-control professionals. In addition, there are numerous other unofficial and official documents generated by managers of different levels for reporting or track-record-keeping purposes using popular word processing programs and spread-sheet programs. Documents generated by different software programs can only be viewed under the programs they are generated under or compatible programs. This poses a problem in that there is a lack of organized control resulting in difficulty in locating and viewing documents in a timely manner. The present invention provides an one view software program that would be able to provide an organized control and viewing of all documents regardless which software programs they are generated under. | 08-30-2012 |
20120226510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROJECT STATUS METRICS - A method, a system and a computer program product for providing status metric of a project to a user is a provided. An input data corresponding to the project may be received from a service provider. Further, the input data may be validated based on one or more pre-defined rules. The validated data may be aggregated into one or more tables. One or more attributes of the aggregated data, from the one or more tables, may be analyzed to generate one or more reports. The generated report includes project information corresponding to the project. Further, the generated reports may be provided to the user. Thereby, the method provides the status metric of the project to the user. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226511 | One view integrated project management system - Projects of any type require sophisticated management software programs. In reality, these management software programs are provided by various vendors and for different professional fields. For example, scheduling programs for construction professionals, blue print programs for drafting professionals, accounting programs for cost-control professionals. In addition, there are numerous other unofficial and official documents generated by managers of different levels for reporting or track-record-keeping purposes using popular word processing programs and spread-sheet programs. Documents generated by different software programs can only be viewed under the programs they are generated under or compatible programs. This poses a problem in that there is a lack of organized control resulting in difficulty in locating and viewing documents in a timely manner. The present invention provides an one view software program that would be able to provide an organized control and viewing of all documents regardless which software programs they are generated under. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226512 | ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE ASSETS IN VIEW OF FUNCTIONALLY-RELATED UNCERTAINTIES - A client-server based system for building and executing flows (i.e., interconnected systems of algorithms). The client allows a user to build a flow specification and send the flow specification to the server. The server assembles the flow from the flow spec and executes the flow. A flow may be configured to analyze the impact (e.g., the financial impact) of a number of uncertainties associated with a plurality of assets. Uncertainty variables are used to characterize the uncertainties associated with the assets. An uncertainty variable associated with one asset may be functionally dependent on an uncertainty variable associated with another asset. | 09-06-2012 |
20120232941 | Determining composite service reliability - The reliability of a composite service having service components is determined, where the composite service can fail only where underlying resources fail. The composite service is represented as a plurality of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMC's). Each CTMC corresponds to a resource. A product of the CTMC's is constructed. The product encompasses composite service states. Steady-state probabilities for the product are determined. Each steady-state probability corresponds to a likelihood that a corresponding state will be a steady state. For each state of the composite service, a reward structure is determined. The reward structure corresponds to a likelihood that the state will successfully use the resources without failure. The reward structure is determined for a given state based on the given state's steady-state probability and based on discrete-time Markov chains (DTMC's) corresponding to the service components. The reliability of the composite service is determined based on the reward structure of each state. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239444 | MVT OPTIMIZATION OF BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING AND MANAGEMENT - A multivariate business process modeling or management (BPM) optimization system and method for optimizing a BPM system includes a logic layer to control operation of the BPM system, a utility layer to implement a randomized experimental treatment based on a hypothesis, and a persistence layer to collect data from application of the randomized experimental treatment to the BPM system. The multivariate BPM optimization system and method optimizes the BPM system by computerized testing of the hypothesis and generation of results to add, remove or modify a step or modify a point in a flow of the BPM system based on the data collected from application of the randomized experimental treatment. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239445 | ANALYTICS VALUE ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT - A computerized system to determine estimations for analytics capabilities includes a value driver determination module to determine key value drivers associated with the entity. The system also includes an analytics matching module to identify analytics capabilities that align to the key value drivers. An analytics valuation module estimates values for the matching analytics capabilities based on benchmarks and financial and operational data for the entity. A cost and capital determination module estimates costs and capital for implementing the matching analytics capabilities, and an analytics selector module determines benefits for the matching analytics capabilities based on the estimated values and the costs and the capital. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239446 | PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS SUPPORTING METHOD - Wasteful repetitive tasks are easily reduced in processes to develop complex products. A product development process support system is a system which analyzes dependencies between a plurality of requirements in product development processes belonging to a plurality of layers, and comprises an input reception portion for receiving input of information indicating the dependency between two requirements belonging to adjacent layers and of information indicating the degree of influence of requirements on product development, and dependency derivation portion for deriving the dependency between two arbitrary requirements belonging to the same layer from information indicating the dependencies between the two requirements in question and other requirements received by the input reception portion and from information indicating the degree of influence of the two requirements in question, based on dependency derivation rules established in advance. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239447 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTATION AND UPSELLING OF PRODUCT - A system and method for using product profiling to maximize load capacity of a vehicle. The method includes defining product profiles and retrieving product information associated with the product profiles. The method further includes performing cubing operations for products associated with the product information. The system includes components to perform the method steps. | 09-20-2012 |
20120245968 | BUILDING SYSTEM CONTROL AND EQUIPMENT FAULT AND DEGRADATION MONETIZATION AND PRIORITIZATION - An approach for monetizing performance of building system equipment such as HVAC equipment. Expected and actual performance curves may be obtained for the HVAC equipment. Differences between the curves may indicate energy consumption. The energy consumption may be monetized. The monetizing may be of degradation that occurs when the equipment deteriorates, incurs a fault or has a loss of performance as accrued over time. Monetizing may incorporate maintenance and capital risk exposure. The monetizing may be a conversion of analyses of the equipment to money in real time. Performance monitoring of the equipment may incorporate predictive trending which may lead to fault prognosis and preventative maintenance. Automation of the conversion may result in immediate information and feedback to customers. The information may be stored for historical purposes and future analyses. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245969 | On-Shelf Tracking System - A system to be installed on a merchandising unit having one or more inventory zones, one or more units of product, one or more product sensors, a mounting structure, and an electromagnetic signal processor. The one or more product sensors, each at least associated operatively with one of the one or more inventory zones, converts a sensed quantity of the one or more units of product into a respective analog electromagnetic signal. The mounting structure secures the one or more product sensors to the merchandising unit. The electromagnetic signal processor in communication with the one or more product sensors can sample output from the one or more product sensors. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245970 | FAST, DYNAMIC, DATA-DRIVEN REPORT DEPLOYMENT OF DATA MINING AND PREDICTIVE INSIGHT INTO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) TOOLS - A Business Intelligence (BI) meta model template is selected based on one or more meta model object types in a model structure. A BI meta model is generated from the selected BI meta model template. One or more BI report specification templates are selected based on a mining model type. A BI report specification is generated from the selected one or more BI report specification templates, a schema of the model structure, and content of the model structure. The BI meta model and the BI report specification are deployed to a BI server for use in generating a BI report using a BI tool at the BI server. In response to a user request for a BI report, the BI report is generated with a BI tool at the BI server that uses the BI meta model and the BI report specification. | 09-27-2012 |
20120253857 | STRUCTURED METHODS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS UNIFICATION - The proposed disclosure relates to a computer aided method for the implementation of process unification across regionally distributed process environments. The method includes the establishment of a process framework. It further includes the creation of a present state model for each regionally distributed process environment and the creation of a unified future state model. The normalization of the future state model across the regionally distributed process environments is also called for. Some aspects of the method may include the use of computer based tools in the establishment of the process framework, the establishment of the present state model and the establishment of the future state model. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253858 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING TEXT ANALYTICS DRIVEN SOCIAL METRICS INTO BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments of the invention relate to an architectural structure for representing an underlying business and tools to support dynamic adjustment of the structure. A social media metric is created and associated with a business metric of a component represented in the architectural structure, and an impact on the underlying business is identified and measured based upon this association. Accordingly, elements of the structure are parsed and analyzed, and in response to the analysis, the structure is dynamically modified to mitigate receipt of measured negative output data. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253859 | METRICS BASED DESIGN METHOD AND SYSTEM - A metrics based design method and system is disclosed. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, an informational model comprising data objects, attributes, and relationships associated with a service. The data objects comprise sub-objects. The computer processor receives business affinity (BA) band data associated with the data objects, threshold levels associated with the business affinity (BA) band data, business affinity (BA) levels associated with the business affinity (BA) band data, and service interface operation parameters. The computer processor computes a business affinity (BA) for the informational model based on the business affinity (BA) band data, the threshold levels, the business affinity (BA) levels, and the service interface operation parameters. The computer processor computes a data variation percentage and a reusability count. The computer processor performs: a nested level computation for service valency, a factorization process for computing service valency, and a data element count. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253860 | METHODS FOR DECISION MAKING THROUGH CONVEX HULL OPTIMIZATION AND DEVICES THEREOF - Described are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for decision making through convex hull optimization. A plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs) are received. A convex hull encompassing the plurality of KPIs is generated. Based at least in part on the generated convex hull and on at least one KPI satisfying a condition, an operating range of one or more other KPIs is determined. Moreover, specific values at which each of the other KPIs may be maintained in order to reach a defined objective are determined. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253861 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING MAPS BASED ON TELEMATICS DATA - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a mapping management computer system. According to various embodiments, the mapping management computer system may be configured for updating geographical maps by assessing map data and operational data including vehicle telematics data to identify portions of a vehicle path that do not correspond to known travel paths. In various embodiments, the system is configured to define these identified portions as new known travel paths corresponding to a public road, private road, parking lot lane, or the like, and update the map data to reflect the new known travel paths. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253862 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A FLEET MANAGEMENT USER INTERFACE - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management computer system configured for providing a fleet management user interface. According to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured for assessing operational data to determine a vehicle travel path and one or more operational characteristics indicated by the operational data. In addition, according to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured for generating a graphical user interface that includes an evaluation results display showing the operational characteristics and a geographical map showing the vehicle travel path. | 10-04-2012 |
20120265566 | Test Portfolio Optimization System - According to one example, a test portfolio optimization system includes a test repository, an activity repository, an exception repository, and an optimization engine. The optimization engine is operable to generate a plurality of test portfolios. Each test portfolio comprises different types of tests of a plurality of tests. The optimization engine is also operable to determine a test cost for each portfolio over the period of time. The test cost for each portfolio is equal to a sum of costs for each test type within the portfolio over the period of time. The optimization engine is also operable to determine an impact per portfolio period of time. The impact per portfolio is equal to a sum of impacts per test type for each test type over the period of time. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265567 | OFFLINE CONVERSION REPORTING - A system can report an occurrence of an offline conversion with respect to an electronic commerce system. The system can then correlate information of the offline conversion with information comprised in one or more communication records to determine whether the offline conversion occurred as a result of a communication feature of the electronic commerce system, such as a click-to-call communication feature or a click-to-chat communication feature. The system can then report the offline conversion, and report that the offline conversion occurred as a result of the communication feature. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT OF AN APPLICATION - Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to calculating a return on investment score of an application for an organization. In one exemplary implementation, the system and methods may receive a plurality of data items that reflect content created by a user, each of the plurality of data items corresponding to data item categories; receive a plurality of designations associated with the data items; and calculate return on investment scores for the data item categories based on the designations and the data items. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271669 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A SUSTAINABILITY METRIC - An electronically implemented method of determining and managing a sustainability metric of one or more inventory groups is disclosed. Each group comprises one or more operational units. The method receives at least one of consumption data and one or more inventory parameters associated with each of the one or more inventory groups. A factual sustainability metric of the one or more inventory groups is determined, based on the received at least one of consumption data and one or more inventory parameters. A model sustainability metric of the one or more inventory groups in at least one model scenario, is also determined. The model scenario comprising modifying at least one of received consumption data and a received inventory parameter, to assess the effect of the modification on the factual sustainability metric. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271670 | METHODS, TECHNOLOGY, AND SYSTEMS FOR QUICKLY ENHANCING THE OPERATING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF ENERGY SYSTEMS AT LARGE FACILITIES, INTERPRETING USUAL AND UNUSUAL PATTERNS IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION, IDENTIFYING, QUANTIFYING, AND MONETIZING HIDDEN OPERATING AND FINANCIAL WASTE, AND ACCURATELY MEASURING THE RESULTS OF IMPLEMENTED ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, IN THE SHORTEST AMOUNT OF TIME WITH MINIMAL COST AND EFFORT - Certain examples relate to computer implemented methods and systems including at least three modules whose combined functionality provides for interpretation and optimization of usual and unusual patterns in energy consumption; the identification, quantification, and monetization of hidden operating and financial waste and the accurate measurement of the results of implemented energy management solutions. The first, “Expert Module”, provides information that assists with the accurate interpretation of the information provided in the Operations module. The second, “Costs Module”, allows users to modify consumption and price components and derive the resulting operating costs based on the facility's applied or available rate structures. The third, “Operations Module”, charts and evaluates the current operating performance of a facility down to 15-minute intervals in comparison to the operating performance of a pre-selected “base year”. Comparisons are synchronized over intervals in a manner that allows users to compare and comment on individual graphs interactively. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271671 | METHODS, TECHNOLOGY, AND SYSTEMS FOR QUICKLY ENHANCING THE OPERATING AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF ENERGY SYSTEMS AT LARGE FACILITIES; INTERPRETING USUAL AND UNUSUAL PATTERNS IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION; IDENTIFYING, QUANTIFYING, AND MONETIZING HIDDEN OPERATING AND FINANCIAL WASTE; AND ACCURATELY MEASURING THE RESULTS OF IMPLEMENTED ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS- IN THE SHORTEST AMOUNT OF TIME WITH MINIMAL COST AND EFFORT - Certain examples relate to computer implemented methods and systems including at least three modules whose combined functionality provides for interpretation and optimization of usual and unusual patterns in energy consumption; the identification, quantification, and monetization of hidden operating and financial waste and the accurate measurement of the results of implemented energy management solutions. The first, “Expert Module”, provides information that assists with the accurate interpretation of the information provided in the Operations module. The second, “Costs Module”, allows users to modify consumption and price components and derive the resulting operating costs based on the facility's applied or available rate structures. The third, “Operations Module”, charts and evaluates the current operating performance of a facility down to 15-minute intervals in comparison to the operating performance of a pre-selected “base year”. Comparisons are synchronized over intervals in a manner that allows users to compare and comment on individual graphs interactively. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271672 | SOFTWARE/HARDWARE RANKING - A ranking method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, business requirements and associated weighting factors. The computing system receives a list of software/hardware products and associated assessment data. The business requirements are associated with product features of the software/hardware products. The computing system calculates total requirement weighting factors for the product features. The computing system stores the total requirement weighting factors. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278114 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY REVERSING BUSINESS FUNCTIONS - A method for determining reversibility of a business function performed by a plurality of development objects in a user's system may include determining reversibility of an accessory container object based on a plurality of environmental factors of the user's system, checking a set of conditions specific to the business function to determine whether the business function is reversible, and displaying the business function as reversible. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284067 | REVENUE-BASED IMPACT ANALYSIS USING MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODELS OF SOFTWARE OFFERINGS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the maintenance and execution of a software offering. During operation, the system obtains a total revenue associated with the software offering and a set of weight vectors associated with a multidimensional model of the software offering, wherein each of the weight vectors comprises a set of revenue weights. Next, the system calculates a set of component revenues associated with a set of service components and a set of resources used by the software offering by applying the total revenue and the weight vectors to the multidimensional model. Finally, the system uses the component revenues to facilitate management of the software offering. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284068 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING SKILL MATRIX - A method and a system for determining a skill matrix of an employee is provided. The method comprises analyzing the employee's folksonomic behavior and consequently creating the skill matrix of the employee. Folksonomy comprises creating one or more tags to annotate and categorize web content. The system includes a Tag Cloud Management Module, a Tag Cluster Generator Module and a Skill Matrix Generator Module. The Tag Cloud Management Module is configured to generate a tag cloud, wherein the tag cloud includes one or more tags created by the employee while browsing content of interest. The Tag Cluster Generator Module is configured to create one or more groups/clusters of one or more tags included in the tag cloud, based on one or more technologies related to the one or more tags. The Skill Matrix Generator Module is configured to analyze the created one or more clusters of tags to determine the skill matrix of the employee. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284069 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PARAMETERS IN A RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Method for optimizing a current set of parameters in a recommendation system during runtime, including a determining step for determining a first set of parameters depending on the current set of parameters and a second set of parameters depending on the first set of parameters and on user actions with respect to previous recommendations; a testing step for comparing, during runtime and with respect to a predetermined target function, an output of the recommendation system using the first set of parameters against an output of the recommendation system using the second set of parameters; and a selecting step for selecting the first set of parameters or second set of parameters as the current set of parameters depending on a comparison result of the testing step. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284070 | ATTACHMENT ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE - The present invention provides an Attachment alignment measurement system, method and tool, for identifying the level of Attachment Variance in a relationship between a caregiver and a subject (e.g. new member) in the social structure. Attachment Variance is the degree of alignment (or misalignment) between a subject's (e.g. new member) actual Attachment to the social structure compared with the Attachment of the subject as perceived by the caregiver. The Attachment alignment measurement method for measuring attachment variance in social structure, including the steps of measuring a Subject's actual Attachment to a social structure (Actual Attachment), measuring a primary carer's perception of the Subject's Attachment to a social structure (Perceived Attachment), and comparing Actual Attachment and Perceived Attachment such that Attachment Variance is assessable, wherein Attachment Variance provides an indication of alignment between a Subject's Actual Attachment the Perceived Attachment and the programming instructions for performing the steps. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290342 | PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES - Product lifecycle management techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a request is received from a user for information relating to product lifecycle management of a product associated with an enterprise and a job function of the user within the enterprise is determined. Information that relates to the product is collected and displayed in a user interface using a format and terminology that corresponds to the determined job function. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290343 | Work Order Audit System - A system for auditing and analyzing work performed by other individuals is disclosed. Data is imported into the system, where the data represents one or more elements of work performed at one or more locations. This data is parsed out into individual items to be audited. These items, along with a number of questions with discrete answers are then transmitted by the system to one or more auditing technicians who audit the work performed by capturing one or more visual images. These visual images, along with answers to the questions are then transmitted back to the system. The system then saves the visual images and associated answers for archiving and generating reports. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290344 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES (GHG) IN THE PRODUCTION OF BIOPRODUCTS - A method for quickly and remotely GHG emissions without providing the sources of raw material production means to collect parameters is disclosed. The method uses a processing unit for executing instructions related to the determination of emissions, a database to store relevant parameters related to the production of raw materials, means of transmission of data to recover the parameters of the database and transmit these parameters to the processing unit, and a modeling module of GHG emissions connected to the processing unit and adapted to generate a level of GHG emissions. The method comprises considering a partial estimate for emissions in relation to any process and an add value for such global GHG emissions. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290345 | Smarter Business Intelligence Systems - An embodiment of the invention provides a method and system for analyzing a plurality of reports. More specifically, a change detection module predicts results of future reports based on past reports and identifies a first report that deviates from its predicted results. A dependency analysis module connected to the change detection module at least one report sharing a dependency with the first report by performing a dependency analysis and/or a usage analysis. The dependency analysis labels the first report and at least one second report as sharing a dependency if the second report deviates from its predicted results. The usage analysis labeling the first report and at least one report analyzed by an analyst as sharing a dependency if the report analyzed by the analyst is analyzed in response to the identification of the first report. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296682 | REAL TIME E-COMMERCE USER INTERFACE FOR MONITORING AND INTERACTING WITH CONSUMERS - Systems and methods for e-commerce customer support activities are provided via an analytics server, which provides real-time information concerning customer visits to an e-commerce Web site to a merchant that operates the Web site, for example via a dashboard or other user interface. The real-time information allows the merchant to monitor and optionally interact with customers visiting the Web site, for example by viewing requests for customer service and providing real-time customer service via interactive user interfaces. Real-time telemetry concerning the customer visits is provided to the analytics server, which then presents the information in meaningful fashions via the dashboard or user interfaces for review by the merchant. Merchant responses to the information is facilitated via analytics engines, customer support engines, rule engines, deal engines, recommendation engines, and other components, which may operate according to customized rule sets to implement specific customer support policies. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303395 | Relationship Assessment - Systems and methods of evaluating and/or assessing the health of a relationship are provided. In some examples, the systems and methods may include identifying a first party and a second party in a relationship. The systems and methods may further include determining a plurality of parameters for evaluation. In some examples, a first portion of the parameters may be evaluated based on what the second party thinks of the first party from a business engagement perspective. Another portion of the parameters may be evaluated based on how well prepared the first party is to meet the business needs of the second party. The scores may be combined to determine an overall health of the relationship and, in some examples, the results may be represented graphically and/or using color to indicate the health of the relationship. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303396 | MODEL-BASED BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT - A business process model (BPM) handler may determine a business process model including tasks arranged according to a directed graph, at least some of the tasks associated with requirements for executing the tasks. An information technology topology model (ITTM) handler may determine an information technology topology model with connected resources used to perform at least some of the tasks. A behavior model generator may determine behaviors of the resources from a behavior information library, and may generate a behavior model in which the tasks and their respective requirements are connected to the resources and to their respective behaviors. A continuity analyzer may thus provide a continuity analysis, based on the behavior model. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310681 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SERVICE CANDIDATES BASED ON SERVICE IDENTIFICATION INDICATORS AND ASSOCIATED ALGORITHMS - Certain example embodiments relate to algorithmic and/or programmatic approaches to identifying service candidates from among business process functions. In certain example embodiments, a method of analyzing functions of a business process model for possible exposure as service capabilities in a service-oriented business process system (SO-BPS) is provided. A business process model defined by a plurality of objects is received, with each said object having metadata attributes associated therewith. Business process analysis intelligence is obtained at design time for each said object. Process performance intelligence at run time is obtained for each said object. Indicators corresponding to the design time and run time gathered intelligence are stored together with the metadata attributes for the corresponding object. Via at least one processor of the SO-BPS, an overall service candidate algorithm is applied to the stored indicators to arrive at a total service eligibility value for each process function in the model. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310682 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310683 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED RULES-BASED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310684 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION SERVICES VIA A MOBILE APP - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310685 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING COMPARATIVE BUSINESS VALUATION ANALYSIS - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310686 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING BUSINESS VALUATION AND DATABASE SERVICES USING ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310687 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 12-06-2012 |
20120310688 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SECURITY INTEREST ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS - A legal process management system facilitates simultaneous dynamic dialogs between legal process managers and networked attorneys and contractors providing services in connection with security interest enforcement actions (SIEAs). The legal process managers submit queries and deadlines selected to timely guide the attorneys and contractors through the requirements of the SIEAs. The attorneys and contractors submit responsive answers revealing the status of their SIEAs. In some embodiments, an events based management system uses a stochastic model to calculate completion times for the milestones of the SIEA, including the “events” that make up subparts of the milestones. This provides a flexible and powerful system for managing prosecution of the SIEA and for predicting likely durations. The stochastic model incorporates the concept of both fixed-frequency events and random-frequency events, and also allows for both controlled events and managed events. A reporting system is also provided for keeping track of event and milestone completion. | 12-06-2012 |
20120316901 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316902 | USER INTERFACE FOR REAL TIME VIEW OF WEB SITE ACTIVITY - A user interface (UI) adapted to allow a Web site owner/operator to view real time information concerning activities of visitors to a Web site. The UI includes a plurality of information fields that provide real time information concerning visitor browsing and purchasing activities at the subject Web site with which the analytics information is concerned. The information is organized as some or all of: visitor purchasing behavior as grouped by proximity to completing a purchase, visitor visit history, product-based visitor viewing history, visitor referral path, visitor keyword search history, visitor click path, and/or visitor location. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316903 | FORMING A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP NETWORK - A collective knowledge set of business relationship information from a plurality of sources is generated. The collective knowledge set is mapped as a plurality of navigable paths forming a business relationship network between a source and a target. One or more of the paths are identified as candidate paths most likely to lead to a business relationship between the source and the target based on evaluation criteria. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316904 | Detailed method of and system for modeling and analyzing business improvement programs - A computer program product for using artificial intelligence based cognitive learning methods to enable the identification and optional implementation of the optimal mode for purchasing items and managing elements of value for a business enterprise. The items, elements of value and components of value of the business enterprise are analyzed and modeled using predictive models that are developed by learning from the data associated with said business enterprise. The output from these models is then used to identify and optionally implement the optimal mode for purchasing items while considering risk. The output from these models is also used to identify the optimal model for managing the elements of value for the business enterprise. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323615 | OPTIMIZED MAINTENANCE SCHEDULES BASED ON SMART CITY MAINTENANCE PROFILES - An approach is provided in which a maintenance optimizer receives a policy change threshold that corresponds to a system. The maintenance optimizer monitors real-time condition data associated with the system, and determines whether the real-time condition data has reached the policy change threshold. If the real-time condition data has not reached the policy change threshold, the maintenance optimizer generates a maintenance operation notification based upon the real-time condition data according to a maintenance schedule policy. However, if the real-time condition data has reached the policy change threshold, the maintenance optimizer generates an alternate maintenance operation notification based upon the real-time condition data according to an alternate maintenance schedule policy. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323616 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING DOWNTIME DRIVERS - A downtime driver determining apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus may have a data collection module configured to collect machine downtime data and work order data from one or more databases, and a downtime identification module configured to identify a period of machine downtime from the machine downtime data. The apparatus may also have a downtime driver identification module configured to identify at least one work order from the work order data for the machine that was completed during the period of machine downtime, the at least one work order identifying at least one component of the machine, and a downtime attribution module configured to attribute at least part of the period of machine downtime to the at least one component of the machine included in the work order. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323617 | PROCESSING OF BUSINESS EVENT DATA TO DETERMINE BUSINESS STATES - The present description refers to a computer implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for obtaining business event data for a business, the business event data associated with one or more items for sale by or sold by the business, determining summary rate data based on the business event data, comparing the summary rate data to one or more business patterns, and detecting a state of the business based on the comparison of the summary rate data to one or more of the business patterns. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323618 | CASE-BASED RETRIEVAL OF INTEGRATION CASES USING SIMILARITY MEASURES BASED ON A BUSINESS DEOMAIN ONTOLOGY - In one embodiment, a method includes storing a set of integration cases previously used for adapting a standard enterprise system. The set of integration cases include a business function attribute selected from a business domain ontology (BDO) of an enterprise. The integration problem includes a business function attribute selected from the BDO of the enterprise. A similarity is determined between the business function attribute of each of the set of integration cases to the business function attribute of the integration problem. The similarity is determined based on a first position in the BDO of each business function attribute of the set of integration cases in relation to a second position in the BDO of the business function attribute of the integration problem. One or more similar integration cases in the set of integration cases is determined to the integration problem based on the determined similarity and output. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323619 | ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for assessing costs associated with an organization or its supply chain is provided. The method includes: accessing a first set of data relating to the organization or the supply chain, wherein the first set of data includes environmental flows, products data, or activities data associated with the organization or the supply chain; accessing one or more databases indexed by at least a portion of the environmental flows, products data, or activities data, the one or more databases including one or more of: a database including societal costs; a database including current internal costs, the current internal costs representing costs internalized by the organization or the supply chain; and a database including future internal costs, the future internal costs representing costs projected to be internalized by the organization or the supply chain; and applying the first set of data to the one or more databases. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RETAIL PRODUCTS AND DETERMINING RETAIL PRODUCT ARRANGEMENTS - Systems and methods for determining product arrangement are provided. The method includes: receiving one or more images, the one or more images reflecting a retail arrangement of at least one product, processing, with a processor executing code, the one or more images to: (a) identify the at least one product, and (b) determine the retail arrangement of the at least one product, computing, based on (a) an identification of the at least one product and (b) a determination of a retail arrangement of the at least one product, one or more performance indicators, the one or more performance indicators reflecting compliance with one or more retail arrangement guidelines established with respect to the at least one product, and providing feedback based on the one or more performance indicators. Other embodiments of the various aspects include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer program products. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330699 | CASE-BASED RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORK - In one embodiment, a method includes storing a set of integration cases previously used for adapting a standard enterprise system. The integration cases include a problem description and a problem solution for the adapting of the standard enterprise system. The method receives an integration problem for extending the standard enterprise system. The integration problem has a problem description and not a problem solution. A similarity between the problem description of the integration problem and the problem description of the set of integration cases is determined and one or more similar integration cases from the set of integration cases to the integration problem is determined based on the determined similarity. The method then outputs the one or more similar integrations cases to a user. The problem solution for a similar integration case is usable to determine the problem solution for the integration problem. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330700 | APPLICATION PLACEMENT AMONG A SET OF CONSOLIDATION SERVERS UTILIZING LICENSE COST AND APPLICATION WORKLOAD PROFILES AS FACTORS - Applications in a data center can be consolidated by identifying different combinations of software executing on hardware. The software can include a set of applications that execute upon a set of servers. The different combinations can have different arrangements of applications running on different ones of the servers. For each of the different combinations, a licensing cost, an operating cost, and a total cost can be calculated. The total cost of operation for each of the configurations can be calculated by summing the licensing costs, the operating costs adjusted for the cost savings for complementary workload patterns, and migration costs for adjusting a current configuration of the applications and servers to arrive at the configuration. The total cost results per configuration can be reported to a user for at least a set of the configurations. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330701 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REFERRAL TRACKING - A method for identifying a source of a job referral, the method including identifying a URL that the job applicant uses to access a web page with functionality to enable the job applicant to apply for the first job, identifying a first job message record using the URL, obtaining an original job message record for an original job message using the first job message record, determining a first sender of the original job message from the original job message record, determining that a second job message was sent to the job applicant for a second job at the company by a second sender, wherein the second job message was sent to the job applicant before the first job message and wherein the second job message was sent to the job applicant within a look-back period, and identifying the second sender as the source of the referral for the first job. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330702 | MOBILE SERVICE CONTEXT - According to one general aspect, a method may include requesting, from a database and by a program executing on a mobile computing device, at least a portion of a business service context regarding a business service. The method may also include receiving, from the database, an aggregated database result regarding the business service. The aggregated database result may include the requested business service context and wherein the business service context includes information from a plurality of applications. The method may also include displaying, via the mobile computing device, at least a portion of the information included by the business service context. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330703 | MIGRATING BUSINESS PROCESS INSTANCES - Migration of a business process instance derived from a business process model having compensation logic is provided. A new business process version of the business process model is modeled. The business process model is statically analyzed to create a static process control flow. A potential compensation control flow is derived based on the business process instance. Changes between the new business process version and a previous business process version of the business process model are identified. The identified changes are walked to separate and group changes related to the compensation logic and changes related to a normal control flow of the business process model into change groups. The business process instance is migrated based on migration conditions which are determined based on the change groups. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330704 | Creating, Managing, Evaluating, Optimizing Creating Business Partnership Standards and Creating Reuseable Knowledge and Business Intelligence for Business Partnerships and Alliances - A system and method for determining business partner value by creating weighted metrics for identifying, evaluating and selecting a business partner for a company; creating a business agreement and weighted metrics for evaluating the agreement; creating weighted metrics for ongoing management of the partner; and managing the partner by ongoing periodic evaluation of the weighted metrics for partner selection, agreement, and management. Both company and partners may participate in the evaluation on an ongoing basis (e.g., once per month or once per quarter) rather than an annual review. In one embodiment, weighted metrics of partner selection, agreement, and management are reported, charted and graphed providing for visual evaluation and side-by-side comparison of the perceptions of company and partner for optimization of the business relationship and prediction of future performance. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING HUMAN-SPECIFIED ACTIVITIES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for identifying user activities. The system collects activity descriptions from a plurality of users, wherein a respective user is allowed to add, remove, or vote for at least one feature associated with the activity from a predetermined viewpoint. The system then identifies a user activity as a typed, stateful, and instantiated entity by detecting one or more features associated with at least one of: a type, state, and instance, of the entity. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006679 | MANAGING AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM - According to one example, there is provided a method of managing an information technology (IT) system that comprising items of IT equipment. The method comprises obtaining a set of characteristics from items of IT equipment in the IT system, generating, using the obtained sets of characteristics, a consolidated set of characteristics representing at least part of the IT system, identifying, based on the generated consolidated set of characteristics, an item of IT equipment to be replaced, determining a set of minimum characteristics for a replacement item to replace the identified item; and selecting, from an IT equipment database, based on the determined characteristics, a replacement item of IT equipment. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006680 | Evaluating Computing Resources Utilization in Accordance with Computing Environment Entitlement Contracts - Mechanisms are provided for managing computing resources relative to a computing environment entitlement contract. These mechanisms generate one or more computing environment entitlement contract (CEEC) data structures, each CEEC data structure defining terms of a business level agreement between a contracting party and a provider of the data processing system. A CEEC cohort is generated comprising a collection of CEECs having similar terms. Utilization of a collection of computing resources in accordance with the similar terms of the collection of CEECs is monitored to identify a usage trend within the CEEC cohort. A relative measure of resource utilization under each CEEC in the CEEC cohort based on the collected resource utilization metrics is calculated and reported. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006681 | HUMAN RESOURCE ANALYTICS WITH PROFILE DATA - A method, computer program product, and system for human resource analytics using profile data is described. The method includes receiving historical project data, wherein the historical project data includes at least one profile of at least one historical project team member. Psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is received. Updated historical project data is generated, in which, at least in part, psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is added to the at least one profile included in the historical project data. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006682 | REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE - Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable media for facilitating measurement of organizational culture in real time. In embodiments, an organization culture measurement system may facilitate culture measurement through receipt and comparison of various actions performed by persons associated with the organization. The organization culture measurement system may provide a networking and interaction interface for users within an organization to interact with each other. User actions in the networking and interaction interface may be received by the organization culture measurement system and used to associate one or more cultural classifications and/or signifiers with users. Cultural classifications and/or signifiers associated with users may be used to measure organizational culture on a wider level and incentivize desired cultural traits. Aggregation of classification of users of the networking and interaction interface may allow the organization, as well as external stakeholders, to see high-level measurement of the culture of those using the interface. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING TESTING FOR A HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS TRANSITION - Systems and a methods for managing a health care systems transition are described. Transitions can include a migration from Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) 4010 standards set to the HIPAA EDI 5010 standards set. An example implementation describes selecting at least two test-case scenarios for inclusion in a test-case that models a healthcare systems transition, linking said scenarios, identifying test data associated with the test-case and, finally, generating an EDI file based on these scenarios and data. Additional embodiments disclosed include inferring one or more scenarios from an EDI file and importing the scenarios thereby. Some embodiments additionally disclose the creation of a correlation database and identifying data instances for inclusion in the test-case thereby. Finally, in some embodiments, scenarios and data associated with a test-case can be predefined. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006684 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING BUSINESS VALUATION AND DATABASE SERVICES USING ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006685 | HUMAN RESOURCE ANALYTICS WITH PROFILE DATA - A method, computer program product, and system for human resource analytics using profile data is described. The method includes receiving historical project data, wherein the historical project data includes at least one profile of at least one historical project team member. Psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is received. Updated historical project data is generated, in which, at least in part, psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is added to the at least one profile included in the historical project data. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013356 | PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR AN ORGANIZATION - A system and method for developing trust in an organization supported tracking system by ensuring that resources in a resource library are collected from trusted sources, and encouraging and tracking participation in organization supported activities designed to achieve a long term goal of the organization. Resources may be submitted by organization members and ranked according to multiple factors including the trustworthiness of the source, the relevance of the resource to the long term goal, or the response of the organization members to the resource. Participation may be encouraged through friendly competition, awards granted for participation, and publication of member accomplishments. Tracking may be facilitated by allowing members to create initiatives and actions related to the long term goal which members may follow and join and then tracking and verifying member participation in those initiatives and actions. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018682 | Managing Processes In An Enterprise Intelligence ('EI') Assembly Of An EI FrameworkAANM Reddington; Francis X.AACI SarasotaAAST FLAACO USAAGP Reddington; Francis X. Sarasota FL USAANM Sahota; NeilAACI Costa MesaAAST CAAACO USAAGP Sahota; Neil Costa Mesa CA US - Managing processes in an Enterprise Intelligence (‘EI’) assembly of an EI framework, including: for each executing EI assembly in the EI framework, in real time: tracking, by the process state transition manager, the present state of processes of each executing EI assembly; analyzing, by the process state transition manager, the present state; and storing, by the process state transition manager, results of the state analysis. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024224 | METHOD OF ASSISTING A SALES REPRESENTATIVE IN SELLING - A computer implemented method of providing feedback to a sales representative for a sales opportunity to a customer, comprising: determining, in dependence on information received from the sales representative, a probability that the sales opportunity will result in a sale by the sales representative; determining, in dependence on information received from the sales representative, a location on a sales cycle time line for the sales opportunity; assigning a priority to the sales opportunity in dependence on the location on the sales cycle time line and the probability that the sales opportunity will result in a sale; and rendering on a display a visual representation of the probability and the priority. | 01-24-2013 |
20130030850 | CREATING A DATA GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT - For creating a data governance assessment, a response module receives responses to an automated questionnaire. A scoring module computes a data governance assessment comprising a maturity level describing organizational adoption of data governance, a data governance model describing a data centralization level, and a framework describing a tier of data governance by calculating the maturity level, the data governance model, and the framework from the responses. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030851 | PROJECT CLUSTERING AND RELATIONSHIP VISUALIZATION - Methods, computer-readable media, and systems are provided for displaying project relationships. One method for displaying project relationships includes providing a plurality of nodes ( | 01-31-2013 |
20130035971 | Computing Systems And Methods For Statistically Characterizing An Organization - The present invention is directed to computing systems and methods for gathering, analyzing, and presenting information to statistically characterize an organization. In one aspect of the invention, a computing system includes computer readable medium(s) having characteristics regarding organizations, data showing how the characteristics relate to a first organization and showing how the characteristics relate to other organizations, and software for analyzing the data to determine distinctive characteristics of the first organization. The computing system includes processor(s) executing the software, which when executed causes the system to identify a first characteristic that, statistically more than any of the other characteristics, relates to the first organization more than it relates to other organizations. Various other aspects and embodiments of the invention are disclosed. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035972 | Monitoring Object System and Method of Operation - A system for monitoring objects comprises a first database, a second database, and a processor coupled to both the first and second databases. The first database comprises information representing monitoring requirements for a plurality of monitoring targets in an enterprise. The second database comprises information representing the actual state of monitoring for the monitoring targets in the enterprise. The processor is operable to compare the monitoring requirements for the plurality of monitoring targets in the enterprise with the actual state of monitoring for the monitoring targets in the enterprise, and determine any gaps in monitoring for the monitoring targets in the enterprise based at least in part on the comparison. The processor generates at least one monitoring deployment request identifying one or more monitoring tools to be deployed for the monitoring targets in the enterprise based at least in part on any determined gaps in monitoring. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035973 | ASSESSING GREEN IT MATURITY AND PROVIDING GREEN IT RECOMMENDATIONS - A Green IT maturity model (GITM) provides a framework in which the maturity of an organization's green computing effort can be assessed. Based on green computing practice data, an assessment tool implementing a GITM model can be used to calculate the competency levels of multiple green computing pillars such as data center, end user computing, IT asset lifecycle, IT service management and people practices pillars. The determined competency levels can be used to determine a consolidated Green IT maturity level for the organization. A Green IT baseline of an organization can be determined and carbon emission reductions relative to the baseline can be used in determining the competency levels. The assessment tool can use the competency and maturity levels to recommend green computing initiatives and to estimate cost savings, implementation costs and carbon emission reductions for the recommended initiatives. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041702 | FORECASTING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method includes steps for gathering forecast prognoses from a plurality of forecasting assessment participants and for weighting the participant specific forecast prognoses with a participant specific weighting factor. The participant specific weighting factor is adjusted according to a deviation of the participant specific forecast prognoses from actual outcomes of the forecasting assessments. A machine readable medium includes instructions for executing a forecasting method. A forecasting system includes a computer system and remote computers being coupled to the computer system, the computer system being configured to perform a forecasting method. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041703 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING IMMIGRATION STATUS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing immigration status. A system configured to practice the method identifies a project, such as a work contract. The system identifies a worker assigned to the project, wherein an immigration status of the worker requires the worker to have a visa, such as an H-1B visa, to participate in the project. The system electronically prepares and tracks immigration documentation associated with the visa in order to allow the worker to participate in the project. Then the system determines if an event occurs that impacts the immigration status, and, if the event occurs, the system updates the immigration documentation based on the event. The immigration documentation can include a labor condition application (LCA) and/or a public access file (PAF). The system can prepare the immigration documentation based on information stored in a personal profile of the worker. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041704 | INITIATIVE CONSOLIDATION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for managing initiative consolidation are presented. According to one or more aspects, information about at least two new projects may be received. Subsequently, the information may be analyzed to identify one or more commonalities between the at least two new projects. Thereafter, it may be determined, based on the identified commonalities, to bundle the at least two new projects for one or more testing phases. In one or more arrangements, receiving information about the at least two new projects may include extracting, from one or more project design documents, a job listing for each project, where each job listing identifies one or more jobs included in each project. In some arrangements, a cost-benefit analysis may be generated to calculate potential savings associated with bundling the at least two new projects for the one or more testing phases. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046567 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN EVALUATING WORK ESTIMATION - A method for use in evaluating work estimation is provided. The method includes selecting a plurality of work units associated with a time and a level of effort. Each work unit includes one or more tasks. A total estimated duration associated with each work unit is determined based on estimated durations associated with the tasks included in the work unit. An estimation trend corresponding to the level of effort is determined. The estimation trend represents a change over time in the total estimated durations associated with the level of effort. The estimation trend is provided for presentation to a user. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION - Systems and methods are provided which make use of outbound calling systems to automate notification campaigns. Automated campaigns using outbound calling systems can provide a number of significant advantages over the traditional notification campaign, potentially resulting in faster, more efficient, more accurate, and more cost-effective notification campaigns. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046569 | Multidimensional digital platform for building integration and analysis - A system is provided for qualifying and analyzing data for at least one business intelligence. A platform receives source data. A data management system transforms raw data and stores it. An analytic engine is included. In operation the data management system receives first, second, and third streams of source data. The first stream is client source data, the second stream is public source data and the third stream is acquired by the data management system. The data management system organizes the first, second and third streams of data into items and their attributes. The analytic engine receives the items with their attributes from the data management system and applies logic to provide multi-dimensional analysis relative to a scale for at least one business intelligence. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046570 | Multidimensional digital platform for building integration and analysis - A method is provided for qualifying and analyzing business intelligence. At a first part of a data management system receives first, second and third streams of data. The first stream is client provided source data, the second is public source data and the third is data management system internal data previously collected and managed source data in the data management system. The three streams of data are organized into items and their attributes at the data management system. The source data is transformed at a data warehouse where it becomes normalized. Logic is applied to provide multi-dimensional analysis of transformed source data relative to a scale for at least one business intelligence. The data warehouse includes updated data from the multi-dimensional analysis. A user interface communicates with the data management system to create statistical information that illustrates impact over time and value. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054283 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOLVING UNCAPACITATED FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEM - Methods and systems for solving uncapacitated facility location problem are provided. A method includes establishing a maximum net benefit (MNB) of cost for closing one of one or more established facilities at one or more sites, and closing an established facility of the one or more established facilities that results in the MNB of cost for closing. The method further includes establishing a MNB of cost for opening one of one or more unestablished facilities at the one or more sites, and opening an unestablished facility of the one or more unestablished facilities that results in the MNB of cost for opening. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054284 | TEMPLATIZED REPORTING ENGINE - A system, computer-implemented method, and a computer program product are provided for a templatized reporting engine. A report output request is received. A template is retrieved based on report parameters in the report output request. A data generator based on the template is executed. Data generated by executing the data generator is inserted into the template. The template and the data is output as a report via a user interface. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054285 | COMPUTING AND MANAGING CONFLICTING FUNCTIONAL DATA REQUIREMENTS USING ONTOLOGIES - In one or more embodiments of the invention, functional data analysts may use a functional data authoring module to capture functional metadata in a consistent manner. Conflict reports for the business processes may be generated for a subset of the business processes or as an overall report across all business processes. One or more embodiments of the invention may provide early detection of data usage and type conflicts from functional data requirements, automated detection of conflicts from functional data requirements, reports listing detected conflicts, conflicts resolution tracking mechanism, ongoing notification regarding changes in functional data requirements or detected conflicts, and avoidance of conflicting functional requirement in the realization phase, thereby reducing costs and project risks and avoiding project delays. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054286 | COMPUTING AND MANAGING CONFLICTING FUNCTIONAL DATA REQUIREMENTS USING ONTOLOGIES - In one or more embodiments of the invention, functional data analysts may use a functional data authoring module to capture functional metadata in a consistent manner. Conflict reports for the business processes may be generated for a subset of the business processes or as an overall report across all business processes. One or more embodiments of the invention may provide early detection of data usage and type conflicts from functional data requirements, automated detection of conflicts from functional data requirements, reports listing detected conflicts, conflicts resolution tracking mechanism, ongoing notification regarding changes in functional data requirements or detected conflicts, and avoidance of conflicting functional requirement in the realization phase, thereby reducing costs and project risks and avoiding project delays. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060587 | DETERMINING BEST TIME TO REACH CUSTOMERS IN A MULTI-CHANNEL WORLD ENSURING RIGHT PARTY CONTACT AND INCREASING INTERACTION LIKELIHOOD - Estimating best time to contact a customer may include estimating a statistical model which computes a score for determining a successful contact with the customer for the time period based on a first set of historical customer contact data. A second set of historical customer contact data associated with at least one customer may be received and the score of a successful contact may be provided for the customer based on the second set of historical data and the estimated statistical model. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060588 | MODELING AND MONITORING A RELATIONSHIP WITH A CLIENT AND ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF THE RELATIONSHIP - A method and system of managing a relationship between a provider and a client. A project model, organization model and stakeholder model are generated. Based on the project, organization and stakeholder models, factors that influence the relationship between the provider and the client are defined. The factors are evaluated by receiving results of data mining artifact(s) of the project, surveying the provider and/or client with a role-based survey, and capturing experiences provided by the provider and/or client. A status of the relationship is proactively monitored based on the evaluated factors. Based on historical information about the relationship and based on the evaluated factors, the status of the relationship between the provider and the client is assessed. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060589 | ASSOCIATE RISK ANALYSIS - Methods and apparatus according to the invention are directed towards providing means for identifying a selection of entity associates that may contain a perpetrator of claimed fraud against an entity account. Means are also provided for scoring the associates within the selection as to relative likelihood of being the perpetrator. Identification means and scoring means may include analyses of the number and nature of connections associates may have with the frauded account, with other entity accounts, with past claims of fraud, and with other associates. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060590 | CONCISE COMMUNICATION OF REAL-TIME BUSINESS INFORMATION IN AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK - A method, system, computer program product, and related business methods for concisely communicating real-time business information to end users in an enterprise network is described. An integrated business system having at least ERP and CRM functionality is accessed via browser-based user interface. A plurality of portlet windows are simultaneously displayed within a browser window, each portlet window occupying a relatively small area therein. The portlet windows are selected and arranged according to a customizable user profile for each user, and include reporting portlets displaying up-to-date business results retrieved from the integrated business system. Each reporting portlet further comprises report access links associated with at least one of the business results that, when selected by the user, invoke browser-based displays of up-to-date business data underlying those business results. Preferably, in accordance with a user-customizable alert setting stored in the user profile, regular electronic mail messages are sent to the user communicating up-to-date versions of those business results. Preferably, data labels that identify business items within the browser-based user interface and on the electronic mails are expressed in a business vernacular tuned to each user according to customizable business vernacular settings in their user profiles. | 03-07-2013 |
20130066663 | Telecom Profitability Management - Billing data associated with telecom products provided by a variety of vendors is captured, normalized, and processed to calculate true profit margins by invoice, by vendor, by geographic location, by end-customer, by circuit, or combinations of these. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066664 | METHODS FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER MOTIVATIONS IN PURCHASING DECISIONS - Systems, methods, and apparatus for determining motivator counts associated with purchase selections are presented herein. A data store can be configured to store purchase selections of respective products. A server can be configured to determine an incremental purchase time between a first purchase selection of the purchase selections and a second purchase selection of the purchase selections. Further, the server can be configured to determine a standard deviation of incremental purchase times between respective purchase selections of the purchase selections. Furthermore, the server can be configured to increment a prime motivator count associated with the second purchase selection based on the incremental purchase time and the standard deviation. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073326 | Management of Compliance with Policies, Procedures and/or Directives - A system for overseeing implementations of organizational policies, procedures, and/or directives. A host identifies parties involved in the implementations and tracks implementation statuses by (a) issuing notices for access by the identified parties, (b) with each notice, providing actions selectable as a response to the notice, and (c) tracking responses by the identified parties. In response to a predefined event, a user device associated by the host with one of the identified parties polls the host to determine whether a notice is pending for the associated party, and if so, provides an alert. Based on a user response to the alert, the user device displays the pending notice via a browser, and sends to the host via the browser a user-selected response to the pending notice. The host leaves the notice pending until the host receives a user-selected response. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080197 | EVALUATING A TRUST VALUE OF A DATA REPORT FROM A DATA PROCESSING TOOL - Various embodiments of systems and methods for evaluating a trust value for a report are disclosed herein. The method includes obtaining ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130080198 | TIMING SIGNOFF FOR MAXIMUM PROFIT - A method of estimating a profit margin for an IC chip includes providing design, manufacturing and financial input data for the IC chip and determining a ratio of performing to manufactured IC chips using chip yields apart from timing. The method of estimating a profit margin also includes characterizing IC chip performance corresponding to clock timing and on-chip-variation (OCV) margins and calculating price and costs corresponding to design, manufacturing and testing of the IC chip. Additionally, the method of estimating a profit margin includes generating a profit margin based on the price and costs. A method of maximizing a profit margin for an IC chip is also included. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080199 | Project Planner - A landscape directory of a software integration architecture can be queried to obtain a listing of software services available for inclusion in a configuration of the software integration architecture that is presented to a user via a user interface. A selection of a set of services to be included in the configuration is received. For each service in the set of services, at least one database can be accessed to obtain information about the configuration to be presented via the user interface. The information can include pricing and implementation scheduling. Upon receipt of a confirmation of a final set of services for the configuration, a project plan can be generated and promoted. Related methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also described. | 03-28-2013 |
20130090960 | WEB BROWSER-BASED BUSINESS ACTIVITY MONITORING - A system including: at least one computing device adapted to monitor business activities, by performing actions including: collecting business activity data at a first web browser, the business activity data indicating at least one aspect of a business transaction conducted at a second, distinct web browser; sorting the business activity data according to one or more sorting parameters; and providing a report including the sorted business activity data at a uniform resource locator (URL) accessible to both the first web browser and the second, distinct web browser. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090961 | System for a data supply chain to enable data suppliers to contribute data collection questions to data collection protocols and post data into said data collection protocols aligned with said data collection questions and compensate data suppliers and collect fees from data consumers and advertisers associated with the data supply chain. - The present invention introduces a marketing platform for a data supply chain applying crowd-sourced, pervasive computing and social networking to data collection and distribution including exchange of fees for data suppliers who make contributions to data research protocols and subscriptions and other fees for data access and utilization by data consumers. | 04-11-2013 |
20130096967 | OPTIMIZER - A method and apparatus: (1) select and apply a transition from a set of first objective enhancing transitions to an initial information integration flow graph based upon how application of each transition impacts a length of a chain of nodes to produce a first set of modified information integration flow graphs that satisfy a first objective; (2) select and apply a second transition from the set of first objective transitions and a set of second objective enhancing transitions to the first set of modified information integration flow graphs to produce a second set of modified information integration flow graphs that satisfy the first objective and the second objective; and (3) identify an information integration flow graph from the first set and the second set having a lowest cost. | 04-18-2013 |
20130103440 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINANCIAL MODELING OF RETROFITTING COST OF AN ENERGY SYSTEM - A system and method for financial modeling of energy efficiency retrofitting cost of an energy system. According to the method, using a monitoring and evaluation system, signals from a number of sensors positioned in predetermined locations of a structure considered for energy efficiency retrofitting are received. The received signals are compared with benchmarks retrieved from a benchmark database. Using results of the comparison, one or more energy consuming components of the structure are identified as candidates for retrofitting. Based on a normalized payback time or other rate of return approach determined by using data retrieved from a retrofit-cost database, a financing model, in relation to an interest rate, for evaluating a cost of retrofitting the one or more component is provided. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110563 | DETERMINING AND CONSIDERING PETROLEUM RESERVOIR RESERVES AND PRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS WHEN VALUING PETROLEUM PRODUCTION CAPITAL PROJECTS | 05-02-2013 |
20130110564 | SPOT PRICING TO REDUCE WORKLOAD IN A DATA CENTER | 05-02-2013 |
20130110565 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Distributed User Activity Management | 05-02-2013 |
20130117053 | ON-SHELF TRACKING SYSTEM - A system to be installed on a merchandising unit having one or more inventory zones, one or more units of product, one or more product sensors, a mounting structure, and an electromagnetic signal processor. The one or more inventory zones can present the one or more units of product in several different arrangements. The one or more product sensors, each at least associated operatively with one of the one or more inventory zones, converts a sensed quantity of the one or more units of product into a respective analog electromagnetic signal. The mounting structure secures the one or more product sensors to the merchandising unit relative to the one or more units of product so that the one or more product sensors sense a quantity of the one or more units of product. The electromagnetic signal processor in communication with the one or more product sensors can sample output from the one or more product sensors periodically and converts the analog signal into a digital signal. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124239 | CROP YIELD PER LOCATION MEASURER - A crop yield per location measurer is disclosed. In general, the crop yield measurer includes a crop collector for a field of crops. The crop collector includes a navigation satellite system location determiner to determine location information at periodic times during a crop collection process. The crop collector also includes a weighing mechanism to determine a weight of collected crops at the periodic times during the crop collection process. In addition, a database is used for storing the location information and the weight at the periodic times during the crop collection process. A crop yield overview generator is then utilized to provide a user accessible crop yield per location overview for the field of crops based on the information stored at the database. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124240 | System and Method for Student Activity Gathering in a University - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. In order to build an effective university model graph, it is required to gather and analyze the various activities performed on the university campus by the various entities of the university. A system and method for automated activity gathering that involves instrumented components, sub-systems, and networks is discussed. Specifically, the presented system allows for reliable identification of activities performed by a student of the university based on inputs received from multiple sources associated with the instrumented components, sub-systems, and networks. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124241 | Method And System For Providing Business Intelligence Data - A computer implemented method for data mining and providing business intelligence data including generating by an analytics server one or more dimensions from source data imported from a computer readable medium, wherein the one or more dimensions define categories into which portions of the normalized data can be grouped; generating by the analytics server one or more measures from the source data linked to the one or more dimensions; storing by the analytics server the one or more dimensions and the one or more measures in a plurality of tables arranged in one of a snowflake and a star schema; determining by the analytics server relationship information between one or more measures and one or more dimensions in each of the plurality of tables; storing by the analytics server the relationship information on the computer readable medium; calculating by the analytics server a total cost of at least one product based on the relationship information; and, querying by a computer system in communication with the analytics server for the change in total cost of the at least one product based on a change in any one of the measures. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132138 | IDENTIFYING INFLUENCE PATHS AND EXPERTISE NETWORK IN AN ENTERPRISE USING MEETING PROVENANCE DATA - Techniques are disclosed for identifying influence paths and expertise networks in an enterprise using provenance data associated with one or more meetings. For example, a method for processing provenance data comprises the following steps: generating provenance data for each of one or more meetings that capture one or more aspects of each meeting, correlating the provenance data between the one or more meetings, identifying a main topic and one or more sub-topics of each of the one or more meetings to establish a relation between the one or more meetings on a basis of topic, and identifying a path of influence among one or more meetings based on the correlated provenance data and the topic relation of the one or more meetings, wherein a path of influence comprises a meeting that influences one or more subsequent meetings on a basis of provenance data and topic. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132139 | Method And System For Providing Business Intelligence Data - A machine implemented method for collecting business intelligence data including providing a master database table on a computer readable medium and accessible by an analytics server, accessing rows in the master database table by the analytics server, with each row in the master database table containing at least a partial set of measures for a plurality of dimensions, identifying by the analytics server a set of one or more dimensions from the plurality of dimensions subject to a query by one or more computing devices in communication with the analytics server, extracting the set of one or more dimensions and associated measures for each of the one or more dimensions from the master database table, and forming a baby fact table such that each row in the baby fact table contains the set of one or more dimensions subject to the query and the associated measures derived from the extracting step. | 05-23-2013 |
20130159034 | BUSINESS PROCESS GUIDE AND RECORD - Business process guidance and recording features can provide a user with seamless, integrated guidance through a business process while recording concrete instances of the business process to allow context sensitive navigation of process instances. Process steps required for completion of a business process, feature modules of a business software architecture whose functionality relates to a specific process step, and an execution order for the process steps can be defined. Work and business process guidance frames can be concurrently displayed via a user interface. The guidance frame can include user interface element corresponding to one of the process steps and indicating a current status of that process step for a selected business process instance. Upon user selection of a user interface element corresponding to the specific process step, the work frame can display a workspace including another user interface element corresponding to the functionality of a related feature module. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159035 | Consistency Checks For Business Process Data Using Master Data Vectors - A business process master data vector for a business process of an organization can include master data coordinates corresponding to a plurality of business object node fields of a plurality of business objects involved in the business process. Values of the master data coordinates can indicate whether a corresponding business object node field is mandatory for successful execution of the business process. Master data instance vectors corresponding to the plurality of business objects can be evaluated such that a master data instance vector includes instance coordinates indicating whether a corresponding business object node field contains a master data value. The business process can be analyzed using the business process master data vector and/or the master data instance vectors. Related systems, processes, and articles of manufacture are also described. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166337 | ANALYZING VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF DATA - In an embodiment, a plurality of representations of business data is rendered on a user interface. The representations of business data may include various graphical representations of the business data. A type of the plurality of representations rendered on the user interface is determined. Based upon the type of the representations, a corresponding statistical analysis is determined and applied to the business data associated with the plurality of representations. Applying the statistical analysis includes computing a resultant for the business data associated with each representation. The resultant of the business data of each representation is compared to determine one or more representations that are statistically distinct. The statistically distinct representations include visually distinct representations in the plurality of representations. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173320 | METHOD AND SYSTEM UTILIZING MERCHANT SALES ACTIVITY TO PROVIDE INDICATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF MERCHANT AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE - A system for measurements of merchant performance using a payment card processing system, the system includes a managing computer system of a payment card service provider, the managing computer system having a memory device capable of storing data for generating measurements of merchant performance based on payment card transactions, and a computer processor. The computer processor is configured to: receive payment card transactions from at least one merchant; store the payment card transactions for the at least one merchant; generate at least one business performance indicator for the payment card transactions of the at least one merchant; compare the at least one business performance indicator for the at least one merchant to a comparable business performance indicator; and generate a measurement of merchant performance for the at least one merchant based on the comparison of the at least one business performance indicator to the comparable business performance indicator. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179202 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE - A method and a system for analyzing infrastructure are provided. In one embodiment, a system for analyzing infrastructure is provided. The system includes a grid intelligence quotient as a service (GIQAAS) system. The GIQAAS system includes an infrastructure data gathering system having a first input form configured to collect an economic data related to an infrastructure. The GIQAAS system further includes an economic modeling system configured to import the economic data and to derive an economic analysis based on the economic data. The GIQAAS system is configured to provide the infrastructure data gathering system to a first user for collection of the economic data, and to provide the economic modeling system to a second user for derivation of the economic analysis. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179203 | BLOCKING ACCESS TO PROJECT DATA IN RESPONSE TO FAILURE TO INDICATE ATTENDANCE AT PROJECT MEETINGS - A method for restricting access to project data includes determining that a user has failed to indicate an intention to attend a meeting by failing to respond to a meeting notice or by indicating that the user will not participate in the meeting. The meeting notice includes an invitation sent electronically to the user to attend a meeting, and the user has electronic access to data by way of permissions associated with a user account assigned to the user. The meeting is related to the data. The method includes recording a failure-to-attend event in response to determining that the user has failed to indicate an intention to attend a meeting. The method includes blocking the user from accessing the user account in response to a quantity of failure-to-attend events reaching non-attendance criteria. | 07-11-2013 |
20130179204 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR A GEOLOCATIONAL TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL WORKFLOW - Methods, systems and devices for enabling the geolocational monitoring, tracking and management of an agricultural workflow are provided. A first version of the method includes defining a unique area of plant cultivation or animal husbandry; recording inputs to the area with a GPS device; reporting the inputs and related GPS confirmations to a database in association with the area; recording outputs from the area with the GPS device 2; and reporting the outputs and related GPS confirmations to a database in association with the area, whereby a net yield of the area over time can be appraised in view of the inputs and outputs of the area. A marker may be assigned to a element of crop or animal output and the element may be monitored by references to the marker over distance and time. | 07-11-2013 |
20130204649 | Cloud Risk Reporting Arrangement and Method - A reporting system for reporting metric date from a supplier network to at least one dependent includes a collector that is adapted to receive the metric data from the supplier network through at least one collection channel. A processing system analyzes the metric data based on at least one threshold, which determines if one of the at least one dependent requires a service advisory notification due to any of the metric data exceeding at least one of the at least one threshold. A notification system is adapted to send the service advisory notice to the at least one dependent at successive dependent addresses when so directed by the processing system, and to an auditor that is further adapted to detect a fault condition when a heartbeat signal is not received as expected from the processing system. | 08-08-2013 |
20130218616 | METHOD OF PREDICTING A PLURALITY OF BEHAVIORAL EVENTS AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION - A computerized method includes: programming a computer to statistically analyze data describing a plurality of types of behavior for a plurality of entities in order to construct a plurality of behavioral patterns; and programming the computer to compare data describing an entity with the plurality of behavioral patterns in order to use one of the plurality of behavioral patterns as a predictive behavioral pattern predicting a plurality of behavioral events for one type of behavior of the entity occurring over any amount of time up to a lifetime of the entity. A computerized method of displaying information includes: programming a computer such that a plurality of windows are displayed by a display device and show a plurality of live systems. The windows show where in the plurality of live systems, the computer derived the information that is requested by the user and that is displayed. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226636 | AUTOMATED MAPPING OF PRODUCT ADJACENCY GROUPS WITH TRANSITION SUMMARY REPORTING - A system for generating a product subgroup map for a product adjacency group with transition summary reporting is disclosed. In one example, a user interface is configured for presenting data on product subgroups and receiving user inputs for user-editable mapping criteria for mapping the product subgroups. The user interface has user-selectable options for editing and assigning priority values to the mapping criteria of the product subgroups. The system generates a combined set of mapping criteria for the user-selected product subgroups based on the user-edited mapping criteria and non-user-editable mapping criteria. The system generates a product subgroup map based on the combined set of mapping criteria and a set of physical store layout data for at least one store, and provides a graphical output of the product subgroup map. The system generates a report for the product subgroup map for the product adjacency group. | 08-29-2013 |
20130231967 | STRUCTURED COMMUNICATION FOR AUTOMATED DATA GOVERNANCE - The invention is directed to a communication flow for automated data governance. A structured communication model defines and manages information flow between data governance stakeholders (DGS) to provide an integrated workflow leveraging multiple data integration applications. The communication model defines the roles and responsibilities of each DGS, and governs information flow from a source application, through a shared data repository, and onward to multiple reporting environments. The process interacts with middle-ware to manage various aspects of metadata such as the context and meaning of terms and data within systems to enable automated data governance according to the communication model. | 09-05-2013 |
20130238375 | EVALUATING EMAIL INFORMATION AND AGGREGATING EVALUATION RESULTS - A system including one or more processors and memory. The memory stores computer-executable instructions that control the one or more processors to receive a set of emails, process the set of emails to produce information related to the set of emails, evaluate the information related to the set of emails to answer one or more questions and produce evaluation results, and aggregate the evaluation results into a feedback report. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246105 | SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT TRANSLATION FOR SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS - The embodiments include a data processing apparatus for conducting a business impact analysis for a service oriented architecture (SOA) that includes a plurality of processes and services. The data processing apparatus may include a process table generator configured to generate a first impact table for a first process and a second impact table for a second process, and a service table generator configured to generate a service impact table for a top-level service, a dependency model generator configured to generate a dependency model arranging the plurality of services with dependency links, an analysis model generator configured to generate a BEAM based on the service impact table, the dependency model and a selected service level agreement, a simulator configured to simulate the BEAM over a period of time, and a service level agreement classifier configured to classify the selected service level agreement based on one or more violations. | 09-19-2013 |
20130253966 | SAVING TRACKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - System and method for analysis of cost saving in a procurement process are described. The system includes a processor unit and a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium stores instructions executable by the processor unit. The instructions are programmed to perform the steps of receiving baseline cost information, receiving purchase cost information, and computing a plurality of components of cost saving. The instructions are also programmed to transfer indication of the computed components of cost saving to display device and/or financial accounting system. Moreover, the instructions are programmed to adjust at least one of the plurality of the components of the cost saving utilizing at least one factor selected from the group consisting of currency exchange rate, commodity price, and inflation rate. | 09-26-2013 |
20130253967 | SUPPLY-DEMAND PAIRING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A supply-demand pairing system and its method are disclosed. The supply-demand pairing system comprises a demand side device, a supply side device and a server. The demand side device is used to locate, and used to provide a demander to input demand information to send a demand message to the server. The supply side device is used to locate, and used to provide a suppliers to input supply information to send a supply message to the server. The server is used to compare the demand message and the supply message to execute a supply-demand pairing, and used to send the demand message and the supply message to the supply side device and the demand side device respectively for making the demand side device can communicate with the supply side device. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262165 | SENDING RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH A BUSINESS OBJECT - Sending recommendation information associated with a business object is disclosed, including: receiving from a user terminal a request for data associated with a business object; determining a count of requests for the data associated with the business object from the user terminal based at least in part on the request; and determining whether the count of requests meets a request threshold value associated with the business object, wherein in the event that the count of requests meets the request threshold value, sending the requested data and a set of recommendation information associated with the business object to the user terminal. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262166 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPAWNING SMALLER VIEWS FROM A LARGER VIEW - A method includes defining a first component set of one or more first components; defining a second component set of one or more second components; and defining an original set of relationships, each relationship being between one component of the first component set and one component of the second component set. The method further includes decomposing the original set of relationships into a collection of view sets, each view set having at least one subset of the original set of relationships where the first and second components are associated with the respective relationships of the subset, and each view set satisfies a set of constraints. The components may be elements of a business model. | 10-03-2013 |
20130282414 | IDEA CART - Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include at least one of systems, methods, and computer program products of an idea cart. Some embodiments include receiving and storing data of new product improvement ideas associated with respective user credentials. Such embodiments may further include retrieving and providing product improvement idea data in response to requests associated with a user credential, the product improvement idea data retrieved and provided being only product improvement idea data associated with the user credential. Updates to the product improvement data may also be received. Additionally, some embodiments may include transmitting data of product improvement ideas to a particular network location in response to a submission command associated with data of a product improvement idea. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282415 | PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a production management device configured to monitor the state of a production device which, by consuming a resource (electric power and so forth) produces a product with a change in a physical amount (temperature and so forth) in the production environment. The production management device includes an environment change physical amount measurement unitconfigured to acquire as environment change physical amounts the physical amount of the production environment that has been changed by the production device consuming the resource, and a state determining unit configured to determine the state of the production device in response to the acquired environment change physical amounts. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282416 | META DATA MODEL FOR MANAGING WORK PRODUCTS AND DELIVERABLES - A method and program product for managing work products by utilizing a data model that provides traceability between business requirements and implemented services. The data model includes functional requirement, process element, business service, service design and service component asset types, and the relationships between the asset types. The asset types and the relationships provide a tracing between the functional requirement and the implemented service. In one embodiment, the tracing includes generating a series of displays in response to hyperlink selections. The series of displays include details of related instances of the functional requirement, process element, business service, service design, and service component asset types. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290046 | SCHEMATIC CORPORATE DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A method for the creation of a schematic corporate relationship representations with respect to at least one identified individual or corporate entity, organising the information, and displaying it in the form of a schematic corporate relationship representations, including executing a set of algorithms by said system program for determining a schematic representations of the one or more entities if there is a defined one or more relationships between the one or more entities and rejecting any unrelated entities. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290047 | FACILITATING ASSESSMENT OF A SERVICE THROUGH USE OF USER ASSIGNED WEIGHTS - In a method for facilitating assessment of a service, values of a plurality of metrics corresponding to the service are acquired. In addition, weights that a user has respectively assigned to each of the plurality of metrics are acquired and a service-level metric value for the service is calculated through calculation of a function that statistically evaluates the weights respectively assigned to the plurality of metrics and the acquired values of the plurality of metrics. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290048 | EVALUATING BUSINESS COMPONENTS IN AN ENTERPRISE - A method and/or computer system evaluates an architectural fit of a business software application employed in an enterprise. A defined rating system establishes a rating of how effective a business software application is in meeting pre-determined requirements for each one of a set of business technology factors. An architectural fit analysis evaluates an architectural fit of the business software application based on inputted rating values. An analysis report is generated based on the architectural fit analysis, and a software application that provides the best architectural fit is installed. | 10-31-2013 |
20130304529 | NUTRITIONAL MONITORING AND FEEDBACK - A method and system for tracking items is provided. The method includes retrieving, from empty food packages in garbage containers, data associated with multiple attributes of multiple consumed food products from the empty food packages. Package data objects associated with the data are generated. The package data objects include identification numbers and attributes associated with the empty food packages. The package data objects are transmitted to a central processing server for generation of aggregated data. The aggregated data is analyzed with respect to nutritional content of the multiple consumed food products. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304530 | AUTOMATED GENERATION OF PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEM COMPONENTS - Systems and methods provide automatic configuration of a process monitoring system to monitor some or all business activity in a business process. Structured business process information that defines the business process is accessed and parsed, to automatically generate one or more process monitoring components to form part of the process monitoring system. The process monitoring system monitors events with respect to a plurality of unmanaged enterprise applications that perform business process activities. The unmanaged enterprise applications perform the process activities without central orchestration by a business process management application. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311215 | SUSTAINABILITY BASED DISTRIBUTION EVALUATION - A computer implemented method for analyzing distribution options of a product can include obtaining data relating to the distribution of the product to a customer from at least one supplier. The method can include configuring one or more criteria relating to the distribution of the product and weighting the criteria. At least one criteria can relate to sustainability of the distribution of the product. The method can include performing green distribution analysis on the distribution options of the product based on the weighted criteria using the obtained data and providing a set of distribution options based on the green distribution analysis. The distribution options can be provided with a green distribution score corresponding to the sustainability of the distribution option. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311216 | PRODUCT SUSTAINABILITY EVALUATION - A computer implemented method for analyzing sustainability of a product can include configuring one or more criteria relating to production and distribution of the product and weighting the criteria. At least one criteria can relate to the sustainability of the product. The method can include obtaining data relating to the production and the distribution of the product to a customer from at least one supplier. The method can include performing a green distribution analysis on the production and distribution of the product based on the weighted criteria using the obtained data. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311217 | One View Integrated Project Management System - Projects of any type require sophisticated management software programs. In reality, these management software programs are provided by various vendors and for different professional fields. For example, scheduling programs for construction professionals, blue print programs for drafting professionals, accounting programs for cost-control professionals. In addition, there are numerous other unofficial and official documents generated by managers of different levels for reporting or track-record-keeping purposes using popular word processing programs and spread-sheet programs. Documents generated by different software programs can only be viewed under the programs they are generated under or compatible programs. This poses a problem in that there is a lack of organized control resulting in difficulty in locating and viewing documents in a timely manner. The present invention provides an one view software program that would be able to provide an organized control and viewing of all documents regardless which software programs they are generated under. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311218 | FARMING SUPPORT METHOD AND FARMING SUPPORT APPARATUS - A farming support method includes accepting input of information indicating a state of a crop or information indicating a state of an environment, and extracting, from a first storage unit that stores restriction information including a condition related to the state of the crop or the state of the environment and a work instruction for a case in which the condition is satisfied, the restriction information having the condition matching the information indicating the state of the crop or the information indicating the state of the environment that is input. The method further includes judging, using a second storage unit that stores a judgement result on whether to adopt each restriction information for each cultivation example of the crop, whether to adopt the restriction information that is extracted. | 11-21-2013 |
20130317869 | GUIDED PUNCHOUT CATALOG - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing catalog information that can include onsite as well as externally hosted product or service information. Generally speaking, customers can create externally hosted catalogs for each supplier, and set up high level keywords so that a link to the externally hosted catalog information can be returned if requesters execute a search using these keywords. The source of where the product or service comes from does not result in issues for the requesters when trying to locate an item. Rather, the enterprise procurement application can guide the requesters to the items they are looking for regardless of the source. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317870 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PROCESS CHANGE CONTROL - Apparatus and methods for process change control are provided. Apparatus and methods in accordance with principles described herein may ascertain an employee readiness status. The readiness status may correspond to an ability to implement a process change. Process change control may provide a managed change readiness environment that consistently operates on target with minimal variation enabling a controlled, successful implementation of a process change. Implementation may be controlled through systematic observation, analysis, and reporting of process change requirements. Process change control may reduce deployment defects resulting from change implementation through a tailored, assessment and readiness/certification process. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325528 | SYSTEM TO COMPARE MULTIPLE HIERARCHIES WHILE SWITCHING THE COMPARISON BASELINE - A method of managing scenarios of a database includes creating one or more scenarios of various attributes of a portfolio, selecting a baseline scenario among the one or more scenarios, comparing the one or more scenarios, excluding the baseline scenario, to the baseline scenario, and displaying indicators for each scenario, each indicator representing the difference between an attribute of the baseline scenario and that of a scenario in which the indicator is being displayed. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325529 | Analyzing Engineering Requirements - Analyzing engineering requirements, including: identifying, by an engineering requirements analysis component, a plurality of analysis criteria areas for an engineering project; identifying, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a plurality of analysis criteria for each analysis criteria area; setting, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a criteria weight for each analysis criterion; receiving, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a criterion score for each analysis criterion; and calculating, by the engineering requirements analysis component, a project score for the engineering project in dependence upon the criterion score for each analysis criterion and the criteria weight for each analysis criterion. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMER CONVERSION - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for determining customer conversion propensity. According to one embodiment, a source registrant group having a plurality of registered customers is identified from a database. A probability for a conversion event is then computed for each of the plurality of customers within the source registrant group is then computed. The customers within the source registrant are than categorized based on the computed probability value and a timing for the conversion event. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325531 | BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT BY DYNAMICALLY REUSING BUSINESS CASE COMPONENTS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for supporting dynamic reuse of business case components in business case development are described herein. The method involves receiving a sample criterion for creating a new business case. A database of business cases is accessed where the criteria associated with the business cases are hierarchically structured according to a common data model. The method further includes comparing the sample criterion with the criteria associated with the business cases to identify one or more business cases that have a criterion matching the sample criterion. The method further includes scoring one or more criteria rendered alongside the matching criterion in the hierarchical structure, based on a position of the one or more criteria relative to a position of the matching criterion. Based on the scoring, one or more criteria having relatively higher scores are identified as additional criteria for the new business case. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325532 | METRICS BASED ON CONTENT USAGE OF SALES PLAYBOOKS - By combining information from a CRM system about changes in status of entities, such as customers, leads, and the like, with information about usage of a sales playbook and content related to such playbook usage, metrics describing the effectiveness of content can be determined. | 12-05-2013 |
20130346125 | Methods for Correlating First Mile and Last Mile Product Data - Traceability codes on perishable products facilitate the correlation of product data from the origin of a distribution chain to quality assessments of the perishable products made at points along the distribution chain. The product data is initially associated with the code, the product is marked with the code, and then the product is distributed. Receipt of a code after the perishable product enters the distribution chain establishes an elapsed time. Location information submitted with the code can also establish a traversed distance. A quality assessment submitted with the code can be associated with both time and distance. Consumers, for example, may submit codes, provide assessments and locations, and in return access product data linked to the specific products they consider in retail stores, purchase, and use. Inspectors can likewise submit quality assessments from locations earlier in the distribution chain as well as in retail stores. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346126 | BUSINESS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT - Various embodiments of systems and methods for composing business processes using customized business process elements are described herein. The method involves creating one or more partner-defined business process elements composed of a source business object node and a target business object node. Further, the method includes selecting a type of communication interface between the source business object node and the target business object node based on determining a relative location of the source business object node and the target business object node. In another aspect, the composed one or more business process elements are integrated to form a customized business process. In yet another aspect, the method includes switching business entities to the composed business process based on the partner-defined business process elements and persisting the developed business process in the repository. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006072 | Consistent Interface for Customer - Message Set 2 | 01-02-2014 |
20140006073 | FRAMEWORK FOR MARKETPLACE ANALYSIS | 01-02-2014 |
20140006074 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GATHERING, ANALYZING, MANAGING AND SHARING GROUND MODIFICATION OPERATION DATA | 01-02-2014 |
20140019178 | Brand Health Measurement - Investment Optimization Model - A system and method are disclosed for optimizing brand equity return on investment (ROI). Original input data associated with a plurality of brand equity variables is processed using a brand equity ROI model to generate a first brand equity value, which in turn is processed to generate a dependent variable. Input data corresponding to an individual brand equity variable is then processed to generate changed input data, which in turn is processed by the brand equity ROI model with the original input data and the dependent variable to generate a second brand equity value. The first and second brand equity values are then processed to determine the effect of the changed data on the first brand equity value. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019179 | Forestry and Urban Forestry Project Tracking - Novel tools and techniques for management of urban forestry projects. Some tools feature the integration of forestry tools and business intelligence techniques to provide enhanced insight into urban forestry projects and/or can incorporate data from a wide variety of data sources without the need for complex data transformation processes. In an aspect, some tools to enable urban forest project owners to capitalize on project offset credits as a revenue source. In another aspect, such tools can provide a variety of different analyses, from canopy analyses to tree health analysis, to work order generation, to carbon offset calculations, including the calculation of carbon offsets using accepted standards, to allow a project owner to quickly and easily establish the amount of offsets to which the project is entitled. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025411 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF PROCESS DEFINITION METRICS - Various embodiments manage metrics in a business process management environment. In one embodiment, a business process is instantiated for execution. A set of process elements associated with the business process are identified. A set of metric configurations are accessed based on the business process being instantiated. A set of metrics is identified based on the set of metric configurations. Each of the set of metrics is associated with a process element type. At least one process elements in the set of process elements is automatically configured to collect at least one metric in the set of metrics based on the process element type of the at least one process element matching the process element type associated with the at least one metric. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025412 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF PROCESS DEFINITION METRICS - Various embodiments manage metrics in a business process management environment. In one embodiment, a business process is instantiated for execution. A set of process elements associated with the business process are identified. A set of metric configurations are accessed based on the business process being instantiated. A set of metrics is identified based on the set of metric configurations. Each of the set of metrics is associated with a process element type. At least one process elements in the set of process elements is automatically configured to collect at least one metric in the set of metrics based on the process element type of the at least one process element matching the process element type associated with the at least one metric. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032252 | WRONGDOING REPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - Disclosed herein is a wrongdoing reporting system and method, and a storage medium for the same. In the wrongdoing reporting method, a report of a wrongdoing is received from a reporter client, wherein the reporter client is a mobile client on which a wrongdoing reporting application is executed and the report of the wrongdoing includes an organization unique code, a report unique, and report details information. The report details information is transmitted to an organization client previously registered for the organization unique code. Results of actions against the report details information are received from the organization client, wherein the results of the actions include an organization unique code, a report unique code, and action result details information. The action result details information is transmitted to a reporter client corresponding to the report unique code. | 01-30-2014 |
20140039949 | DETERMINING SUPPLIER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT - A computer-implemented method for determining supplier environmental impact (EI) can include identifying a number of tiers of suppliers for an activity of an entity, mapping the activity of the entity to an economic sector and an environmental sector using data accessed from a public database, and determining an EI for each supplier in the number of tiers of suppliers for the activity based on data associated with the mapped economic sector and the mapped environmental sector, wherein the method is performed by a computing device. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039950 | AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING LOST SALES - One embodiment of a method for detecting a lost sale due to an out-of-shelf condition in a retail environment includes automatically detecting when a customer fails to purchase an expected product, based at least in part on an observation of a current behavior of the customer in the retail environment and on a purchasing history of the customer, and inferring, based on the automatically detecting, that the expected product is out-of-shelf. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039951 | AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING LOST SALES DUE TO AN OUT-OF-SHELF CONDITION IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - One embodiment of a system for detecting a lost sale due to an out-of-shelf condition in a retail environment includes a plurality of sensors distributed throughout the retail environment for monitoring a current behavior of a customer in the retail environment, a database for storing a purchasing history of the customer, and a matching system for automatically detecting when the customer fails to purchase an expected product, based at least in part on the current behavior and on the purchasing history, and for inferring, based on the automatically detecting, that the expected product is out-of-shelf. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039952 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A REAL TIME VIEW OF HETEROGENEOUS ENTERPRISE DATA - A method for providing a real time view of heterogeneous enterprise data of operational systems includes capturing streams of operational events in real time, combining the events with contextual data, and materializing a resulting view. The resulting view includes a dynamically defined view of the stream of events and provides visibility into a current state of the operational system. A view snapshot is continuously incrementally updated by a view maintenance engine as a stream of rows. The views are used to evaluate a business rule. An alert is fired when a business rule holds true. To enable the view in a view engine, a SQL string characterising the view is parsed into a parse tree, which is normalized to form a query graph. The query graph is then optimized to obtain a query plan, which is compiled into an operator graph. Queries are executed based upon the operator graph. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046708 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A CLOUD-BASED CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE - Various arrangements for determining a customer lifetime value metric are presented. A first customer record stored by the cloud host computer system on behalf of a first client may be accessed. The first customer record may include information about a first financial relationship between a customer and the first client. A second customer record stored by the cloud host computer system on behalf of a second client may be accessed. The second customer record may include information about a second financial relationship between the customer and the second client. The clients may not have access to each other's customer records. The customer indicated in the first customer record and the customer indicated in the second customer record may be determined to be the same. The customer lifetime value metric may be determined using information from the first financial relationship and the second financial relationship. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046709 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY ASSETS - A technology maturity evaluation (TME) computer device is provided for evaluating a technology asset of an entity is provided. The TME computer device includes a memory device for storing data including a plurality of business value questions and a plurality of technical maturity questions, and a processor in communication with the memory device. The TME computer device is programmed to receive an asset identifier identifying an asset selected for evaluation and to electronically display business value questions and technical maturity questions for the selected asset, wherein each question is designated for a response by a subject matter expert. The TME computer device is further programmed to receive response data from each of the subject matter experts and calculate a business value score and a technical maturity score for the selected asset based on the response data. | 02-13-2014 |
20140058773 | DETERMINING CORPORATE ACTIONS USING TRANSACTIONAL DATA - Aspects of the invention provide for the use of transactional data in determining a corporate action alert. Further aspects of the invention provide for determining a merger and acquisition utilizing employee base information generated from analyzing trends in historical transactional data. The method and processes may include the following: receiving transactional data corresponding to transactions associated with a set of customer accounts, wherein the transactional data includes business name patterns; generating employee base information using the transactional data, wherein the employee base information includes a total number of employees and a total amount of salary paid; identifying a trend for a merger and acquisition utilizing the employee base information; determining a list of the mergers and acquisitions from the trends for the mergers and acquisitions; and comparing the merger and acquisition list to a corporate database to identify data discrepancies. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067443 | BUSINESS PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include an apparatus for managing processes including a processing circuit for obtaining process data corresponding to a plurality of processes from at least one of storage, an external device, and a user, and for performing a method. The method includes parsing the process data to identify key features of the plurality of processes and recognizing, by the processor, commonality among two or more of the plurality of processes based on the key features. The method further includes generating suggestions for transforming one or more of the plurality of processes based on the commonality among the two or more of the plurality of processes. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067444 | BUSINESS PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include a method for managing processes. The method includes collecting, by a processor, data from a plurality of processes. The method also includes recognizing, by the processor, commonality among two or more of the plurality of processes based on the data. The method also includes generating suggestions for transforming one or more of the plurality of processes based on the commonality. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067445 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING ANALYSIS PROGRAM, ANALYSIS METHOD AND ANALYSIS APPARATUS - A computer-readable storage medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes: analyzing log data related to a business which includes information regarding a calling relationship between programs in a transaction in which a plurality of programs are executed in order to implement a business process; and generating information which indicates an execution sequence of a plurality of programs in the transaction by excluding a program that has a program executed immediately before and a program executed immediately after, based on the analyzing. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074524 | Method and System for Business Outcome-Based Personalized Ranking of Information Objects - Business outcome-based personalized ranking of information objects is provided. Information objects in outcome-based business processes are ranked by recording information objects generated during a creation of the outcome-based business processes. At least one business process comprises an outcome attribute, and at least one business process comprises in-process information objects. A composite graph is generated of the information objects and business processes. Each node in the graph corresponds to an information object or a business process. Links between two information object nodes have a strength based on a content similarity and a social network distance. The in-process information object node connects to a corresponding business process node, and two business process nodes have a link if they are indicated as related in the business process information system. The information objects are ranked based on the link strengths. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074525 | Method and System for Business Outcome-Based Personalized Ranking of Information Objects - Methods and apparatus are provided for business outcome-based personalized ranking of information objects. Information objects in outcome-based business processes are ranked by recording information objects generated during a creation of the outcome-based business processes. At least one business process comprises an outcome attribute, and at least one business process comprises in-process information objects. A composite graph is generated of the information objects and business processes. Each node in the graph corresponds to an information object or a business process. Links between two of the information object nodes have a strength based on a content similarity and a social network distance. The in-process information object node connects to a corresponding business process node, and two business process nodes have a link if they are indicated as related in the business process information system. The information objects are ranked based on the link strengths (for example, in response to a query for a given user and a given business process). | 03-13-2014 |
20140081679 | Release Management System and Method - A method includes obtaining an existing process structure for multiple life cycle stages of a process lifecycle instance, using a release version matrix to represent the process structures, receiving a release change indication, copying the existing process structures into new release process structures to represent a new version of the process in response to the release change, and updating the release version matrix to identify the new version of the process structures. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081680 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY ASSETS USING DATA SETS TO GENERATE EVALUATION OUTPUTS - A technology evaluation measurement (TEM) computer device for evaluating a technology asset of an entity includes a processor in communication with a memory. The TEM computer device is programmed to receive a first data set wherein the first data set includes data related to the a first technology asset, determine at least one evaluation function and at least one categorization function to apply to the first data set, process the first data set using the at least one evaluation function and the at least one categorization function to determine a second data set wherein the second data set includes data related to a technological evaluation of the first technology asset, and generate at least one evaluation output based upon the second data set, wherein the evaluation output represents an output indicating the technological evaluation of the first technology asset. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081681 | SELF CORRECTING ONLINE REPUTATION - A system to determine a first reputation value for a first user associated with a transaction with a second user first determines a weighted value based on one or more user transaction attributes. The user transaction attributes may be associated with at least one of the first user and the second user. Next the system calculates the first reputation value for the first user as a function of a first current reputation value of the first user and the weighted value. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081682 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING BACKGROUND MUSIC - An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for playing an audio track, comprising receiving, in a computer readable medium, at least one datum relating to a retail store; said datum selected from a group consisting of: (i) an environmental parameter in said retail store; (ii) a static situational parameter of said retail store; (iii) personal data of at least one customer in said retail store; (iv) a business objective, and a combination thereof; and selecting, using said computer readable medium, at least one audio track in accordance with at least one of said datum; and playing said audio track in at least one audio device. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089022 | STATEMENT OF WORK ANALYSIS AND RESOURCE PARTICIPATION ASSESSMENT - Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for analyzing statements of work (SOWs), and identifying applicable services to offer in response thereto. Among other things, a file may be converted from a first format to a second format, and then utilized to determine a scope of: at least one strategic outsourcing service being requested in the SOW; at least one service delivery tower of the services delivery organization that may have a responsibility for delivering a strategic outsourcing service to the potential client; and/or a set of requirements for the at least one service delivery tower to deliver the at least one strategic outsourcing service. A report identifying at least one of the determined scope, the at least one service delivery tower, and the set of requirements may then be generated. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089023 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING DATA STREAM - Methods and systems for distributing a data stream are provided. A response message containing business identification can be received by the business interaction platform. The response message can be sent from a data forwarding platform according to a data stream received by the data forwarding platform from a provider. A total amount of the data stream and distribution ratio information corresponding to the business identification can be obtained by the business interaction platform. A distribution calculation can be performed on the total amount of the data stream according to the distribution ratio information for a plurality of recipients. The distribution amount of each recipient can be obtained and sent by the business interaction platform to the third party platform for the data forwarding platform to divide the received data stream according to the distribution amount and to send the divided data stream to each recipient. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095231 | GUIDED ANALYTICS - A method and a system described herein relate to guided analytics for analysis of data. In one implementation, the method includes acquiring enterprise data and external intelligence data, and identifying facts, which are measures, and attributes, which are indicative of a characteristic parameter to which the measures correspond, from the enterprise data and the external intelligence data. The method also includes identifying influencing links, where each of the influencing links is indicative of a relationship amongst the facts and the attributes. The method further includes analyzing the facts to obtain analyzed data and identifying at least one correlation in the analyzed data based on at least one of the influencing links and the external intelligence data. The analyzing is carried out using at least one predefined analytical model and is in relation to at least one of the attributes and at least one of the influencing links. | 04-03-2014 |
20140100901 | NATURAL LANGUAGE METRIC CONDITION ALERTS USER INTERFACES - Enterprise data sources can be monitored to detect metric conditions via rules, and alerts can be generated. The alerts can be presented as natural language descriptions of business metric conditions. From an alert, the reader can navigate to a story page that presents additional detail and allows further navigation within the data. Additional detail presented can include a drill down synopsis, strategies for overcoming a negative condition, links to discussions within the organization about the condition, options for sharing or collaborating about the condition, or the like. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108071 | ONTOLOGY OF DYNAMIC ENTITIES - A method, apparatus, data model and computer program product for providing entities having transient properties. The method may be performed by a computerized device and comprises: receiving an initial entity type specification, the initial specification comprising lifecycle of the entity type; receiving an indication of a transient property for the entity type; and receiving a possession formula for the transient property, wherein the possession formula is associated with a stage or condition in the lifecycle of at least one entity type. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108072 | Vendor Contract Assessment Tool - A system and method that generates a graphical representation and allows the comparison between: 1) a set of contract or deal business requirements; 2) a contract or deal proposed by a vendor; and 3) a contract or deal that currently exists as viewed in the present time. The relative comparisons may be completed on key areas of the contract where key business requirements (KBRs) and metrics have been uniquely defined, targeted, and weighed. The set of contract or deal business requirements may also be defined as a Target Contract or a desired contract state. The contract or deal proposed by the vendor may be as defined as a Proposal Contract or a potential contract state. The contract or deal that currently exists may be defined as an Existing Contract or a current contract state. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108073 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POPULATING ASSETS TO A MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An on-boarding computer system is provided that guides a mobile device user through the capture of visual information that identifies assets or physical objects using a mobile device, and optionally tagging of the visual information. This information is sent to a server computer or cloud service that includes one or more tools for mapping the information to a list of asset/physical object records. The server computer includes one or more automated utilities for performing the mapping processes. If these mapping processes do not meet an identification threshold then, a work ticket is created and assigned to one of a pool of human agents to complete the mapping processes. Related computer implemented methods are also provided. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108074 | Multidimensional digital platform for building integration and analysis - A method is provided for qualifying and analyzing business intelligence. At a first part of a data management system receives first, second and third streams of data. The first stream is client provided source data, the second is public source data and the third is data management system internal data previously collected and managed source data in the data management system. The three streams of data are organized into items and their attributes at the data management system. The source data is transformed at a data warehouse where it becomes normalized. Logic is applied to provide multi-dimensional analysis of transformed source data relative to a scale for at least one business intelligence. The data warehouse includes updated data from the multi-dimensional analysis. A user interface communicates with the data management system to create statistical information that illustrates impact over time and value. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108075 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND REPORTING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND AGRICULTURAL-PRODUCER INFORMATION - Various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and systems for tracking and reporting environmental impact and agricultural-producer information. In an example embodiment, a method comprises receiving first data associated with an impact on groundwater pollution or surface water pollution, the impact on the groundwater pollution or the surface water pollution resulting from a production of an agricultural product, the first data being received from a single representative sampling location; receiving second data associated with the impact on the groundwater pollution or surface water pollution, the second data being received from at least one of a plurality of representative sampling locations; generating a benchmark percentage-based result based on the first or second data; calculating comparative data using the benchmark percentage-based result and at least some of the first or second data; and reporting the benchmark percentage-based result and the comparative data to a user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114707 | INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICAL RESULTS - Provided are techniques for summarizing statistical results. Multiple sets of statistical results are received, wherein each of the sets of statistical results are ordered according to interestingness. Insights are generated based on the multiple sets of statistical results. Relationships between the generated insights are identified. An executive summary is generated with a set of findings based on the identified relationships. An interactive visualization is provided with the generated insights based on the executive summary. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114708 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR TRACKING CONSUMER INTERACTIONS WITH PRODUCTS USING MODULAR SENSOR UNITS - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for tracking consumer interactions with products using modular sensor units. In one system, a plurality of weight and motion sensors is configured to track consumer interactions with products. The system further includes a plurality of sensor mounts for holding the sensors in place. Each sensor mount includes signal lines for transmitting power to the sensors and for conducting signals between the sensors and a signal processor. The system further includes a plurality of conductors for interconnecting sensor mounts to a signal processor. The system further includes a plurality of connectors to allow rapid addition and removal of the sensors and their mounts as needed for a particular product planogram. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122137 | IDENTIFIED CUSTOMER REPORTING - Customer data is retrieved that includes customer transactions of a retailer for a first time period and a second time period prior to the first time period. Each customer transaction may be associated with an identified customer. Customer transactions that occurred during the second time period and that are associated with an identified customer that was identified after the second time period are removed from the customer data. For each identified customer, a customer identification weighting factor is determined based on a customer identification likelihood. A total number of customer transactions associated with the identified customer is multiplied by the identification weighting factor to determine a weighted total number of customer transactions for the identified customer. The weighted total number of customer transactions for the identified customer is associated with the identified customer in the customer data. A report including a representation of the customer data is output. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122138 | Performance Optimization of Business Processes By Stochastic Environmental Changes - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for optimizing applications, such as applications included in a business process. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving information representative of one or more interfaces and aspects of each of the interfaces. The interfaces may be adjustable by a business process supervisor. The business process supervisor may adjust one or more aspects of the one or more interfaces. The results of the adjustment may be received and used to determine optimum settings to the one or more interfaces. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122139 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING RELATIVE RANKING DATA IN A BROKER MEDIATED GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SERVICE ENVIRONMENT - A method for determining a value indicator in a broker-mediated geospatial information service environment includes receiving feedback data at a first system of the broker-mediated geospatial information service environment. In particular, the feedback data is received from a plurality of respondents, and relates to a broker-mediated geospatial information service provided to each respondent of the plurality of respondents. Furthermore, each respondent of the plurality of respondents is a prior requestor of a process-dataset solution for performing the broker-mediated geospatial information service. Based on the feedback data, a value indicator relating to the process-dataset solution is determined. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129268 | ROLE DISCOVERY USING PRIVILEGE CLUSTER ANALYSIS - Systems and methods used in human resource management systems. The method optimizes the assignment of permissions (e.g., ability to write to a database, ability to create a new account, etc.) to jobs. The method discovers relationships between jobs, duties and privileges by accessing an organization chart that relates a plurality of jobs, a plurality of specific duties to be performed within the purview of a given job, and a plurality of permissions for the respective duties of the job. The method then flattens the organization chart to enumerate the permissions inherited by the jobs. The method proceeds to mine the inherited permissions across the jobs to optimize the sets of permissions. The sets can be optimized (e.g., minimize number of sets, maximize coverage, etc.) and named so as to be conveniently assigned (e.g., by an HR person) to a job (e.g., in the case of a new employee). | 05-08-2014 |
20140136251 | AUTOMATED APPLICATION DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - An application modeling system for automating the discovery, mapping and monitoring of a plurality of elements within an IT Infrastructure that supports specific applications and business services, spanning not only network elements, hosts, and software, but also users, company structures and business processes they support. The system includes: collector modules for collecting relationship, modeling and status information from both IT and non-IT specific sources, creating data objects representing application components in the modeling database and gathering pertinent data about activities occurring in the end-to-end IT infrastructure; a modeling database for consolidating information gathered by the collector modules; correlator modules for automating determination of complex relationships between data objects stored in the modeling database to create application models of individual applications in the context of business process and IT service delivery; visualizer modules for viewing application structures end-to-end and predicting the impacts of element failures on the delivery of business services. | 05-15-2014 |
20140142997 | JOINT MARKETED CUSTOMER HUB - The instant application describes a method for receiving, at a hub and from a first partner, a request for a common identifier for linking an account of the customer associated with the first partner with an account of the customer associated with a second partner to provide the customer with enhanced joint account services; in response to the request, generating the common identifier and providing the common identifier to the first partner; generating at the hub a common ID status based on a first partner customer ID status and a second partner customer ID status; and forwarding the common ID status to the first partner and the second partner. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149158 | RETAIL MATH OPTIMIZATION - A system and method for retail math optimization that receives a selection of a product display type, receives selection of a product display configuration template, the product configuration template specifying a product and a quantity of the product, determines a revenue per square foot for a retail space based on the product display type and the product display configuration template, and displays the revenue per square foot. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149159 | Process for grading, on a standardized scale, the technical condition of an asset - This invention relates generally to the field of Asset Management and more specifically to a process for grading, on a standardized scale, the technical condition of an Asset that has a Scheduled Maintenance Program issued by the Asset's manufacturer or other governing authority, and is comprised of the following: an Asset Technical Condition Score that evaluates and measures an Asset's technical condition, relative to its Optimal Technical Condition, with respect to the Asset's Scheduled Maintenance Program; an Asset Technical Financial Exposure Value, representing and measuring an Asset's accrued Inspection liability due to utilization or other technical aging influence, based on its Optimal Inspection Liability, with respect to the Asset's Scheduled Maintenance Program; and, an Asset Technical Financial Condition Score representing and measuring an Asset's financial rating, relative to its Optimal Technical Condition, with respect to the Asset's Scheduled Maintenance Program. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156322 | Unified Framework for Electrical Load Forecasting - Techniques for forming and using a unified framework for electrical load forecasting are described herein. In one example, data is received from supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) measurements available in an electrical grid. Data may be validated using ramp rate filter and load level filter tests. An augmented Savistky-Golay filter may be used to smooth the data, which may then be passed to autoregressive near-term forecast model(s). Forecasts are generated using near-term, ramp rate and short-term models. The near-term and ramp rate forecasts may be combined, such as with forecast horizon and ramp rate horizon parameters, to create a stitched forecast. The stitched forecast and short-term forecast are then blended using a blending period and blending weights that may be supplied exogenously. The final blended or unified near-term and short-term forecast may be exported to downstream generation scheduling and dispatching applications, which may calculate electrical production. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164032 | CLADISTICS DATA ANALYZER FOR BUSINESS DATA - An analyzer system may include a computer-apparatus to collect traces from a pool of business traces, and to assign an unique vector value to each trace. The system may also include an assembler to create a tree based upon the unique vector value of each trace. The system may further include an analyzer to detect sub-trees within the tree to identify similarities among the traces based upon the traces inclusion within a given sub-tree. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164033 | BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH PREDEFINED ALERTS - A system and method for managing a consumer financial services business, including predefined alerts and reports. The system includes a database module, having dimension tables and fact tables, structured to contain data related to the consumer financial services business. An alert module is predefined to alert a user to conditions of importance to a consumer financial services business, and a report module, linked to the database module. The method predefines business alert conditions to identify alert conditions regarding information required by specific users of information in a consumer financial services business | 06-12-2014 |
20140164034 | Method and System for Determining Total Cost of Ownership - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a total cost of ownership method and system for technology components, applications or business units. The system provides financial reporting costs in information technology terms in order to build a bridge between technology and finance organizations. The method and system utilize data from systems of record for assets and charges, extract this data and deliver output reports and visualizations on the data processing and analysis in order to drive a Total Cost of Ownership for technology components, applications or business units. The method includes bringing data from disparate sources into the computer processor accessing at least one storage medium, validating the data by a Data Quality Engine, processing the data by matching the at least one charge to the at least one asset and performing data analytics and reporting on the Total Cost of Ownership. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164035 | CLADISTICS DATA ANALYZER FOR BUSINESS DATA - An analyzer system may include a computer-apparatus to collect traces from a pool of business traces, and to assign an unique vector value to each trace. The system may also include an assembler to create a tree based upon the unique vector value of each trace. The system may further include an analyzer to detect sub-trees within the tree to identify similarities among the traces based upon the traces inclusion within a given sub-tree. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164036 | Program Sentiment Analysis, Systems and Methods - Sentiment-based program management systems and methods are presented. A sentiment analysis engine obtains a set of terms (e.g., words, phrases, etc.) from a semantic terminology database where the terms are associated with a target capital program (e.g., large scale construction, etc.). The engine uses a semantic model related to the target program to analyze a set of program status documents term-by-term, especially analyzing documents related to a performance metric (e.g., milestones, etc.). Each term in the document found in the set of terms can be assigned a connotation or other sentiment value according to the model, possibly based on a context. The engine compiles a complete program sentiment from documents and presents the program sentiment with respect to one or more related performance metrics. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172476 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING A HEAT MAP OF A RETAIL LOCATION - Methods and systems for generating a heat map for a retail location are disclosed herein. The method includes monitoring a plurality of regions of a retail location and determining a plurality of crowd sizes based on the monitoring. Each crowd size of the plurality of crowd sizes corresponds to one of the plurality of regions. Furthermore each crowd size may be indicative of an amount of people in its corresponding region at a given time. The method further includes generating a heat map based on the plurality of crowd sizes, the heat map being indicative of the amount of people in each of the regions. The heat map and crowd sizes can be used by a customer while shopping at the retail location, to optimize a shopping route of the customer, and/or to estimate wait times at particular regions of the retail location. | 06-19-2014 |
20140188530 | PROVISION OF CUSTOMER ATTRIBUTES TO AN ORGANIZATION - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for establishing attributes representing a customer for distribution to recipients that are organizations. In operation, customer information is received and organized as attributes that are then made available to predetermined recipients. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195284 | Computerized System and Method for Business Process Modeling and Testing - A computerized system and method for building a business process test repository. This repository could be used to test and optimize business processes in an organization. In many cases, the test cases in the repository may be reused for different applications and/or products. Embodiments of the system develop test cases from a domain point of view and not from the application point of view. In some such embodiments, the test cases would not refer to any application, application user interface, screens, or user interface events, but would be from the vantage point of business actions. The test cases in the repository could be taken as a basis for starting a testing effort and customizing the test case for the application specific details. | 07-10-2014 |
20140200935 | Product Value Dynamic Lab Test Equipment Control, Data Analyzer and Method - A system for user directed real-time manipulation of data is disclosed that allows the manipulation and weighting of data, and, in particular, testing data concerning various attributes of a product or service and that displays the results thereof to a user. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207501 | DETERMINING SAVINGS IN CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEMS - The method and device of the present disclosure can determine energy or cost savings of a climate control system, such as can be attributed to a treatment that has been incorporated into a climate control system. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207502 | POWER GENERATION FACILITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND POWER GENERATION FACILITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, there is provided a power generation facility information management system including a power generation variation information analysis unit configured to analyze information about the form of a stop of power generation, and information about the form of a variation in the power generation amount, thereby analyzing the possibility of reduction of an environmental impact caused by the power generation. The system includes a calculation unit configured to calculate the reduction amount of the environmental impact when the stop in an avoidable power generation stop period is assumed to be avoided and calculate the reduction amount of the environmental impact when the avoidable variation is assumed to be avoided, based on the analysis result. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING A SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE - Embodiments for designing banking system architecture are disclosed. A system comprises a banking solutions architecture module comprising a product component, a services component, and a process component. A comparison module compares a banking solution requirement with at least one component of the banking solutions architecture, and a design module designs a new banking software based on the comparison, wherein the design module configures the at least one component based on the output of the comparison module. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222476 | Anomaly Detection in Interaction Data - Method of automated anomaly detection includes obtaining a corpus of interaction data. Regular interaction data is identified from the corpus of interaction data with a processor. New interaction data is received. The processor compares the new interaction data to the identified regular interaction data The processor identities anomalies in the new interaction data. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236648 | Data Communication and Analytics Platform - An interface in an attribute calculation module external to an enterprise receives a request for data from a computer associated with the enterprise. The processor determines attribute calculations from an attribute calculation rule set based on the request and calculates the determined attribute calculations on external data. The interface communicates the calculated external data to the computer associated with the enterprise. The interface receives an attribute calculation update to the attribute calculation rule set from an attribute management module associated with the enterprise. The processor updates the attribute calculation rule set based on the attribute calculation update. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236649 | Method and Apparatus for Performing Remote Operations in an Issue Tracking Environment - Issues are linked to items that are external to the system installation to connect people, teams, and applications, in which users can share issues and search results with each other. Remote issue links connect issue tracking system issues to objects and pages in other instances, such as Web applications. Activity streams show events from all linked applications and third-party applications. In another embodiment, a user is allowed to copy issues from one issue tracking system instance to another. Once an application link is established between the local issue tracking system instance and another, a new issue action, remote copy, appears in a view issue page. The user is prompted to map field values by field names for the issue tracking system's built-in fields and/or to configure default values for required fields. In some embodiments, appropriate permissions are required to set the field value on the target site. | 08-21-2014 |
20140249872 | CUSTOMER-BASED INTERACTION OUTCOME PREDICTION METHODS AND SYSTEM - A method for customer-based outcome prediction that includes receiving recordings of interactions with customers in a customer group, analyzing the recordings of the interactions to generate interaction data, and building a predictive model using the interaction data, the predictive model identifying a variable relevant to predicting a likelihood of an identified outcome occurring in association with future interactions with customers in the customer group. The method also includes receiving a recording of a current interaction with a first customer, the first customer being in the customer group and analyzing the recording of the current interaction with the first customer to generate current interaction data. Further, the method includes adding the current interaction data to a first customer profile associated with the first customer and applying the predictive model to the first customer profile to predict the likelihood of the identified outcome occurring in association with the current interaction. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249873 | CUSTOMER-BASED INTERACTION OUTCOME PREDICTION METHODS AND SYSTEM - A method for customer-based outcome prediction that includes receiving recordings of interactions with customers in a customer group, analyzing the recordings of the interactions to generate interaction data, and building a predictive model using the interaction data, the predictive model identifying a variable relevant to predicting a likelihood of an identified outcome occurring in association with future interactions with customers in the customer group. The method also includes receiving a recording of a current interaction with a first customer, the first customer being in the customer group and analyzing the recording of the current interaction with the first customer to generate current interaction data. Further, the method includes adding the current interaction data to a first customer profile associated with the first customer and applying the predictive model to the first customer profile to predict the likelihood of the identified outcome occurring in association with the current interaction. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249874 | FARM WORK SUPPORT METHOD AND FARM WORK SUPPORT APPARATUS - A farm work support method executed by a computer includes calculating a forecast harvest date of a first cultivation of crops based on result values of a weather condition from a start date of the first cultivation to a current day stored in a storage unit, and forecast values of the weather condition after the current day stored in the storage unit, and calculating a forecast harvest date of a second cultivation of crops based on the forecast values after the current day stored in the storage unit; and determining the current day as a start date of the second cultivation if an interval between the forecast harvest date of the first cultivation and the forecast harvest date of the second cultivation has the number of days greater than or equal to a predetermined number of days. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249875 | DETECTING CASES WITH CONFLICTING RULES - A method, system and/or computer program product for managing condition action rules comprises: a treated case modeler for building a family of cases that make some rules applicable; a conflict detector for iteratively building and testing subsets of cases of the family searching for cases with conflicting decisions in order to locate a subset of cases that all have conflicting decisions. The conflict detector is further adapted for eliminating subsets of cases that have all non-conflicting decisions. The conflict detector is further adapted for distinguishing conflicting decisions from unrelated decisions and thus avoids the reporting of false conflicts. | 09-04-2014 |
20140257889 | CONTROLLING QUEUING IN A DEFINED LOCATION - A facility includes a location node having a transceiver of wireless signals. It communicates with a central hub and mobile devices in the facility. The nodes are located in a specific location in the facility, and provide data about the movement of the entities in the facility relative to the location. Includes at least one of entry into the location, departure from the location, amount of time spent in the vicinity of the location; and the data being transmitted to the operator in at least one of real time or being for storage and analysis at a later time for use by the operator. There can be a series of location nodes in the facility. The nodes provide data about the movement of the entities in the facility, such data including the travel path of the entities in the facility. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257890 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING ENGAGEMENT WITH A RECOMMENDATION ENGINE THAT RECOMMENDS ITEMS, PEERS, AND SERVICES - Computerized methods and systems for improving engagement with a recommendation engine that recommends items, peers, and services are provided. Stored data of a plurality of users is electronically accessed and analyzed. A respective passive profile is determined for each of the users based on the analyzing of the stored data. The respective passive profiles are then stored for use by the recommendation engine. The recommendation engine can then provide recommendations for at least one of items, peers, and services to a respective user based on at least the respective passive profile. The recommendations may be further based on at least one of an explicit profile comprising information provided by the respective user and an activity profile based on tracked activity of the respective user with regard to prior recommended items. | 09-11-2014 |
20140278617 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING CONFIDENCE VALUES FOR ENERGY INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A system may include a processor that may receive a first set of energy data associated with a first asset in an automation system, wherein the first set energy data comprises a first confidence level associated with the first set energy data, receive an operational status associated with the first asset, wherein the operational status indicates operational characteristics of the first asset, and updating the first confidence level based on the operational status and a first energy profile associated with the first asset. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278618 | RELATIONSHIP MAPPING SYSTEM, METHODS, AND TECHNIQUES - Methods, techniques, and systems for relationship mapping are provided. Example embodiments provide a Relationship Mapping System RMS, which provide information to enable users to learn about relationships. Example embodiments provide a Relationship Mapping System (“RMS”), which enables users to perform business development, fundraising or other related activities. The RMS comprises software algorithms, a software application, and a database system that can be deployed on the premises of one Party, or be configured and made available via the Internet or other communications wide area network as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application to multiple unrelated Parties. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278619 | HARVEST SUPPORT METHOD AND HARVEST SUPPORT APPARATUS - A harvest support method executed by a computer includes determining a day within a harvest grace period of a first cultivation among cultivations of crops as a recommended harvest date of the first cultivation where the day has a minimum interval with a planned harvest date of the first cultivation; and determining a day included in a harvest grace period of a second cultivation among the cultivations of crops as a recommended harvest date of the second cultivation where the day has an interval with the planned harvest date of the first cultivation in which the interval is closest to an interval between the planned harvest date of the first cultivation and a planned harvest date of the second cultivation, wherein the harvest grace periods and planned harvest dates of the first and second cultivations are stored in a storage unit. | 09-18-2014 |
20140297340 | PRUNING OF VALUE DRIVER TREES - An apparatus for pruning a value driver tree includes memory configured to store a value driver tree including one or more parent metrics determined to be of value to a party and one or more child metrics associated with the one or more parent metrics, and configured to store historical metrics data. The apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a statistical analysis on the value driver tree based on the historical metrics data, and configured to prune the value driver tree based on the statistical analysis by altering a relationship on the value driver tree of the one or more child metrics to the one or more parent metrics to generate a refined value drive tree. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORENSIC ANALYSIS AND INVESTIGATION OF DIGITAL DATA IN DIGITAL MEDIA DEVICE - The embodiments herein provide a method and system for analyzing and investigating digital data stored in digital device. The method comprises acquiring a disk image comprising digital data from a digital device of an exhibit, loading the disk image using a disk analysis tool, analyzing the disk image through a graphical user interface or browser interface for searching for the evidence by a visualization and interactive analysis module, managing the investigation process among an investigation team by an investigation management module, handling the workflow collaboration within the investigation team by a workflow and collaboration module, processing one or more text base documents by a text mining module, and representing the entire disk image visually to the investigator for easy, interactive and intuitive analysis of the exhibit. The text mining module comprises one or more advanced text mining algorithms for processing text based documents to extract critical information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297342 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A management apparatus includes: a unit to read configuration information of information processing apparatuses, which contains an attribute value of each of information processing apparatuses and a reference relationship between the information processing apparatuses, and log information containing a first type command executed by the information processing apparatuses; a unit to check a parameter value specified by the first type command with the configuration information of information processing apparatuses and to extract path information indicating a relationship between first configuration information of a first information processing apparatus with the first type command being executed and second configuration information of a second information processing apparatus that contains and attribute value coincident with the parameter value; and a unit to generate a second type command with the path information being specified in the first type command in place of the parameter value. | 10-02-2014 |
20140310034 | PERFORMANCE INDICATOR ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK - Described herein is a technology for facilitating analysis of performance indicators. In accordance with one aspect, a hierarchical structure with a node representing a performance indicator is configured. Such configuration may include mapping one or more lowest level nodes to one or more data models for retrieving transactional data. In addition, one or more internal nodes of the hierarchical structure may be configured, including mapping the one or more internal nodes to one or more corresponding child nodes. The configuration data generated by such configuration may then be stored in a database for subsequent retrieval to generate a report. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310035 | METHOD FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS - The present invention concerns a computer-implemented method, for solving a problem for a user. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310036 | YIELD MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING - A system for yield management comprising an application server that provides a web application where e-commerce managers may define cohorts and pricing policies, a web server that provides a web-based interface for interacting with the application server as well as a web-based interface where clients may query for pricing policies, a reporting server that computes aggregate statistics on cohorts, a cohorting server that computes cohort definitions, and an administration server that contextualizes cohort metrics for use in reporting operations. | 10-16-2014 |
20140337069 | DERIVING BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS FROM WEB LOGS - Computer-implemented systems, methods, and computer-readable media for deriving probable business transactions from a log file, the log file including a plurality of entries corresponding to traffic on a web server, each entry including a plurality of fields, including: pre-processing the log file to remove one or more fields and one or more entries unrelated to probable business transactions; processing the entries in the log file to identify one or more transactions; and processing the one or more transactions to identify one or more probable business transactions. | 11-13-2014 |
20140343979 | CONFIGURABLE DATA ACCUMULATORS - Embodiments provide techniques for creating and managing accumulator tables for use in generating reports for a business entity. Embodiments include identifying a report for a business entity. A plurality of data fields are determined across two or more database tables that are used to generate the report. Embodiments include creating an accumulator table and populating the accumulator table with data values for all of the plurality of data fields. Upon receiving, from a point of sale system, an indicator of an occurrence of a business event for the business entity, an instance of the report is automatically generated using the populated accumulator table. | 11-20-2014 |
20140350980 | GEOGRAPHIC MOBILE CUSTOMER RELATIONS MANAGEMENT - A system for geographic mobile customer relations management, comprising a database that stores CRM data, a tile server that provides discrete portions of CRM data, an object relational mapping server that associates location-based information with CRM data, and an interface that provides the CRM data to external applications. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358600 | ITEM PLACEMENT OPTIMIZER - A system is provided that that generates an optimal item placement for one or more items. The system receives one or more items, where each item includes an item height and an item width. The system further receives a container, where the container comprises a container height and a container width. The system further generates a number of copies for each item and a position within the container for each copy of each item, where each copy of each item is placed at the corresponding position within the container. The system further outputs the number of copies for each item and the position within the container for each copy of each item. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358601 | INDUSTRIAL ASSET HEALTH PROFILE - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a health profile of an industrial asset based upon data pertaining to such an industrial asset. At least some of the data is transformed into primary state indicators, respectively representative of the status or condition of an aspect of the industrial asset. Using the primary state indicators, one or more events that are likely to occur to the industrial asset are identified and a health profile is developed based upon such events. The health profile may describe maintenance actions that will reduce a likelihood of an event(s) occurring, may describe a business impact on an entity associated with the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, and/or may describe a performance impact on the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, for example. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358602 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR HUMAN CAPITAL ANALYSIS INCLUDING GENDER GAP - Disclosed herein are computer-based systems, media encoded with computer applications, and computer-implemented methods for identification and analysis of gender gap in human capital data comprising: a software module configured to receive data input, the data comprising human capital data pertaining to individuals of an organization; a software module configured to tag the data pertaining to individuals with a gender; a software module configured to generate a display of the data, the display comprising comparison of the data based on gender, the comparison in numeric and graphic form; and a software module configured to add comparator data to the display. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365252 | RULES VISUALIZATION USING AN EXPRESSION TREE - Representing a business rule by: (i) determining an expression tree corresponding to the business rule; and (ii) displaying the expression tree. The business rule is a business rule used in one or more OLAP cubes and can be debugged and/or edited through an OLAP utility. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365253 | System for Calculating, Analyzing and Tracking Regulatory Recovery in a Relational Database relating to Regulatory Management - A system for calculating, analyzing and tracking regulatory recovery relating to regulatory management has been developed. The system includes, a mapping interface for mapping the source data from multiple source databases, analysis keys that are applied and act as data tags to the mapped source data and a storage database for storing the mapped source data. A jurisdictional template is used for filtering mapped source data in order to model the data for a specific jurisdiction. Next, a case ledger layer that generates rate cases based on filtered mapped source data. A regulatory monitoring tool is then used to monitor regulatory recovery performance. Finally, a revenue requirements manager that analyzes both historical and forecast rate cases generates a user report. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372157 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIME SERIES DATA ANALYTICS MARKETPLACE - A plurality of analytics in a cloud-based environment is accessed. Each of the plurality of analytics performs an operation on time series data. Within the cloud-based environment, a selected one or more of the plurality of analytics is chosen. A set of time series data is uploaded to the cloud-based environment and the selected one of the plurality of analytics is optimized on that set of time series data. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372158 | Determining Optimal Decision Trees - The current subject matter relates to generation, modification, export, and/or import of decision trees, based on which optimal treatments (for example, offers) can be assigned to various records (for example, customers). A tree-generating application can receive constraints characterizing specifications for a decision tree desired by the user of the tree-generating application. The tree-generating application can generate a mathematical equation based on the constraints. The tree-generating application can receive, from a first database, historical data characterizing treatments provided to a plurality of representative customers having corresponding attributes. The tree-generating application can execute a simplex method of linear programming to search for the decision tree desired by the user from a plurality of decision trees stored in a second database stored in a second database. The tree-generating application can send the decision tree to a tree-using application. The tree-using application can use the decision tree to determine a treatment for a customer. | 12-18-2014 |
20150012314 | DATA DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS TOOLS - Resources for data lineage discovery, data lineage analysis, role-based security, notification. The resources may include or involve machine readable memory that is configured to store a technical data element (“TDE”); a receiver that is configured to receive a query for data lineage information corresponding to a business element identifier; and a processor configured to: register a logical association between the business element identifier and the TDE; and formulate the data lineage information of the TDE associated with the business element identifier. The receiver may be configured to receive a criterion that is required to access one or more technical data elements (“TDEs”) associated with the business element identifier. The receiver may be configured to receive an election to receive a notification of a change of data lineage. The processor may be configured to toggle between a first data lineage graph and a second data lineage graph. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012315 | DATA LINEAGE ROLE-BASED SECURITY TOOLS - Resources for data lineage discovery, data lineage analysis, role-based security, notification. The resources may include or involve machine readable memory that is configured to store a technical data element (“TDE”); a receiver that is configured to receive a query for data lineage information corresponding to a business element identifier; and a processor configured to: register a logical association between the business element identifier and the TDE; and formulate the data lineage information of the TDE associated with the business element identifier. The receiver may be configured to receive a criterion that is required to access one or more technical data elements (“TDEs”) associated with the business element identifier. The receiver may be configured to receive an election to receive a notification of a change of data lineage. The processor may be configured to toggle between a first data lineage graph and a second data lineage graph. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012316 | BIODIVERSITY EVALUATION INDEX CALCULATION - According to an embodiment, a biodiversity evaluation index calculation apparatus includes following units. The first calculation unit calculates, for each region, a vegetation/living-animal coefficient by referring to a vegetation database. The second calculation unit calculates, for each region, a biodiversity value based on a type of a reserve and the vegetation/living-animal coefficient by referring to a reserve geography database. The third calculation unit calculates, for each mine, a biodiversity evaluation, index by referring to a mine database which describes a position,, an output, a purity, and a mineral species for each -nine, the biodiversity evaluation index representing a mining impact on biodiversity. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012317 | INFORMATION ANALYSIS SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information analysis supporting apparatus includes a computer processor and a storage part. The storage part stores first data correlating data item names of analysis object data and standardized data item names and second data correlating the standardized data item names and information related to analysis processes. The storage part stores instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the information analysis supporting apparatus to search, in response to inputting of the analysis object data, the first data using the data item names of the input analysis object data and extract the standardized data item names, search the second data using the extracted standardized data item names and extract the information related to the analysis processes, and cause a presentation part to present the extracted information related to the analysis processes. | 01-08-2015 |
20150025924 | METHODS OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION TO A USER, AND SYSTEMS AND DEVICES FOR USE IN PRACTICING THE SAME - Methods of displaying information to a user are provided. Aspects of the methods include receiving information, correlating the received information with one or more factors previously identified as being relevant to the information, deriving a non-linear representation of the information based on the correlation between the information and the one or more factors, displaying a linear representation of the information, and displaying the non-linear representation of the information. Aspects of the invention further include devices and systems for practicing the methods. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025925 | SUPPLEMENTAL SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS - In various implementations, a supplemental system may be provided. The supplemental system may be coupled to business intelligence environment(s) to facilitate deployment, version control, testing, and/or other processes. In some implementations, the supplemental system may be communicably coupled to an external version control. The external version control may store one or more versions of components of the business intelligence environment(s) and the supplemental system may utilize the versions to perform one or more operations, such as, but not limited to, facilitating deployment, version controlling, and/or testing. In some implementations, the supplemental system may utilize information from a ticket manager in deployments of BI Artifact(s). | 01-22-2015 |
20150039358 | DATA PERSISTENCE TECHNOLOGY CONFIGURATOR - A computer system receives data persistence requirements necessary for a system architecture. The computer system identifies one or more data persistence technology attributes corresponding to the received data persistence requirements. The computer system determines one or more data persistence technology products having one or more of the identified data persistence technology attributes. The computer system, based on a priority of data persistence requirements, determines at least one data persistence technology product from the one or more determined data persistence technology products for the system architecture. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039359 | Component Based Mobile Architecture with Intelligent Business Services to Build Extensible Supply Chain Ready Procurement Platforms - The present invention is a tool for managing spend analysis, reverse auctions, sourcing, contracts, procure-to-pay processes, requests for proposals, supplier assessment and settlement processes. It employs hardware architecture and a software framework to provide a platform as a service that allows the user to create, store, report and manage bids, requests for proposals, contracts, bid data, spend analysis, and supplier scoring information from any of a number of mobile devices of various form factors. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046203 | Determining Recommendations In Data Analysis - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining recommendations in data analysis. A computer identifies an analysis step currently being performed in a data analysis. The computer identifies data points corresponding to the identified analysis step currently being performed and one or more previous analyses. The computer determines a distance between the data points corresponding to the identified analysis step currently being performed and each of the one or more previous data analyses utilizing a distance computing algorithm. The computer determines a ranking of the one or more previous data analyses corresponding to the determined distances between the data points corresponding to the identified analysis step currently being performed and each of the one or more previous data analyses. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046204 | CUSTOM-BRANDED ANALYTIC APPLICATIONS IN A MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT - A consolidated business intelligence platform provides customized business analytics for a plurality of customer databases, each associated with a corresponding plurality of customers. Responsive to a request from a user for a customized business intelligence interface, the system determines a customer of the plurality of customers with which the user is affiliated; accesses a set of customization parameters for the determined customer, the customization parameters including a set of data analytics parameters and a set of data display parameters; and identifies, from the plurality of customer databases, a customer database associated with the determined customer. The system analyzes a dataset from the identified customer database using the set of data analytics parameters, and then formats the analyzed dataset for display based on the set of data display parameters, thereby generating the customized business intelligence interface for transmission to the user. | 02-12-2015 |
20150051929 | AD HOC REPORTING WITH SMART LISTS - Technologies are generally described for a list designer pane for customizing data lists in an enterprise management application (EMA). An EMA may include tools for managing complex business data. An example tool for managing business data enables the creation of a smart data list which includes customized data records to enable efficient data management and analysis. The EMA provides a list designer pane to facilitate user creation and customization of the new data list. The list designer pane enables selection of data tables and fields to include in a new list, enables creation of relationships between fields and tables included in the new list, and enables filtering of data included in the new list based on user defined criteria. The new list can be created from an existing data list as a template, and can also be created from a blank template. | 02-19-2015 |
20150066548 | Algorithmically Optimized Project Portfolio Management Utilizing Purpose Directed Hard and Soft Data Feeds - In the algorithmically optimized project portfolio management, a uniquely comprehensive and holistic approach to data gathering with purpose directed hard and soft data feeds along with a complex and extensible algorithm is used to create and manage a portfolio of projects on an ongoing basis. The method includes broader data gathering capabilities from both people and other systems of record that contain hard data than other approaches. It also uses the functions of an integrated automated project office and a resource utilization planner to provide input to manage the portfolio on an ongoing basis. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066549 | System, Method and Apparatus for Voice Analytics of Recorded Audio - Disclosed is a method for analyzing recorded telephone calls in order to predict business outcomes. The method involves recording a series of initial telephone calls and analyzing those calls for particular audio features. The audio features are tabulated and annotated to specify whether the telephone call resulted in a pre-determined business outcome. A model is then built whereby the pre-determined business outcome can be predicted based upon the presence of certain audio features. The model can subsequently be used to predict whether future calls are likely to result in the pre-determined business outcome. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066550 | FLOW LINE DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE, SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD - A flow line analysis device according to the present invention includes: a log storage unit which stores work log including key information which encompasses at least one of worker information, slip information and work item, and work information associated with key information; a flow line storage unit which stores a plurality of partial flow line data associated with the worker; and a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts work information associated with a specific key information from the work log, determines whether each of the plurality of partial flow line data which includes flow line work information which satisfies a predetermined condition defined by work information, and associates the key information with the flow line data when it is determined that the flow line data includes the flow line work information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066551 | FLOW LINE DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE, SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND METHOD - A flow line analysis device includes a log storage unit that stores work log including key information which encompasses at least one of worker information, slip information and work item, and work information associated with the key information, a flow line storage unit that stores flow line data of the worker, and a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts work information associated with a specific key information from the work log, and determines whether the flow line data which includes flow line work information which satisfies predetermined condition defined by work information, and associates the key information with the flow line data when it is determined that the flow line data includes the flow line work information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073843 | Secure Facility Resident Grievance / Request FIling System - An exemplary embodiment provides for a computer-implemented method for processing a secure facility resident request. The method includes accepting a request type selection by the secure facility resident, providing a request form corresponding to the request type, accepting input for the request form and routing the request form to secure facility staff for review. The method additionally includes routing the request form back to the secure facility resident if further information is required and if the further information is required, accepting the further information from the secure facility resident. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081353 | Systems and Methods for Interest-Driven Business Intelligence Systems Including Segment Data - Systems and methods for interest-driven business intelligence systems including segment data in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment, an interest-driven data visualization system includes a processor and a memory wherein an interest-driven data visualization application configures the processor to define reporting data requirements, including at least one piece of reporting data metadata, generate data retrieval job data, transmit the data retrieval job data to an interest-driven business intelligence server system, receive source data from the interest-driven business intelligence server system, create at least one piece of reporting data using the received source data, the data description metadata, and the reporting data metadata, and generate a set of segment data based on the reporting data, where a piece of segment data in the set of segment data includes a subset of the reporting data. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081354 | DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A distribution apparatus includes a reception part that receives first data and a request for execution of a process according to a process definition formed of one or more units of processing with respect to the first data, and one or more processing parts that execute the corresponding one or more units of processing. At least one processing part is a distribution part that distributes, to a distribution destination specified in the process definition, the first data or second data output as a result of execution of a unit of processing executed before a unit of processing corresponding to the at least one processing part. The distribution part distributes the first or second data based on information indicating a distribution method for the specified distribution destination defined in the process definition, when the specified distribution destination is included in multiple distribution destinations to which a communications protocol is common. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081355 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088564 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 03-26-2015 |
20150100355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING EARLY STATUS - To support rapid and effective information collection, analysis, and status identification, an apparatus for identifying early status includes a data collection unit for collecting and classifying information, an intelligence deriving unit for analyzing collected and classified data, and an information display unit for displaying the collected, classified, and analyzed data. The data collection unit collects information transmitted by an information transmitter from a terminal device, summarizes the content included in the information, and registers the information with the summary in a database. The intelligence deriving unit calculates the reliability by analyzing the information transmitter and the content of the information, and registers the information with the reliability in a database. The information display unit replaces the summary of the information registered in the database with corresponding icon, displays the results, and displays the information according to the reliability of the information, with respect to the information registered in the database. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106138 | Power transferred by electrical conductors for gas lighter than air inflatable balloons and apparatus with neutral buoyancy maintained by weight adjustable printed material that protects customers and profitably for businesses with software process innovations - Power transferred by electrical conductors for gas lighter than air inflatable balloons and apparatus with neutral buoyancy maintained by weight adjustable printed material that protects customers and profitably for businesses with software process innovations. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106139 | INTEGRATED REPORTING SYSTEM - An integrated reporting system for a dimensional data associated with a worksite management system is provided. The integrated reporting system includes an extraction and transformation module configured to connect to a plurality of sources. The extraction and transformation module is configured to identify a source data from each of the plurality of sources. The extraction and transformation module is also configured to perform a transformation on the source data to convert the source data into a target data based on the identification. The target data includes a derived result. The extraction and transformation module is further configured to store the derived result into a target database. The integrated reporting system includes a reporting module operatively connected to the target database, wherein the reporting module is configured to generate reports based on the derived result. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112739 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONETIZATION OF APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES IN COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method and system for monetization of an application is provided. The method includes identifying one or more monetizing event in the application. Further, the method includes modifying one or more trigger points in the application based on the identified monetizing event. Each trigger point is associated with a rule for monetizing the application in response to an activation of the trigger point. Furthermore, the method includes building an application package including the modified trigger points. | 04-23-2015 |
20150112740 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE-BASED CONTROL AND MONITORING OF A BUSINESS PROCESS - A system for monitoring and controlling a business process involving a plurality of workstations or/and computerized services, the system comprising apparatus for receiving messages exchanged between the plurality of workstations or computerized services and having content, and for deriving from the content of the messages, monitoring information regarding the single business process. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120346 | Clustering-Based Learning Asset Categorization and Consolidation - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for categorization of assets. The mechanism receives attribute values for a set of information technology (IT) assets. The mechanism performs k-means clustering analysis to cluster together IT assets with similar attributes to form a set of asset clusters. The mechanism uses a knowledge representation associated with the set of IT assets to assign the IT assets into a set of tentative clusters. The mechanism categorizes the set of IT assets into categories based on a combination of the set of asset clusters and the set of tentative clusters. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UPDATING ORGANIZATION FAMILY TREE INFORMATION - A system and a method for updating hierarchical family trees of organizations having related corporate members. The system includes a data processor; a memory for storing instructions for operation of the data processor, the instructions causing the processor to perform steps of accessing a comprehensive linkage repository having corporate linkage data stored therein; determining changes in the corporate linkage data; generating a change file representative of the changes in the corporate linkage data; using the change file to generate exceptions to the corporate linkage data stored in the repository; generating an updated hierarchical family tree in accordance with the exceptions; and storing the updated hierarchical family tree. | 04-30-2015 |
20150134379 | Singularity of Presence - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for processing data. A first spacetime event observation is received. A second spacetime event observation is received. A singularity of presence indicator is received for a zone of space and a range of time corresponding to one or more of: the first spacetime event observation and the second spacetime event observation. It is determined whether the first spacetime event observation and the second spacetime event observation belong to a same entity using the singularity of presence indicator. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134380 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ACTION PERSON'S VALUE TO PARTIES TO A TRANSACTION - The present invention is a computerized method to compute scores representing the value of a creator of content to the parties associated with a transaction. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134381 | Data Collection Framework - A common data collection framework accesses data collected by an electronic commerce system in a format specific to the electronic commerce system. The common data collection framework determines a type of the data and identifies, from among multiple types of common data objects, a common data object that is independent of the electronic commerce system and that is defined to store data corresponding to the determined type. The common data collection framework stores the data collected by the electronic commerce system in an instance of the common data object and provides, to an analytics system, the instance of the common data object to enable the analytics system to perform analytics on the data collected by the electronic commerce system using the common format that is different than the format specific to the electronic commerce system and that accommodates multiple, different types of electronic commerce systems. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142484 | CARPOOL SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD AND CARPOOL SERVER USING THE SAME - The invention discloses a carpool service providing method and a carpool server using the same. The method includes the following steps: generating a carpool population matrix according to a plurality of carpool requests received from a plurality of passengers and drivers; generating a first carpool matching result and a second carpool matching result according to the carpool population matrix; performing a routing procedure to each of the first and second segments; respectively comparing the segment fitness value of one of the second segments with the segment fitness value of the corresponding first segment and updating the second carpool matching result by replacing the one of the second segments with the corresponding first segment if the segment fitness value of the one of the second segments is worse than the segment fitness value of the corresponding first segment; updating the carpool population matrix according to the updated second carpool matching result. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142485 | PROBE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PROBE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROBE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A probe information management device, includes: a probe condition specification unit that generates a condition input screen for a first user to designate, using an input device, specification conditions including a first area, a stopover location, a second area, and a date and time, and that outputs the condition input screen to an output device,; and a probe information acquisition unit that, based on the specification conditions, acquires specified probe information corresponding to a moving history of a vehicle that has passed through, in order, a ground point within the first area, the stopover location, and a ground point within the second area, wherein: the first area and the second area are both specified by drawing input, using the input device; and when outputting the specified probe information to the output device, the probe condition specification unit outputs the first area and the second area to the output device. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149223 | MOTIVATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MOTIVATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A motivation management device | 05-28-2015 |
20150149224 | ITERATIVE METHOD, SYSTEM, AND USER INTERFACE FOR ANALYSIS, PATTERN DETECTION, PREDICTIVE MODELING, AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY, HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL (QHSE) OPERATIONS - Disclosed is an iterative method, system, and user interface for analysis, pattern detection, and predictive modeling of quality, health, safety, and environmental (QHSE) from multiple, disparate sources. This iterative method, system, and user interface makes use of user generated qualitative and quantitative data from multiple quality, health, safety, and environmental sources. Sources include; monitoring systems, witness accounts, benchmarks, and other measurement apparatuses from single or multiple geographic locations. Data is acquired, categorized, aggregated, formatted, and isolated through pre-analysis algorithms. The isolated data of significance is then analyzed through an iterative methodology of user selected algorithms. The results go through a series of post-analysis testing to determine the effectiveness of the analysis. Once the post-analysis testing is completed, it is entered into a continuous improvement matrix to determine methodologies and solutions to improve upon existing QHSE processes. These results are processed through integrated or stand-alone computer modules and output to a user interface. The user interface provides the user options for selecting, isolating, and formatting combinations of algorithms and data analysis techniques to detect underlying patterns and predictive models in current QHSE processes and to provide innovative, dynamic, and predictive continuous improvement models for improving QHSE processes. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294241 | ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION PLATFORM - Methods and apparatus for an enterprise integration platform. An apparatus includes a processor, a network interface, and a memory, the memory comprising an operating system, a console management module to manage a console, a users management module to manage one or more users, a roles and accessibility management module, a notifications manager module, a search pad module, an application deployment manager module and an audit trail and traceability manager module. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294243 | METHOD TO PROPAGATE A SYSTEM LEVEL UTILIZATION GOAL TO INDIVIDUAL SYSTEM ELEMENTS - Techniques are disclosed for propagating a system level utilization goal to individual system elements. For example, a utilization goal such as a load factor goal for a group of airline flights in a given market segment and time period may be propagated to each flight in the group. When propagating a load factor goal to a group of airline flights, a goal value, historical load factors, and a capacity of each flight in the group may be used to determine a load factor target for each flight in the flight group. The propagated load factor targets are expected to be realizable by each flight in the flight group and, in the aggregate, satisfy the system level goal. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294244 | AUTOMATED SECURITY INCIDENT HANDLING IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT - In a method for estimating a severity of a current security incident reported by a customer for the customer's computer system, a processor receives from one or more administrators for a plurality of prior security incidents reported by the customer, identifications of a respective plurality of actual severities for the plurality of prior security incidents. The processor estimates, based in part on the plurality of identified actual severities of the prior security incidents, a severity of the current security incident. The processor reports the estimated severity for the current security incident. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING PROGRAM, PROJECT AND ASSET SCHEDULING MANAGEMENT WITH RESERVES MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION INTEGRATION - The invention comprises management of integration with interfacing applications, with emphasis on configurable database connectivity, logic manipulation of data, error checking with correction capability, with or without conditional criteria through a Graphical User Interface. The data can further be configured to be transported directly or through user-controlled means that allows manual modifications. The system mines the original and modified data with timestamp, history and audit trail that can generate audit-related information any time in the future. It further provides a hierarchical roll up and breakdown capability of managing reserves assets. Approval, Action Item, document attaching, notification and instant messaging functions can be linked to the integral functions. Status, history, audit trail, reports and statistics are tracked, maintained and linked to each element of the data and its related function, and this information is producible in any statistical, graphical or textual format. | 10-15-2015 |
20150317567 | Business Change Management System - A method for business change management process includes receiving a change request, assigning an identification number to the change request, generating database commands, including the identification number into the database commands, and recording the change request, the database commands, and responses to the database commands. The auditing process of the changes is done by retrieving instances of the change requests and events of the database modification and then matching the events to the instances. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317572 | On-Demand Enrichment of Business Data - Techniques for systems, methods, and devices for providing on-demand enrichment data are disclosed. In response to user input, a client computing device executing a client application and plug-in for communicating with a data enrichment service, can generate a data enrichment command. The command can include selected report data from one or more reports or summaries displayed to a user on the client computing device. The command can also include information about the context in which data enrichment was requested. Using the information included in the command, an enrichment data service can determine the type of enrichment data that may be useful and the sources from which to request the enrichment data. The enrichment data can then be retrieved from one or more enrichment data sources and sent to the requesting client computing device to be displayed to the user in a manner that enriches the original reporting data. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317573 | USER-RELEVANT STATISTICAL ANALYTICS USING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SEMANTIC MODELING - Techniques are described for analyzing and presenting results from a statistical analysis of a selected subset of data processed with statistical analysis techniques together with information from a business intelligence (BI) semantic model. In one example, a method includes receiving an input defining a selected subset of data from a structured representation of a set of data. The method further includes selecting one or more business intelligence factors from a business intelligence model based at least in part on the selected subset of data. The method further includes performing a statistical analysis of the selected subset of data based at least in part on the selected one or more business intelligence factors. The method further includes generating an output representing the statistical analysis of the selected subset of data based at least in part on the selected one or more business intelligence factors. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324711 | ASSOCIATION-BASED PRODUCT DESIGN - A method for designing a new product includes automatically identifying a plurality of components of stored products, wherein the plurality of components is associated with an existing component included in a design of the new product, automatically selecting a new component from among the plurality of components, wherein a relationship between the existing component and the new component optimizes a design objective for the new product, automatically adding the new component to the design for the new product, and iteratively repeating the identifying, the selecting, and the adding until a stopping criterion is met, wherein the design for the new product is complete when the stopping criterion is met. | 11-12-2015 |
20150332179 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING REAL ESTATE VALUE - The present invention is directed to a method of technical steps developed for the purpose of analyzing the underlying income generated by leases in effect at an individual commercial real estate asset which result in the identification of specific instances of income deficiency which may be amended by the introduction of one or more collateralized instruments designed to supplement such deficiencies, resulting in the enhancement of the determined value of the asset. | 11-19-2015 |
20150347933 | BUSINESS FORECASTING USING PREDICTIVE METADATA - A business forecasting tool utilizing metadata is provided. A processor receives one or more sets of business metrics. A processor receives a first metadata descriptor for a first set of business metrics of the one or more sets of business metrics. A processor receives a second metadata descriptor for a second set of business metrics of the one or more sets of business metrics. A processor prepares the first set of business metrics for prediction of a third set of business metrics based on, at least in part, the first metadata descriptor, where the first set and third set each correspond to a different time period. A processor generates a fourth set of business metrics based on, at least in part, the second metadata descriptor, where the second set and fourth set each correspond to a different time period. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356474 | REAL-TIME CORRELATION OF DATA MODEL DATA - The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method comprises obtaining, by operation of a hardware processor, a data model including structured data items for a business scenario, wherein executing an instance of the business scenario involves contributions of two or more computer systems, generating an instance of the business scenario, obtaining a modification of one or more data items of the data model relevant for a status of the business scenario, triggered by the modification of one or more data items of the data model, determining that the received modification is relevant for a status of the business scenario, triggered by the modification of the one or more data items of the data model, generating an event data item being indicative of a status of the business scenario and storing the event data item in a database object to be provided to a user using a user interface of a business scenario monitoring application. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363711 | DEVICE FOR RAPID OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY AND ANALYTICS AUTOMATION - A portable device for automating data analytics includes a configurator module, wherein the configurator module when plugged into a client device enables a user of the client device to configure a plurality of parameters. The portable device further includes a Rapid Operational Visibility (ROVi) engine for automating data analysis. The ROVi engine performs automating data capture from a plurality of data sources based on configured parameters. Further, the ROVi engine creates a data model automatically. The ROVi engine automates creation of interfaces, automates generation of a semantic layer, and enables the user to create customized analytical reports. | 12-17-2015 |
20150374018 | SHELF STABLE SPRAY DRIED PARTICLES - A process for the preparation of shelf stable dry particles that include flavours or fragrances, in which an emulsion of the flavour or fragrance, an emulsifier of a natural extract containing saponins, water and a carbohydrate carrier system is spray-dried. Also provided are shelf stable dry particles and products containing them. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379440 | DYNAMIC ORGANIZATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION - Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for presenting directory information relating to an organization are described. A Dynamic Directory System (“DDS”) may receive information relating to an organization from various sources, including feeds, user-input information, and publicly available information. The DDS may provide dynamically updated information about associates and entities relating to the organization. The DDS may provide hierarchical and demographic information relating to associates in the organization. The DDS may provide a hierarchical presentation that illustrates relationships within the organization. The DDS may be configured to present demographic information. When an entity or associate is selected, the DDS may provide information about one or more other associates which have had interactions with that entity or associate. If a client is selected, the DDS may present associates that have had interactions with that particular client or associated assigned to that client, as well as a history client-related interactions. | 12-31-2015 |
20160012356 | AUTOMATED TRACKER AND ANALYZER | 01-14-2016 |
20160019476 | Aggregate Reporting - The instant application discloses, among other things, techniques to allow flexibility in determining which data should be included in an aggregated summary, and which should be presented on its own. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026939 | Activity-Based Relationship System - A method of representing relationships among a plurality of entities based on analysis of on-line activity of the entities is provided. A computer system receives identity information for at least one entity for determining activity-based relationships. The computer system captures on-line activity data of the at least one entity. The computer system analyzes the activity data to identify other entities and subjects of interest. The computer system determines relationship activity metrics. The computer system presents, on a graphical display system based on the relationship activity metrics, the at least one entity, the other entities, and the subjects of interest as a set of nodes in an Activity-based connection diagram with relationship activity metrics. The computer system then presents, on a graphical display system based on the relationship activity metrics, connections among the nodes in the activity-based connection diagram. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026940 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING, UPDATING AND EXECUTING A CROP-HARVESTING PLAN - Crop-harvesting plans automatically generated based on crop-harvesting information received from a variety of sources, such as a user, remote sensor, database, data feed and/or a social network. The crop-harvesting plans may dynamically aid farmers and other production agriculture professionals when determining a crop-harvesting plan and then implementing that crop-harvesting plan. Crop-harvesting plans may include a variety of recommended crop-harvesting practices, logistics, sequences and projected outcomes for the implementation of the recommended crop-harvesting plan. | 01-28-2016 |
20160048778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED RULE-BASED SEQUENCING ENGINE - A computing device including a processor and memory may receive input from a user to define one or more sequence types, each sequence type based on a time frame. A distributed computing system may receive interaction data on a plurality of computing nodes and describing an interaction event between a customer and an agent. The one or more computing nodes may associate the received interaction event with the customer's identifier in a customer history table, wherein the customer history table stores historical interaction events for the customer. Further, the computing nodes may assign the received interaction event to a sequence, based on the defined one or more sequence types. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055458 | Method for Creating Insight Reports - The present invention generally concerns a method for creating an insight report to recruit for a job opening. More specifically, the method includes an organization administering a two part survey to their employees. Questions from Part A are a pretext to measure the use of employee Attributes at their current job against a comparable job held with a previous employer, where these Attributes are recognized and valued by an organization. In Part B the respondent is given the opportunity to see the Attributes culled from Part A and detail how the organization values these Attributes and how they're allowed to manifest them. The survey answers are used to create an insight report that gives an organization deeper understanding of job distinctions at work group levels. The insight report is also used to craft job advertisements that reflect organizational Attributes having the greatest distinctions. | 02-25-2016 |
20160071223 | ESTIMATING CROP YIELD DATA - A method begins by a computing device gathering, for a piece of farm equipment, harvesting data while the piece of farm equipment is harvesting a crop in a geographic area, where the harvesting data includes location information, environmental information, harvest sensing information, and farm equipment operational information. The method continues with the computing device determining a harvesting scaling factor for the piece of farm equipment based on the harvesting data and historical crop yield data. The method continues with the computing device estimating current crop yield data based on the harvesting scaling factor and one of the harvesting data and the historical crop yield data. | 03-10-2016 |
20160086107 | METHODS FOR CALCULATING A TOTAL KNOWLEDGE EXPLOITATION SCORE FOR A KNOWLEDGE ARTIFACT AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and device that calculates a total knowledge exploitation score for a knowledge artifact in a knowledge management system which comprises determining at the knowledge management data server device, a strategic positioning index for a knowledge artifact based on at least one of a market attractiveness index or a competitive position index. A financial positioning index for the knowledge artifact based on a conversational economic potential score is determined at the knowledge management data server device. Next a resource usage index for the knowledge artifact is determined based on at least one of an internal usage score or an external usage score. A total knowledge exploitation score for the knowledge artifact is then finally determined based on at least the calculated strategic positioning index, the determined financial positioning index and the determined resource usage index for the knowledge artifact in the knowledge management system. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092799 | ANALYTICS WORKBENCH - An article of manufacture may include a non-transitory computer storage medium having a computer program for determining a solution to a business problem selected by a user interacting with a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on a display device. Determining the solution may include processing an input dataset including values corresponding to variables, the processing configured to identify a list of the variables from the input dataset. The computer program may be configured for receiving from the user via the GUI a selection variable, selectively displaying a business problem-specific parameter, displaying a list of candidate analytical methods associated with the selected business problem, wherein the GUI permits the user to select and/or confirm at least one of the candidate analytical methods, configuring the model according to user selections, and analyzing the input dataset according to the model to determine the solution to the business problem. | 03-31-2016 |
20160125328 | CUSTOMIZED-ENTERPRISE-SOFTWARE INTEGRATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A third-party provider may integrate services with a customized enterprise-software tenancy via a tenant service context determined using an uncustomized data model and a tenant-customized data model from the enterprise-software provider. A difference map is generated for the tenant-customized data model with respect to the uncustomized data model, and is used to determine a mapped integrated-service data model, which facilitates integrating services with those of the enterprise-software provider. The mapped integrated-service data model is merged with the tenant-customized data model to obtain the tenant service context for the tenant. When a user provides an instruction to interact with the multi-tenant enterprise-software provider, the tenant service context is used to determine an action based on an interpretation of the instruction, and the enterprise-software provider is commanded to perform the action. | 05-05-2016 |
20160140462 | Computer-Guided Corporate Relationship Management - A system is disclosed for organizing, managing, and reporting data relating to a corporate entity, comprising: at least one database configured to store: a first entity record representing a first legal entity; a second entity record representing a second legal entity in a relationship with the first legal entity; a source team associated with the second legal entity and further comprising team members; and a reference to a team stakeholder associated with the first entity record, the team stakeholder further comprising a reference back to the team members of the source team and access rights for the team members within the context of the first entity, thereby enabling team members associated with the second legal entity to be represented in the context of the first legal entity. The represented stakeholder may further comprise a signature, byline, title, and name. | 05-19-2016 |
20160162813 | INTEGRATION OF BIG-DATA ANALYSIS INTO AUDIT ENGAGEMENT SOFTWARE - According to an embodiment of the present disclosures, systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable mediums having program instructions thereon, provide for an audit management graphical user interface application incorporating big-data analysis of business data. In an embodiment, the audit management graphical user interface application analyzes the business data within discrete detection tasks. In an embodiment, the discrete detection tasks include detection strategies which act on the business data. In an embodiment, the business rules of a detection strategy pertain to certain business protocols and procedures. Accordingly, the audit management application provides the business or auditor a means of verifying that the controls (e.g., the business rules) established by the business to curb fraud are actually adhered to in the course of normal business activity. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162814 | COMPARATIVE PEER ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - Techniques are described for comparative peer analysis for business intelligence (BI). In one example, a method includes identifying, in response to an input indicating one or more features of a BI report context associated with an enterprise, one or more elements of information associated with one or more peer entities of the enterprise from one or more information sources, wherein the one or more elements of information associated with one or more peer entities correspond with the one or more indicated features of the BI report context. The method further includes generating an output comprising the one or more elements of information associated with the one or more peer entities that correspond with the one or more indicated features of the BI report context. | 06-09-2016 |
20160171505 | EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND LOAD (ETL) PROCESSING | 06-16-2016 |
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