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20110093308 | PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEM - A method and system for monitoring the execution of an ad hoc process or workflow, in which process execution data is combined with process node data. These data can be combined to compile a process workflow, which can be subsequently analysed to allow the performance of the process to be evaluated. | 04-21-2011 |
20110106577 | BUSINESS FLOW ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A series of transaction records is extracted for each case from a database storing processing results of respective performed jobs to generate, for each case, a process instance including job names and time data of the performed jobs arranged in a time series. Then, process instances satisfying a designated condition are classified among the process instances to calculate, for each classification, an average value and standard deviation of transition periods that are differences between a start time and an end time of a job section to be processed in the pertinent process instances. By identifying a process instance, which has correlation with the route before the job section and for which the reduction of the transition period is expected and/or a process instance, which has correlation with the entire route and for which the reduction of the transition period is expected, an improvement candidate is automatically shown to the user. | 05-05-2011 |
20110137702 | WORKFLOW APPLICATIONS - A facility is described for enabling workflow applications. The facility receives a request to identify an optimized resource list that identifies resources capable of performing a workflow process task. The workflow process task can be associated with a document type relating to a document associated with a workflow envelope. The workflow envelope can store multiple documents of at different document types. The facility includes a workflow engine and a simulation engine. The workflow engine performs workflow process tasks based on the tasks identified in the workflow envelope. The simulation engine can employ modeling and historical data from a workflow metrics data source to generate the optimized resource list and identify identifying resources matching the workflow process tasks identified in the workflow envelope. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145037 | Document management method and apparatus to process a workflow task by parallel or serially processing subtasks thereof - A method to facilitate workflow processing in a business enterprise comprising identifying a principal task in a workflow process; splitting the principal task into two or more subtasks according actual practices of the business enterprise wherein the splitting includes determining which subtasks are to be created, which are to be parallel-processed and which are to be serially-processed; naming the subtasks; specifying an order of completion of the subtasks, i.e., parallel-processed or serially-processed; assigning the subtasks to one or more users for processing; notifying the users of subtask assignment; providing an indication of status of completion of the subtasks; reporting completion of the subtasks to the task manager; optionally altering or modifying the preceding steps; completing the principal task according to results of the subtasks; enabling a user to check status of subtasks; and releasing the principal task in a workflow of other tasks. A corresponding system is also disclosed. | 06-16-2011 |
20110173043 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS - Method and engineering system for designing industrial systems on the basis of system-independent, rule-based, configurable, incremental workflow objects, with a tree of relevant workflow objects that represents the workflow requiring to be executed for generating the engineering documents of the target system that is being designed being generated from the general workflow objects by functional decompensation, and with a system layout being generated from the identified system objects and by way of interpreting the data, objects, and rules of the workflow objects contained in the tree, these being processed, and with the engineering documentation necessary for the system that is being designed being generated in the respectively required format by document generators in the form of resulting machine-readable engineering documents. Alongside system objects and engineering objects, especially the successively accumulated engineering knowledge that has been filed on a standardized basis is reused. | 07-14-2011 |
20110225018 | METHOD FOR MANAGING PRODUCTION SYSTEM OPERATIONS - Disclosed is a system and method for managing operations of a system. The method includes partitioning the system into a plurality of subsystems. The method further includes, for each subsystem, creating an agent to associate with the subsystem, providing to the agent one or more goals for the subsystem, and providing to the agent an overall objective function for the system. The method also includes using an optimization algorithm involving the agents to manage system operation based on the goals and the overall objective function. The system includes an agent module for providing a set of agents associated with the subsystems, a throughput target module for providing a throughput target for each agent, an objective module for providing, for each agent, a common production throughput objective. | 09-15-2011 |
20110238458 | DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZED DISTRIBUTED CLOUD COMPUTING-BASED BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (BPM) SYSTEM - A workflow server can receive requests, each for a business process workflow conforming to a business process model. Each business process workflow can include a set of interdependent tasks. The workflow server can satisfy received requests by assigning tasks to different service providers that provide software services. Each of the tasks can be assigned to corresponding ones of the software services. For each task, the workflow server can also defines an allocated cost per software service, and a time allocation per software service for completing the corresponding one of the tasks. Different service providers, including those assigned to tasks, can receive information for ones of the tasks not directly assigned to them by the workflow server. The different service providers can then bid on these tasks. Wherein when bids are won, tasks for a business process flow can be reassigned based on winning bids. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246257 | Multi-Period Financial Simulator of a Process - A system configured for predicting a financial impact of a process is provided that includes a financial forecasting system (FFS) having at least one operational parameter and at least one financial data. The system further includes a discrete event simulator (DES) in communication with the FFS, wherein the DES is configured simulate a process based upon the at least one operational parameter and the at least one financial data for a first period of time, communicate resultant data from the simulation to the FFS, such that the FFS is configured to update the at least one operational parameter and the at least one financial data, which are based upon the communicated resultant data, and the DES is further configured to simulate the process based upon the updated at least one operational parameter and the at least one financial data for a sequential second period of time. The FFS and the DES are further configured to replicate the simulations of the sequential first and second periods of time with the operational parameter and the financial data having different statistical variations, and determine a confidence interval associated with the communicated resultant data. | 10-06-2011 |
20110264483 | DYNAMIC COLLABORATIVE ADAPTATION OF A BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN A BUSINESS ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Dynamic adaptation of a business activity involves creation and updating of the business activity in an ad-hoc and collaborative manner as the business activity executes. User input relating to creation of a business activity is received through a user portal, where the business activity involves interactions among people. A business activity orchestrator orchestrates execution of work in the business activity. The business activity is updated using a business activity adapter, where updating the business activity occurs during execution of the business activity, and the updating is further responsive to collaborative input of the people involved in the business activity. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270646 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED DECISION SUPPORT METHOD & SYSTEM - In this research, we propose to extend the robust optimization technique and target it for problems encountered in supply chain management. Our method represents uncertainty as polyhedral uncertainty sets made of simple linear constraints derivable from macroscopic economic data. We avoid the probability distribution estimation of stochastic programming. The constraints in our approach are intuitive and meaningful. This representation of uncertainty is applied to capacity planning and inventory optimization problems in supply chains. The representation of uncertainty is the unique feature that drives this research. It has led us to explore different problems in capacity/inventory planning under this new paradigm. A decision support system package has been developed, which can conveniently interface to manufacturing/firm data warehouses, inferring and analyzing constraints from historical data, analyzing performance (worst case/best case), and optimizing plans. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276361 | Method and Apparatus for Service Portfolio Manager (SPM) - A computer program for organizing, reporting, analyzing and managing service portfolio supply chain information is disclosed. More specifically, the tool is a web-enabled, database application leveraged for defining, costing and managing the delivery of services throughout their full lifecycle while providing integration points for external tools as both inputs and outputs to the application for purposes of building a bridge between technology managers and business executives/finance mangers. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282708 | INTEGRATING EXTERNAL DATA IN HUMAN WORKFLOW TASKS - A system and method for integrating external data in human workflow tasks. In accordance with an embodiment, the system allows a workflow process designer working with a human workflow system to provide a definition of external data within a human workflow payload, and then retrieve that external data into the human workflow system. In the human workflow system, routing conditions and participants are specified according to the external data which can be materialized on demand. In accordance with an embodiment, the external data can be retrieved by calling any service, such as a Web service. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282709 | DYNAMIC HUMAN WORKFLOW TASK ASSIGNMENT USING BUSINESS RULES - A system and method for dynamic human workflow task assignment using business rules. In accordance with an embodiment, a human workflow system is integrated directly with business rules, to determine human task routing patterns, and participants in human tasks. Routing of tasks can also be determined by business rules. In accordance with an embodiment, at business process modeling time the workflow process designer creates human tasks in the process and specifies the business rules that determine the pattern, participant and routing information. These are integrated into the workflow task in the process. The integration of rules into human workflow can be performed using service component architecture, so that other rules engines can be plugged-in as required. | 11-17-2011 |
20110295647 | MANUFACTURING PLAN DRAWING-UP SYSTEM AND METHOD - Planning items necessary for the evaluation of a manufacturing capability in a production line are categorized from process routes of operation achievement information for every ordered product, so that operation time per process unit is calculated. Thereupon the similarity of the process routes of the categorized planning items to those of an ordered product is evaluated, the planning items are allocated to the ordered product, and different product operation time is set up for every specification, so that a manufacturing capability of a production line is precisely evaluated to make a production plan. | 12-01-2011 |
20110307292 | System and Method for Analysis and Visualization of Emerging Issues in Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management - An apparatus and method is provided for compliance management system for use in, for example, a food-related supply chain, manufacturing, processing and distribution of a product that might also be a consumer product, as well as an industrial chemical or article. The user may be one engaged in the production of the commodity or a governmental agency, association, or service provider. The apparatus includes a database system and hardware for collection of regulatory and/or industry-related event information from a News Aggregator, analysis of trends discernable from the event information, and presentation of the trend information in a manner which permits user visualization of the trends to permit timely response to the developing trend in product manufacturing and supply chain management. The trend analyses may be distributed as an electronic network service to participants of a network and supply chain affected by the discovered trends. | 12-15-2011 |
20110313812 | ACCOUNTING FOR DATA DEPENDENCIES IN PROCESS MODELS, ANALYSIS, AND MANAGEMENT - A method and system comprising a process model analysis module to perform analysis of a process supported by a process system. The analysis is performed based on process information which includes a logical process model defining a series of activities. The process model information further includes IT system dependency information which includes datastore dependency information indicative of datastores which are accessed in execution of respective activities. The process model information also includes data dependency information indicative of dependency of process activities on data in the one or more datastores. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320240 | VIDEO-BASED ANALYSIS WORKFLOW PROPOSAL TOOL - Video of work being performed in a place of business can be analyzed. Patterns can be identified and scored within the work when analyzing the video. The identified patterns can be correlated with business processes of a business process management system of the business. In one embodiment, the tasks performed can be to monitor a business process flow, to update a business process flow, and/or to create a new business process flow. Business process flows can be written in a standardized business process execution language or other standards based languages. | 12-29-2011 |
20120016713 | Information Technology System Change Planning - Systems and methods for information technology system change planning are described. In an information technology system change planning method in accordance with an embodiment, a change request is received on a network server ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120029968 | DETERMINING WORK RELATED INCENTIVES - A fair incentive calculating method with a reasonable amount of computation is performed by inputting a set of x jobs X={1, 2, . . . , x} and processing times of each worker {t(i)} (1≦i≦n) and providing a set of jobs W(A, X, t(i), t(−i)) assigned to each worker i, where A is a given scheduling algorithm; determining MaxInc(X, t(i)) by recursively solving MaxInc(X, t(i))=Σ_{wεX} t(i, Kind(w))+max_{s(i) εSlower(t(i))} MaxInc(X, s(i)); and using the step of determining MaxInc(X, t(i)) to calculate an incentive NewInc(A, X, t(i), t(−i)) for each worker i based on NewInc(A, X, t(i), t(−i))=Σ_{wεW(A, X, t(i), t(−i))} t(i, Kind(w))+max_{s(i) εSlower(t(i))} MaxInc(X, s(i)). | 02-02-2012 |
20120035976 | Expertise-Responsive Adaptive Workflow System and Method - A computer-implemented system and method for expertise-responsive adaptive workflow delivers workflow step recommendations based, at least in part, on inferences from behavioral information and a level of expertise. Experts may be designated manually or automatically, and may inform the generation of the recommendations. The degree to which behavioral information of designated experts influences recommendations may be tuned by recommendation recipients. Variations of the system and method include generating the recommendations in accordance with physiological responses and/or monitored physical locations. Information as to why recommendations were delivered to recommendation recipients may be provided to the recommendation recipients. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041798 | Rough Planning System for Factories - In a method for designing a factory in particular the machinery inventory, required buildings, foundations and floor space are determined. The recognition of synergy potential between individual products and inter-factory capacity planning are to be enabled. The method has the steps of: inputting planning measurement data in a measurement data memory, linking the planning measurement data in a measurement data processing device by means of at least one algorithm for specifying factory parameters. | 02-16-2012 |
20120059682 | CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT FOR A PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF HUMAN PROCEDURE EXECUTION FAILURES - A method of continuously improving a procedure management system that generates human operating procedures. At least one failure mode (“root cause”) is defined for each human procedural execution failure. The root causes are mapped to stages of human operator execution for the human operating procedures where the plurality of root causes manifest, and to human intervention activities that the human operator failed to correctly execute (“procedure deficiency”). Each root cause is mapped to one or more procedure management components that may have generated the procedure deficiency. Recorded actual incidents of human procedural execution failures are analyzed to identify at least one assignable root cause. A procedure management component is updated to mitigate the assignable root cause, and is then used to change at least one human operating procedure or to generate a new human operating procedure to reduce an incidence of the human procedural execution failures. | 03-08-2012 |
20120059683 | EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS SYSTEM - A method for implementing a closed-loop business process management lifecycle. The method comprising producing at least one to-be process model during a process analysis phase. Storing a copy of the at least one to-be process model. Automating the at least one to-be process model during a process automation phase. Producing data logs by applications implementing the automated to-be process models. Data mining the produced data logs during a process monitoring phase, to produce emerging to-be process models and updated to-be process models of automated to-be process models. Storing the emerging to-be process models and the updated to-be process models; and selecting ones of the stored emerging and updated to-be process models to provide to a new process analysis phase. | 03-08-2012 |
20120072258 | METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IDENTIFYING AND MONITORING RELATED BUSINESS APPLICATION PROCESSES - Provided are methods and computer program products for identifying and monitoring related business application processes executing on at least one networked device. Methods may include identifying a first process that corresponds to a specified business application process; identifying root processes by tracing a dependency path from the first process to each of the root processes; grouping at least one of the root processes into a root group; and identifying a dependency chain of the at least one root process in the root group. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078678 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS OF OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS IN WORKFLOW PROCESSES - A system and method for estimation and analysis of operational parameters in workflow processes in order to establish effect of parameters on one or more critical parameters is provided. The method includes creating a Bayesian network including one or more operational nodes representing one or more operational parameters and one or more critical nodes representing one or more critical parameters. The method further includes generating an evidence set based on market events and deducing inferences based on the generated evidence set and Bayesian engine. Inferences are deduced by determining possible discrete states of operational parameters associated with one or more target nodes and their probability distribution values. Deduced inferences are then validated to confirm strength of probability distribution values. Forecasting for a selected operational parameter is performed by obtaining probability distribution of independent parameters and then performing forecasting for the selected parameter using Bayesian locally weighted regression model. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078679 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING WORKFLOW - A facility is described for enabling workflow applications. The facility receives a request to identify an optimized resource list that identifies resources capable of performing a workflow process task. The workflow process task can be associated with a document type relating to a document associated with a workflow envelope. The workflow envelope can store multiple documents of at different document types. The facility includes a workflow engine and a simulation engine. The workflow engine performs workflow process tasks based on the tasks identified in the workflow envelope. The simulation engine can employ modeling and historical data from a workflow metrics data source to generate the optimized resource list and identify identifying resources matching the workflow process tasks identified in the workflow envelope. The simulation engine can be used to model the workflow process to adapt, modify or otherwise control the workflow. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084115 | TURF MANAGEMENT - A turf management system includes an irrigation system for providing water to the turf at a turf site, and an irrigation evaluation system for evaluating the performance of the irrigation system. The irrigation evaluation system segments the turf site into irrigation management units, where each of the irrigation management units includes at least one sprinkler head. Qualities of the turf are measured to generate collected data points. The data points are used by the irrigation evaluation system to compute a value for the turf in each of the irrigation management units. The values can then be used to identify irrigation management units having common characteristics. The values can be used to define irrigation management zones for controlling the irrigation system. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089435 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING PROCESS MODELS - Within methods and systems for computer-aided optimization of process models, defined specifications and associated release criteria (quality gates) are available for every work stage. The specifications include service documents, result features that are to be generated in a work stage, and budget details and the latest end time for a work stage. The release criteria (quality gates) can identify the results of a work stage as successful and can assess the fulfillment of a work stage. A reference for all work stages simulates the model based on a fictitious sample project, interference variables are introduced, the project implementation is simulated for each interference variable, respectively, the deviations from the reference run are automatically determined, respectively, for each interference variable, and an analysis of the influence of the release criteria (quality gates) regarding compliance with the budget and the schedule is performed based on the determined deviations from the reference run. | 04-12-2012 |
20120109708 | EVALUATING PATTERN-BASED CONSTRAINTS ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS - Methods and related systems for evaluating pattern-based constraints on business process models provide specifications for business process models, related structural patterns, and constraints on structural patterns so that instances of structural patterns can be identified in models and constraints on these instances can be evaluated. Model elements may include tasks that correspond to prescribed activities, events that correspond to states of the model, and gateways that control process flow between model elements. Identifying instances of structural patterns within models may include assigning classes or textual labels to model elements and then employing a search query or production rule to search over the model elements for instances of the structural patterns. | 05-03-2012 |
20120116836 | CONSOLIDATING BUSINESS PROCESS WORKFLOWS THROUGH THE USE OF SEMANTIC ANALYSIS - A first and a second workflow can be identified. The workflows can be a sequence of connected steps representing work of a business process which can be modeled within a computing environment as an object. The object can be an activity or an event of the business process. A semantic analysis can be automatically performed upon the workflows. The semantic analysis can compare each object of the workflows to each other. An object report can be generated from the comparison which can indicate a similarity and/or a difference between each object of the workflows. The similarity can denote two or more objects are identical and the difference can denote two or more objects are not identical. The workflows can be programmatically consolidated into one or more consolidated roadmap using the object report. The roadmap can be a business process workflow comprised of each unique object of first and second workflow. | 05-10-2012 |
20120136693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PROCESS OVERVIEW DIAGRAM - Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method for process management. The method may comprise reading information about sub-processes and their respective sub-steps of a main process and displaying a process overview diagram for the main process. The process overview diagram may display a tab for each sub-process and sub-step respectively. Each tab may include an icon indicating the status of a respective sub-process or sub-step. The tab for each sub-step may be displayed underneath and linked to the respective sub-process. The method may further comprise, responsive to a click to select a view level, expanding the tabs for sub-steps to show the person responsible for the respective sub-step, detailed contact information of the responsible person, a description of what needs to be performed and a link to send a quick reminder to the responsible person when the status for the respective sub-step is “in process”. | 05-31-2012 |
20120166247 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELLING SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK - A method and a system for modelling a supply chain network are provided. The present method includes defining a plurality of pilot elements, wherein each of the pilot elements includes a plurality of supply chain components. The present method also includes receiving a plurality of user inputs and generating and displaying a supply chain process according to the user inputs, wherein the supply chain process is constructed with the supply chain components of the pilot elements. The present method further includes translating the supply chain process into a supply chain network model and verifying the supply chain network model. Thereby, the present method and system can effectively model and establish a supply chain network. | 06-28-2012 |
20120179508 | TOOL FOR CONTROLLING COMPLEX SYSTEMS - Tools/devices for controlling one or more complex processes of one or more technical systems are implemented using one or more software products stored on machine-readable storage media executing on computing hardware. The complex processes optionally pertain to one or more industries and/or industrial processes. The tool/device collects data describing relationships between stakeholders involved with the complex processes and/or parameters influencing performance of the complex processes, and data describing stakeholder relationships to the complex processes and/or mutual relationships between the complex processes. The tool/device analyzes parameters derived from the data which describe the stakeholders and the complex processes to identify a degree of interest of the stakeholders and a relevance of the stakeholders to the complex processes for improving implementation and/or effectiveness of the complex processes, and/or to identify a degree of conflict between the complex processes for improving implementation and/or effectiveness of the complex processes. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185294 | GENERATING AN OPTIMIZED ANALYTICAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION - Techniques for optimizing a Business Process Model (BPM) having at least one work process are presented. At a simulation client, a determination is made whether a simulated business outcome associated with a test BPM satisfies a business value deficiency associated with a current BPM. In response to a determination that the simulated business outcome does not satisfy the business value deficiency, the test BPM is optimized. Once the simulation client determines that the simulated business outcome satisfies the business value deficiency, the test BPM is implemented as an actual BPM. Moreover, an actual business outcome associated with the actual BPM is generated. A determination is made whether the actual business outcome satisfies the simulated business outcome. In response to a determination that the actual business outcome does not satisfy the simulated business outcome, the actual BPM is optimized. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191502 | System & Method For Analyzing & Predicting Behavior Of An Organization & Personnel - A networked computer system permits users to analyze events associated with a target entity, using primarily externally reported data. By analyzing the target entity's personnel, procedures and reports, embodiments of the invention can assess, present and predict outcomes and timings of submissions processed by the target entity/organization. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197681 | SOFTWARE TOOL FOR GENERATING TECHNICAL BUSINESS DATA REQUIREMENTS - A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates technical business data requirements from functional process requirements. Such method, system, and/or computer program product include data processing infrastructure. The data processing infrastructure may further include at least one data persistence component and at least one business process hierarchy. The computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product obtain a set of technical elements concerning functional process requirements for each business process within the business process hierarchy. Such method, system, and/or computer program product classify technical elements into functional objects, link each of the functional objects to at least one process within the business process hierarchy and generate a plurality of business data roadmap templates in the data processing infrastructure. The generated business data roadmap templates are stored in the persistence component of the data processing infrastructure. | 08-02-2012 |
20120209654 | MOBILE ACTIVITY ASSISTANT ANALYSIS - A method for analyzing performance of a microflow can include logging a summary of information associated with a plurality of messages of the microflow that relates to a task and a contact address, logging a time stamp for each of the messages, logging a time stamp associated with performance of the task, and analyzing the information and time stamps to determine a metric relating to the microflow. The method can further include logging a summary of information associated with communication sessions, and the logging of the content of the messages. The metric can be compared to metrics of other microflows to evaluate the performance of a task of the microflow and evaluate messaging and communication sessions opened during execution of the microflow. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209655 | System and Method for Evolving Processes In Workflow Automation - Gradually automation of a workflow by a configuration change management system is provided by a first workflow template having a relatively low level of automation and complexity in which at least a plurality of tasks require manual input, manual response, or manual approval, operating the first workflow by a workflow automation system engine, monitoring a measurement of the maturity level of the process during the operation the first workflow, and responsive to detecting the maturity level meeting pre-determined benchmark, automatically selecting, engaging, and operating a second workflow template which increases automation by automating one or more subprocesses, adding one or more subprocesses, or eliminating one or more subprocesses. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215582 | EXECUTING WORKFLOWS BASED ON SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS - Techniques are disclosed for modeling costs when editing a workflow process model. A request may be received to assign a cost factor to a workflow process step of the workflow process model, where the cost factor depends on a property of a processing environment that executes the workflow process model. Responsive to the request, the cost factor may be assigned to the workflow process step, such that a traversal of the workflow process step by a transaction invoking the workflow process model results in the cost factor being included in a total cost to be charged for executing the transaction. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING REAL-TIME BATCH WORKFLOWS - A system and method for executing and managing a business process in a unified business process environment is provided. The methodology of the invention describes steps to execute a business process and thereafter monitor the executed business process in a unified business process environment. A business process is received in a unified business process environment. The business process comprises at least one workflow. The methodology further ascertains execution details of the at least one workflow based on a predefined attribute of the at least one workflow. Thereafter, the methodology processes the at least one workflow at a location selected from at least one of a grid processing environment and a local processing environment, based on the ascertained execution details of the at least one workflow. After which, the methodology monitors the at least one workflow, executed for processing at the grid processing environment and the local processing environment. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221373 | Estimating Business Service Responsiveness - An embodiment includes gathering input data including observed utilizations of allocations and business service response times. The input data is partitioned into a plurality of data sets that include at least one training data set and at least one test data set. A model is generated that predicts responsiveness using the at least one training data set. The model is evaluated using the at least one test data set, and a business service response time distribution is predicted using the model. An embodiment may use a trace-based capacity planning methodology to estimate the impact of planning alternatives on business service responsiveness. | 08-30-2012 |
20120253880 | SIMULATING DEPENDENCY OF TOKEN ARRIVAL ON PROCESS PERFORMANCE - A process analysis tool simulates the dependency of token arrival on performance of a business process. For example, the process analysis tool includes a token generator and a feedback module. The token generator schedules arrival of tokens to a business process simulator and, using feedback that depends on state of a process model, adjusts a parameter that characterizes the arrival of tokens. In particular, the adjustment can simulate the adverse effects of customer perception of processing cycle time and/or queue length on the arrival of tokens. The feedback module generates the feedback for the token generator. In this way, the process analysis tool simulates how the arrival of tokens depends on performance of the process model. A business analyst, other user or automated testing tool can use the process analysis tool to gain a better understanding of resource requirements or lost opportunities for a business process. | 10-04-2012 |
20120271677 | Tracking, Accounting, and Reporting Machine - Feedstock of an agricultural biomass is tracked through a first supply chain. Residue of the agricultural biomass is tracked through a second supply chain. A quantity of fuel, produced from the feedstock, having a carbon intensity value is determined based on utilization of the residue in the second supply chain. | 10-25-2012 |
20120271678 | CHARGEBACK REDUCTION PLANNING FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT - Minimizing cost chargeback in an information technology (IT) computing environment including multiple resources. One implementation involves determining time-based usage patterns and allocation statistics for a plurality of resources and associated resource workloads. Using a regression function for determining a correlation of response time with resource usages and outstanding input/output instructions for the plurality of resources. Based on the time-based usage patterns, allocation statistics and the correlation, deriving an interpolation using positive and negative integrals to minimize a difference between allocated resource values and average allocation values. Determining service level objectives (SLOs) and resource allocation for minimizing cost chargeback for the resource workloads based on the derived interpolation. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PROCESS MANAGEMENT TOOLS - An approach is provided for performing programmatic assessment of process management applications. A representative process of a workflow is selected. The representative process is executed on a source business process management platform and a target business process management platform. A first set of one or more metric values is captured from the source platform in the execution of the representative process. A second set of one or more metric values is captured from the target platform in the execution of the representative process. An assessment score is generated based on the first set of metric values and the second set of metric values. A determination is made whether to migrate from the source platform to the target platform based on the assessment score. | 11-01-2012 |
20120296691 | System and Method for Designing and Executing Subject-State Engine Workflows - The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for providing and building dynamic and adaptable workflows. The present invention moves away from static workflows, such as marketing campaigns that focus on a brand or product, and allows workflows that are generic to a class of subjects (e.g. a consumer, a work order, an automobile, etc.), and permits the workflows to be tailored to the specific subject type and its states. The present invention provides tools for building and simulating one or more scenarios that address a specific subject prior to its launch, and also provides tools for executing and monitoring the workflows according to the one or more scenarios. The present invention provides a way to interface with several external services and data intelligently in order to establish an efficient environment with multiple workflows for each subject type. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303407 | PLANNING AND ORCHESTRATING WORKFLOW INSTANCE MIGRATION - A method and information processing system manage workflow instance migration. A received migration plan indicates a set of workflow migration points associated with an initial workflow process model. The set of workflow migration points is associated with a set of workflow activities of the initial workflow process model. At least one workflow instance is selected from a set of workflow instances. A current migrateability state associated with the selected workflow instance is determined based at least on the set of workflow migration points. Migration of the workflow instance to a new workflow process model is granted in response to determining that the current migrateability state is set to migrateable. Migration of the workflow instance to the new workflow process model is prevented for at least a given amount of time in response to determining that the current migrateability state fails to be set to migrateable. | 11-29-2012 |
20130006697 | USING PRIME NUMBERS AND PRIME NUMBER FACTORIZATION TO TRACK ARTICLES THROUGH TRANSIT POINTS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN - Provided are a computer program product, system and method for using prime numbers and prime number factorization to track articles through transit points in a supply chain. A list associates prime numbers with transit points through which the article passes. A determination is made from the list of prime numbers associated with the transit points through which the article has passed. A function is performed on the determined prime numbers to determine a composite value. An association is generated of the composite value with the article. The composite value associated with the article is used to determine at least one of the transit points through which the article has passed. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006698 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING PROCESS FLOW - An apparatus and method for producing a workflow specification of a business process. The method includes receiving a process flow model of the business process at a computing device, receiving documents corresponding to the business process at a computing device, generating a set of logical formulae representing the control of the process flow model using a computing device, and applying a set of rules representing execution dependencies of activities in the business process to generate a workflow specification of the business process using a computing device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006699 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING END-TO-END RESPONSE TIMES DISTRIBUTION ACROSS COMPONENTS IN A PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING PROCESS - The disclosed embodiment relates to a method for optimizing end-to-end response times distribution across a plurality of components in a performance engineering process. The method preferably comprises determining first, second, and third end-to-end response times for a plurality of components in the process, and determining an optimal end-to-end response time for the components in the process, wherein the optimal end-to-end response time distribution is based on an average of the first end-to-end response time, the second end-to-end response time, and the third end-to-end response time for each component. The disclosed embodiment also relates to a system and computer-readable code that can be used to implement the exemplary methods. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006700 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING CUSTOMER-VALIDATED STATEMENT OF WORK FOR A DATA STORAGE ENVIRONMENT - Computer systems and methods are disclosed for improving professional services delivery, such as services in a data management environment. In certain examples, computer systems comprise portals for transmitting and receiving information from parties involved in the performance and receipt of professional services. For instance, a first portal can receive data (e.g., from sales personnel) descriptive of a customer's product environment. A manager module populates a record with the data, and a second portal provides the customer with access to the record for review, correction and/or validation prior to the generation of a Statement of Work or other like project description. The second portal can also request additional information from the customer regarding the product environment. The manager module compares the data received through the first portal with the customer-entered information to identify and/or address discrepancies between the sets of data and customize the generation of the Statement of Work. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013370 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING AN OPTIMIZED BUSINESS PROCESS DESIGN - A design module for automatically optimizing business processes in an organization. Each business process to be optimized is characterized by one or more performance indicators. One or more process characteristics are identified corresponding to each of the performance indicators. For each of the process characteristics, at least one transformation pattern is identified. Thereafter, one or more transformation patterns are selected from the identified transformation patterns, for optimizing the process characteristics, and thereby optimizing the business processes. The design module generates workflow patterns based on the identified transformation patterns and converts them into BPEL constructs for visually displaying the workflow patterns on a user interface. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018694 | Dynamically Allocating Business WorkflowsAANM Dubbels; Joel C.AACI EyotaAAST MNAACO USAAGP Dubbels; Joel C. Eyota MN USAANM Stevens; Richard J.AACI RochesterAAST MNAACO USAAGP Stevens; Richard J. Rochester MN US - Dynamically allocating business workflows, including: receiving, by a workflow orchestrator, a request for a business transaction that includes one or more desired result parameters; determining, by the workflow orchestrator, a desired result for the business transaction in dependence upon the request; and iteratively, until a selected workflow produces interim results that conform to the desired result parameters or until no other workflow is available: selecting, by the workflow orchestrator, a workflow from a set of available workflows in dependence upon the request and the desired result; and executing, by the workflow orchestrator, the selected workflow, thereby producing interim results. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018695 | Enterprise Intelligence ('EI') Assembly Analysis In 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 - Enterprise Intelligence (‘EI’) assembly analysis in an EI framework, including: determining, by an EI assembly analysis engine, the present execution state of one or more EI assemblies; determining, by the EI assembly analysis engine, the ideal execution state for the one or more EI assemblies; and identifying, by the EI assembly analysis engine, differences between the present execution state of the one or more EI assemblies and the ideal execution state for the one or more EI assemblies. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018696 | Supply Chain Analysis - The disclosure relates to analyzing and visualizing flows in a supply chain context for the purpose of inventory optimization. Embodiments disclosed include a method of analyzing a process flow in a supply chain context, the method comprising: inputting ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130030860 | MANAGING INSPECTION, TEST, ANALYS, AND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA (ITAAC) ACTIVITIES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An construction workflow tracking system is presented where the tracking system is capable of tracking component-level information associated with achieving closure for an Inspection, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria (ITAAC) under 10 CFR Part 52 for licensing of new nuclear power reactors. Disclosed systems include an estimation engine configured to analyze workflow data points to estimate one or more compliance metrics, especially compliance dates (e.g., inspection dates, test dates, acceptance dates, etc.). A reporting engine can present estimated compliance dates with a confidence level or recommendations on improving confidence or reducing risk. Compliance dates can also include compromise dates indicating when a closed ITAAC is likely to be compromised. | 01-31-2013 |
20130035977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CUSTOM REVENUE CYCLE MODEL WITH AUTOMATED LEAD MOVEMENT - A system and method for generating a custom revenue cycle model with automated lead movement are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving user input, wherein the user input comprises at least one of data related to a stage, data related to a success path definition, and data related to transition rules for lead movement, wherein the stage is a revenue stage or a detour stage; generating a custom revenue cycle model based on the user input; storing the custom revenue cycle model; providing for automated lead movements based on the transition rules; and providing for automated tracking of lead movements in the custom revenue cycle model. | 02-07-2013 |
20130035978 | MANAGEMENT OF MATERIALS ON A CONSTRUCTION SITE - A computer implemented route determination system comprises a route generator, a cost scenario generator, and a report generator. The route generator is configured to define a plurality of routes on which move a material between a construction site and a destination site of a plurality of possible destination sites. The cost scenario generator is configured to determine cost scenarios associated with the plurality of routes. The report generator is configured to generate a report which identifies the routes and the cost scenarios for the destination site. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041709 | Hybrid Analysis of Emerging Trends for Process Control - An asymmetric approach is used for evaluating process control data, whereby one approach is used for determining entry into the emerging life cycle phase (i.e., presence of a new defect) and a different approach is used for detecting entry into the other life cycle phases such as cresting and recovering. An evidence curve is created from observed instance data for a particular defect, and the slope of this evidence curve is analyzed programmatically by applying one or more tests, in combination with sequential time-reversed estimation, to determine return-to-normal conditions with a desired level of confidence. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041710 | Advanced Statistical Detection of Emerging Trends - Advanced statistical detection of emerging trends in a process is disclosed, based on a Repeated Weighted Geometric Cumulative Sum analysis, which may be combined with time window-based estimation of proportions and related thresholds. Threshold derivation and significance computation is based on parallel simulation runs with power-exponential tail approximations. A battery of tests using the statistical theory of sequential analysis and change-point theory in combination with targets is used to evaluate non-conforming conditions in a process. Trends in fall-out rates are detected based on non-time-to-failure data that corresponds to counts of failures in consecutive time periods, with possibility of delayed input. | 02-14-2013 |
20130054300 | FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYZER - Apparatus, methods and media for providing a supply chain link performance change indicator. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve a processor module, a receiver module and an output device. The processor module may provide to a user a vector selection control. The receiver module may receive financial data corresponding to the supply chain link. The financial data may include a plurality of vectors. The receiver may receive via the vector selection control a first vector identifier corresponding to a first vector in the plurality of vectors and a second vector identifier corresponding to a second vector in the plurality of vectors. The output device may provide to the user a first supply chain link performance change indicator corresponding to the first vector and a second supply chain link performance change indicator corresponding to the second vector. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054301 | PROCESS REFINEMENT - A customized process template is generated for an organization by customizing an abstract process template of a process for the organization. A discovered process model is generated based on enactment traces of the process. A suggestion for refining the process is generated based at least in part on the discovered process model. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060596 | Easy Process Modeling Platform - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for generic process modeling. One method includes identifying a business process for execution, the business process defined by one or more process steps, identifying a process routing table associated with the identified business process, at least a portion of the process routing table including one or more entries defining a set of business process rules for the identified business process, identifying a particular entry in the process routing table associated with a current state of the identified business process; and performing at least one action defined by the identified particular entry in the process routing table. In some instances, at least one entry in the process routing table is associated with one of a plurality of process patterns, with each process pattern comprising a reusable, predefined operation. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060597 | KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS BASED ESTIMATION SYSTEM FOR ENGINEERING PRODUCT DESIGN - According to the one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for knowledge and process based estimation model for product development activities of engineering services comprises: accepting a plurality of input details of a product. A component of the product is chosen for the purpose of estimation. The method of the present embodiment also comprises choosing the complexity of the component. A stream for estimation is selected and a process depending on the stream is also selected. Furthermore, the method comprises, choosing the complexity of the process to estimate. Based on all the selected parameters, the pre-defined data is estimated. A report can also be generated based on the estimated data. The method further defines the process of mapping effort estimates for engineering activities in a product development lifecycle phases to a unique work sizing metric called Engineering Functions Units of Work (EFUoW). | 03-07-2013 |
20130066672 | Aggregation of Life Cycle Impact Assessment Data and Generation of Life Cycle Impact Assessments and Scoring - Aggregation of life cycle impact assessment data and generation of life cycle impact assessment and scoring for goods and/or services or for components of goods and/or services are provided. Life cycle inventory data for components of goods and/or services are validated and audited to determine their available use in the generation of life cycle impact assessments for the goods and/or services. Life cycle impact assessments (LCIA) and LCIA scores are generated for each component or phase of production, use or disposal of a given good and/or service. LCIAs and LCIA scores for each component or phase are aggregated together and composite LCIAs and LCIA scores are generated for the good and/or service. The generated LCIAs and LCIA scores may be exposed to consumers, and the LCIAs and LCIA scores may be updated periodically as required to account for changes in LCI data for the scored good and/or service. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073334 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A CONTROL-FLOW IN A BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL - A new technique to analyze the control-flow, i.e., the workflow graph of a business process model, which is called symbolic execution, is provided. Acyclic workflow graphs that may contain inclusive OR-gateways are considered; a symbolic execution for them is defined, which runs in quadratic time. In particular, this symbolic execution essentially comprises labeling edges of nodes of the graph such that a label assigned to a first edge comprises a set of one or more edge identifiers, each identifying a second edge that is an outgoing edge of an XOR-split or an IOR-split node in the graph, whereby executing the second edge ensures that the first edge will be executed. Such a scheme may permit a decision for any pair of control-flow edges or tasks of the workflow graph whether they are sometimes, never, or always reached concurrently. This has different applications in finding control- and data-flow errors. | 03-21-2013 |
20130090976 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED TROUBLE TICKET STATUS CONTENT - An approach is provided for online trouble ticket servicing. As part of a workflow, one or more activities, which are associated with a trouble ticket corresponding to a service, are monitored, wherein the one or more activities are tracked by a workflow engine. Status information is repeatedly acquired for the one or more activities until a predetermined milestone is reached according to the workflow. The status information is stored for presentation to a subscriber of the service. | 04-11-2013 |
20130090977 | Collaboration Tool for Compliance Processing - A computer system is described which facilitates the collaboration of participants involved in regulation/policy compliance. The system comprises two systems: a central regulation compliance system; and a collaboration forum. The central regulation compliance system is integrated with the collaboration forum to facilitate the assessment/survey process in order to attend to issues relating to actual or potential occurrences of non-compliance with regulatory/policy requirements. | 04-11-2013 |
20130096978 | DETERMINING COSTS FOR WORKFLOWS - Techniques are disclosed for modeling costs when editing a workflow process model. A request may be received to assign a cost factor to a workflow process step of the workflow process model. Responsive to the request, the cost factor may be assigned to the workflow process step, such that a traversal of the workflow process step by a transaction invoking the workflow process model results in the cost factor being included in a total cost to be charged for executing the transaction. | 04-18-2013 |
20130110577 | EFFICIENT SYSTEM FOR REALIZING BUSINESS PROCESS FAMILIES USING MODEL-DRIVEN TECHNIQUES | 05-02-2013 |
20130110578 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SERVICE CANDIDATES BASED ON SERVICE IDENTIFICATION INDICATORS AND ASSOCIATED ALGORITHMS | 05-02-2013 |
20130117064 | BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS COMBINING MODELING, SIMULATION AND COLLABORATION WITH WEB AND CLOUD DELIVERY - A business process analysis system provides a platform for process modeling and simulation in a collaborative environment. The system includes a series of client stations connected to servers over a network. The platform is suitable for operating on an internal, local enterprise network or a group of systems across multiple locations, or in a cloud-based or other environment. The servers maintain business process models being created or edited at one or more clients. The servers also run simulations of the models. A collaboration server controls changes to the business process model. A history of revisions is maintained in a content management system. An interactive work site provides relevant information regarding the business process models, such as a listing of the latest changes to the model, user-submitted commentary, discussions, and additional files relating to the model. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117065 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED MESSAGING IN AN ONLINE LEGAL WORKFLOW TOOL - A computer system and computer-implemented method for message or “chaser” management in a distributed legal workflow environment is provided. Embodiments provide central administration of legal workflow conducted by a plurality of distributed participants. A plurality of workflow chasers associated with a plurality of workflow records are created and defined based on a plurality of attributes (e.g. associated record identification, action identification, target user, display date, etc.). New and existing chasers are compared to one another to identify any redundancies (e.g. duplicate chasers, unnecessary chasers, etc.). Redundant chasers are deleted or otherwise de-activated. Remaining chasers are implemented within the distributed legal workflow environment, as appropriate (i.e. displayed to their target user on the associated target display date. Chasers may be created automatically as required for conformance to workflow policies, procedures or applicable laws. Chasers may also be user-defined and modified. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124255 | Presort Scheme Optimizer and Simulator - A system and method configured for determining optimal mail sorting of a mailing is disclosed. The method may comprise determining a number of mail pieces to be sent in the mailing, selecting an initial scheme for sorting the mailing based on the number of mail pieces, and simulating a mail sorting based on the initial scheme and obtaining efficiency statistics of the simulated mail sorting. After the selected initial scheme is simulated, the method may further comprise generating an updated scheme, in response to the efficiency statistics being less than optimal, by revising the initial scheme. The method includes simulating a mail sorting based on the updated scheme, revising and simulating schemes until efficiency statistics are optimal. The initial scheme may be based on historical schemes for mailings of similar number of mail pieces, selected by an operator from historical schemes for mailings, or a customized scheme for the mailing. | 05-16-2013 |
20130132148 | METHOD FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE QUALITY-DRIVEN SERVICE SELECTION - This invention relates to the field of multi-objective workflow optimization. Certain exemplary embodiments of the invention are applicable in cases where workflow descriptions contain choice variables relating for instance to the selection of a specific service provider out of several service providers that provide similar services, to the selection of human workers, or to the selection between alternative subworkflows. A binding represents a combination of choices, binding the choice variables to specific values. Bindings induce specific cost and/or quality properties to the workflow, a binding being Pareto-optimal if no other binding exists that is at least as good for every cost and/or quality property and better for at least one property. Certain exemplary embodiments relate to a system and/or computer-implemented method for computing an approximation of the set of Pareto-optimal bindings such that the computed approximation satisfies specified minimum precision requirements | 05-23-2013 |
20130138473 | Business Process Optimization - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for optimizing business processes. One process includes identifying a set of information technology (IT) characteristics associated with execution of a process model, identifying at least one optimization goal associated with the process model, identifying a set of at least one optimization technique based on the identified set of IT characteristics and identified optimization goals associated with the process model, and compiling the process model, where compiling the process model includes applying the set of the at least one optimization technique during compiling operations. The set of IT characteristics associated with the execution of the process model can include a landscape type of a target system in which the process model is to be deployed, a probable deployment option of the process model, a probable usage type associated with the process model, and performance factors associated with the target system. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144679 | Simulation and Visualization for Project Planning and Management - A method and apparatus for generating a project plan from project description information for a project comprising a plurality of tasks. The project description information may include information describing precedence relationships between the tasks, information indicating durations of the tasks, and information indicating variability in the durations of the tasks. A simulation model is generated for the project using the project description information. The simulation model is run for a plurality of runs to identify a subset of tasks forming a critical path and to generate simulation results data. A project network presentation is generated from the simulation results data. The project network presentation includes the identified subset of the tasks forming the critical path. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144680 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A CONTROL-FLOW IN A BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL - A new technique to analyze the control-flow, i.e., the workflow graph of a business process model, which is called symbolic execution, is provided. Acyclic workflow graphs that may contain inclusive OR-gateways are considered; a symbolic execution for them is defined, which runs in quadratic time. In particular, this symbolic execution essentially comprises labeling edges of nodes of the graph such that a label assigned to a first edge comprises a set of one or more edge identifiers, each identifying a second edge that is an outgoing edge of an XOR-split or an IOR-split node in the graph, whereby executing the second edge ensures that the first edge will be executed. Such a scheme may permit a decision for any pair of control-flow edges or tasks of the workflow graph whether they are sometimes, never, or always reached concurrently. This has different applications in finding control- and data-flow errors. | 06-06-2013 |
20130159047 | DYNAMIC BUSINESS SCENARIO KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR DEFINITIONS, REAL TIME CALCULATIONS, AND ANALYSIS - A selection by a user of a first business process feature defining a starting point and a second business process feature defining an end point of a requested key performance indicator calculation can be received and a set of business objects related to a plurality of business process features that impact calculation of the requested key performance indicator can be determined based on the start point and the end point and on a meta-model of each of the related business process features. An algorithm for making the requested key performance indicator calculation can be generated based on metadata from retrieved from the meta-models, and transaction data can be retrieved from instances of business objects matching limiting criteria. A value for the requested key performance indicator calculation can be calculated based on the algorithm and the retrieved transaction data. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159048 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING AFFILIATION NETWORK BASED ON WORKFLOW - The present invention discloses a method and system for analyzing an affiliation network based on workflow. The system for analyzing an affiliation network based on workflow in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a workflow management unit configured to generate and manage a workflow network constituted with a plurality of activities; an affiliation network conversion unit configured to convert the workflow network to an affiliation network indicating a relation between an actor and the activity; an affiliation matrix computation unit configured to generate an affiliation matrix based on the affiliation network; and an analysis unit configured to analyze the affiliation network based on the affiliation matrix. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND PROVIDING WORKFLOW INFORMATION - A tangible computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable program instructions that generate a user interface for displaying workflow information associated with a tissue specimen in a pathology laboratory. The program instructions may be configured to perform a method including displaying a virtual laboratory component representing a physical pathology laboratory having one or more laboratory stations for processing the tissue specimen, wherein the tissue specimen is processed by the one or more laboratory stations according to a workflow, and displaying a specimen indicator that indicates a current specimen state based on a current relationship of the tissue specimen to the workflow. The method may further include enabling a first active component associated with the virtual laboratory component, wherein the first active component is configured to receive a user selection of a laboratory station and generating a supplemental view component of the selected laboratory station in response to the user selection, wherein the supplemental view provides supplemental information on processing by the selected laboratory station of the tissue specimen. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173332 | ARCHITECTURE FOR ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS, PREDICTION, AND MODELING AND METHODS THEREFOR - Systems and methods for automatically and/or systematically include more data sources and/or more detailed data in the analysis, prediction, and model building. Process data may be employed to pinpoint the process parameter excursions and domain knowledge and/or expert systems may be automatically and/or systematically incorporated into the root cause analysis, the prediction and/or the model building to improve results and/or to reduce the reliance on inconsistent and expensive human experts. | 07-04-2013 |
20130191177 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZING A PROJECT - A method, system, and computer readable media for managing a project over a computer network is disclosed. A project selection is received. Data associated with the project is retrieved in response to the selection. Data associated with a user profile is also retrieved, and compared to the data associated with the project to detect inconsistencies between the project and the user profile. In an embodiment, substitutions are determined based on the inconsistencies and automatically incorporated into the project. Data associated with the project including the substitutions is then delivered to the user over a computer network. In another embodiment, data associated with the project and the inconsistencies is delivered to the user over a computer network. In some embodiments, data associated with alternative project inputs and/or project actions consistent with the user profile is delivered to the user for substitution into the project. In some implementations, a selection of one or more alternative project inputs and/or project actions may be received from the user over a computer network. | 07-25-2013 |
20130231973 | BUSINESS ANALYSIS DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM CONTAINING BUSINESS ANALYSIS DESIGN SUPPORT PROGRAM - To efficiently maintain consistency between deliverables in business analysis design, a computer performs processing of searching concatenation of predetermined words defined in each business use case description among the business use case descriptions, specifying relation among the business use cases to associate the business use cases with each other, and generating a business use case flow according to the association, processing of specifying a business function which is a higher-level of each business use case included in the business use case flow with information on business function hierarchy in a business function hierarchy storage unit, specifying concatenation of the business use cases extending across different business functions in the business use case flow, and associating the business functions with each other according to the concatenation to generate a business flow; and processing of displaying the business use case flow or the business flow generated on a display device. | 09-05-2013 |
20130238383 | AUTO-ADJUSTING WORKER CONFIGURATION FOR GRID-BASED MULTI-STAGE, MULTI-WORKER COMPUTATIONS - A method of improving the operational efficiency of segments of a data pipeline of a cloud based transactional processing system with multiple cloud based resources. The Method having a first step to virtually determine an approximation of a processing runtime of computations computing a value from transactions using potentially available resources of said cloud based transactional processing system for processing segments of a pipeline of data wherein said data comprising compensation and payment type data. A second step to determine an actual processing runtime of computations computing a value from actual transactions using actual available resources using available resources for processing segments of a pipeline of data wherein said data comprising compensation and payment type data. A third step for adjusting a difference between the approximation of the runtime of said first step and the actual processing runtime of said second step by changing material parameters at least including the volume of transactions and available resources at particular segments of the pipeline, to produce an optimum result in adjusted processing runtime. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238384 | BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product of managing an executable process application based on a BPMN process model, including: Receiving a BPMN process model; Parsing the process model to an process model object graph; Validating the process model dependent on a predetermined set of validation rules; Identifying start events in the process model; Providing an event handler for each start event based on a start event trigger comprised in the process model; Generating an executable process application based on the process model object graph. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238385 | System and Method for Solving Large Scale Supply Chain Planning Problems with Integer Constraints - A system and method is disclosed for solving supply chain planning problems. The system includes a database that stores data representing a planning problem of a supply chain network and a computer that accesses the planning problem of the supply chain network stored in the database and models the planning problem as a network of nodes and edges. The computer further generates a hierarchical linear programming solution of the planning problem and applies advanced heuristics to the generated hierarchical linear programming solution. The computer still further formulates a mixed integer program to generate an optimized global hierarchical solution and stores the generated optimized global hierarchical solution in the database. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238386 | MODELING OF BUSINESS PROCESS DATA - In one embodiment, a business process meta-model is defined that represents a business process. The business process meta-model includes control flow elements pertaining to a control flow of the business process, and annotation elements providing details for the control flow elements. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246119 | PROJECT RANKING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED RANKING SYSTEM AND TARGET MARKETING WORKFLOW - A system and method for targeting, processing, and managing project leads and reports for target marketing products and services through the use of analytics, data mining, and the application of numerical weights to data criteria to determine the projects with the highest probability of requiring a company's products and/or services, with the highest return, and to prioritize and sequence the projects accordingly while enabling real-time analysis, metrics, and workflow management. A user form component provides access to project leads, segregating information through various project stages and allowing the user to launch and access project management forms. The project forms correspond to the user, project ranking criteria, territories, and project phases, permit a user to access associated metric and workflow information, and view project details, management information, ranking metrics, categories, keywords, specifications keywords, targeted competitors, product details, contacts, participants, interactions, sales documents, targeted prospects, and digital documentation. | 09-19-2013 |
20130282425 | Intelligent Whistleblower Support System - A system for anonymously receiving information relating to suspected dishonest or illegal activity relating to an organization includes several interfaces that facilitate the anonymity. An automated analyzer analyses the received information to identify relevant governing documents (e.g., laws, regulations, etc.) and relevant personnel. A remediation workflow may then be generated based on the identified relevant information to address the report of suspected dishonest or illegal activity. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290065 | Method and System to Analyze Processes - The present invention relates to a method and a system to analyze emergent properties of at least one process of handling at least one item. The method comprising at least creating a database containing all information with respect to entities related to the item from the group comprising at least completed transactions and actors. Further, the method involves a posteriori gathering from at least one source, such as at least one table in an information system, all data with respect to said entities on each of the at least one item. Yet further, the method involves assigning an identifying label to each of the at least one item, and arranging the data with respect to each entity on each of the at least one item with the label assigned thereto in the database, so as to allow distilling from the database at least one emergent property of the process, such as a sequence of previously performed transactions with respect to each of the at least one item on the basis of the label assigned thereto. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290066 | Managing A Workflow For An Oilfield Operation - Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for managing a workflow for an oilfield operation. In one implementation, the method may include receiving a request for approval of one or more tasks of the task workflow. The method may also include generating the request for approval, where the request for approval includes a hyperlink to a most current status of the one or more tasks of the task workflow. | 10-31-2013 |
20130297371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTEGRATED WORKFLOW PROCESS, SOCIAL, CONTACT AND WEB MARKETING SOLUTION - This invention relates to data processing for financial, business practice, management or cost/price determination applications where there is a computerized arrangement for the management of interaction between individuals or entities that are connected by social networking and specifically to a system and method for an integrated workflow process, social, contact and web management solution. | 11-07-2013 |
20130297372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRATEGIC WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT AND CONTENT ENGINEERING - The invention provides a system that automates workforce management tasks through the integrated use of structured content accessible from a database, a set of business logic rules engines as well as input from users via user interfaces. The invention also provides a methodology for creating engineered content that is accessible to a strategic workforce management system which manages human resources tasks. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304535 | BUSINESS SOLUTION MANAGEMENT (BSM) - Systems and techniques to allow a user to design and manage business solutions. The business solution management system ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130317879 | WORK PROBLEM ANALYSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM - There is provided a system which analyzes data representative of operation situation of a work system and finds tacit problem hidden in work performed at the a field by a system user. Particularly, the system is to support to find the problem even if the user is not a specialist such as ethnographer. The system includes event examples in which the problems in the work at the field found from user analysis such as observation or interview are classified and expressed as events in operation data when a computer is utilized, analysis menu, analysis function and visualization unit for finding the events. | 11-28-2013 |
20140006093 | Method for Systematic Modeling and Evaluation of Application Flows | 01-02-2014 |
20140019192 | Visualizers For Change Management System - A change management system may use a phased status indicator that may illustrate several phases of a change request and a current status for each phase of a change management lifecycle. Additionally, a group of change requests may be displayed in a linked manner showing various relationships between change requests. The status indicator and linked display may be used together or separately to illustrate the status of various change requests and within interactive displays of change request data. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025425 | BULK BUSINESS WORKFLOW SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A bulk-workflow server in communication with a bulk-workflow client may assist business users in completing multiple instances of a workflow task by transforming multiple instances of an individual workflow form into a single spreadsheet-like user interface with which a business user may simultaneously input, view, review/approve, and/or submit data for multiple instances of the workflow task. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025426 | WORKFLOW ADAPTATION USING AUTOMATED MODEL TRANSFORMATION - Various embodiments of systems and methods for adapting a reference workflow, according to changing data-contexts, during execution are described herein. The method involves detecting an entry to an adaptive segment in the reference workflow and invoking data context variables associated with the adaptive segment. Further the method includes invoking a set of ordered adaptation rules comprising a set of constraints on the data context variables. In an aspect, the method includes evaluating the rule-set using the one or more data context variables associated with the workflow. Based on the evaluation, a list of adaptation patterns is generated and provided as input to a pattern selector. In another aspect, adaptation patterns from the list of adaptation patterns are recursively called by the pattern selector. The called adaptation patterns are then executed as sub-processes within the adaptive segment. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032258 | EXTRACTING APPARATUS AND EXTRACTING METHOD - An extracting apparatus includes a processor configured to calculate a first frequency of updates in a first workflow and second frequencies of updates in each of a plurality of second workflows, each of which includes activities of the first workflow and one or more activities, with regard to each of a plurality of parameters used in the first workflow and the plurality of second workflows, select a first parameter from the plurality of parameters, based on differences, relating to each of the plurality of parameters, from the first frequency to each of the second frequencies, and extract a second workflow from the plurality of second workflows, based on differences from a value of the first parameter after termination of the first workflow to each of values of the first parameter after termination of the plurality of second workflows. | 01-30-2014 |
20140039969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING A BUSINESS EXECUTION WORKFLOW - A technique for managing changes to individual entities, such as employees, in a business execution context. When a first user, such as a manager or a human resources (HR) administrator, desires to change characteristics of an individual entity, such as an employee, the first user inputs into a software application the desired characteristic changes to be made. The software application receives the input from the first user and analyzes the information. The software application then identifies and initiates a “workflow” that corresponds to the input and effects the desired changes. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039970 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND RELATING ASSET-TIED TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods for tracking assets are disclosed, where such assets' data exists in disparate and independent asset data sources within and throughout an organization. Assets' data is first assembled and processed, related between asset data sources and to particular assets, and stored in a processed format that allows reporting and monitoring. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039971 | PROGRAM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING WORKFLOW - Update history information of databases is analyzed, and workflow models are automatically displayed with typical workflows and exceptional workflows separately represented. An update history information storage unit stores update history information including identification information of a data update process, and the name and updated time of an updated data set. A workflow extractor generates flow information where the names of updated data sets are arranged in chronological order of updated time, oldest first, for every data update process, and counts the number of appearances of flow information of same. Out of the workflows represented by the flow information, the workflow classification unit classifies the workflows into typical and exceptional workflows depending on the number of appearances. A workflow model display unit displays a typical workflow diagram showing the typical workflows, and in response to user input, displays an exceptional workflow diagram showing the typical and exceptional workflows. | 02-06-2014 |
20140039972 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHANGES IN A BUSINESS PROCESS - Systems and methods are provided for the automatic detection of different types of changes in a business process. A system includes a transformer for performing a transformation on data derived from process traces or models extracted from the processes traces to generate transformed data. The process traces are for a business process corresponding to a set of related tasks for a specified goal. Each of the models has at least a transition matrix of dimension N×N, where N is a total number of the related tasks. The system further includes a change detector for performing change detection on the transformed data to identify at least one of when a change occurs in the business process and a degree of the change. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046721 | ANALYSIS OF DISSIMILARITY AMONG BUSINESS COMPONENTS - A method and system for analyzing dissimilarity among business components. Business processes are identified. Each business process includes a sequence of activities to be executed in a specified sequential order. Each activity in the sequence is assigned a sequence number and is associated with a single business component. For a first and second activity in each pair of different activities of the sequence of activities of each business process, a determination is made of a pair of a first and second business component to which the first and second business activity is respectively associated, a determination is made of a dissimilarity measure equal to a magnitude of a difference of the respective sequence numbers of the first and second business activities, and the dissimilarity measure is assigned to the pair of the first and second business component. A dissimilarity matrix including the dissimilarity measures is generated and stored. | 02-13-2014 |
20140058789 | PROCESS MODEL GENERATION AND WEAK-SPOT ANALYSIS FROM PLAIN EVENT LOGS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for process model extraction and weak-spot analysis from plain event logs are described herein. In an aspect, the method involves obtaining an event log that includes events grouped by process instances. Based on analyzing the event log a process graph is generated. In another aspect, one or more visual representations of the generated process graph, indicating the weak-spots, are generated. At least one of the one or more visual representations of the process model is rendered in response to receiving a selection of the at least one visual representation. In yet another aspect, the weak-spots are transformed into a data structure and provided as input to a rule mining algorithm for generating a set of rules defining the weak-spots. The set of rules received from the rule mining algorithm are rendered on a graphical user interface (GUI). | 02-27-2014 |
20140067457 | WORKFLOW EXECUTION FRAMEWORK - A workflow execution framework is generated to execute a received workflow. The workflow is semantically analyzed to determine workflow chain and associated workflow components. To execute the workflow chain, a terminal component in the workflow chain and a corresponding sequential hierarchy of the workflow components are detected. A result descriptor of a data source component corresponding to the terminal component is computed and stored in an execution state table. Result descriptors are computed for the workflow components succeeding the data source component in the sequential hierarchy and are stored in the execution state table. Upon detecting a dataflow between the data source component and one of the succeeding workflow components, data along each row of the execution state table is extracted to process the one of the succeeding workflow components. The workflow is executed by processing the workflow components associated with the workflow chain, thereby executing the workflow chain. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067458 | PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include a method for managing processes. The method includes collecting data from first processes and second processes stored in memory, the first processes differing from the second processes by at least one of a formality level and a log detail level. The method includes identifying commonalities among the first processes and second processes and organizing the first processes and second stored processes into clusters based on the commonalities. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067459 | PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include a method for analyzing processes. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a process query and parsing, by the processor, the process query to extract one or more key features from the process query. The method includes determining a relationship between the process query and one or more stored clusters of processes organized at least according to key features based on the parsing of the process query, where the one or more stored clusters are less than all of the stored clusters. The method also includes comparing the one or more key features of the process query with processes in the one or more stored clusters and generating a list of one or more stored processes being the most similar to the process query based on the comparing of the one or more key features of the process query with the processes in the one or more stored clusters. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074545 | HUMAN WORKFLOW AWARE RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - Recommendation systems and processes for generating recommendations within the context of a socially-enabled human workflow system are provided. The processes may include accessing workflow data, such as social graphs, organization graphs, collaboration graphs, content data, utilization data, ratings data, and the like, associated with a user requesting a recommendation. The process may further include determining one or more of a user similarity score, task similarity score, goal similarity score, and content similarity score. The process may further include generating one or more recommendations based at least in part on one or more of the user similarity score, task similarity score, goal similarity score, and content similarity score. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089036 | DYNAMIC CITY ZONING FOR UNDERSTANDING PASSENGER TRAVEL DEMAND - A system and method for dynamic zoning are provided. Travel demand data is received for a network which includes a set of points. The travel demand data includes values representing demand from each point to each of other point. Destination-distance values are computed which reflect the similarity between points in a respective pair, based on the travel demand data. For each pair of the points, a geo-distance value is generated which reflects the distance between locations of the points in the pair. An aggregated affinity matrix is formed by aggregating the computed geo-distance values and destination-distance values. The aggregated affinity matrix is used by a clustering algorithm to assign each of the points in the set to a respective one of a set of clusters. A representation of the clusters can be generated in which each of a set of zones encompasses the points assigned to its respective cluster. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089037 | DYNAMIC WORKFLOW ARCHITECTURES FOR LOAN PROCESSING - A method according to certain aspects includes launching a plurality of activities representing tasks to be completed in the processing of a workflow. The method can include determining that a set of the plurality of activities are not currently available for execution, and updating an output comprising a user interface based at least in part on the determination. | 03-27-2014 |
20140100910 | System and Method for Audits with Automated Data Analysis - Systems and methods for defining and executing platform and language independent audit templates are disclosed. Each audit template can include a number of audit task templates. The audit task templates include general instructions for performing an audit task. Each audit task template can be instantiated as an audit task in an associated audit operation that includes organization or process specific information. Each audit task template and audit task can be linked with one or more business rules. Such business rules include translation logic for translating requirements of each audit task into a format expected by specific program, located in a central management system, invoked to operate on the required target business data. The business rules can also include translation data for interpreting the results returned from such programs. The audits operation or business rules can also include deficiency criteria, or alert conditions for initiating audit issues and remediation workflows. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING THE SEQUENCES OF ACTIVITIES - A system and method for analysis of sequences of facts is disclosed. The plurality of facts is extracted from one or more systems of record, the facts are converted to the time-ordered sequences, and then the sequences are converted into unique paths. A plurality of measures is calculated for each path. An operator can change the conversion rules and filter the paths, sequences and facts to be included in the analysis. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100912 | BUNDLING OF AUTOMATED WORK FLOW - An enterprise geospatial intelligence service oriented architecture (EGI-SOA) provides a consumer with one or more tailored products in response to either a dynamic request or a standing request by the consumer. | 04-10-2014 |
20140122162 | Efficiency System - A system, and related method and computer program product are disclosed. The system may comprise a loading machine, a first fleet, a second fleet, and a controller operably connected to the loading machine(s) and the first fleet and the second fleet. The controller may be configured to determine a FF System Efficiency for a first scenario based on a FF Mining Efficiency and a FF Percent Shift Time Difference. The controller may be further configured to determine a SF System Efficiency for a second scenario based on a SF Mining Efficiency and a SF Percent Shift Time Difference. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT WORKFLOW SIMILARITY DETECTION - The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for comparing workflows. More particularly, the invention relates to thinning a number of workflow pairs to compare, prior to conducting a detailed comparison among pairs of workflows. The invention can be used to generate a workflow similarity graph based on a large set of workflows. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129286 | Analyzing Operational Results Using Rule-Based Policy Models - Methods, systems, and products that execute modeled business controls on a modeled input work item to generate a corresponding modeled output work item. Input data values included in the modeled input work item either match or approximate corresponding values included in a corresponding actual input work item. Each modeled business control is defined by business rules that represent a business policy, and the business rules and the input data values of the modeled input work item are used to generate the modeled output work item. An actual output work item from a business process is compared to the modeled output work item. The actual output work item includes actual output data values. The business process changes the actual input work item into the actual output work item. The modeled output work item includes modeled output data values. Differences between the actual and modeled output work items are reported. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136274 | PROVIDING MULTIPLE LEVEL PROCESS INTELLIGENCE AND THE ABILITY TO TRANSITION BETWEEN LEVELS - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing process intelligence by allowing analysis of running business processes at multiple levels of detail. One computer-implemented method includes identifying a first data layer, a second data layer, and a third data layer associated with a business process management system, the third data layer derived from the second data layer and including at least one reference to the second data layer and the second data layer derived from the first data layer and including at least one reference to the first data layer, presenting at least a portion of one of the first data layer, the second data layer, or the third data layer as a first presented data layer, identifying a request to present a data layer different than the first presented data layer, the request identifying at least a portion of the data included in the first presented data layer, and presenting at least a portion of the requested data layer associated with the identified data included in the first presented data layer as a second presented data layer. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136275 | BEHAVIORAL DATA DRIVEN RECOMMENDATION - A method and computer readable medium for a fully integrated IT recommendation system, comprising receiving contextual data comprising information regarding what a user is currently viewing; receiving relational data information regarding the user's previous interaction with an online community related to IT administrators; receiving market view data comprising industry trend information related to IT, the industry particular to the user's industry. The contextual data, the relational data, and the marketing data make up the workflow context. The workflow context is passed to a recommendation engine which evaluates the workflow context and selects one or more of a set of outcomes, the outcome(s) are directly related to the workflow context; and presenting said one or more selected outcomes to said user. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143008 | PROCESS REVIEW SYSTEM FOR BECOMING GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE - A computer system that manages the processes of an organization. The system defines a global process flowchart, which has a set of processes, where at least one of the processes has a macro flowchart that has a sub-process with a micro flowchart. The set of processes includes a set of primary processes and at least one enabling process. The primary processes process orders and the enabling processes help the primary processes. The computer system associates individual process summaries to processes from the global process flowchart. Each process summary has related processes like a customer process, supplier process or interfacing process. The computer system associates the related process to parameters that measures an aspect of the process. The computer system receives actual measurement data for the parameters. The computer system generates reports about the parameters missing data and data that fails to meet expectations and improvement plans that are behind schedule. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149173 | MECHANISM FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC VISUAL WORKFLOW AND TASK GENERATION IN AN ON-DEMAND SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic generating of visual workflow and corresponding tasks in an on-demand services environment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving a request to perform a business process at a computing system. The performing of the business process may include creating a new business process relating to workings of an organization. The method may further include interpreting content of the request, and dynamically generating a visual workflow in response to the interpretation of the content of the request. The visual workflow may be used to perform the business process. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156337 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELF-ORGANIZING AD-HOC WORKFLOW - A system and a method are disclosed for self-organizing ad-hoc workflow. In one implementation, the present disclosure describes a self-learning system that monitors input conditions and monitors user steps in executing the ad-hoc workflow. When a new user executes the ad-hoc workflow process, the system receives a group of values for a set of input parameters, determines whether the received group of values has a matching group of values in a database, locates groups of values in the database with at least one matching value of the received group of values, determines a closest match between the received group of values and the located groups of values in the database using importance weights of input parameters in the set of input parameters, and selects the workflow associated with the closest match of the received group of values. | 06-05-2014 |
20140156338 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. An axis-name setting unit sets names of first through fourth axes. An item forming unit forms an item associated with an axis for which a name is set by the axis-name setting unit. A display displays a QFD chart used for developing a product, in which the names of the first through fourth axes are deployed in a region divided into top, bottom, right, and left sections from a center of the QFD chart, the items associated with the first through fourth axes are deployed in directions extending upward, downward, rightward, and leftward from the center, and matrices into which relationships between items are input are deployed at least between the first axis and the second axis, between the second axis and the third axis, and between the third axis and the fourth axis. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164048 | SCALABLE WEIGHT-AGNOSTIC MULTI-OBJECTIVE QOS OPTIMIZATION FOR WORKFLOW PLANNING - Disclosed is a method and system for optimizing a workflow planning via the selection of service providers and data centers according to various QoS (Quality of Service) metrics. The algorithm handles multiple QoS parameters and does not require an a priori weighting of their importance, a typical requirement of other approaches to this problem. This is accomplished by using an algorithm that will guarantee that no alternative solution will be strictly better in all QoS criteria than the chosen solution. A variant of the algorithm to specify the preference order among the QoS parameters is also disclosed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164049 | PROVIDING WORKFLOW PROCESSES TO CROWDSOURCED PRODUCT LISTINGS - Systems and methods to provide a set of qualifying steps for a crowdsourced project during creation of the project, where the steps are coupled with cost calculators, medal awards, partner identification, and third party auditing. The systems and methods allow an efficient project entry method while also scoring the completeness of the project to potential funding users. The inclusion of stretch goals, added at any time during the creation or funding of a project allows dynamic adjustment of target funding levels and awards, providing incentives for increased funding. Described herein is a system and method to create crowdfunded projects along with quality control checks visible to funders and incentives to induce more funders and greater funding levels, at the same time as creating a higher project success rate. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164050 | Process Model Visualization Methods - A method of comparing process models at least two process models to determine differences and similarities in the at least two process models. The process models include at least two states and a transition. The method includes comparing the state and the transition of the at least two process models, identifying differences in the state and the transition of the at least two process models, and visually representing the at least two process models in a user interface, wherein the differences in the state and the transition of the at least two process models are indicated in a first format different from a second format that indicates similarities in the transition and state of the at least two process models. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164051 | Recommending a Next Step to Take in a Case - A flow model of an activity flow that is based on cases is provided. The flow model is annotated with information from the cases. A matching step in the activity flow that matches a given step of a particular case is identified, and a next step is recommended based on the matching step in the activity flow of the flow model. | 06-12-2014 |
20140180752 | INTERFACE TO SELECT APPLICATION BASED ON STATE TRANSITION MODELS OF WORK - An application selection system for completing a work process includes an environment activity module that detects at least one event to determine an environmental activity occurring in an environment exposed to a user of the application selection system. A user activity module detects at least one user activity to determine at least one active state of the user. The application selection system further includes an application determining unit in electrical communication with the environment activity module and the user activity module. The application determining unit is configured to determine a passive state of the user, at least one work task included in the work process and a suitable application among a plurality of applications to execute the at least one work task. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180753 | EVALUATING THE RELIABILITY OF ACTIVITY FORECASTS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for evaluating the reliability of an activity forecast. A computer identifies forecast information for an activity, where the forecast information can include at least one forecasted time duration to finish the activity, an actual time duration of the activity, a highest forecasted time duration of the activity, and an individual that provided the identified forecast information. The computer utilizes the forecast information to generate a normalized Cartesian plot of the identified forecast information. The computer determines a best-fit line for the normalized Cartesian plot. The computer determines a variance between the best-fit line for the normalized Cartesian plot and the actual time duration of the activity. The computer determines an accuracy rating corresponding to the variance of the forecast information. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180754 | Workflow System and Method for Single Call Batch Processing of Collections of Database Records - A system and method of processing a flow of information may include capturing information for use by a workflow system, the information including internal content that is internal to the workflow system and external content that is external to the workflow system. The method may further include analyzing the internal content and the external content to determine metadata parameters for the captured information; associating the captured information with a process based at least in part on the metadata parameters; processing the captured information in accordance with the process associated therewith to thereby produce output data; formatting the output data into formatted output that conforms to an external system communicatively connected to the computer, the external system having fidelity and quality requirements for a delivery method; and delivering the formatted output to a recipient using the delivery method. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188544 | Method and System for Automatically Generating Information Dependencies - A method according to an embodiment of the present invention infers a network of information dependence in real-time by capturing the manner in which computer users interact with files. For example, in an embodiment, such dependencies are represented as a sparse directed network. In another embodiment of the present invention, In another embodiment of the present invention, the dependencies are embedded in an operating system or document management system at a level commensurate with the manner in which professionals use Windows Explorer. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188545 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING AND PROVIDING WORKFLOW INFORMATION - A tangible computer-readable storage device storing computer-executable program instructions that generate a user interface for displaying workflow information associated with a tissue specimen in a pathology laboratory. The program instructions may be configured to perform a method including displaying a virtual laboratory component representing a physical pathology laboratory having one or more laboratory stations for processing the tissue specimen, wherein the tissue specimen is processed by the one or more laboratory stations according to a workflow, and displaying a specimen indicator that indicates a current specimen state based on a current relationship of the tissue specimen to the workflow. The method may further include enabling a first active component associated with the virtual laboratory component, wherein the first active component is configured to receive a user selection of a laboratory station and generating a supplemental view component of the selected laboratory station in response to the user selection, wherein the supplemental view provides supplemental information on processing by the selected laboratory station of the tissue specimen. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188546 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A REAL-TIME WORKFLOW PLATFORM - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for enabling design, generation, and execution of real-time workflows. Such embodiments provide a graphical designer including a plurality of shapes representing the various objects of a workflow that are used to model the workflow. In addition, various embodiments of the graphical designer provide shapes to model aspects of the workflow not found in previous graphical designers. Various embodiments also provide a code generator that converts the representation of the workflow into executable code for multiple target languages. Various embodiments also provide a workflow engine based on a Petri net model responsible for executing the workflow and for delegating tasks to be performed for the workflow to an operating system. In various embodiments, the workflow engine further includes a platform abstraction layer that provides a transition layer from the Petri net language to the operating system language. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188547 | BUSINESS FLOW PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - In order to identify a parallel-executed portion of processes included in a business flow, following stages are executed: obtaining transaction records including a processing time, a process type and an identifier from a database; grouping the transaction records based on the identifier and sorting the transaction records within a group based on the processing time; in case where the processing time included in the transaction record represents only one time, calculating a processing period of each transaction record based on a sequence of the processing times in the transaction records in the group; identifying a transaction record relating to a process executed in parallel based on the distribution of the calculated processing periods for each process type; and identifying, for each group, a business flow of the group based on the processing result of the identifying the transaction record and the transaction records in the group. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195294 | Method and System for High Volume Document Processing - A system and method configured for a dynamic sorting scheme is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving a mailing data corresponding to multiple mailing pieces, analyzing the mailing data based on an intended geographic destinations of the multiple mailing pieces and determining multiple geographic location groupings, filtering the mailing data into the multiple geographic location groupings, selecting a number of product type groupings based on product information of the multiple mailing pieces, electronically sorting the multiple mailing pieces based on mail qualifier criteria, determining a processing schedule of available sorting equipment and personnel for processing the multiple mailing pieces, simulating the processing of the multiple mailing pieces using the processing schedule, adjusting the processing schedule based on a result of the simulating the processing of the multiple mailing pieces, and sorting the multiple mailing pieces into multiple processing jobs. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195295 | TASK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention provides a system, method, and computer readable medium for facilitating the execution of one or more tasks. Each worker may be provided with an electronic device capable of determining and transmitting its geographical location (and thus the worker's geographical location) to the computer system via one or more computer networks. In one embodiment, the system allows for the tracking of each task or work-related activity performed by each worker. The system may include pre-determined workflows to assist the worker in completing a task. Workflows may include recommended solutions to problems that may be encountered given the project or task at issue. In one embodiment, one or more effectiveness metrics may be utilized in order to ascertain the effectiveness of one or more of the workflows. | 07-10-2014 |
20140200950 | Methods and Systems for Automatic Operation Abstraction and Custom Service Instantiation - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automatically generating abstract operations and mapping inputs/outputs to efficiently automate the generation of new custom services. A computing device can identify keywords associated with one or more services and cluster the one or more services based on the keywords. Additionally, the computing device can further cluster concrete operations from the one or more services based on keywords associated with the concrete operations. Using the operation clusters, the computing device can generate abstract operations, which can be mapped to the concrete operations and between different abstract operations. Upon receipt of a request for a custom service, the computing device can select abstract operations based on an identified service cluster associated of the custom service, and can further select appropriate concrete operations based on the service cluster and/or received parameters associated with the custom service. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207515 | Methods and systems for utilizing repair orders in determining diagnostic repairs - A method and system for publishing a real-fix tip associated with one or more repairs orders. A fix-generator data processing machine (DPM) can retrieve a repair order (RO) from an RO database configured to store published or unpublished RO. The fix-generator DPM can select standard text phrases to identify a complaint, a cause, and a correction to generate a real-fix tip. A coordinator DPM can review the real-fix tip prior to publication of the real-fix tip. The coordinator DPM can return the real-fix tip for revising at the fix-generator DPM and can display the revised real-fix tip for further review of the real-fix tip. Published real-fix tips, alone or along with the RO associated with the real-fix tip, can be presented to an RO receiver DPM. Unpublished RO can be received in an electronic form or in paper form and converted to the electronic form. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214477 | BUSINESS EVENT PROCESSING - Techniques for business event processing are presented. Methods and apparatuses disclosed herein may operate to receive a request to perform an operation on a listing previously published by an online marketplace; to identify at least one additional listing having certain characteristics in common with the listing from a plurality of previously published listings including the listing; and to automatically perform the operation on the at least one additional listing. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214478 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED WORKFLOW SCALING - A system is provided. The system comprises a first computer located in a first plant, a first memory, and a first object based process management application stored in the first memory. The system further comprises a second computer located in a location separate from the first plant, a second memory, and a second object based process management application stored in the second memory. When executed on the first computer, the first application invokes scripts in response to events and the scripts launch tasks. When executed on the second computer, the second computer invokes scripts in response to events and the scripts launch tasks, one of the events acted on by the second application is a message received from the first application. | 07-31-2014 |
20140236662 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A RULES ENGINE SYSTEM - Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for that have a cross-module scope for facilitating the use and management of rules on an application level. The rules engine system is configured to accept inputs from multiple modules of an application, retrieve data from multiple modules, and cause actions to be carried out by multiple modules. A rules engine provider component of the system is isolated from a rules manager component of the system by a rules wrapper component, such that the rules manager component is unaffected by changes that are made to the rules engine provider component. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING UNIFIED WORKFLOWS INTEGRATING MULTIPLE COMPUTER NETWORK RESOURCES - A computer network implemented system is provided comprising a workflow designer that is operable to enable the design of one or more workflows that utilize information or functions from one or more (i) business systems, (ii) applications, or (iii) databases; and an application programming interface (API) that is configured to connect to the (i) business systems, (ii) applications or (iii) databases so as to monitor user actions, and based on such user interactions applying one or more workflow overlays that incorporate one or more intelligent features for enhancing functions of the business systems and the applications. A related computer implemented method is also provided. A computer network service is also provided that acquires information relevant to sales processes and processes the information to generate insights for improving sales performance. A sales forecasting utility is provided that applies data analysis operations to information elements relevant to a sales process. Insights may be presented to a sales representative on a real time or near real time basis so as to guide sales related activities. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236664 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC ON-DEMAND CONTEXT SENSITIVE CLUSTER ANALYSIS - A particular method includes selecting a subset of a plurality of dimension members of a multi-dimensional data set. The method also includes computing a plurality of dimensional scores for the dimension members in the selected subset. Each dimensional score is associated with a particular dimension member in the subset and is a measure of a dimensional influence of the associated dimension member on a metric associated with the multi-dimensional data set. A dimension member with greater dimensional influence affects a value of the metric over a population more than a dimension member with less dimensional influence. The method further includes ranking the dimension members in the selected subset based on the dimensional scores. | 08-21-2014 |
20140257914 | PROVIDING INTERACTION EFFICIENCY INFORMATION TO A CUSTOMER - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing interaction efficiency information to a customer. Embodiments determine that the customer is traveling to or is currently located in proximity to a financial institution physical location; determine interaction efficiency information associated with the financial institution physical location; and provide the determined interaction efficiency information to the customer. The interaction efficiency information may include information related to one or more wait times at the financial institution physical location, where the one or more wait times include a wait time for a drive through station outside the financial institution physical location and a wait time for a teller inside the financial institution physical location. In some embodiments, the interaction efficiency information includes one or more visual representations of one or more wait lines associated with one or more stations of the financial institution physical location. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257915 | AUTOMATING A GOVERNANCE PROCESS OF OPTIMIZING A PORTFOLIO OF SERVICES IN A GOVERNED SOA - Modeling a governance process of optimizing a portfolio of services in a governed SOA and generating, in dependence upon the modeled governance process, one or more automation modules, each automation module including a module of computer program instructions that supports performance of one or more steps of the modeled governance process, where the modeled governance process includes determining whether a collection of service artifacts matches one or more service artifacts stored in a service registry; if no service artifacts stored in the service registry match the collection of service artifacts, initiating creation of a service in accordance with the collection of service artifacts; if one or more service artifacts stored in the service registry match the collection of service artifacts: selecting, in dependence upon predefined action selection criteria, a service administration action to perform; obtaining approval of the selected service administration action; and initiating the selected service administration action. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257916 | EMBROIDERY DESIGN PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided is an embroidery design production management apparatus that enables a producer to predict a delivery schedule for an order quantity for checking whether it is possible to obtain the production order of an order placer and produce and manage the ordered embroidery designs according to the order schedule of the order placer, in producing embroidery designs. | 09-11-2014 |
20140278723 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING WORKFLOW PREFERENCES - A method of evaluating a workflow may include identifying a plurality of workflows. Each workflow may be associated with one or more users, and each workflow may represent a flow of data between a plurality of services via one or more execution paths. The method may include clustering, by a computing device, the execution paths associated with the plurality of workflows into a plurality of groups. The clustering may be based on the associated services. The method may include creating, by the computing device, a feature tree for each group, clustering, by the computing device, at least a portion of the users into a plurality of interest groups based on at least one of the feature trees, and for at least one of the interest groups, predicting, by the computing device, one or more preferences for one or more users in the interest group. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278724 | BUSINESS PROCESS COMPLIANCE VIA SECURITY VALIDATION SERVICE ON THE CLOUD - A computer-implemented method provides remote Security Validation as a Service (SVaaS) to one or more business process modeler clients. The method includes receiving on a cloud-based server, from a remote business process modeler client, a request for validation of a business process model and related information for a business process compliance problem including the business process work flow and security-related aspects of the business process. The method further includes sending the business process compliance problem from the server to a model checker for validation and receiving, at the server, validation results from the model checker and making the validation results available to the remote business process modeler client. The method can include enhancing the remote client with a connector module that is configured to collect information on the business process compliance problem and to communicate such information to the server. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278725 | ENTERPRISE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A comprehensive enterprise product management system to effectuate efficient product time to market. The system includes a process model and a data model. The process model consists of entities that represent typical concepts in a trade setting and relationships among these entities. The data model represents the complexity of a product, including defining the entities that comprise the product and the relationship among these entities. An input mechanism is provided to facilitate entry of a new product to the enterprise. The process model and the data model accommodate the dynamic characteristics associated with both product definition and channels of trade. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278726 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING WORKFLOW - The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for managing workflow. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a method may include receiving a communication from a customer, the communication being associated with a financial service account of the customer. The method may also include determining one or more document types associated with the communication, and comparing the one or more document types to at least one priority level hierarchy. Additionally, the method may include determining a document identification number for the communication based on the comparison, assigning the document identification number to at least one queue based on the document identification number, and providing access to a document associated with the communication to a first agent on a request for one or more document identification numbers from the queue. One or more second agents may additionally be denied access. | 09-18-2014 |
20140278727 | INTELLECTUAL ASSET FAMILY CREATION - An example embodiment includes a method for creating a family of related intellectual asset (IA) records. The method may include obtaining IA data for a current filing. The method may include creating an IA record for the current filing. The method may include obtaining IA data for one or more related filings. The current filing and the one or more related filings belong to a family of intellectual assets. The method may also include preparing for creation of a plurality of IA records for the one or more related filings based on the IA data for the current filing and the IA data for the one or more related filings. The method may further include creating a plurality of new IA records for the one or more related filings. | 09-18-2014 |
20140304027 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WORKFLOW CLUSTER PROFILE GENERATION AND SEARCH - A system and method for generating and searching workflow cluster profiles by generating a workflow similarity graph based on multiple workflows, generating a set of workflow clusters based on the workflow similarity graph, generating workflow cluster profiles for the set of workflow clusters, receiving a querying workflow, and comparing the querying workflow to the workflow cluster profiles. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304028 | EXECUTION OF FLOW DIAGRAMS - In some embodiments, a method comprises processing parameters at a current node of a plurality of nodes in a process flow diagram. The method may further, in some embodiments, comprise receiving a signal at the current node from a first immediate preceding node of the plurality of nodes. The first immediate preceding node may be connected to the current node, in some embodiments. In some embodiments, the method may include: determining whether the current node is connected to a second immediate preceding node of the plurality of nodes in the process flow diagram, and in response to determining the current node is connected to the second immediate preceding node, determining whether to process parameters associated with the current node in absence of receipt of a signal from the second immediate preceding node or to wait to receive the signal from the second immediate preceding node prior to processing the parameters. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304029 | Enterprise Product Management System and Method - A comprehensive enterprise product management system to effectuate efficient product time to market. The system includes a process model and a data model. The process model consists of entities that represent typical concepts in a trade setting and relationships among these entities. The data model represents the complexity of a product, including defining the entities that comprise the product and the relationship among these entities. The process model and the data model accommodate the dynamic characteristics associated with both product definition and channels of trade. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310053 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING BUSINESS PROCESS SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS UTILIZING A BUSINESS PROCESS MODELER - A system and method for providing a real-time business process suggestion and recommendation utilizing a business process modeler. A dynamic input from a business analyst can be incorporated utilizing a real-time suggestion engine. A real-time search can be performed by organizing a number of business processes in a tree structure where each leaf node represents a business process and each branch node represents a set of components that are shared by the business processes in a sub tree. A semantic execution path search can be performed to provide a real-time match between the partial business process and a catalogue of existing business processes by determining a constituent component and a score based on a reachability rule. The edges and/or components can be added and/or deleted to effectively organize the existing business processes based on previous suggestion to speed up a future suggestion. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310054 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING WORKFLOW COMPATIBILITY - Disclosed are a method and a system for comparing established workflows against a workflow pattern to determine their degree of compatibility with this workflow pattern. In the method and system, compatibility scores between established workflows and a workflow pattern can be determined. To determine the compatibility score between a workflow pattern, which comprises first tasks, and an established workflow, which comprises second tasks, equivalent tasks in the established workflow can be identified. Then, dependency matrices can be constructed for the first tasks in the workflow pattern and the equivalent tasks in the established workflow. These dependency matrices can be compared in order to identify any dependency relation matches in corresponding task pairs. Values can be assigned to the dependency relation matches and compatibility scores can be determined based on the sum of those values. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310055 | Progressive Refinement Model for Business Processes - In one embodiment, a method for refining a business process model includes receiving business process data pertaining to a first phase of a business process definition from a first class of users, creating a model of a business process using the business process data received from the first class of users, receiving business process data pertaining to a second phase of the business process definition from a second class of users, and augmenting the model of the business process based on the business process data received from the second class of users. The method further includes iteratively refining the model of the business process in response to input provided by the first class of users and/or the second class of users. | 10-16-2014 |
20140316843 | AUTOMATICALLY-GENERATED WORKFLOW REPORT DIAGRAMS - A facility for providing a workflow report document for a number of instances of a business process is described. In connection with information specifying the display of an arrangement of shapes each representing a constituent action of the business process, the facility provides information specifying the display in connection with shapes of the arrangement of at least one business process measure aggregated across all of the instances of the process. | 10-23-2014 |
20140316844 | MESSAGING ENGINE - A supply chain management system comprising: a system server comprising a central processor and a database; a plurality of user computers communicating with the system server over a network; the system server running a software process defining: an interface layer configured to communicate messages and business transactions bi-directionally between the user computers and the system server; and a services layer configured to apply business logic to the messages and business transaction and process them according to a predefined workflow of the supply chain management system, the services layer comprising a messaging engine module configured to send and receive messages triggered by the business transactions, the messages composed according to predefined system rules. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324515 | BUSINESS PROCESS DISCOVERY USING DOCUMENT TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES - A document tracking module is associated with a physical document utilized within a business organization. Physical movement of the document is monitored through different departments of the business organization using information derived from the document tracking module. A business process flow within the business organization is discovered from the monitored physical movement of the document through the different departments of the business organization. A business process model, including details of the discovered business process flow within the business organization, is generated. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324516 | EXPEDITED PROCESS EXECUTION USING PROBABILITIES - Embodiments relate to determining a process outcome based on a computed probability and altering the path of a process instance based on an expediting rule. An aspect includes executing, by a processing device, a process instance in a process diagram, which includes a plurality of process steps. A condition associated with a first process step is identified. An outcome for the first process step is then determined based on a computed probability. Accordingly, the first process step is bypassed and the process instance is branched to a second process step based on an expediting rule. The expediting rule includes the condition and a branching action according to a selected outcome. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324517 | Communication Data Analysis and Processing System and Method - Systems and methods are provided for assessing risks and efficiencies based on enterprise communications information. A method for assessing risks and efficiencies based on enterprise communications information may include: collecting information from digital data tools over at least one computer network into a storage database in a computer memory; executing instructions on a computer processor to synthesize the employee communications data into structured data; mining the structured data to generate exploratory data; performing analytics on the structured data to generate confirmatory data; disambiguating the confirmatory data and exploratory data; determining a business impact based on the exploratory and confirmatory data; and implementing a business process based on a quantification of said business impact. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324518 | AUTOTAGGING BUSINESS PROCESSES - A method of autotagging business processes for monitoring analysis of an IT system within an organization is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: modeling an IT system associated with one or more business processes, into a model representing the business processes as process instances; tracking a flow of information entities throughout nodes located along the process instances; extracting, at each one of the nodes, tags associated with each one of the information entities flowing through the process instance; aggregating over time, the extracted tags being associated with its respective node and process instance; and visually representing the aggregated tags in association with its respective business processes, based on the model. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330614 | Validating SAM Schemas Based on Business Functionalities - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for evaluating a validity of an extended status and action management (SAM) schema. In some implementations, actions include receiving the extended SAM schema, the extended SAM schema being stored as a computer-readable document in memory and being an extension of a core SAM schema, receiving one or more business functionalities, at least one business functionality including a plurality of status vectors along a core trace that can be achieved in the core SAM schema, the one or more business functionalities being provided in a computer-readable document stored in memory, and processing the extended SAM schema and the one or more business functionalities using a computer-executable model checking tool for evaluating a validity of the extended SAM schema. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337084 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING IT ASSETS WITH BUSINESS FUNCTIONS - A method is provided herein, comprising identifying activated business functions being part of a business application; tracing IT assets, each being a software and/or a hardware component, running over a computerized system; associating the traced IT assets with the identified activated business function; and constructing, based on reiterated tracing and associating with respect to the business functions, a representation of an association of the IT assets with the business functions. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337085 | CONTEXTUAL SERVICE WORKFLOW RECOMMENDATION USING RANDOM WALK ON SOCIAL NETWORK AND SERVICE NETWORK - The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for recommending specific service instances to fill a service workflow template and complete a user's service goal. Some embodiments utilize both a user trust network and a service trust network. Such embodiments perform a random walk on the service trust network and consider the opinions of trusted neighbors of the customer in the user trust network. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344006 | ANALYTICS BASED SERVICE CATALOG MANAGEMENT - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for service catalog management. A computer identifies information corresponding to a plurality of service requests included on a service desk, wherein the identified information includes usage and financial information corresponding to the plurality of service requests. The computer determines a service offering candidate for inclusion in a service catalog, wherein the service offering candidate is determined from the plurality of service requests included in the service desk. The computer determines a fulfillment solution corresponding to the service offering candidate, wherein the fulfillment solution includes a workflow process for the service offering candidate, scripts for automating procedures, offering parameters, and costs associated with the service offering candidate. In another embodiment, the computer activates the service offering candidate and corresponding fulfillment solution in the service catalog after receiving approval. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344007 | PLANT OPERATING POINT DETERMINATION BY INTEGRATING PROFIT PROFILE AND RISK PROFILE - A method for controlling physical processes includes providing a process model for a physical process run by a processing plant, where the process model represents an interaction between a plurality of controlled process variables and provides a variability measure for at least a portion of the controlled process variables. The process model is used with software run on a computing device to simulate an updated operating point including an updated value or updated range for at least one selected controlled process variable, where the simulation generates a future risk profile and future profit profile for the selected controlled process variable. Risk/profit profile information is generated for the selected controlled process variable from the future risk profile together with information from the future profit profile into at least one of a combined text, numeric, and graphical representation which includes an alarm limit for the selected controlled process variable. | 11-20-2014 |
20140358625 | Operating Support System, Operating Support Method and Operating Support Program - An operating support system includes a control unit having: accepting the specifications required for a new case; searching a second database based on the accepted specifications; obtaining past cases similar to the extent that the specifications meet predetermined standards; extracting a record of the obtained case from a first database; determining the coefficient by which the presence/absence value is multiplied as the side effect degree for the extracted record; calculating the optimized side effect degree for each task of the obtained record, by calculating the sum of values obtained by multiplying the presence/absence value by the side effect degree for the tasks, and by calculating the difference between the calculated sum and the evaluation value; and comparing the magnitude relationship between the calculated side effect degree and a predetermined threshold to output the task corresponding to the side effect degree, as the task that is omittable in the new case. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365266 | ENTERPRISE PROCESS EVALUATION - Method and system for performing an evaluation of an enterprise process. The method includes receiving process data for a plurality of activities associated with the at least one enterprise process. The process data depicts a current state of the at least one enterprise process. Based on the process data, a plurality of lean metrics for each of the plurality of activities is calculated. Upon calculating the plurality of lean metrics, a lean maturity assessment is performed to evaluate the enterprise process by comparing the current state of the enterprise process with a target state of the enterprise process based at least on the process data and target data depicting the target state of the enterprise process. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365267 | Global Enterprise Printing and Mailing - Systems, devices, and methods for global enterprise workflow management are disclosed. The system may include a communications module, memory, and processor for executing a method of managing job information. The system receives job information and uses a model to identify a desirable resource to execute the job. Then the system sends the job information to the identified resource for execution. The resource may send back information associated with the running and/or completion of the job. Various models may be used in identifying a desirable approach, including a cost model, a staffing model, and other models. | 12-11-2014 |
20140379415 | SOCIAL WORKFLOW ENGINE - A social collaboration workflow system embeds social collaboration functionality into the workflow process. The system identifies a location of a user device, and identifying a current activity associated with the user device based on the identified location. The system displays instructions for performing the current activity to a user interface on the user device, and displays an activity feed comprising a set of previously submitted activity feed posts that are related to the current activity to the user interface. The system determines whether the current activity has changed to a new current activity. If the current activity has changed, the system displays instructions for performing the new current activity to the user interface, and displays a new set of previously submitted activity feed posts that are related to the new current activity to the user interface. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379416 | FEDERATED UPTAKE THROTTLING - In a first enterprise joined in a distributed, federated network of second enterprises, a system is provided for managing data flow between enterprises, the system including a data management server in the first enterprise having access to sets of rules for managing data flow to and from the first enterprise, a first data interface in the first enterprise dedicated to data transfer to a paired second dedicated data interface at a neighboring second enterprise in the federation, wherein the first data interface manages data sent to the second interface and/or data incoming from the second interface according to the sets of rules for managing data flow. | 12-25-2014 |
20150025931 | BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FORECASTING - A method and apparatus to determine: (a) the likelihood and timing for a sales opportunity to become a sale based on analytical models that incorporate the history of sales stage evolution and other covariates; and (b) the expected number of sales from invisible opportunities prior to a target date. Additionally, the method and apparatus is configured to predict an expected amount of revenue and/or an amount of resources given a current sales history. | 01-22-2015 |
20150025932 | IN-FIELD DEVICE FOR DE-CENTRALIZED WORKFLOW AUTOMATION - In one example, a system is provided. The system includes a portable, in-field unit including: a tag reader to acquire an ID tag identifier from a tag located in or on a physical item positioned within functional range of the in-field unit tag reader; a digital processor arranged for executing software code stored in the in-field unit responsive to the acquired ID tag identifier, the stored software code including—a customer application layer; and a database adapter component configured to provide database services to the processor; wherein the database services include accessing a stored database to acquire stored data associated with the acquired ID tag identifier. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032499 | BUSINESS PROCESS EVENT MAPPING - Methods and systems for mapping an event type to an activity in a business process model are disclosed. In accordance with one such method, the event type and the activity are tokenized by determining event tokens for event type labels in the event type and determining activity tokens for activity labels in the activity. In addition, a score matrix is generated for pairs of the event tokens and the activity tokens indicating a degree of similarity between the event token and the activity token in each of the pairs. The method also includes determining whether the event type and the activity are correlated by determining scores of the pairs of event tokens and activity tokens that are ranked highest in said score matrix. Further, a mapping report indicating whether the event type and the activity are correlated in the business process model is output. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039381 | CUSTOMER REQUEST WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for enrolling for electronically generating, submitting, transmitting, or processing a request. In practice, an associate may electronically input information associated with a received customer service request. Inputting this information into an electronic system may generate a formal internal request for a particular service to be completed. Specifically, the present invention may address at least four types of services: rushing a replacement bank card to the customer; opening a processing closure account; reporting a non-working automatic teller machine; or a financial data entry system request. The formal internal request and information associated with the request may then be automatically submitted to a queue in which customer account information is masked, and the request may also be transmitted to a second user. Once the request is received by the FLM, the FLM may complete or deny the service request. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039382 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING WORKFLOW - A cluster-based workflow system is provided which has the advantage of executing a workflow created by a non-IT researcher in a way that is suitable for computing resources in a cluster environment. The user can quickly analyze workflows using third-party applications, such as a large-scale bio data analysis workflow, a weather forecast data analysis workflow, or a customer relationship management (CRM) data analysis workflow, by using a large-scale computing cluster. In addition, third-party applications not optimized for a cluster environment can be automatically distributed and executed in parallel by preliminary analysis so that they run properly in the cluster environment. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039383 | Methods and Systems for a Product Selection Tool - A computer-implemented method for determining a desired product for performing a workflow is provided. The method includes receiving a selection of a desired workflow from a user. The desired workflow includes a set of steps including at least one step. The method includes receiving a selection of a step from the set of steps from the user, then displaying a plurality of product categories associated with the selected step. The method further includes receiving a selection of a product category of the plurality of product categories from the user, then displaying a plurality of products associated with the selected product category, and a plurality of associated metrics associated with each of the products of the plurality of products. At least one of the associated metrics is determined from input from a plurality of users. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046212 | MONITORING OF BUSINESS PROCESSES AND SERVICES USING CONCEPT PROBES AND BUSINESS PROCESS PROBES - A computer-implemented business process monitoring system and method are disclosed. The business process runs in a Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) having a BPMS monitoring component. The activities of the business process communicate with services running in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) having an SOA monitoring component. The system includes memory which stores a concept probe and optionally a business process probe. The concept probe receives information from the BPMS monitoring component and the SOA monitoring component about activities associated with the concept probe and aggregates the information, generating alerts. The business process probe receives information from the concept probes and the BPMS and aggregates the data, generating alerts. | 02-12-2015 |
20150066574 | BUSINESS OPERATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF GENERATING PROCESSING RELATED TO A BUSINESS OPERATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM - A business operation processing system holds business operation flow model management information in which a business operation flow model indicating an order of elements that are executed in a business operation of the type is registered, and merchandise business operation flow processing management information in which an article of merchandise, a merchandise configuration indicating whether the article of merchandise is prerequisite merchandise or optional merchandise, and a merchandise business operation flow are registered. The merchandise business operation flow processing management information having registered therein a business operation processing relation between business operation processing of the optional merchandise and the optional merchandise. Business operation processing of the optional merchandise business operation flow is executed in a manner determined by its relation to business operation processing of the prerequisite merchandise that is registered as the business operation processing relation. | 03-05-2015 |
20150073858 | METADATA-DRIVEN AUDIT REPORTING SYSTEM WITH HIERARCHICAL RELATIONSHIPS - A system is provided that reports audit data. The system defines audit metadata that defines a business object of an application module and an attribute of the business object as being auditable. The system further defines business object metadata that defines a hierarchical relationship between the business object and a child business object. The system further generates audit data for the attribute of the business object based on the audit metadata, where the audit data includes a history of modifications to the attribute of the business object. The system further displays the audit data within a user interface. The system further displays the business object and the hierarchical relationship between the business object and the child business object within the user interface based on the business object metadata. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081376 | CUSTOMIZATION OF EVENT MANAGEMENT AND INCIDENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES - A method includes analyzing, by a computer device, data associated with tickets generated in a managed environment. The method also includes generating, by the computer device, a suggested rule change based on the analyzing. The method further includes receiving, by the computer device, an acceptance or denial of the suggested rule change. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088591 | Method and System for Identifying and Visualizing Work Transfers Using Financial Data - Disclosed are methods and systems for identifying and visualizing the patterns of work transfers for service delivery using financial data. Within a service firm, work is often transferred from one delivery center to another, which results in additional costs and delays in service delivery. To control unnecessary work transfers, sustained patterns of work transfer are identified so that steps can be taken to limit their occurrence. The disclosed methods and systems analyze the relations among the costs transferred from one location to another. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088592 | CONVERTING A TEXT OPERATIONAL MANUAL INTO A BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL OR WORKFLOW DIAGRAM - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for generating a workflow diagram corresponding to text describing a business process. A computer identifies activities in steps of a business process by parsing text describing the business process. The computer determines activity names associated with the identified activities. The computer identifies roles associated with actors performing the identified activities. The computer identifies a sequence in which the identified activities are executed. The computer generates a workflow diagram of the business process based on the identified activities, determined activity names corresponding to the identified activities, identified roles associated with the identified activities, and the identified sequence in which the identified activities are executed. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATEGORIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONVERSATION FOR RESPONSE MANAGEMENT - A computer implemented method for customer response management the method comprising the step of collecting information from social networking sites wherein the information is at least a post or comment for at least a brand or product; identifying customer among pluralities of authors of the information on the social networking sites; categorizing the information into at least a complaint, lead, service request, information request or feedback; analyzing the categorized information; prioritizing the analyzed information; and routing the prioritized information to at least a concerned personnel or a work flow of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for response. The method further comprising identifying the influence of the customer wherein the influence is at least a global influence or local influence. The identification of customer is done by fetching information from at least the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system or social profile aggregator service. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECONFIGURABLE WORKFLOWS - Methods, non-transitory computer-readable media and apparatuses for modifying a task flow are disclosed. For example, a method receives a request to modify the task flow template which is associated with a plurality of task flow modification rules. The method determines whether the request violates a modification rule of the plurality of task flow modification rules. A first rule specifies that no automated tasks in the task flow template can be deleted and a second rule specifies that no automated task in the task flow template can be moved to precede another automated task on which it depends. The method rejects the request when the request is determined to violate one of the first rule and the second rule of the plurality of task flow modification rules. Otherwise, the method modifies the task flow template in accordance with the request to produce a modified task flow template. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095098 | WORK MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A management system manages the works performed to a predetermined target device. A management system stores, in a storage device, a first work definition showing a first work to be performed by an operator to a target device, a second work definition showing a second work for acquiring evidence for confirming a result of one first work among the one or more first works, and flow information including order information prescribing an execution order of the first work and the second work. The management system determines whether the timing has come to execute the second work based on the flow information and, when the timing has come to execute the second work, performs a support display for causing the operator to acquire evidence, and stores the evidence acquired based on the support display in the storage device by associating the acquired evidence with work flow information. | 04-02-2015 |
20150142505 | PROCESSING EVENT INSTANCE DATA IN A CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURE - A process analysis system processes event data describing real-world processes. The process analysis system performs the following acts: importing event instance data sets from an information management system, each set having one or more attributes describing an event instance in the real-world process; for each event instance, determining a corresponding process instance based on at least the attributes; determining event order attribute(s) for each imported event instance data set based on other event instance data sets corresponding to the same process instance; forming an analysis result set based on at least the event instance data sets and at least one first or second attribute; the client(s) presenting an analysis utilizing the analysis result set. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149235 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE A QUALITY OF DATA EMPLOYED BY A HEALTHCARE ANALYTICS SYSTEM - An example method disclosed herein includes receiving a data submission in a healthcare analytics system. The healthcare analytics system is to generate an analytic solution based on the data submission. The example method also includes determining, by the healthcare analytics system, an opportunity to improve a quality of data to be employed by the healthcare analytics system to generate the analytic solution based on a trend of previously received data submissions and the data submission. The example method further includes generating an alert including a recommended change to at least one of a characteristic of the data submission or a portion of a workflow of the healthcare analytics system based on the opportunity. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149236 | MERCHANT ACTION RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods for recommending merchant actions include a physical merchant location having a plurality of beacon devices. A system provider device receives a plurality of first location information from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a customer beacon communication device that is associated with a customer. The system provider device also receives a plurality of second location information over the network from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a merchant beacon communication device that is associated with an asset of the merchant. The system provider device analyzes the plurality of first location information and the plurality of second location information to determine at least one merchant action recommendation related to the customer and the asset of the merchant and provides the at least one merchant action recommendation over the network for display on a display device. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149237 | Systems and methods to improve sales effectiveness utilizing a moving, contextually relevant navigator to guide sales representatives in prospect communications based on prospect's digital and conversational behavior and organization's best sales practices - Systems and methods to optimize sales performance operating in the manner a sales rep works: capturing prospect interactions real-time, providing a navigation tool and talking points to facilitate timely and relevant communications, and automatically updating Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and other systems—enabling users to effectively execute sales strategies. Prospect interactions are time-stamped and tracked to create a story-so-far record for each prospect. A customized, key-word searchable database of talking points provides intelligent, consistent knowledge to the user during prospect communications. Unlimited, unique moving navigators categorize talking points according to the organization's database of information and are customized to optimize data retrieval. Drag-and-drop emails are created by selecting pre-defined, best practice talking points or can be personalized in one-to-one campaigns, and include automated embedded tracking of prospect's email opens and clicks. All activities are timed and tracked from beginning to close of sale providing sales process analyses. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149238 | JOB SITE MATERIAL TRACKING AND DISCREPANCY RECONCILIATION - Utilities designed to track and report on numerous aspects of the movement of assets from an organization and/or customer's location to one or more job sites of a project and vice versa to allow the organization and/or customer(s) to monitor such asset movements. Broadly, the utilities employ a number of timing modules that are each configured to monitor for the occurrence of one or more events (e.g., organization acquires customer's assets, assets picked up from organization's warehouse by general contractor, assets checked into job site by general contractor, etc.) and collect or generate metrics related to the performance of the events. The disclosed utilities provide for increased visibility (e.g., transparency) into various types of performance metrics (e.g., in relation to accuracy, completeness, delays, etc.) related to the movement of the assets and thus allow organizations, their customers, and the like to more readily identify asset misplacement, mismanagement, etc. | 05-28-2015 |
20150302323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF A WORKFORCE - A method (e.g., for increasing the efficiency of a mission) includes tracking, with an electronic locating device, movements of an operator while the operator is performing a sequential series of tasks in a first order to complete a mission, examining the movements of the operator and completion of the tasks in the first order with one or more computer processors to determine if the tasks can be completed in a more efficient order than the first order, determining a different, second order of the tasks that is more efficient than the first order in which the tasks were completed when the movements of the operator were tracked, and generating a presentation of the second order of the tasks for display on an electronic mobile device during another performance of the tasks. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302324 | OBJECT LIFECYCLE ANALYSIS TOOL - Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for generating analytical graphs that display a visualization of multiple transaction objects processed concurrently in a computer system. An object lifecycle analysis tool identifies one or more transaction objects having a specified identifier. Each transaction object corresponds to an instance of a common transaction having been processed. The analysis tool retrieves transition state information corresponding to each transaction object and sorts the transition state information in chronological order. The analysis tool generates a graph based on the sorted transition state information. The generated graph allows a user to easily identify performance issues (e.g., concurrency bottlenecks) in a transaction management system. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310363 | DIAGNOSTIC WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT WITH PLUGGABLE REPORT SECTIONS - A method of operating a data processing system for diagnostic workflow management with generation of sectional reports includes defining an extension point for report sections enabling users to create one or more independent pluggable components each of which implements a user-configurable report section. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317575 | ASSET-DRIVEN WORKFLOW MODELING - Asset-driven workflow dependency management establishes connections between activities based on the descriptions of the assets used as inputs and/or outputs for each activity. These descriptive “contracts” provide a mechanism to match relevant activities necessary to create a desired output. Graphical representations of activities are used to model venders, facilities and other production activities. Using the models of activities, a model of the production pipeline can be built from back to front. Thus, a final result activity model is selected first and based on the assets required by the selected final result activity an appropriate activity that produces that required asset can be selected. A real world process pipeline can then be formed based on the model and the model can be used to track the status of the real world production pipeline: | 11-05-2015 |
20150324713 | AUTOMATED DESIGN OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE SOLUTIONS - A computer implemented method for automated design of information technology solutions. In an embodiment, the method comprises identifying a client for whom the service solution is being provided, and an applicable technology domain associated with the client; identifying a market segment associated with the client; generating a market-based profile for the client, the market-based profile derived, at least in part, from the identified market segment and the applicable technology domain; retrieving applicable workload profiles for the client, wherein the applicable workload profiles are retrieved, at least in part, by mapping the generated market-based profile for the client to a plurality of workload profiles; and generating a prototype solution, based, at least in part, on alignment of the applicable workload profiles to the market-based profile for the client. The method further includes customizing the prototype solution to provide a solution that includes client-unique specification of service solution parameters. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324714 | Method of Generating An Optimized Ship Schedule To Deliver Liquefied Natural Gas - A system and method is provided for generating an optimized ship schedule to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) from one or more LNG liquefaction terminals to one or more LNG regasification terminals using a fleet of ships. The method involves modeling the ship schedule via an LNG ship scheduling model and a LNG ship rescheduling model to provide optimized decisions for the LNG supply chain. The LNG supply chain includes the one or more LNG liquefaction terminals, the one or more LNG regasification terminals, and the fleet of ships. | 11-12-2015 |
20150332180 | NUMERICAL GRAPHICAL FLOW DIAGRAM CONVERSION AND COMPARISON - A computing device translates each of a group of structured language graphical process flow element representations, that each represents within a structured language one node of a captured graphical process flow diagram of a first business process, into one of a group of numerical strings that each represents within a set of data fields the respective node and connections to and from the respective node. The group of numerical strings is sequenced in accordance with values of the respective data fields within each numerical string that represents the respective node and the connections to and from each represented node of the captured graphical process flow diagram of the first business process. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332183 | FULFILLMENT TRACKING IN ASSET-DRIVEN WORKFLOW MODELING - Asset-driven workflow dependency management establishes connections between activities based on the descriptions of the assets used as inputs and/or outputs for each activity. Graphical representations of activities are used to model venders, facilities and other production activities. The activity models produce and/or consume assets that represent the deliverables that are transferred between activities. Using the models of activities, a model of the production pipeline can be built from back to front Thus, a final result activity model is selected first and based on the assets required by the selected final result activity an appropriate activity that produces that required asset can be selected. This process can be repeated until the beginning of a process pipeline is reached. A real world process pipeline can then be formed based on the model and the model can be used to track the status of the real world production pipeline. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339601 | SET HANDLING IN ASSET-DRIVEN WORKFLOW MODELING - Asset-driven workflow dependency management establishes connections between activities based on the descriptions of the assets for each activity. These descriptive “contracts” provide a mechanism to match relevant activities necessary to create a desired output By creating a graphical model of desired workflow a user is provided with a better understanding of what is involved in the. The graphical model can be used to design and track real work productions. Graphical representations of activities are used to model venders, facilities and other production activities. The activity models produce and/or consume assets that represent the deliverables that are transferred between activities. Using the models of activities, a model of the production pipeline can be built from back to front Thus, a final result activity model is selected first and based on the assets required by the selected final result activity an appropriate activity that produces that required asset can be selected. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339603 | METHOD AND APPARAUTS FOR MAPPING PROCESS INFORMATION ONTO ASSET DATA - Asset-driven work flow dependency management establishes connections between activities based on the descriptions of the assets used as inputs and/or outputs for each activity. These descriptive “contracts” enable readily matching relevant activities to create a desired output. The graphical model can be used to design and track real world productions. Graphical representations of activities are used to model venders, facilities and other production activities. The activity models produce and/or consume assets that represent the deliverables that are transferred between activities. Using the models of activities, a model of the production pipeline can be built from back to front. Thus, a final result activity model is selected first and based on the assets required by the selected final result activity an appropriate activity that produces that required asset can be selected. This process can be repeated until the beginning of a process pipeline is reached. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347935 | Configuring Workflows in a Host Device Operating in a Process Control System - In a method of configuring a host device in a process control plant to automatically perform an action or a set of actions includes, a workflow template is generated. The workflow template includes a sequence of one or more steps to be performed by the host device. Each of at least some of the one or more steps is selected from a set of predetermined steps. Then, an instance of the workflow template is generated at the host device. A trigger condition is generated for automatically triggering the instance workflow. The sequence of the one or more steps is executed in response to detecting the trigger condition. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347936 | DATABASE PARTITION - A method for partitioning a database includes obtaining business dependency between data in a plurality of tables in the database on the basis of a business process associated with the database; generating, on the basis of the business dependency, a dependency graph describing a dependency relationship between the plurality of tables; cutting the dependency graph into at least two sub-graphs; and vertically partitioning the database into at least two parts corresponding to the at least two sub-graphs respectively. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356475 | FEEDBACK MECHANISMS FOR INSURANCE WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION - Embodiments provide a method for giving feedback for insurance workflow optimization. The method may include an easy to understand indication, e.g., a visual such as a light bulb that changes hue, which is representative of a metric regarding how workflows are being managed. In an example embodiment, insurance agent data submissions may be processed to categorize each of the plurality of insurance agent data submissions, e.g., as preferred workflow type and non-preferred workflow type. On this basis, a metric may be determined to reflect a proportion of preferred workflow type and non-preferred workflow type in the insurance agent data submissions received. This metric may in turn be formed into an instruction that reflects the metric, with the instruction being communicated to a device at an insurance agency, e.g., a device including a light bulb of changing hue that provides an indication of the metric. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKFLOW INTEGRATION - A system is provided. The system comprises a computer system, an at least one memory; and a first application stored in the at least one memory. When executed by the computer system, the first application automatically executes a workflow that receives a first input from a human machine interface (HMI) in a first plant, in response to the first input generates a first event that assigns a first task associated to a first functional role performed at the first plant, receives a second input associated with the first task, in response to the second input generates a second event that assigns a second task associated to a second functional role, receives a third input associated with the second task, in response to the third input transmits information to the human machine interface that changes the process mediated by the human machine interface in the first plant. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356477 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TECHNOLOGY RISK AND CONTROL - A computer-implemented method and system provides a collaborative framework to assess and manage an enterprise's technology risk and controls for mitigating such risk. The framework is configured to collect risk assessments associated with technology assets from various lines of business within an enterprise, map such risks to appropriate controls and identify and manage control gaps were controls are not in place. The system may comprise a database and a framework application providing access to the database. The framework application is enabled with workflow, such as via rules, to assign tasks to collaborative users and track task completion. Various risk data, control data and workflow-related task data may be stored to the database. Various data views and reports may be generated for identifying tasks for completion, assessing performance and compliance. The rules may be configurable to alter the workflow. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363718 | ONLINE GLOBAL PLANNING SYSTEM FOR INTERNATIONAL THEATER POST PRODUCTION AND ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS - A method, apparatus, system, computer program product, and online collaboration tool provide the ability to track a theatrical media content asset in post-production. A title for the theatrical media content asset is initiated in an online global planning system by creating one or more archival versions. Each of the archival versions represents a cut of the theatrical media content asset that is stored in a vault. A presentation version, that is based on a single unique archival version, is created and represents a localized version of the single unique archival version. Areas of the archival version that are required for localization are identified. Requests to release the presentation version are managed and processed. Milestones representing events that are or have been performed on the title are created, and the completion statuses of the milestones are tracked. | 12-17-2015 |
20150379442 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT AND COMPREHENSIVE PRODUCT CONFIGURATION AND SEARCHING - The present application describes systems and methods for defining a configurable project. In this regard, a first component in a first configurable project may be defined. The first configurable project may then be published. Subsequently, a second configurable project is assigned to a user. In defining a second component, the second component may reference the first component of the first configurable project. If the first component is modified, a notification may be generated in the second configurable project. | 12-31-2015 |
20160019477 | Axis-based workflow visualization for conveying workflow characteristics on a media device - The invention, which is a form of a process map, will be referred to as a wastemap. It is a diagram associated with a process map, or prior art, developed in another location and is to provide a visual representation of the information in a more concise and understandable manner. The wastemap is generated by equating categories and steps within the process map to one or more shapes, typically lines. These shapes will have one serve as the first axis from which associated shapes will originate. These shapes may also vary in attributes based on the characteristics of the originating process map steps. A wastemap is to be generated in a non-transitory computer readable medium. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026943 | UNIFIED THREADED RENDERING OF ACTIVITIES IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - An identifier is assigned to an activity input that is received, and that is related to an activity in a computer system. An activity thread is generated for the activity and additional activities that have the same identifier are added to the same activity thread. The activity thread is saved so that it can be displayed to a user as a unified thread in which activities over multiple different communication channels are displayed on the unified thread. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026944 | IDENTIFYING NEW DISPLAY ELEMENTS IN A UNIFIED THREAD - A user accesses an activity thread that has display elements representing activities that have a common identifier. The activity thread is displayed to the user as a unified thread in which display elements that have been added to the thread since the user last accessed the thread are identified as new to the user. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026945 | TAKING IN-LINE CONTEXTUAL ACTIONS ON A UNIFIED DISPLAY - An activity thread is displayed with display elements representing different types of activities corresponding to a common identifier. A set of contextual action input mechanisms is displayed for a given display element, and are actuable to take action in a context of the given display element. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026946 | FILTERING RECORDS ON A UNIFIED DISPLAY - An activity thread is displayed with display elements that represent different activities that correspond to a common identifier. The display includes filter user input mechanisms that are actuated to filter the display elements based on filter criteria. | 01-28-2016 |
20160063404 | UNIVERSAL BACK OFFICE WORKFLOW - According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system includes a workflow engine for performing a claim processing workflow. The workflow includes: a notice workflow that initiates processing of a claim; an investigation workflow that investigates the claim; a recovery workflow that recovers a value associated with the claim; and a resolution workflow that concludes processing of a claim. The notice, investigation, recovery, and resolution workflows each comprise preconditions common among the plurality of organizations. The notice, investigation, recovery, and resolution workflows each comprise customization points. The customization points are configured to perform organization-specific workflow actions. The system also includes a customized workflow module associated with one of the plurality of organizations and configured to perform an organization-specific claims processing workflow. The customized workflow module communicates, to the workflow engine, organization-specific actions to be performed at the customization points of each of the notice, investigation, recovery, and resolution workflows. | 03-03-2016 |
20160071034 | WORKFLOW PROVISION WITH WORKFLOW DISCOVERY, CREATION AND RECONSTRUCTION BY ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATIONS - Discovering workflows in communications exchanged between a sender and at least one recipient. A communication is received and analyzed to detect workflow. The analyzing of the communication detects the sender and the at least one recipient from the communication; analyzes the communication to extract questions and corresponding responses; stores the questions and responses in a repository; generates a link to the questions and responses in the repository, and generating a user interface for the link to the questions and responses in the repository. A communication is then sent to the at least one recipient with a link to the questions and responses in the repository, extracted from the communication, replacing the questions and responses present in the communication. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078375 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES - A computer-implemented method for recommending agricultural activities is implemented by an agricultural intelligence computer system in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a plurality of field definition data, retrieving a plurality of input data from a plurality of data networks, determining a field region based on the field definition data, identifying a subset of the plurality of input data associated with the field region, determining a plurality of field condition data based on the subset of the plurality of input data, identifying a plurality of field activity options, determining a recommendation score for each of the plurality of field activity options based at least in part on the plurality of field condition data, and providing a recommended field activity option from the plurality of field activity options based on the plurality of recommendation scores. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WORKFLOW ANALYSIS - A system and method for workflow analysis includes an evaluation module executing on a processor that receives execution logs including records of workflow paths traversed. The evaluation module correlates at least one workflow step with a target metric and generates an importance score for the at least one workflow step based on the correlation with the target metric. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086111 | ASSESSING PROJECT RISKS - One or more computer processors generate a probability model for a cycle time of a complexity category of a completed project. One or more computer processors determine an overdue risk probability of an active project using the generated probability model. The completed project has a start date and an end date. In addition, the cycle time reflects the time difference between the start date and the end date. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092803 | CROSS-DOMAIN MULTI-ATTRIBUTE HASHED AND WEIGHTED DYNAMIC PROCESS PRIORITIZATION - In response to receipt of a process-level input request that is subject to business-level requirements, multiple sets of attributes are identified. The sets of attributes are each from one of multiple informational domains that represent processing factors associated with at least the process-level input request, contemporaneous infrastructure processing capabilities, and historical process performance of similar processes. The multiple sets of attributes from the multiple informational domains are hashed as a vector into an initial process prioritization. The attributes of the hashed vector of the multiple sets of attributes from the multiple informational domains are weighted in the initial process prioritization into a hashed-weighted resulting process prioritization. The process-level input request is assigned to a process category based upon the hashed-weighted resulting process prioritization. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092804 | APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING OPERATIONS OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides an apparatus for improving operations that improves operations management and enhances usability of an information processing system. The operations improvement apparatus improves the operations of an information processing system that includes a management-target device ( | 03-31-2016 |
20160092805 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - A workflow management system for managing the storage, retrieval, and transport of items in a warehouse includes a voice-directed mobile terminal. The system also includes a server computer in communication with the voice-directed mobile terminal. The server computer includes a tasking module for transmitting task data to the voice-directed mobile terminal. The server computer also includes a workflow-analysis module for generating, based at least in part upon an analysis of workflow dialog between the voice-directed mobile terminal and the user, performance data relating to the performance of tasks associated with the storage, retrieval, and/or transport of the items. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092806 | WORKFLOW CONTROL DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN WORKFLOW CONTROL PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING WORKFLOW REGARDING OPERATION ON ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A workflow control device includes a workflow management processing portion, a clumsiness detection processing portion, and a display processing portion. The workflow management processing portion manages a workflow for combining processes corresponding to specific operations on an electronic apparatus, in a specific order and performing execution instructions for the processes. The clumsiness detection processing portion detects clumsiness in an operation which has been performed by a user on the electronic apparatus and delayed from a threshold. The display processing portion causes an order of processes based on a workflow through which execution instructions for processes corresponding to operations of the user can be performed in order, to be displayed on a screen based on detection of the clumsiness. | 03-31-2016 |
20160104081 | DYNAMIC SPACE-TIME DIAGRAM FOR VISUALIZATION OF TRANSPORTATION SCHEDULE ADHERENCE - A method for generating a visual representation of transport schedule adherence in a transit system including collecting transport schedule data received by a plurality of sensors deployed in a plurality of transit vehicles of the transit system, organizing and saving the received transport schedule data to a data storage facility, and receiving a user selection for the generation of a visual representation of transport schedule adherence in the transit system. The method may further include, by a transportation system analysis module, extracting a portion of the transport schedule data from the data storage facility and using the extracted transport schedule data to generate and display a dynamic space time diagram of transport schedule adherence in response to the user selection, automatically generating aggregated statistics and inference based on the dynamic space time diagram, and automatically generating a suggestion for improving transport schedule adherence based on the aggregated statistics and inferences. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110662 | Production Simulation - Examples disclosed herein relate to simulating production of an order. In one implementation, a processor extracts information about process flow of an order through resources, resource policy, and prioritization within the production environment from information related to the fulfillment of the previous orders. The processor may create a simulation of the fulfillment of new orders within the production environment based on the extracted information. | 04-21-2016 |
20160125330 | ROLLING UPGRADE OF METRIC COLLECTION AND AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A system processes a large volume of real time hierarchical system metrics using distributed computing by stateless processes. The metrics processing system receives different types of hierarchical metrics coming from different sources and then aggregates the metrics by their hierarchy. The system is on-demand, cloud based, multi-tenant and highly available. The system makes the aggregated metrics available for reporting and policy triggers in real time. The aggregators and collectors may be upgraded to new versions with minimal loss in data. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132797 | BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL ANALYZER AND RUNTIME SELECTOR - In a method for determining appropriate runtime environments for execution of a process model, a computer receives a process model. The process model includes a plurality of activities, wherein two activities are linked by a relationship. The computer determines that the two activities linked by a relationship match a process pattern. The computer determines one or more runtime environments for execution of the process model, wherein each of the one or more runtime environments is capable of executing the process pattern. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140465 | WORKFLOW INTEGRATION - A method of constructing a workflow is described. The method is carried out by a programmed processor and a memory of a computing apparatus using a workflow processing language. One or more hooks are provided in the workflow processing language. Each hook is adapted to provide a programming interface to one of one or more applications. An input stream is received and converted into an input object that can be processed by the workflow processing language. A workflow with hooks to one or more applications is then used. The one or more hooked applications are used through the programming interface provided by the respective hook to prepare and provide an output stream. The computer apparatus adapted to construct and perform such workflows is also described. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140467 | System and Method for Enhancing and Sustaining Operational Efficiency - The instant specification discloses methods and means for enhancing and sustaining performance efficiencies within an organization, the methods and means including at least an operational methodology and a software package. Using the Methodology with the related software enables an organization to effectively plan, document, manage and continuously improve its operations in order to achieve (and possibly exceed) its business goals. Therefore, the Methodology and the related System enable an organization to safely and efficiently achieve business excellence and sustain it over time. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140499 | ENGINEERING DOCUMENT MOBILE COLLABORATION TOOL - Systems and methods provide engineering process and document management to a mobile fleet of users. A server computer and a relational database form at least part of a process and document management system. The server computer processes information from the relational database to predictably identify workflow information and engineering document information that may be needed by one or more users in the field to service field assets. The server computer may push the identified information to one or more mobile devices of the one or more users in the field via one or more communication networks. The mobile devices allow users to mark-up engineering documents in the field and provide the modified documents back to the server computer. | 05-19-2016 |
20160148130 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A TEST ARTIFACT - A method of automatically generating a test artifact is disclosed. The method involves executing a business process comprising one or more web services; monitoring the business process to identify process modules of the business process invoking the at least one web service, wherein the one or more process modules invoking the at least one web service corresponds to one or more integration points; mapping the one or more integration points to one or more corresponding nodes of a business process model associated with the business process; mapping data parameters associated with each node upstream of the one or more mapped nodes of the business process model to one or more request data fields of a test script; and generating, by the hardware processor, the test artifact by automatically populating the request data fields with test data corresponding to the data parameters associated with the one or more request data fields. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148131 | CONFIGURATION OF EMBEDDED INTELLIGENCE - A system for configuration of embedded intelligence comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to associate a prompt of an embedded intelligence applet with an exposed field of a process. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions. The memory is configured to store the process definition. | 05-26-2016 |
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20160162816 | HUMAN TASK MONITORING AND CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS FOR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC BUSINESS PROCESSES - a computer-implemented business process monitoring system includes a set of concept probes. Each concept probe is communicatively connected to a monitoring component of an associated business process management (BPM) infrastructure. In response to the BPM infrastructure deploying a domain-specific business process activity—including at least one manual task—each concept probe queries the BPM infrastructure for manual task information associated with execution of the business process activity. In response to receiving the manual task information from the BPM infrastructure and activity information acquired from an associated second probe connected to the BPM infrastructure, each concept probe correlates the manual task information with the activity information. Each concept probe generates monitoring information based on the correlated data. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162817 | Vehicle Reconditioning Workflow System - Systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating an online task management system portal that enables vehicle managers and vehicle service providers to track, monitor, update, and communicate vehicle status information in substantially real-time during a generated vehicle reconditioning process are disclosed. In an aspect, such online system allows users to identify what work needs to be done on a given vehicle and have a workflow order generated therefore in order to make the vehicle suitable for resale. The cost associated with that work may also be easily tracked and identified. Furthermore, the work and cost information may be updatable and seamlessly viewable by all system users in order to enhance the efficiency of the vehicle reconditioning process. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162818 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING DATA ANALYSIS SERVICES - A system for recommending data analysis services is provided. The system comprises: a service catalog storing a list of analysis services; a data catalog storing a list of data of targets for analysis; an algorithm catalog storing a list of analysis algorithms; an interactive analytic tool receiving a user requirement in a word form; an analysis helper receiving the user requirement and extracting an analysis service corresponding to the user requirement from the service catalog; an analysis job generator receiving the user requirement, extracting data and an analysis algorithm corresponding to the user requirement from the data catalog and the algorithm catalog, respectively, and defining the extracted data and the extracted analysis algorithm to one job to generate a job, wherein the analysis job generator transmits the generated job to the analysis helper to deliver the job as recommendation analysis service information to a user through the interactive analytic tool. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162819 | WORKFLOW DEFINITION, ORCHESTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT VIA A COLLABORATIVE INTERFACE ACCORDING TO A HIERARCHICAL PROCEDURE LIST - Various embodiments include a server system that parses a natural language text segment representative of a hierarchical checklist to generate a hierarchical workflow execution model. The hierarchical workflow execution model describes a plurality of task items corresponding to one or more line items in the natural language text segment. At least some of the task items can be respectively assigned to one or more participant roles according to the natural language text segment. Textual tokens of the line items can denote a hierarchical relationship structure of the task items. The server system can determine a logical constraint associated with enforcement of the task items based at least partly on the hierarchical relationship structure of the task items. The server system can enforce execution of at least a subset of the task items according to the determined logical constraint. | 06-09-2016 |
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