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| 20110054969 | APPARATUS AND METHODS TO GAIN ACCESS TO AND EXTRACT INTACT IMMATURE EMBRYO FROM DEVELOPING MAIZE KERNELS OR SPECIFIC INTRENAL TISSUE OR STRUCTURE FROM ONE OR MORE SEEDS - A high throughput apparatus and method for gaining access to and extracting internal tissue or structure of interest from a seed or plurality of seed is disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus utilizes means to expose the internal tissue or structure and means to separate at least some of the exposed internal tissue or structure for collection and evaluation. In one aspect, a method utilizes some force or action to expose the internal tissue or structure and some force or action to separate the internal tissue or structure. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110066466 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TRANSITION PLANS FOR APPLICATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS - A method and a system for generating one or more transition plans for one or more applications of an organization are provided. Transition information for identifying a set of applications for transition is obtained from information corresponding to the one or more applications. One or more groups of the identified set of applications are created. Further, one or more activities for transition execution are identified for each application of the identified set of applications. Thereafter, one or more transition plans comprising the one or more identified activities are generated. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110071875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OILFIELD OPERATIONS - A system and method for executing an oilfield operation at a wellsite is provided. The system comprises a project execution unit, an employee assessment unit and a matrix execution unit. The project execution unit is configured to quantify a plurality of project parameters for executed projects, wherein a first project parameter is a success rate of the executed projects, and a second project parameter is a required project team member competency for the executed projects. The employee assessment unit is configured to assess a level of expertise obtained by each of the employees for a plurality of skill sets. The matrix execution unit is configured to compare to the required project team member competency to the level of expertise of each of the employees in each of the plurality of skill sets in order to select a group of employees to be used to complete the project team. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110087521 | Methodology For Setting, Prioritization, And Alignment Of Goals And Objectives Throughout Any Organization, At All Levels - A methodology for setting, prioritization, and alignment of goals and objectives throughout an organization, which includes the following steps: identifying key goals for the organization as a whole, establishing each functional area's contribution to each said goals, establishing each functional area contributor's alignment and deliverables within the scope of each said goals, establishing key metrics and target levels for each said goal, followed by the repetition of the above steps at subordinated lower levels, as goals, metrics, and target levels are trickled down, to ensure alignment and goals assignment at all levels of the organization, from the top level role (i.e. CEO) to each entry level worker. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110119112 | Modeling Tool for Reducing Resource Usage or Emissions - A centralized modeling system is implemented via a host server that is accessible to a large number of clients (organizations) using a website. In one example, it is assumed a client wishes to reduce its CO2e emissions by reducing its energy consumption by a certain amount per year. The client then enters a budget, and the server or client identifies a list of all the possible initiatives (specific projects) for electricity reduction. The client enters certain relevant information to customize the initiatives. The server may then automatically calculate, using conversion factors, each initiative's cost and estimated electricity and emissions reduction per year, among other metrics. The software allows the client to repeatedly select any combination of the initiatives and then models the resulting total energy savings and CO2e emission reduction, and any budgeted amount remaining. Based on the modeling, the client then decides on the overall strategy using a combination of the initiatives. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119113 | Best Practices for Emission and Energy Management - A centralized emission and energy management system is implemented via a server that is accessible to a client organization. In response to a request to recommend best practices for an organizational unit to reduce environmental impact or energy usage, the system selects relevant best practices based on reduction goals and the organizational unit's particular industry. Based on attribute values for the relevant best practices and the organizational unit, the system filters/ranks the relevant best practices to form recommended best practices. The system may transmit a forecast of energy savings, cost impacts, and environmental impacts over an implementation time period for a draft procedure created from a recommended best practice. The system may generate a request for proposal (RFP) including an approved procedure to a vendor. The system may maintain ratings and feedbacks on the approved procedure and the vendor. The system generally enforces authentication, authorization, and auditing for access to the system. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110173049 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING STAKEHOLDER RELATIONSHIP DATA - A system for compiling and presenting data collection instruments associated with a plurality of stakeholder relationship causality models, managing data collection processes, conducting statistical tests, variable analytics and impacts calculations, and generating action plans and reports associated with a plurality of stakeholder experiences, stakeholder attitudes and stakeholder behavioural intentions for use in assessing the state of stakeholder relationships and planning for performance optimisation, the system comprising: a) a user interface software module, b) a stakeholder model library, c) a variables database, d) a stakeholder profile database, e) an action plan library, f) a reports library, g) a language conversion engine, h) a stakeholder survey software module, i) a variable analytics software module, j) an impact calculation software module, k) an action plan generation software module, and l) a report generation software module. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110191143 | Method and Apparatus for Specifying Monitoring Intent of a Business Process or Monitoring Template - Methods and apparatus are provided for specifying a monitoring intent of a business process or a monitoring template. A monitoring intent of a business process monitoring system is defined by providing a predefined schema definition for the monitoring intent, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a predefined format for describing the monitoring intent using one or more predefined keywords, wherein the predefined schema definition comprises a description of the monitoring intent and one or more contextual keywords; and receiving a specification of the description and the one or more contextual keywords from the user. The monitoring intent generally specifies one or more monitoring requirements of the business process monitoring system. The monitoring intent of a business process or a monitoring template may be matched with one or more search keywords. The predefined schema definition for the description comprises a set of expression rules. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110208564 | TOTAL RETURN TO SHAREHOLDERS TARGET SETTING - The performance management system and method enable users to set performance targets and analyze performance measures for a company based on financial information. The system displays three template areas respectively containing historical financial data for a first time period, predicted financial data for a second time period, and financial performance measurement changes from the first time period to the second time period, where financial performance measures are displayed for each of the time periods. The second template area receives target input variables that include target NOPAT growth, target TRS, and target dividends per share. The system and method enable the recursive adjustment of at least one of the target input variables for a future time period until a percentage change in the target TRS displayed in the second template area is equal to a user selectable target TRS value. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110238462 | SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS AND MANAGEMENT THEREOF - Method and apparatus for service level agreement formation and management is described. More particularly, a service level agreement (SLA) manager is described. This SLA manager comprises an admission controller, a specification module and a performance measurement module. Such SLA manager is interposed between one or more client computer systems and a service provider computer system. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110264486 | SALES FORCE AUTOMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A salesforce automation system which integrates computerized, intelligent automated salesperson support for multiple phases of the sales process. Various subsystems may be provided to facilitate the sales process which may include pre-sales lead generation, maximize time spent with the customer, effectively manage an order, ensure customer satisfaction and retain the customer for future sales. Also provided to support the phases of the sales process are additional tools, integrated in the system. The additional tools may include self management subsystems, sales management subsystems and training subsystems. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110295651 | MESH PLATFORM UTILITY COMPUTING PORTAL - A utility computing portal supports public and private modules for application development in a cloud computing environment. The public modules support downloads, customer support and access to a development community. The private modules are accessible to users with valid login credentials or those authenticated via a related entity, such as a Live ID. The private modules may include modules for testing, analysis, and billing. The utility computing portal also supports access to application configuration, for example, allowing a manager to change the number of front end and backend physical/virtual machines available to various application roles. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120095807 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC BILLING REPOSITORY - A system allows at least one customer to register with the billing repository. The billing repository operating process provides the customer with a unique identifier that identifies the customer within the billing repository. The billing repository operating process allows a plurality of billers to register with the billing repository. At least one of the plurality of billers provides billing to the customer. The billing repository operating process associates, in the billing repository, the customer with a subset of billers from the plurality of billers, using the unique identifier. The subset of billers identifies the customer by the unique identifier. The billing repository operating process allows the customer and the subset of billers to electronically transact a plurality of bills aided by the billing repository. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120109717 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUSINESS DECISION-MAKING - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for supporting of decisions regarding activities of an organisation are disclosed. At least one business objective for activities of the organisation is determined ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120116847 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ELECTRIC PURCHASING STRATEGIES - Provide is a system and method for managing electric purchasing strategies. A processor receives electric pricing information, electric usage information, a plurality of input parameters, and generates electric purchasing strategies based on the electric pricing information, the electric usage information, and the plurality of input parameters; and a memory stores the electric pricing information, the electric usage information, the plurality of input parameters, and the electric purchasing strategies. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116848 | OPTIMIZING BUSINESS OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS - Methods and systems are provided to optimize business value by providing and/or implementing business solutions, e.g., solutions to improve operational environments. A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure which has computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to: provide an initial assessment of business operations, using a framework based on lean capabilities and lean components, as well as at least one of business and environmental constraints; determine a need for improvement based on scores provided in the initial assessment; and provide a complete assessment using business drivers and specifications of a solution to identify areas for improvement of business operations. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120123825 | CONCURRENT SCHEDULING OF PLAN OPERATIONS IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods for planning the execution of one or more plans in a virtualized computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises computing an order for execution for one or more plans, and the corresponding operations in said one or more plans; validating whether a plan and the corresponding operations for the plan may be successfully executed, prior to executing the plan and the corresponding operations; executing the plan and the corresponding operations, in response to a successful validation; and aborting execution of the plan and the corresponding operations, in response to an unsuccessful validation, wherein the validating process takes into consideration impact of other plans that are previously validated and possible changes in the computing environment since time the plan was computed. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120158462 | TARGET LEVEL SETTING - Systems, methods, and machine readable and executable instructions are provided for target level setting. Target level setting may include receiving a plurality of objectives for an organization that includes a central unit and a plurality of regional units, transmitting a respective regional target level for each of the plurality of objectives assigned to each of the plurality of regional units, prompting the central unit for an approval of an increase to a first regional target level for a first of the plurality of regional units and a decrease to a second regional target level for a second of the plurality of regional units, increasing the first regional target level for the first of the plurality of regional units, and decreasing the second regional target level for the second of the plurality of regional units. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158463 | CATTLE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - An automated method and system for individual animal electronic identification, measurement, and management of cattle in a feedlot. Through the use of a computer system integrated with individual animal identification, multiple measurement and remeasurement systems, and a handling and sorting system, animals are individually identified and measured. The computer system calculates optimum slaughter weight, economic end point and marketing date for shipment to a packing plant. Individual animals are sorted by the computer in response to calculations from the measurements. The computer system stores individual animal measurement, performance and location data, which is used to select animals for shipment to slaughter at the optimum time. At the slaughter facility, the animal's identification is used to correlate the live animal physical characteristics and performance data to the carcass characteristics data and build a-database to more accurately identify and measure value-based characteristics in subsequent animals for more effective selection and management. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120166254 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ON DEMAND BUSINESS ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT USING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT LOOPS - An architecture, system, and method are provided for a commitment loop solution for on demand business activity management. A Business Performance Management (BPM) loop includes nodes each relating to different tasks for processing performance management trigger data generated by a business entity in real time. The beginning or sensing element of the loop is triggered by a token (representing a business event from a business process). The ending or executing element provides a business action to be implemented by the business entity. The token is passed from node to node sequentially in a particular order around the loop. Processing of the data represented by the token is governed by policies, which can be changed dynamically and follow a life cycle. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120179510 | PROCESSING OF PROVENANCE DATA FOR AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF ENTERPRISE PROCESS INFORMATION - Techniques are disclosed for capturing, storing, querying and analyzing provenance data for automatic discovery of enterprise process information. For example, a computer-implemented method for managing a process associated with an enterprise comprises the following steps. Data associated with an actual end-to-end execution of an enterprise process is collected. Provenance data is generated based on at least a portion of the collected data, wherein the provenance data is indicative of a lineage of one or more data items. A provenance graph that provides a visual representation of the generated provenance data is generated, wherein nodes of the graph represent records associated with the collected data and edges of the graph represent relations between the records. The generated provenance graph is stored in a repository for use in analyzing the enterprise process. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120185300 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ANALYZING AND PROVIDING DATA FOR BUSINESS SERVICES - Apparatus and methods for collecting information may include receiving one or more inputs of information related to a business experience. In addition, the apparatus and methods may include storing the received business information. The methods may also include analyzing the received information to generate one or more targeted recommendations; and forwarding the one or more targeted recommendations to management of the business. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120191507 | System for unifying and collaborating new product development activities across a disparate set of users - A Portfolio and Project Management and new product development system is disclosed. In particular, the system in one embodiment includes a user, a user computing device, a client application, an operating system, a network interface, a server, a software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) platform, applications such as contact lists, documents, mail, etc., project management software which contains various views and sub-views, and sets of rules and criteria that interact with the project management software to manage the project management software output. In particular, the system of the present invention provides additional intelligence for customizing project management solutions for environments that use structured development methodologies, such as a stage and checkpoint process. Additionally, the system allows for real-time status updates and consistent reporting structures thereby increasing efficiency and project oversight at higher levels within an organization Furthermore, the system of the present invention allows for simultaneously editing by multiple users. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191508 | System & Method For Predicting Outcome Of An Intellectual Property Rights Proceeding/Challenge - A networked computer system permits users to rate and predict outcomes of hypothetical submissions provided to a target entity. By analyzing the target entity's prior submissions, the strength of a patent can be assessed prior to licensing, enforcement, etc. against a set of prior art references to determine the patent's future robustness. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120191509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING MANAGEMENT DATA AND CONSOLIDATING SOLICITATION E-MAIL - Systems and methods for providing entities in a value chain of a product or service with an integrated management system associated with an integrated database which collects information from and provides information to various entities in the value chain, including providing offers targeted to the entities in the value chain. Systems and methods are also disclosed for providing consumers with a service to consolidate e-mails. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120209663 | ADOPTING AND/OR OPTIMIZING THE USE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY - A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to assess a current mobile technology baseline for a business using a tool or application and a processor. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to provide a strategy to the business for at least one of adopting and optimizing the use of mobile technology. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120226524 | CAPACITY PLANNING FOR USER WAIT TIME - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining when installation of additional self-service financial transaction devices (SSFTDs) may be desired at a site to improve end-to-end user experience. The system may collect and store transaction-level data, session-level data, user wait time data, and/or other data, and use an enhanced SSFTD user wait time model to identify recommendations and other statistical outputs. The SSFTD may include hardware and software to assist in measuring and collecting various useful readings. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226525 | METRIC DRIVEN BEHAVIOR AND PRESENTATION OF GOALS - A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system enables tracking of multiple types of goals within the system employing the same construct, whose look-and-feel and behavior may be dynamically modified based on different user defined metrics. Actuals against the goals are computed by the system based on source entity definitions in metrics and user defined dimensions with filters. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120226526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MONITORING - The present invention is a video surveillance, storage, and alerting system having the following components. One or more surveillance cameras capture video data having attribute data, the attribute data representing importance of the surveillance cameras. One or more video analytics devices process the video data from one or more of the surveillance cameras and detect primitive video events in the video data. A network management module monitors network status of the surveillance cameras, and the video analytics devices, and generates network events reflective of the network status of all subsystems. A correlation engine correlates two or more primitive video events from the video analytics devices weighted by the attribute data of the surveillance cameras used to capture the video data, and network events from the network management module weighted by attribute data of device corresponding to the network event. An alerting engine generates one or more alerts and performs one or more actions based on the correlation performed by the correlation engine. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120239460 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTATION AND UPSELLING OF PRODUCT - A system and method for using product profiling to maximize load capacity of a vehicle. The method includes defining product profiles and retrieving product information associated with the product profiles. The method further includes performing cubing operations for products associated with the product information. The system includes components to perform the method steps. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120245979 | Method and System for Managing Vending Operations Based on Wireless Data - A system coupled to one or more vending machines, such as soft drink vending machines, via a wireless data link can acquire operational vending data, for example sales data, hardware status, and product temperature. The system can compile data from multiple vending machines dispersed across a geographic area such as a city or state. The system can include software that refines the vending operations of one or more such vending machines based on analysis of acquired data, taking into consideration other information such as market, business, seasonal, or environmental factors. Refining vending operations can include adjusting product offerings, relocating vending machines, replicating favorable conditions, and addressing unexpected sales variations. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120259678 | Method and system for computing Energy Index - An Energy Index that combines a measure of enterprise energy efficiency and a measure of sufficiency into a single energy index that will enable establishment and achievement of both energy efficiency and sufficiency. Traditionally enterprises monitored energy efficiency without consideration of sufficiency resources. A new Index is described that enables to monitor the performance of the on-site energy generation resources (sufficiency resources) and their contribution to the economic performance of the enterprise. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120284088 | METHOD OF REDUCING MANAGEMENT COST IN LARGE-SCALE IT SYSTEM MANAGEMENT - An embodiment of this invention is a system that recommends a change of management jobs for a plurality of apparatuses separated into a plurality of groups. This system selects groups one by one from the plurality of groups. It determines a similarity degree among the management jobs set to the plurality of groups after changing the current management job to a different management job. It determines at least either one of a management cost of the current management job and a management cost of the different management job. It determines a recommendation degree of the change of the management job using the determined similarity degree and the determined management cost. It presents a pair for a recommended change of management jobs in accordance with the determined recommendation degrees. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120290362 | METHOD OF MEASUREMENT OF EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS INDUSTRY RELATED BIOPRODUCTS - The method hereby described allows the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions produced during feedstock production, processing thereof in said transport byproduct and byproduct from different sources of material, considering the transportation of said raw material taken as fountain. The method comprises capturing, processing and manipulating different parameters and data regarding GHG emissions associated with each task needed to produce and distribute the byproduct and the provision of that byproduct and/or source material that will be transformed into the bioproduct, with in order to generate an overall value of greenhouse gas emissions. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120310709 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS BUSINESS PROCESSES - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for integrating heterogeneous business processes. In one embodiment, there is provided a computer-implemented method for integrating heterogeneous business processes, the method comprising: reading first process information of a first business process; obtaining from a unified process view second process information of a second business process; and integrating at least one part of the first process information and at least one part of the second process information into a third business process; wherein the first business process and the second business process are heterogeneous business processes. In another embodiment, there is provided a computer-implemented apparatus for integrating heterogeneous business processes. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120316925 | MARKETING ALLOCATION REQUEST SYSTEMS - A computerized method and a system for marketing program development are provided. In example embodiments, the method may include providing a user interface over a computer network such as the Internet, receiving from the user interface a marketing program proposal including program information. The method may also include facilitating a strategic review process of the marketing program proposal. The method may further include facilitating of a capacity review process of the marketing program. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120316926 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS - Disclosed is a method ( | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120316927 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING HETEROGENEOUS BUSINESS PROCESSES - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for integrating heterogeneous business processes. In one embodiment, there is provided a computer-implemented method for integrating heterogeneous business processes, the method comprising: reading first process information of a first business process; obtaining from a unified process view second process information of a second business process; and integrating at least one part of the first process information and at least one part of the second process information into a third business process; wherein the first business process and the second business process are heterogeneous business processes. In another embodiment, there is provided a computer-implemented apparatus for integrating heterogeneous business processes. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120323637 | OPTIMIZATION OF ATTRIBUTES IN A PORTFOLIO OF COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES - Deployment of commercial and industrial (“C&I”) facilities in wholesale markets may be optimized by unbundling attributes from the facilities and combining those attributes for deployment. Buildings within portfolios may include complimentary attributes, features, and capabilities that can be coordinated for synergistic effect. The optimization may include mathematically unbundling attributes of each facility that may be mathematically and optimally aggregated into synthetic resources that are matched for selecting particular markets. These synthetic resources may be deployed optimally in the selected markets. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120330727 | AGENT SECURITY VIA APPROXIMATE SOLVERS - Efficient heuristic methods are described for approximating the optimal leader strategy for security domains where threats come from unknown adversaries. These problems can be modeled as Bayes-Stackelberg games. An embodiment of the heuristic method can include defining a patrolling or security domain problem as a mixed-integer quadratic program. The mixed-integer quadratic program can be converted to a mixed-integer linear program. For a single follower (e.g., robber or terrorist) scenario, the mixed-integer linear program can be solved, subject to appropriate constraints. For embodiments applicable to multiple follower situations, the relevant mixed-integer quadratic program and related mixed-integer linear program can be decomposed, e.g., by changing the response function for the follower from a pure strategy to a weighted combination over various pure follower strategies where the weights are probabilities of occurrence of each of the follower types. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130006714 | SUSTAINING ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE USING SEM PATTERNS AND THE SEMINAL DASHBOARD - Supporting problem resolution of an organization, in one aspect, may include obtaining operational data associated with the organization, calculating operating metrics based on the operational data, detecting one or more metrics trends based on the calculated operational metrics, identifying one or more relations between the metric trends, and determining one or more SEM patterns from two or more of the calculated operational metrics and metric trends. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130013377 | VENDOR OPTIMIZATION IN AGGREGATED ENVIRONMENTS - Technologies are generally described for systems and methods effective to optimize vendors in a cloud computing environment. In an example, bundled services can be de-aggregated and a hierarchical tree can be generated showing the relationships between the service providers and infrastructure providers. When itemized bills are received from the service providers, the hierarchical tree can be used to match items from the itemized bills to specific infrastructure providers. A transaction report showing all the services rendered by the infrastructure providers can then be sent to the respective infrastructure providers to take advantage of discounts and bulk rates. In another example, a set of infrastructure providers that provide the services at the lowest cost can be determined, and the service providers can be configured or requested to switch to that set of infrastructure providers. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130018702 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONSIVE PROCESS MANAGEMENT DRIVEN BY BUSINESS VISIBILITY AND COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING - A business process management (BPM) system, a business event processing system, and a business visibility system are integrated into a responsive process management platform using standardized messages to permit communication and collaboration among the systems. The BPM system has the capability to model and execute at least one monitoring process including at least one monitoring workstep. This monitoring process makes visible in the BPM system processes of interest that are executing in external systems. The business event processing system and/or the business visibility system have tools to allow users to easily configure those systems to sense events and send appropriate standardized messages to the other systems, can extract and send data to the BPM system, and can send alerts to the BPM system. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130024243 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MICROGRID CAPACITY AND STORAGE INVESTMENT UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed to method to determine capacity planning under environmental constraints by generating an integrated economic planning model for a decision maker, a utility company and one or more microgrids; maximizing the microgrids' total profit and minimizing the electricity price designed by the utility company; generating proactive strategies for the utility company to comply with the environmental policies, and planning strategies for microgrids to help utility company abate environmental mission; and applying different characteristics of microgrids to invest in different portfolio of renewable energy through gaming simulations. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024244 | CORPORATE AND ENTERTAINMENT MANAGEMENT INTERACTIVE SYSTEM USING A COMPUTER NETWORK - A computerized management system for corporate, entertainment or sports management by a remote party is disclosed. For instance, in entertainment management the entertainment an event is transmitted for the remote party to remotely analyze the performer or participant. A decision is received via a communications link from a remote computing device associated with the remote party, the decision relating to a reading by an actor, choosing between different scripts, a choice of a participant, editing of a script, angle of a lens for a camera shot, and closeness of a lens for a camera shot, which take of a scene is best, choosing between different endings of a script, total budget for a production, amounts to budget for each of a plurality of line items, amounts to spend in advertising, what markets to focus on for release, or what day to release a film in different markets. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024245 | MANAGEMENT OF MATERIALS ON A CONSTRUCTION SITE - In a computer implemented method for management of materials on a construction site, a status of a project which uses at least one material is determined by a computer system. A report is generated by the computer system. The report identifies a vehicle, from a vehicle pool, to be utilized to move the material and defines a load of the material which is to be moved by the vehicle, according to a mass haul plan, from a first location to a second location. The vehicle is identified based on results of a simulation. The status of the project is automatically updated by the computer system based on an actual size and an actual drop-off location of the load of the material moved by the vehicle. The computer system updates the report based on the updating of the status of the project. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130030872 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A CLOSED LOOP MARKETING APP - Methods and systems for selling in a multi-tenant database system are provided. A sales information packet including sales material, daily schedule, and customer information are stored in the multi-tenant database. Sales personnel may download the sales information packet to a portable device. Sales personnel may present prospective clients with the sales material in text, image, and video formats. The sales personnel may provide feedback on the information packet, and/or collect feedback from the clients regarding the information packet. The portable user system may send geographical coordinates of the sales session, information about interactions with the input device of the portable device, along with the feedback, to the server system. The server may analyze the feedback and generate a report which may be used to determine the quality of the information packet, efficiency of sales schedules and the performance of the sales personnel. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130030873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING MOBILE ASSET EFFICIENCIES - Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an asset management computer system for assessing operational data indicative of the movement of one or more mobile assets within a work environment. The mobile assets may be, for example, employees, packages, or vehicles moving through a work environment. According to various embodiments, the asset management computer system may be configured for analyzing the operational data and segmenting it into a plurality of position segments representing periods of time classified according to the mobile asset's position in relation to one or virtual work areas. In addition, the asset management computer system may be further configured to determine operational characteristics for each of the position segments, generate a graphical representation of the position segments, and provide operational statistics based on the position segments, which can be used to assess asset behavior and the efficiency of a work environment's design. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130035990 | Software solution for Visual Sales process simulation and management - A method that allows sales management to build a predictable sales model is disclosed. The invention is a software solution that integrates corporate sales strategy with sales and pre-sales process allowing sales management to build a Predictable Sales Model for managing sales. With built-in features, analytics, intelligence and configurable templates the invention reduces implementation cost and time and provides a visual sales process simulation and management solution. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130046583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENTERPRISE AUDIT - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for auditing an enterprise that involves creating an Internal Audit Plan. The method is to define the scope of such Internal Audit engagement under the Audit Plan Workflow and create Process Notes that detail out processes followed during an audit engagement. A Verifying Evidence module records all test templates by users and process owners and a final report is generated for Internal and External Audit Engagements. The system is capable of seeing management response and also implements the status of Internal and External Audit engagements on due dates with appropriate reminders. In this manner the present invention increases transparency, reduces time & efforts associated with accessing the audit information. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130054309 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATING TO A LEAD DISTRIBUTION ENGINE THAT ACCOMMODATES INTERNAL AND IMPORTED DESTINATION RELATIONSHIPS - Lead distribution systems and methods distribute consumer business leads received from lead sources for routing to one or more destinations that will use the lead and/or will forward the lead to another destination. The system identifies a set of most profitable destinations for each lead, while complying with business rules associated with the lead source and the destinations. For each lead, the system identifies a set of candidate destinations, each with associated business rules. The candidate destinations may include destinations with which the system has established business rules, destinations with which the lead source has established business rules, or both. For leads that may be multi-distributed, different business rules may apply to each time the lead is distributed. When both the lead distribution system and the source have different business rules established with a destination, the rules established by the source may take precedence over those of the lead distribution system. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130060609 | Automated System And Method For Managing Goals - A goal management system stores at least first and second goals. The goal management system also stores a relationship between the first goal and the second goal. In one aspect, the goal management system detects modification of the first goal and, in response, causes the second goal to be automatically highlighted for alignment verification. The second goal is a parent goal to the first goal, and the relationship is stored as a parent link associating the first goal with the parent goal. The goal management system also stores an owner for the first goal. In response to detecting modification of the parent goal, the goal management system causes the first goal to be automatically highlighted for alignment verification in a display associated with the owner of the first goal, based on the parent link. Additional aspects relate to additional technological solutions which facilitate goal management through, for example, goal alignment. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060610 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF USING PERSONALIZED MULTI-DIMENSIONAL AVATAR (PMDA) IN COMMERCE - A personalized multi-dimensional avatar (PMDA) to represent individuals are used for dynamically searching for elements in a computer-based commerce system that matches a subject element to a target element. In one aspect, permissioning preferences of the represented individual control contacting the represented individual and/or using the PMDA specifications. In another aspect, desired items and sources of the items are identified to individuals. In another aspect, the PMDAs are used to identify desired customers. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130066684 | DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION - According to the invention, a content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content objects from a content provider to a recipient is disclosed. The CDN includes a dynamic pricing engine and a second web location. The dynamic pricing engine is coupled to a first web location. The first web location, which is associated with a content provider, allows the recipient to order a content object. The delivery quote is solicited by the first web location for delivering a content object one or more times. The second web location delivers the content object to a recipient system of the recipient. The second web location is associated with the dynamic pricing engine. The dynamic pricing engine automatically produces the delivery quote, which is affected by at least one of the content object or a web location of the recipient system. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130066685 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BUSINESS PROCESSES IN AN ENTERPRISE - A method for managing a business process in an enterprise includes executing a business process model, wherein executing the business process model comprises generating a plurality of business level messages associated with business level tasks, generating one or more system level messages associated with system level tasks to be performed by one or more enterprise subsystems, wherein the one or more system level messages are in a common format that is accessible by the one or more enterprise subsystems, and broadcasting the one or more system level messages over a communication channel communicably coupling the plurality of enterprise subsystems. A system includes a communication channel carrying system level messages in a generic format, a plurality of business subsystems communicably coupled to the communication channel, adapters operable to translate messages from the generic format into associated business subsystem specific formats and vice versa. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130080211 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BETWEEN A HOME BUYER, SELLER, STRATEGIC BUSINESS SOURCE, AND LENDER - A computerized system and method are presented for exchanging information between a buyer, a seller, a lender, and a strategic business source. The system permits sellers, lenders and strategic business sources to input buyers that are then submitted for activation. The buyers use the system to obtain information about items, while the sellers, lenders, and strategic business sources make consistent contact with the buyer in order to work with the buyer. Information about the buyers is shared with the sellers, lenders, and strategic business sources. A business plan is input into the system for the financial institution employing the lender while another business plan is input for the seller institution employing the seller. Activity on the computerized system is calculated for compliance with the business plan. Feedback is provided to management relating to whether the business plan is being met. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130090989 | FRAMEWORK FOR REALIZATION OF A WEB 2.0 FEATURES - A method to shape one or more features of Web 2.0 in the form of Web 2.0 solutions, using Web 2.0 realization framework, to the plurality of enterprises is disclosed. The method includes identifying the respective enterprises computing infrastructure and a business application needs of the respective enterprises. The respective enterprises current support system is also measured to find the feasibility of implementing the features of the Web 2.0. The method further comprises offering one or more Web 2.0 features to the respective enterprises based on the business activity. The method includes providing the Web Realization Cycle (WRC) for controlled implementation of Web 2.0 features to the respective enterprises. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130096990 | Purchasing Trading Partners Feedback Process for Purchase Practice Refinement - Systems and methods for refining repetitive purchases using historical feedback and contractual data are disclosed. For example, parties to a pharmaceutical purchase transaction typically include one or more of a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), vendor or manufacturing drug company, wholesaler, and a purchaser, such as a hospital or hospital group. In a typical pharmaceutical purchase transaction, several (possibly inconsistent) agreements can be in place between the parties to the transaction. Disclosed are methods and systems to collect, from a plurality of data sources, information pertaining to negotiated contract prices of pharmaceutical and surgical supplies. Also disclosed is a periodic process to provide purchasing suggestions and receive further feedback from purchasers and suppliers to refine the activities of the purchaser and/or supplier. For example, a purchaser could be informed of a different order placement option which could result in a cost savings based on currently available pricing/purchase agreements. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130110586 | DEVELOPING A CUSTOMIZED PRODUCT STRATEGY | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130117074 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MEASURE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY LEVELS OF BUSINESS FUNCTIONS - A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device to measuring operational efficiency levels of business functions the method comprising acquiring a plurality of business data from at least one database, wherein the plurality of business data is indicative of a pre-defined set of business parameters for one or more business functions. The method also comprises the step of analyzing the plurality of business data by at least one processor based on the pre-defined weightage for each of the business parameters and the plurality of business data. Furthermore, the method comprises generating a customizable report based on the analysis of the plurality of business data to obtain relative ranking of one or more of the business functions. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130124265 | Enterprise System/Process Modeling System and Method - An enterprise system/process modeling (ESPO) system and method that permits efficient representation of enterprise systems/processes (ESP) and calculation of global solutions to models associated with these ESPs is disclosed. The system/method incorporates an enterprise system/process modeling definition subsystem (ESPD) in which an interconnected processes, resources, constraints, and objectives may be defined to describe a global enterprise system/process model (ESPO). This ESPO describes the enterprise to be modeled and the various boundaries within which enterprise modeling is to take place. This ESPO is translated and transformed into an intermediate indexed format by an enterprise global modeling subsystem (EGMS) for use in generating the coefficients of an equation matrix. The equation matrix is solved for a solution state space conforming to desired enterprise objectives and the results are presented for review by an enterprise model reporting subsystem (FSPR). | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124266 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR INNOVATION FINANCE - A funding method and system provides funding at all stages of product development and manufacture. One or more of the funding organizations are matched with one or more of the securities issuing entities, and one or more of the securities issuing entities are matched with one or more of the pathable development projects, based at least in part on projected financial return, a schedule of tranches for the stages of the pathable development project, and a surety arrangement. One or more of the securities purchasing entities are matched with one or more securities issuing entities. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124267 | Cohort Cost Analysis and Workload Migration - An approach is provided to analyze data center performance. The approach includes analyzing the data centers, with each of the data centers are represented by a plurality of data center records. Available capacity at each of the data centers is identified based on the selected data center's set of data center records. In addition, a current workload currently being performed by each of the data centers is identified. The approach compares the identified current workload of each data center with the identified available capacity at the other data centers. Data centers are added to a consolidation consideration list in response to the comparisons. The consolidation consideration list is further analyzed to select data centers for consolidation or elimination. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130132161 | Determining Maturity Status of An Organization In A Technology Area - Systems and methods for determining a maturity status of an organization in a technology area are provided. The system comprises a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory comprises a definition module configured to define a Technology Service Maturity Model (TSMM). The TSMM comprises a set of maturity levels indicating at least one of an aspired proficiency level and a current proficiency level of the organization in the technology area. The TSMM further comprises a set of capability attributes for each of the maturity levels. The set of capability attributes comprises at least one of competency, asset, delivery, pre-sales, collaboration, and branding. The system further comprises an assessment module configured to determine the maturity status of the organization in the technology area based upon the set of capability attributes possessed by the organization in the each of the maturity levels. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132162 | Method and system for enabling collaboration in an enterprise - The method and system for effective adoption of collaboration within an enterprise is disclosed. The method discloses a Collaboration Adoption Module (CAM) that addresses all goals and needs of the enterprise from collaboration perspective. The CAM provides an integrated framework that performs quantitative and/or qualitative analysis of plurality of parameters. The CAM measures parameters such as collaboration maturity and As-Is collaboration (current state of collaboration) collaboration, identifies collaboration pains, identifies existing and To-Be collaboration (desired collaboration state) patterns, suggests collaboration roadmap in an automated fashion, calculates Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), predicts Return Of Investment (ROI) and ensures usage of best practices in the collaboration space. The CAM provides a generalized framework for collaboration that applies to a wide range of industry segments. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130138480 | Method and apparatus for exploring and selecting data sources - A system and method for choosing data sources for use in a data repository first chooses an initial selection of data sources based on keywords. An exploration tool is provided to organize the sources according to content and other attributes. The tool is used to pre-select data sources. The sources to include in the data repository are then selected based on a marginalism economic theory that considers both costs and quality of data. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130151315 | Representing Business Drivers and Outcomes to Facilitate Collaborative Planning - A driver tree represents a model that models relationships between the various drivers of a business. The driver tree and the corporate outcomes computed from the driver tree may be presented in graphical display. The driver tree model may enable managers at any level of the organization to immediately see the impact of any changes they make on all parts of the corporate performance. Embodiments enable delegation of parts of the driver tree to persons with the nearest level of authority and oversight in corresponding parts of the business. The various branches of the driver tree may then be reassembled to create a more accurate view of ongoing strategies of the corporation as seen (and negotiated) by various layers of management. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151316 | Methodology for Restoring the Sustainable Profitability of a Business Unit through Operational and Process Re-Engineering (Operational Turnaround) - A methodology for restoring the sustainable profitability of a business unit through operational and process re-engineering (operational turnaround), which includes the following stages: an initial assessment (i.e. financial sustainability in the absence of any operational turnaround action or infusion of funds, evaluation and prioritization of urgent needs, etc.), planning and pre-work (i.e. key performance indicators and goal setting, resource and documentation planning, transitional maps, etc.), execution (i.e. the actual operational and process re-engineering, deployment of customer-centric strategies, restructuring, downsizing, performance management, etc.), and stabilization (i.e. implementing control measures to prevent future losses, growth strategy design and implementation, measurements of performance sustainability, periodic data reviews, etc.). | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130151317 | Model and System for Service Provisioning Lifecycle Management - Implementations of the present disclosure include methods for lifecycle management of services provisioned in a business network that include actions of defining a service package associated with a service, the service package being a logical representation of the service and including a plurality of artifacts, storing the service package in computer-readable memory, defining a service lifecycle model associated with the service, the service lifecycle model including a plurality of states, storing the service lifecycle model in the computer-readable memory, determining that the service is in a first state, determining that a first set of provisioning activities has occurred, in response to determining that the first set of provisioning activities has occurred, transitioning the service lifecycle model from the first state to a second state, and updating the service lifecycle model in the computer readable memory. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130159060 | MONITORING AND CONTROL OF BUSINESS PROCESSES AND SCENARIOS - A business process relating to a reference business object and a specific instance of the business process to which the specific instance of the business object belongs can be identified. Instances of other business objects related to the identified specific instance of the business process or business scenario can be retrieved, and a status of each business process feature in the specific instance of the business process or business scenario can be calculated. A navigation pane of the user interface can display a plurality of first user interface elements illustrating a sequence of the plurality of business process features required to complete the business process or business scenario instance. The plurality of user interface elements can indicate a status of process steps for the identified specific instance of the business process or business scenario. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159061 | DISPLAYING AND CHANGING SCENARIO-BASED OR PROCESS-BASED BUSINESS CONFIGURATIONS - A user interface can concurrently display a work frame including business configuration user interface elements relating to a selected business process feature of a business scenario and a navigation frame including first user interface elements arranged within the navigation frame to represent at least some of a plurality of business process features of the business scenario. The business scenario can be part of a business configuration of a business software architecture used by an organization. A user input relating to a change to the business configuration can be received via the business configuration user interface elements, and a business configuration model storing the business configuration can be updated to reflect the received change. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159062 | PROCESS-DRIVEN COMPOSITE APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a process-driven composite application architecture. One method includes identifying a business process for implementation in an information technology (IT) landscape and a service contract associated with the identified business process, where the service contract defining business functionality required for implementation in the IT landscape. At least one technical process for implementing the business functionality defined by the service contract is identified. The identified business process is implemented in the IT landscape, where the implementation includes implementing a connection between the identified business process and the identified at least one technical process. In some instances, the business process and the at least one technical process are modeled in business process model and notation (BPMN). The service contract can include a service contract interface and a functionality description of the business process. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159063 | PROCESS-BASED USER AUTHORIZATION MANAGEMENT - A graphical display can concurrently include a plurality of organizational roles within an organization and a plurality of business process features of at least one business process within a business configuration of a scenario landscape of the organization. After receiving input that includes an assignment of a linkage between one of the plurality of organizational roles and one of the plurality of business process features via the graphical display from an authorized administrator-level user at the organization, a meta-model that includes metadata that defines a global set of linkages between business process features and organizational roles for the business configuration of the scenario landscape of the organization can be updated based on the received input. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159064 | PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEM - Photovoltaic array performance monitoring is disclosed herein. A photovoltaic array performance monitoring system may include a data acquisition unit coupled with reference and ambient photovoltaic panels. The reference photovoltaic panel is equipped with a soiling removal unit which periodically removes deposited soiling materials from an active photovoltaic collection area of the reference photovoltaic panel. The ambient photovoltaic panel accumulates light obscuring soiling materials at a rate approximately equal to those of a proximate photovoltaic array. The data acquisition unit periodically sends electrical energy measurements of the reference and ambient photovoltaic panels to a computing system. Over time, the electrical energy output differential between the reference and ambient photovoltaic panels exceeds a predetermined threshold. The computing system evaluates the electrical energy measurements and determines when it would be cost-effective to clean the photovoltaic array. The result is output in a human cognizable format and/or a machine readable format. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159065 | BEHAVIOR-BASED PRICING PARADIGM - A computer includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to determine whether to apply a basic discount to an account of a seller of products based at least in part on determining whether the seller has adhered to a seller agreement. The instructions also cause the processor to determine whether to apply an efficiency discount to the account based at least in part on determining whether at least one efficiency metric has been satisfied, determine whether to apply a strategy discount to the account based at least in part on whether at least one strategy metric has been satisfied, and determine whether to apply an execution discount to the account based at least in part on whether at least one execution metric has been satisfied. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130166357 | RECOMMENDER ENGINE - A system may include determination of a business configuration of one or more tenants of a business application platform, determination of metadata of business applications associated with the business application platform, reception of a request from a user of the business application platform for one or more recommended business applications, and application of one or more filters to a set of business applications based on the business configuration and the metadata to determine a recommended business application from the set of business applications. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130173348 | FRAMEWORK TO RENDER SPATIAL INFORMATION OF ENTITIES - In an embodiment, the spatial information of the business entities are captured and transformed to corresponding spatial coordinates. The spatial coordinates include positional values of the business entities at various instances of time. Based upon a business condition configured for the business entities, the spatial coordinates are processed to compute a deviation between positional values of the spatial coordinates and values specified in the business condition. Based upon the deviation, a correlation between a business logic associated with the business entities and the spatial coordinates is determined. A comparative analysis of the correlation is executed for the spatial coordinates and the associated time instances. Based upon the analysis, the framework is generated to render a visual representation of the spatial information, to establish a business decision. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173349 | MANAGING A PROJECT DURING TRANSITION - A method and a system for managing a project during transition are provided. The system comprises a processor, an interface, and a memory coupled to the processor. The system receives a request for initiating the project through the interface. The memory comprises a back end module and a front end module. The back end module is configured to create a standard project workspace and a standard project plan upon receiving the request to initiating the project. The front end module is configured to generate in real time one or more status reports of the project for various stakeholders. These status reports are based on the standard project plan. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130179229 | ANALYZING BUSINESS DATA FOR PLANNING APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing efficient planning through analyzing data. One process includes operations for generating a business object containing parameters and plan data of a business plan, the plan data represented by a plurality of aggregation levels. A change to a particular item in the plan data is identified, the change associated with a particular aggregation level. The change to the particular item is automatically propagated to a lowest level of granularity of the plan data, and the change to the particular item is available to each of the plurality of aggregation levels. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130185119 | DYNAMIC GOAL-ORIENTED PLANNING - In general, one aspect of the subject matter described herein can be embodied in methods that include the actions of: receiving a goal-identifier corresponding to an achievement of one or more objectives and including actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, processing the goal-identifier against templates, each of which include methods that include actor parameters, resource parameters, constraints, and/or tasks, the tasks including actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, in order to identify templates and/or tasks having comparable respective actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, monitoring for changes with respect to the actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints of the goal-identifier, based on a determination of the one or more changes, further processing the goal-identifier against the templates in order to identify, with respect to the one or more changes, templates and/or tasks having comparable actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, and implementing the templates/tasks with respect to the goal-identifier. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130204670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED BUSINESS CASE TRACKING - A method and system to provide automated tracking of a business case with respect to a targeted aspect of the business process, such as an enterprise IT initiative pertaining to a change in the enterprise IT applications for introduction of a new enterprise IT application. Elements of a business case definition may be incorporated in an enterprise IT application and/or, for a Business Process Management Application, in a business process model. A business case tracking engine may automatically measure benefit indicators to produce a real-time or near real-time display that shows how well the business case is realized in practice, and to identify when the business case is fulfilled or invalidated. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESEARCH ANALYTICS - Described is a system and method for research analytics. A system comprises a database storing citation data for a plurality of publications and a server identifying a subset of publications from the plurality of publications based on the citation data. The server generates clusters of publications from the plurality of publications based on a comparison of the citation data for the subset of publications to the citation data for a remainder of the plurality of publications. The server assigns a general subject area and a discipline to each of the clusters, and the server generates a graphical representation of the clusters based on the general subject area and the discipline assigned thereto. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130211882 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROJECT DOCUMENTATION AND PROPOSALS - A system and method for providing low voltage project documentation and proposals, including functionalities of completing the entire project in a timely, cost effective fashion. The project manager is concerned with a project from the cradle to the grave, and the entire life cycle of a project, including cost and benefits from initial planning through operations and disposal of a project are relevant to decision making. By integrating project management tools in a manner consistent with optimizing the entire project life cycle, the user is able to access a turn-key solution for onsite take-off and proposal delivery. Each user will be able to utilize the system for the entire process of bidding, designing, tracking and on-site purchase from the project start to finish, all within one system. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130218642 | System and Method For Business Decision Making - The invention provides a novel extension of the SWOT (strength/weakness opportunity/threat) paradigm, whereby the various factors are quantified and given weights. The weighted values are summed to provide a two-dimensional representation of the current state, which may be tracked over time for instance as a vector in Cartesian coordinates. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218643 | METHOD TO ASSESS PROGRAM COMPLIANCE - A system including a computer can be used to determine if a company is in compliance with a business program. Requirements are identified for the business program, which are mapped to asset types. Each requirement is associated with a phase of the business program. Structural and cultural dimensions are identified. For each combination of requirement/asset in structural and cultural dimensions in a given phase, a maturity level can be determined, which can then be used to determine if the company is in compliance with the business program. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130226670 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PARTITIONING AND PROCESSING A BUSINESS PROCESS - A method of implementing a business process may include receiving business process information associated with a business process. The business process information may include a graph representing one or more activities to be performed to complete the business process. The method may include identifying, by a computing device, a number of groups associated with the business process information. Each group may be capable of performing at least a portion of the activities. The method may include partitioning, by the computing device, the graph into a number of fragments that is greater than or equal to the number of identified groups. Each fragment may include one or more activities from the graph. The method may include, for each fragment, transmitting the fragment to an identified group that is capable of performing each activity associated with the fragment, and orchestrating the performance of the activities associated with each fragment by each group. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226671 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DEPENDENCY INJECTION IN A BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL SYSTEM - A mechanism for providing dependency injection in a business process model (BPM) system is disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a computing device hosting the BPM system, a process and a plurality of parameters of the process. The method also includes retrieving, by the computing device, sub-processes associated with the process from a content repository of the computing device. The method further includes generating, by the computing device, metadata for one or more of the retrieved sub-processes based on the plurality of parameters. The generated metadata is used to select, based on a variable of the process, a sub-process of the processes for injection into the process when the process is executed. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226672 | PRODUCTION BY ACTUAL LOSS ALLOCATION - A method for allocating actual production loss of a wellsite. The method includes defining a data collection procedure and capturing production data according to the data collection procedure, the production data including actual production data and a maximum production potential of the wellsite. The method further includes selectively allocating a portion of the actual production data to the wellsite based on allocation rules to obtain derived production data, comparing the derived production data to the maximum production potential to determine the actual production loss for the wellsite, allocating the actual production loss to at least one of the production events, and determining a cause of the actual production loss based on an engineering analysis of the production events. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226673 | System and Method for Analyzing Strategic Network Investments in Wireless Networks - A method and a system to assist wireless telecom service providers to make strategic investment decisions in their wireless networks is provided. Geographical profitability information in a wireless network is determined to decide where to invest capital funds in order to increase the revenue and profit for wireless service providers. The profitability of a geographical area or a sector is calculated based on network Operation Measurements and subscriber CDR (Call Detail Record) data. The system prioritizes the geographical areas and sectors for capital investments based on the profitability of the areas and sites. Similar information may be determined to assist wireless service providers in developing a decommissioning strategy. Embodiments of the present invention may also be used to reduce network churn by understanding where dissatisfied subscribers experience poor service and where network investments need to be made to improve the services and reduce churn. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130231978 | INTEGRATED CASE MANAGEMENT HISTORY AND ANALYTICS - A method, system and computer program product for determining health of a case. The method includes the steps of: obtaining at least one correlated trace from (i) task descriptions or (ii) data related to the task descriptions or a process instance; calculating at least one current metric using (i) the task descriptions, (ii) the data, (iii) the correlated trace or (iv) a first model; calculating at least one prognostic metric using a second model; and creating at least one combination metric from the current metric and the prognostic metric; where at least one of the steps is carried out using a computer device. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130246129 | DISCOVERY AND REALIZATION OF BUSINESS MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS - A method for providing discovery and realization of business measurement concepts may include providing at least one interface configured to receive an input from an operator associated with an organization, determining a selected set of glossary terms from a repository including a plurality of glossaries based at least in part on the input where the glossaries relate to different performance indicator components that are combinable to define a measurable performance indicator, and generating at least one performance indicator of the organization based on the selected set of glossary terms. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246130 | Monitoring Business Processes with Hierarchical Dashboard - An information handling system comprises a processor connected to a display and a storage device. The information handling system includes a connection via a network interface to a network that is adapted to receive data representing monitored business process data. Monitored business process data is received from the execution and operation of a customized executable system integration software application. The customized executable system integration software application represents one or more end-to-end integrated business processes of an enterprise or other user. The integrated business processes may operate at the network location of the enterprise or user or may be hosted at another network or in a cloud environment. The storage device is adapted to store the data representing the monitored business process data. The monitored business process data is aggregated from records for summary display via a hierarchical dashboard user interface. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130246131 | Automated Strategic Planning System And Method - Various new and non-obvious apparatus and methods for creating a strategic plan for a business, implementing the strategic plan, and measuring progress towards the plan are disclosed. One of the disclosed embodiments is a guided method for creating corporate goals, and from the goals creating action items. The action items are then used to create department goals. Using the department goals, departments then set department action items. The department action items then become individual goals. The individuals then use the goals to set individual action items. The corporation can track progress by tracking progress made towards the individual action items. The individual action items are aggregated to (at least partially) produce the department scorecard. Department scorecards can then be aggregated to (at least partially) produce the corporate scorecard. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130253989 | USING THE INHERITANCE OF PROFESSIONAL-SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION TO FACILITATE ORGANIZATIONAL POSITION CHANGES - A method for maintaining professional-social networks can begin with the automatic creation of a professional-social network for each member of an organization by a professional-social network tool based upon electronic communication analysis. Each member can have a uniquely-identified organizational position within an organizational model of the organization. A professional-social network can be comprised of nodes representing the member's contacts that can be connected to the member by relationships that express an interaction context. In response to a change from a currently-held first organizational position to a second organizational position for a specified member, the specified member can be dissociated from the professional-social network of the first organizational position. The specified member can then be associated with the professional-social network of the second organizational position. Tacit information contained within the professional-social network for performing the job functions of the second organizational position can be inherited by the specified member. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130253990 | Enterprise Value Assessment Tool - An enterprise value assessment tool includes a feedback engine executed by a computer processor. The feedback engine is implemented as a workbook having a tree structure of weighted nodes configured to generate scores according to user inputs regarding an enterprise respective of market drivers and operational drivers. A threshold engine executed by the computer processor uses the scores to calculate an asset rating and an enterprise value. An output engine executed by the computer processor displays contents of the workbook according to user selections, supplies the user inputs to the feedback engine, and generates one or more reports, including an enterprise value report containing the asset rating and the enterprise value. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130253991 | USING THE INHERITANCE OF PROFESSIONAL-SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION TO FACILITATE ORGANIZATIONAL POSITION CHANGES - A method for maintaining professional-social networks can begin with the automatic creation of a professional-social network for each member of an organization by a professional-social network tool based upon electronic communication analysis. Each member can have a uniquely-identified organizational position within an organizational model of the organization. A professional-social network can be comprised of nodes representing the member's contacts that can be connected to the member by relationships that express an interaction context. In response to a change from a currently-held first organizational position to a second organizational position for a specified member, the specified member can be dissociated from the professional-social network of the first organizational position. The specified member can then be associated with the professional-social network of the second organizational position. Tacit information contained within the professional-social network for performing the job functions of the second organizational position can be inherited by the specified member. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130253992 | INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE USING MULTIPLE CRITERIA THRESHOLD ALGORITHMS - A method, a system, and computer-readable medium for processing of data are disclosed. A service-oriented architecture containing a first information system for implementation in an enterprise system can be generated. Efficiency of the first information system is analyzed by comparing the efficiency of the first information system with efficiency of a second information system, wherein the second information system is associated with the service-oriented architecture and performs at least one function performed by the first information system. Based on the analyzing, a more efficient information system for implementation in the service-oriented information system is selected. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130262188 | SOCIAL MEDIA BRAND MANAGEMENT - A real-time social media system brand management system that provides a balanced approach to listening, posting and reporting, using an agency model for creating one or more posts, tagging the posts, committing the posts, scheduling one or more timed to submit the posts to one or more social media services; analyzing all the posts submitted for effectiveness using metrics; establishing one or more publishing strategy guidelines using the analysis; and reviewing scheduled and historical posts to drive content creation using the one or more publishing strategy guidelines. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262189 | ANALYZING METERED COST EFFECTS OF DEPLOYMENT PATTERNS IN A NETWORKED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for analyzing operating costs (e.g., metered cost effects) for deployment patterns (and changes thereto) in a networked computing environment. In a typical embodiment, a deployment pattern for the networked computing environment is identified. The deployment pattern may comprise a set of components arranged in a network topology. Moreover, the set of components may be associated with a set of policies (e.g., stored in a computer memory medium and/or computer storage device). A cost analysis algorithm(s) may then be selected for the deployment pattern. The selected algorithm(s) may then be applied (e.g., to the deployment pattern and/or network computing environment) to analyze the operating costs of the deployment pattern. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130262190 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MAINTENANCE PLAN - Maintenance actions, maintenance costs each differently corresponding to each maintenance action, a reference strategy and a fault model, are stored. If a system is maintained by each maintenance action at a first timing, if the system is degraded by the fault model from the first timing to a predetermined timing, and if the system is maintained by the reference strategy from a second timing after passing a predetermined period from the first timing to the predetermined timing, at least one search timing is set into a search period from the first timing to the second timing. A maintenance action value of each maintenance action is calculated at the search timing, based on an output and the maintenance cost of the system maintained from the first timing to the predetermined timing. An optimum maintenance action is selected from the maintenance actions, based on the maintenance action value of each maintenance action. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130282442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMER VALUE CREATION - A method and system for managing customer value creation may include receiving a dataset about a customer organization having value attributes with a relative numerical percentage score and a value; processing the dataset to generate a quantified economic or financial impact on a profitability of the customer organization based on the value attributes; generating a customer data collection template based on the quantified economic or financial impact for use in obtaining information from the customer organization; receiving another dataset about the customer organization based on information provided by the customer organization, the other dataset including value attributes having a relative numerical percentage score and a value; processing at least the other dataset to generate another quantified economic or financial impact on the profitability of the customer organization based on the value attributes; identifying one or more investment opportunities based on the another quantified economic or financial impact on the profitability of the customer organization; and generating and prioritizing one or more initiatives to achieve the identified investment opportunities to increase the profitability of the customer organization. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282443 | SELLER URL MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for monitoring seller URLs are described. The methods include receiving a merchant URL associated with a merchant site, extracting content from a Web page associated with the merchant URL, and determining actionable changes related to a payment provider service on the merchant site. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130290072 | Automated Planning, Value Calculation And Decision Optimization System And Method - A computer-driven and implemented automated planning, value calculation, and decision-making system and method allows a user to calculate the actual value of current and future decisions based on user-defined values, by projecting future income, and monetization and other elements that may impact the user from possible decisions, provides a value range to uncertain factors, and then converts them into current value to optimize specific plans and decisions. The system also allows a user to quantify personal non-monetary and emotional factors and, at the same time, it provide ranges to uncertain values, and allows the user to specify monetized numerical amounts and ranges, and therefore the result is more personalized. It provides multi-level forecasting and synthesized analysis of possible future choices based on a user's preference, education, culture, decision-making history and other factors. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130304545 | INTEGRATED ASSET MANAGEMENT - A system for integrated asset management is disclosed. According to one embodiment, information from a first reporting source about an asset is received. In addition, information is received about the asset from a second reporting source. Inspection information about the asset is received from a first enabled device. A database is then populated with the information from the first reporting source, the information from the second reporting source, and the inspection information from the first enabled device, such that the information from the first reporting source, the information from the second reporting source, and the inspection information from the first enabled device can be collected or accessed in an integrated manner from the database for use by a client information system. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130311241 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND VISUALLY PREDICTING AT-RISK INTEGRATED PROCESSES BASED ON AGE AND ACTIVITY - An information handling system comprises a connection via a network interface for receiving business process data from an integrated business process running at a location, the business process data comprises at least data indicating data volume for the integrated business process. The information handling system further comprises a storage device for storing data representing an aggregate of business process data for an integrated business process and account data for the enterprise user of the integrated business process, and a processor adapted to determine a qualitative integrated business process performance designation from the aggregate business process data and account data. If the processor determines that there is no data volume from the business process data and no saved changes to the integrated business process within a specified time period, then the processor allocates an at-risk integrated business process performance designation and prepares a case file for this integrated business process. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311242 | Business Process Analytics - A system for visualizing a process includes a trace manager receiving a plurality of trace sets, each trace set having a plurality of business process execution traces, each of the business process execution traces being a representation of an individual work flow, a model generator creating a model from each of the trace sets, each model being a directed graph including a work flow of an aggregate of the business process execution traces in a respective trace set, a model comparator extracting a plurality of differences between the models and creating a comparison result based on the plurality of differences, wherein the comparison result is stored to a collaborative system, and a trace set identifier configured to identify a subset of the trace set based on a selected subsection of the model, where the subset of trace set exhibits at least one difference extracted from the selected subsection of the model. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130317888 | Reporting and Management of Computer Systems and Data Sources - A system and method are provided for managing data, such as for example security or other business data. For the example of security data, security data is received from a plurality of assets that may or may not be remotely located. A plurality of security metrics are computed and normalized according to thresholds. Security metrics are aggregated to generate an aggregate score, this may include weighting the metrics according to metric priorities. A change effort corresponding to each metric is also received and a corresponding change effort for the aggregate score is calculated. Aggregate scores and aggregate change efforts are analyzed to generate risk reduction recommendations. Upon instruction, metrics corresponding to an aggregate score may be displayed including recommendations of metrics for risk reduction. The recommended metrics may be selected according to analysis of change-to-effort ratios for the metrics. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130325559 | ACTIONABLE BUSINESS ENTITY OPERATING MODEL - Illustrative embodiments include a method, system, and computer program product for creating an actionable business environment model. A business object is instantiated according to a business entity subclass, the business entity subclass representing an asset in a business environment. An event object is instantiated, wherein an event represented in the event object applies to the business object. A decision object is instantiated, wherein the decision object includes logic to take an action in response to the event. An action object is instantiated, wherein the action object includes logic to respond to the event by interacting with the business object. The business object is made actionable by relating the business object with a combination of the event object, the decision object, and the action object using a declarative statement. The actionable business object is added to a model, thereby creating the actionable business model. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130332240 | SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING EVENT-DRIVEN INFORMATION IN THE OIL AND GAS FIELDS - A complex event processing system includes a complex event processing engine configured to detect one or more events across a plurality of data sources and provide a corrective action. The complex event processing system further includes an ontology repository in communication with the complex event processing engine, the ontology repository being configured to receive a first semantic query from the complex event processing engine. The complex event processing system also includes an enterprise integration pattern library in communication with the complex event processing engine, the enterprise integration pattern library being configured to receive a second semantic query from the complex event processing engine. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332241 | System and Method for Decision-Driven Business Performance Measurement - A decision-driven performance management system comprises storing a decision dependency model in a decision dependency repository, the model identifying relationships and dependencies among sub-decisions, information sources and knowledge elements that form a decision and impact a performance measure of an organization. An extended dashboard and decision space enables a user to use the model to visualize and drill down into decisions and implementation artifacts underlying the performance measure, and to edit these elements to change the performance measure. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332242 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE ADVANCEMENT OF A RESEARCH ARTICLE FROM CONCEPTION TO POST-PUBLICATION - A comprehensive, web-based, authorship workflow management system serves as a central hub that electronically links authors of research articles with a plurality of conventional authorship partnering entities, such as funding agencies, publishers, licensing partners, text editors, peer reviewers and the like. In use, the workflow management system facilitates the advancement of a research article from conception to post-publication by, among other things, streamlining the process in which an author obtains a financial grant for a designated project, providing enhanced tools for conducting research and drafting a corresponding research article, submitting publication requests to a plurality of publishers in a prioritized, cascading fashion, and efficiently processing any fees to be collected on behalf of designated entities. Throughout the authorship experience, the workflow management system provides author-defined updates regarding the status of the article through the transmission of electronic notifications to the author and selected partnering entities. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130339098 | VEHICLE FLEET ROUTING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a system for routing vehicles in a vehicle fleet includes a location assignment module comprising computer hardware and a routing module. The location assignment module can be configured to iteratively: determine whether quotas are met for a plurality of territories based at least on locations assigned to individual territories of the plurality of territories, and in response to determining that the quota is unmet for one or more individual territories, assign one or more additional locations to the one or more individual territories having unmet quotas based at least on a proximity of the one or more additional locations to a different reference location associated with each of the one or more individual territories having unmet quotas. The routing module can be configured to generate routes including the locations assigned to the individual territories for vehicles in a vehicle fleet. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339099 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS PROGRAM AND SERVICE PLANNING, DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT - Methods and systems for structured communications between business planners to capture and profile a planning and management method as well as tasks, results, and performance indicators for tracking the achievement of a business strategy, goal, or mandate are outlined for an enterprise or an enterprise and its partner organizations. The systems and methods can be used to accelerate the configuration of management information systems and/or enterprise information systems in accordance with those profiles for the purposes of planning, delivering and managing programs and services. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339100 | DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR OPERATION OF A FACILITY - A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows the user to compare the performance of different strategies for the operation of the facility so that the organization can make better-informed judgments about which approach to use. The decision support tool can also allow for the modification of strategies to improve their performance. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339101 | REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL AUTHORING - Techniques and mechanisms described herein may facilitate the creation of a request for proposals. In some embodiments, user input for creating a document representing a request for proposals for a business action may be received. The user input may include information characterizing the business action. Suggested content to include in the document representing the request for proposals may be based on the received user input. The suggested content may describe the business action. The document representing the request for proposals may be created based on the received user input and the identified suggested content. The document may identify a business need and one or more criteria for responding to the request for proposals. The request for proposals may be stored on a storage medium. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339102 | PROPOSAL EVALUATION SYSTEM - Described herein are techniques and mechanisms for evaluating proposal documents. According to various embodiments, a proposal document may represent a proposal for business action. The proposal document may be processed via a processor to determine a plurality of scores for the proposal document. Each of the plurality of scores may evaluate the proposal document in accordance with a respective one or more criteria. The plurality of proposal scores may be aggregated via the processor to create a composite score for the proposal document. The composite score may represent a measure of quality associated with the proposal document. The composite score may be stored on a storage medium. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339103 | METHOD FOR MEASURING AND IMPROVING ORGANIZATION EFFECTIVENESS - A method of evaluating the effectiveness of an organization. The method includes participants generating responses to a set of organizational statements as part of a one-day event. The participants are able to interact with each other during various phases of the one-day event in order to generate responses. The responses are entered into a software program running on a computer-based platform, and the software program operates on the responses to generate output results (evaluation results . . . e.g., scores associated with various organizational categories) as part of the one-day event. The results may be used to measure and benchmark effectiveness of the organization and to formulate suggestions and actions to be taken by the organization to improve the effectiveness of the organization. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130346159 | Method of Determining Requirements for Modification of a Business Operation - The disclosure depicts a method of determining requirements for modification of a business operational system. The method requires the steps of compiling and documenting an inventory of a plurality of current business capabilities, and entering the inventory of the plurality of current business capabilities into a data system. The disclosure also depicts the inventive step of enumerating at least one modified capability that proposes improvement of the current business capabilities. The invention also includes the steps of entering the at least one modified capability into the data system and performing a delta analysis. Additionally, the disclosure depicts the inventive step(s) of enumerating into a readable format a set of skills required to carry out the current business capability, and enumerating a set of skills required to carry out the modified business capability; and displaying into a readable format the requirements for achieving the modifications of the current business capabilities. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346160 | Commerce System and Method of Using Consumer Feedback to Invoke Corrective Action - A commerce system has a plurality of members including manufacturers, distributors, retailer, consumers, and feedback service provider. Feedback information is collected from a consumer associated with products and services. The feedback information can be collected with a wireless communication device. The consumer receives an incentive in the form of a discount or promotion to provide the feedback information. The feedback information is stored in a database. A feedback score is determined based on the feedback information. The feedback information is weighted based on consumer value. The feedback score and the feedback information are provided to a retailer. The feedback information can be presented on a website for comment by other consumers. The retailer implements corrective action based on the feedback score and the feedback information. The corrective action is reported back to the consumer. The commerce system is controlled using the feedback information and corrective action. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140006110 | STRUCTURAL SIZE ESTIMATION MODEL FOR EAI PROJECTS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006111 | Systems and Methods for Subsurface Oil Recovery Optimization | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140012632 | EXTENSION OF BUSINESS SCENARIOS - A search area to search business scenarios may be displayed on a display device. Business data flow(s) may be displayed on the display device based on a search criteria specified in the search area. Each business scenario defined for extension purposes may include a plurality of business objects. In response to identification of a business scenario from the business scenario(s), an integrated development environment may be displayed on the display device. The integrated development environment may include functionality to add extension field(s) to business object(s) included in the business scenario. In response to input indicating extension field(s), the extension field(s) may be added to the business object(s) included in the business scenario. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140019211 | Operation State Display Method - Provided is an operation state display method used for an electronic device to display the operation states of an original business entity and a derived business entity. The operation state display method includes the following steps: the electronic device acquires the operation information of the original business entity and the derived business entity, wherein the electronic device generates a systematic image, and then the electronic device displays the systematic image. The step for generating a systematic image includes, according to the operation information of the original business entity, the electronic device generates an original business entity image, wherein a derived business entity image is generated. The electronic device sets with a systematic representation and a relative position of the original business entity image and the derived business entity image to form the systematic image, wherein the systematic representation represents that there is an origin-deriving relationship between the original business entity image and the derived business entity image. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING MIGRATION AND ADOPTION OF AN ALTERNATIVE COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE - The present disclosure is directed to, among other things, a method that selecting, by a processor, user accounts on a first computing infrastructure to migrate to a second computing infrastructure; provisioning, by the processor, a parallel user account on the second computing infrastructure for each of the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure; and migrating, by the processor, information from the user accounts on the first computing infrastructure to the parallel user accounts. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019213 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR A MERGER AND ACQUISITION KNOWLEDGEBASE - A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing a merger or an acquisition. A plurality of statistics are tracked relating to a merger or an acquisition for reporting purposes. Further, a plurality of decisions are stored relating to the merger or acquisition. Such decisions may be accessed by a plurality of users involved in the merger or acquisition. In addition, a plurality of items associated with the merger or acquisition are inputted into a database. Each item is associated with at least one of the users. The users may be search for the items in the database. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140025436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN OBJECTIVE PURSUITS - In one embodiment, is provided a system for managing organizational participation in an objective pursuit. The system comprises a first local computer operated by an individual. A platform is provided for initiating an objective pursuit. The platform is capable of allowing the individual to initiate the objective pursuit of the individual's choice. The system further includes a central server in communication with the first local computer. The central server is capable of creating a database for the objective pursuit. The central server includes a governance loop capable of taking permission from the individual to propagate the objective pursuit. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025437 | SUCCESS GUIDANCE METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SOFTWARE - A success guidance software program is configured to provide one or more indications to a user regarding compliance of a particular campaign of a class of campaigns with a plurality of actions and action attributes associated with a successful outcome for campaigns of the class. The success guidance software may be geared toward scalable sales-like efforts, and particularly toward sales-like efforts having independently verifiable actions and action attributes. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025438 | DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PROJECT MANAGERS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A decision support system is presented for generating data pertaining to solutions to constrained project management scenarios. The system comprises: a scenario generator for generating project management scenarios, a feasible solution generator for generating solutions to constrained project management scenarios, a scenario simulator for interactively simulating project management scenarios in a stochastic environment, and a database for storing historical data generated by the scenario simulator. Methods are presented for using the decision support system as a tutorial mechanism and as a data gathering mechanism for supporting project managers. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140032276 | Method And Apparatus For Assessing Layered Architecture Principles Compliance For Business Analytics In Traditional And SOA Based Environments - Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems that assess business logic architecture compliance by defining an ideal business logic architecture hierarchy of a desired application, retrieving one or more applications from a data repository, breaking down these applications into a plurality of processes and analyzing the plurality of processes for common inter-application processes. Common inter-application processes are located and store in the middleware layer. The desired application is developed using the applications and common inter-application processes from the middleware layer to provide a resultant application, followed by determining an actual business logic hierarchal structure of the resultant application. This actual business logic hierarchal structure of the resultant application is compared against the ideal business logic architecture hierarchy to calculate compliance thereof, which in turn, reflects the maturity level of the developed resultant application. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140039983 | LOCATION EVALUATION - Computer-implemented methods of generating values for a location, the value being associated with a use of the location, are provided. The methods comprise receiving data associated with said location, said data indicating properties of said location, receiving data associated with a plurality of training locations, and processing said data to generate ranking data. The value for the location is generated based upon the ranking data. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140052499 | Telenostics performance logic - In a method for managing a vehicle fleet using operational and maintenance data, wherein the improvement comprises the steps of also using financial, environmental, and industry data. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052500 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SUSTAINABILITY GOALS OF AN ORGANIZATION - The present disclosure discloses an embodiment for managing sustainability goals of an organization. Organizational activities associated with the sustainability goals and performed in the organization are identified. The attributes of the stakeholders of the organization are identified. A first set of activities from the plurality of organizational activities and a second set of activities associated with each of the stakeholders of the organization are determined. Based on the one or more attributes, the first set of activities and the second set of activities, a first sustainability goal to the stakeholders of the organization is assigned. Further, a first set of data corresponding to the first set of activities, a second set of data corresponding to the second set of activities associated with each of the stakeholders are extracted. Based on the first set of data and the second set of data for each of the stakeholders, a personal sustainability index is determined. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140058797 | DYNAMIC AND SECURE TESTING AND DATA TRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURE IN A MULTI LEVEL SUPPLY CHAIN HIERARCHY - The present relates to a method and system for dynamic and secure testing and data transmission in a multi level supply chain hierarchy. The method and system generates, at an emitting equipment, data related to a component of a product portfolio. The method and system identifies, at the emitting equipment, a receiving equipment for the data. The identification comprises analyzing the data, with respect to the product portfolio and a federated enterprise infrastructure. And the method and system transmits the data, from the emitting equipment to the receiving equipment. Additionally, the generation of the data, the transmission of the data between the emitting equipment and the receiving equipment, and an usage of the data at the receiving equipment, are protected by a security mechanism. The security mechanism prevents an unauthorized actor of the supply chain hierarchy from at least one of: creating, reading, using, and modifying the data. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140067480 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENTERPRISE-LEVEL CONTEXT MANAGEMENT - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to facilitate enterprise-level context management, which is a construct used to manage access and changes to business entities at the enterprise level instead of application level, where the business entities are used by many legacy applications and the underlying data is stored across multiple systems of record of data. An enterprise context manager is a software layer that secures exclusive access to a collection of related, yet disparate applications and resources ahead of a coordinated multiphase commit. The enterprise context manager provides a complete view of a business entity by presenting various aspects of data of the business entity through a single, unified user interface. It commits changes made to the data managed by two or more legacy applications together or rolls the data back to a pre-commit status if all changes cannot be applied. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140074557 | AGGREGATING BUSINESS ANALYTICS ARCHITECTURE AND CONFIGURATOR - A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for designing an architectural solution. Functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements of the architectural solution are received. Responsive to receiving the functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, first level outputs are produced. Further input is received through a guided questionnaire based on the first level outputs. Responsive to receiving the further input, a list of client specific components and subcomponents, a client specific solution reference architecture, and a set of reference links is produced. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074558 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSING OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE METRICS - In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing cross-organizational processing of business intelligence metrics including, for example, means for scheduling a time for metrics collection from databases of a host organization; generating one or more messages and associated parameters to implement the metrics collection at the host organization; enqueuing the one or more messages and associated parameters for processing by the host organization; dequeuing the one or more messages and associated parameters into the host organization for processing, wherein the processing is to output the metrics collection into an intermediate table; capturing the metrics collection output via the processing at the intermediate table; and exposing the intermediate table to metrics queries. Other related embodiments are disclosed. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074559 | COST EFFECTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD TO COLLECT AND ANALYSE PLANT & INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING INFORMATION WITHOUT COMPROMISING ON THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION COLLECTED OR ITS QUALITY - A system for collecting and analyzing monitoring information includes one or more hardware collection units, one or more centralized logging and monitoring units and one or more display unit. The one or more hardware collection units collect raw data related to the at least one industrial or infrastructure parameter from one or more sources. The one or more hardware collection units timestamp the collected raw data. The one or more centralized logging and monitoring units receive the timestamped raw data from the one or more hardware collection units through a communication network. The one or more centralized logging and monitoring units calibrate and consolidate the timestamped raw data to obtain a calibrated data and store the calibrated data in at least one format. The display unit is configured to display a user interface to contextualize and analyze the calibrated data. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140081711 | Systems and Methods for Improved Facility Energy Management and Retrofit Selection - Disclosed are systems and methods for energy management and facility retrofit option selection. The methods may be used to select between various retrofit options and may be used to provide return information to each participant in a retrofit project, including public and private participants. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140089055 | Fuel Cell Fleet Optimization - A fuel cell fleet has a plurality of fuel cell systems each connected to a data server. The data server may be configured to obtain operational data from of the plurality of fuel cell systems. An efficiency controller operably connected to the data server and is configured to predict an efficiency and a power output of the fleet from the operational data and optimize the efficiency of the fleet to minimize the fleet fuel consumption while maintaining a desired fleet output power. The efficiency may be determined by a ratio of the fleet output current or output power to the fleet fuel consumption. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089056 | ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF PROCESS CUSTOMIZATION - Embodiments include a method of estimating effects of modifications to a process. The method includes determining, by a processor, first differences between a graphical representation of a first modified process and a base process having been modified by the first modified process. The method also includes comparing, by the processor, the first differences with second differences between a graphical representation of at least one second modified process and the base process. The method also includes estimating a first effect of the first differences relative to the base process based on a similarity between the first differences and the second differences and based on at least one second effect of the second differences relative to the base process, the second effect stored and associated with the second differences in memory. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089057 | Diversity Reporting Tool - Included are embodiments for diversity reporting. Some embodiments include providing a first user interface to a buyer, where the first user interface includes an option to request a report of diversity spend data from a plurality of prime suppliers, receiving a report request to provide a report of the diversity spend data to the buyer and providing a second user interface to the at least one prime supplier that includes a data request for the diversity spend data. Some embodiments include receiving the diversity spend data from the at least one prime supplier, where the diversity spend data that was received includes data regarding an amount spent with a diverse vendor over a predetermined length of time and providing the report of the diversity spend data to the buyer. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140095264 | Methods for Incentivizing Clients Engaged in Pre-Transaction Navigation of an Online Image or Text-Based Project Creation Service - A system for working with image and or text-based projects includes a server having a processor and a data repository, with software running from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing functions for establishing a client-server connection between the server and a user-operated appliance, maintaining a data session between a user through a graphics user interface (GUI), monitoring and recording working behaviors of the users, determining that a user should be incentivized to purchase a particular product, determining an amount for the incentive based in part on the parameters of the particular product, and providing notification, at a dynamically determined time during the instant active session, or at some time after the session, to individual ones or to the group of users of the availability of and the value of the incentive. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCT VENDOR SELECTION - Systems and methods for facilitating complex purchasing decision across a plurality of potential product vendors are based on accumulating pricing, logistical (inventory, shipping, transport, etc.), and performance (past delivery timeliness, satisfaction, etc.) information from a spectrum of relevant sources (vendors, shippers, warehouses, distributors, manufacturers, etc.) and using linear optimization methods to identify one or more recommended vendors from whom to buy a given product at a given logistical moment. The linear optimization analysis is preferably further refined by considering vendor selection priorities of the purchaser, which may be either purchaser-specific or may be generalized to a category of purchaser (such as government versus private, employee size, etc.). | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095266 | SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCIAL ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM WITH CUSTOM QUALIFIER PARAMETERS - A system is provided that implements a qualifier. The system selects a qualifier definition that defines the qualifier; where the qualifier definition includes a computer program code definition including one or more conditions. The system further selects a condition from the one or more conditions, where the condition includes a parameter. The system further determines that the parameter is a custom parameter, where a custom parameter indicates that an external computer program is used to generate a value for the custom parameter. The system further invokes the external computer program to generate a value for the custom parameter. The system further evaluates the condition using the generated value. The system further evaluates the qualifier definition using the evaluated condition. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095267 | EXECUTING A BUSINESS PROCESS IN A FRAMEWORK - Various embodiments of systems and methods for executing a customized business process in a business process framework are described herein. A user selection of a solution type corresponding to a business process is received from a user interface. In response to the user selection, a query is executed to retrieve application types and corresponding sub-application types from a business logic stored in a database. Configurable attributes are generated based upon the application types and the corresponding sub-application types. Based upon the application types, the sub-application types and the configurable attributes, the business process is customized to create a customized business process. Based upon a configuration information, a user input to the customized business process is captured from the user interface. The user input is validated by comparing the user input with the business logic. The customized business process that is validated is further executed in the business process framework. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140108098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING ENTITLEMENTS OF DIGITAL ASSETS - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system for managing the entitlement of digital assets may include a storage medium and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive digital asset usage information regarding usage of a digital asset within an enterprise. The processor may also be configured to receive entitlement information regarding existing entitlements for usage of the digital asset within the enterprise. The processor may further configured to receive available entitlement information regarding entitlements other than the existing entitlements that may be acquired for usage of the digital asset within the enterprise. The processor may additionally be configured to determine based on a comparison of the digital asset usage information to the available entitlement information, whether acquisition of entitlements other than the existing entitlements is more cost efficient. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140108099 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUSINESS GAMING AND OPERATIONS - In an embodiment, a system that may provide a user with information concerning a business opportunity and receive a response that defines goals associated with the business opportunity. The system may include decision-making information concerning the business opportunity and/or allow a definition of one or more strategies to achieve the defined goals. The system may include processing and communication facilities to create and/or execute the strategies to achieve the defined goals. The system may include provisions to convey and/or monitor instructions and/or feedback for activities that users of the system perform. The system may include a gaming system that may monitor, score, and/or communicate results to users of the system. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140122184 | Food Supply Chain Automation Grocery Information System And Method - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically storing grocery operations information regarding at least in part one or more grocery implementation aspects pertaining to grocery related merchandizing of one or more commercial grocery products; and electronically associating at least a portion of grocery operations information concerning at least in part one or more grocery implementation aspects pertaining to grocery related merchandizing of one or more commercial grocery products with identification information obtainable through one or more tags said one or more tags logged as being at least temporarily within at least a vicinity of one or more food based substances. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122185 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGAGEMENT ANALYTICS FOR A BUSINESS - Described is a method for engagement analytics. The method includes identifying criteria, and sub-criteria of each of the criteria, associated with a plurality of engagements between a vendor and a client, and identifying influencor sub-criteria and influencee sub-criteria amongst the sub-criteria. First levels of influence of the influencor sub-criteria of each of the criteria with respect to the influencee sub-criteria of each of the criteria; second levels of influence of the plurality of engagements with respect to the sub-criteria of all the criteria; and third levels of influence of the sub-criteria of all the criteria with respect to the engagements, are estimated. Further, a selection order of the plurality of engagements is determined based on the first, the second and third levels of influence. The selection order has priority values indicative of a level of realization of each of the engagements for the selection of the at least one engagement. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129295 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED PROCESS MINING - The detection and interpretation of data pertaining to the usage of software and documents by end users, and more specifically, the automation of the mining of event logs of events generated by business processes for logging of business processes and automatic discovery of business process models. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140136290 | VENDOR MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEM - A computer system establishes partner relationships between vendors in a vendor management and maintenance system. The computer system receives a request from a first computing device associated with a first vendor to establish a relationship with a second vendor. The computer system generates a unique relationship key associated with the second vendor. The computer system receives one or more signals comprising information relating to a copy of the unique relationship key from the first computing device associated with the first vendor. Based on receiving the copy of the unique relationship key, the computer system establishes the relationship between the first vendor and the second vendor. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods are directed to supply chain management. In particular, the tracking, tracing, authenticating, and reporting of supply chain events for products, is disclosed. Various embodiments can store, analyze, and track supply chain events and help to coordinate and maintain trading partner connections. Various embodiments also help to enhance patient safety, secure the supply chains for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products, and help users to follow regulatory requirements. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136292 | Method of Providing Accessible Remodeling Services through a Franchise Arrangement - A method of disability remodeling services for adapting a home or other building, structure, or location for accessibility to the disabled is disclosed. A franchisor having a brand is established to conduct product development and testing, develop uniform practices for product recommendation and installation, and train franchisee employees in recommending and deploying products according to the uniform practices. A plurality of franchisees under the brand provide consultation, installation, and remodeling services to customers. A primary goal of the franchisor's marketing is to associate the brand with a high level of knowledge and skill at understanding and addressing the facility needs of disabled individuals. Existing services within the generally delineated category of aging-in-place remodeling generally specialize in one particular type of facility, such as wheelchair lifts, elevators, stair lifts, accessible tubs and showers, or accessible cabinets. Existing services generally do not provide a full range of products or planning expertise. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140143023 | ALIGNING ANALYTICAL METRICS WITH STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES - Aligning analytical metrics with strategic objectives, including: identifying, by the metric analytics generator engine, measurable metrics associated with a business activity; identifying, by the metric analytics generator engine, one or more strategic objectives associated with the business activity; correlating, by the metric analytics generator engine, the one or more measurable metrics associated with the business activity to the one or more strategic objectives associated with the business activity; and generating, by the metric analytics generator engine, key performance indicator formulas in dependence upon the one or more measurable metrics associated with the business activity and the one or more strategic objectives associated with the business activity. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143024 | TRANSACTION COST RECOVERY ANALYTICS - Apparatus and methods for determining a surcharge yield are provided. A surcharge behavior may be monitored during a time period. A change in a first performance metric may be monitored during the time period. A change in a second performance metric may be monitored during the time period. A relationship between the surcharge behavior, the change in the first performance metric and the change in the second performance metric may be determined. The surcharge yield may be determined based on the relationship. Apparatus and methods for adjusting a transaction cost recovery amount are provided. A rate of change in a transaction volume may be monitored. The transaction volume may be associated with a merchant location. When a threshold rate of change is detected the transaction cost recovery amount may be adjusted. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140149185 | Knowledge Management for Solution Design During Sales and Pre-Sales - Techniques, a system and an article of manufacture for designing integrated enterprise solutions. A method includes aggregating multiple work-products pertaining to solutions submitted in response to one or more previous solution requests, segmenting the multiple work-products into multiple segments based on content category, annotating each of the multiple segments with a tag based on one or more semantic associations with the content of each of the segments, adding each of the segments and each of the tags into a database, performing a search in the database to identify a set of one or more of the segments with at least one tag that corresponds to content of a current solution request, and ranking each of the segments in the set based on a degree of semantic matching with one or more parts of the current solution request. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING ARTIFACTS TO IDENTIFY ELEMENTS OF A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL - A method and system are described for using business artifacts to identify elements of a component business model. Artifacts operated upon by the business are first identified, and then used to analyze the business into business operations. This is done by identifying every business activity that acts on an artifact, creating directed graphs for the business activities, and decomposing the directed graphs into sub-graphs, each sub-graph representing a business operation and being annotated by a verb expression, the annotated sub-graph representing a business service. The business services are then clustered into non-overlapping components, using common affinities reflected in the verb expressions, and organized by partitioning into internal and external operations, exposing a business service for each external operation. The components are then clustered into non-overlapping business competencies, and arranged by accountability level. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149187 | Method and System for Context Modeling - A context modeler comprising a computer software graphical subsystem and a solution packaging service. The computer software graphical subsystem renders a graphical user interface, which is used to map different objects from the web application platform and set their properties, thereby creating a mapping file for use by the packaging service. The packaging service is used to automatically create a solution package file for deployment within the web application platform. The solution package file is created when the packaging service uses one or more methods to generate a set of instructions for implementing computer processor or server action, and this set of instructions is wrapped inside a solution package file recognized by the web application platform. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140156354 | BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT MOBILE ADMINISTRATION - A method and system for remotely managing business processes via a mobile device is provided. The method includes enabling, for a user, an application integrated with analytic models and geo-positioning technology. The user and a location of the user are identified. Preferences associated with the user are identified and a status of business processes associated with the entity at the location is monitored. In response, a status of the entity at the location is determined. Status data associated with the status is presented to the user via the mobile device. The status data is based on the preferences. The user may initiate an escalation process based on the status provided. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156355 | BULK UPDATE IN AN ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Various embodiments of systems and methods for performing a bulk update to to-be-updated business object instances are described herein. Initially a request is received to retrieve information related to business object instances included in a business object. The business object instances may include to-be-updated business object instances. The information related to the business object instances may be forwarded to a client system. Based on the forwarded information, a bulk update may be received for the to-be-updated business object instances at an A2X service, in the enterprise management system. The A2X service may then update the to-be-updated business object instances with the bulk update. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156356 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVIEWS AND MEETINGS - A system for scheduling interviews includes an interviewer database and a calendar database. Interviewers are selected as a function of one or more modules of questions that are associated with each of the interviewers, and an interview schedule is generated for a job candidate from the selected interviewers. The system can also schedule and invite people to meetings based on their calendar availability and the skills, characteristics, or attributes associated with potential meeting attendees. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164065 | Strategic Business Objectives Based Program Management Systems and Methods - Systems and methods are presented for program management based on strategic business objectives (SBO) of an organization. One aspect of the inventive subject matter includes a method of tracking SBOs of a program including providing access to a SBO database that stores SBO objects, which are representative of the SBO's. The method further includes providing access to an SBO analysis engine coupled with the SBO database. The SBO analysis engine can be configured to identify one or more stakeholders responsible for achieving or assessing an objective associated with one or more SBO objects and retrieve SBO perception attributes from the stakeholders for the one or more SBO objects. The method can further include deriving a SBO perception drift for the SBO object as a function of the stakeholder's SBO perception attributes and the SBO attributes of the SBO object and presenting the SBO perception drift on an output device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164066 | Determining Efficient Assortments of Products - A plurality of efficient assortments may be determined for a plurality of products. One of the efficient assortments may be identified based on a strictly decreasing convex function. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164067 | SEQUENCING OF BUSINESS OBJECT LOGIC EXTENSIONS TO ENSURE DATA CONSISTENCY ACROSS LAYERS - In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include performing, by a sequencer, one or more validations of a plurality of extensions to a core service of a business system; controlling, by the sequencer, execution of a sequence including the plurality of extensions and the core service to enable an action to be performed at the business system; and performing, by the sequencer, one or more post-processing checks of the plurality of extensions. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164068 | PROCESS TOOL - A process tool is described that comprises a data input application implemented by a computing device and arranged to facilitate definition of business process information by a user. The process too includes a plurality of user selectable industry value maps, each industry value map defining a library of metric information and graphical representations relevant to a particular industry. The process tool is arranged to facilitate selection using the computing device of an industry value map by a user and to use information and graphical representations associated with the industry value map to define a framework to support a business conversation. The process tool is also arranged to produce materials using the business process information defined by the user according to the framework at least partly populated using the industry value map. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140172510 | Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Solutions Tool and Method - A computer-implemented tool provides enterprise content management solution information. The computer-implemented tool includes: a set of templates stored in computer-implemented data storage, each template corresponding to an industry group, and including a set of organization segments, sub-segments, or both, and a set of enterprise content management solutions. A processor is configured to determine a first template associated with an identified organization from the set of templates and to determine enterprise content management organization information associated with the identified organization. The processor is also configured to generate a quantitative indicator based on the set of enterprise content management solutions implemented by the identified organization in the industry group, the organization segment, or the organization sub-segment, in comparison to the set of the enterprise content management solutions associated with the respective industry group, organization segment, or the organization sub-segment. The processor is configured to transmit display data. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172511 | System and method for sales performance improvement by identifying isotonic architecture - Disclosed herein is a method and system for improving performance of a sales person by generating appropriate suggestions. When the sales person has to approach a client organization to do business, the system collects information related to the client organization and builds a people map. Information in the people map is processed to identify parameters such as power centre, power play and power centre in the client organization. Further, based on the identified power centre, power play and power centre information, suggestions are made so as to help the sales person to improve knowledge about the client organization and to strategize sales approach accordingly. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140180768 | EVALUATION OF PROPOSED ENTERPRISE PLAN - A system includes identification of a first plurality of variables of a plan, the plan comprising budgeted values for the first plurality of variables and for a second plurality of other variables of the plan, and, for each of the first plurality of variables, determination of a first correlation with each of the second plurality of other variables of the plan based on historical values of the first plurality of variables and of the second plurality of variables, determination of a second correlation with each of the second plurality of other variables based on the budgeted values of the first plurality of variables and the second plurality of variables, and comparison of the first correlations with respective ones of the second correlations. A visualization is generated to illustrate one or more of the correlation comparisons. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140188568 | RECOMMENDING AN OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC OF A MERCHANT - Recommending operating characteristics of merchants. Obtaining a location of mobile computing devices within areas referenced to a location of a merchant. The areas can be outside the range of a wireless local area network (WLAN) disposed within the location of the merchant. Estimating potential customer traffic in relation to the location of the merchant as a function of the obtained locations. Determining a recommended operating characteristic of the merchant as a function of the estimated potential customer traffic. Communicating the recommended operating characteristic to a computing device associated with the merchant. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188569 | DECISION MAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION SYSTEM - Systems for assisting a user in a process of decision-making or analysis involving a topic comprising a computer and one or more computer applications comprising: a module for displaying a screen set soliciting a set of input data, and inputting said set of input data, wherein at least some of the data is characterized with a value representing a degree of certainty regarding the data; and a module for displaying a screen or screen set showing a current recommendation or analysis where the degree of certainty regarding the input data is reflected in the recommendation, calculations, or output; wherein said module optionally provides information or links to modify those inputs which are determined to have one or more of: the highest importance, the greatest effect on the calculated certainty of the current recommendation or analysis, and the greatest effect on the calculated certainty of a particular calculated result. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188570 | Method of Promoting an Illuminated Outdoor Decoration - A series of business methods, processes, and results is disclosed. The methods license popular and readily identified sports-related trademarks and copyrighted images and use these trademarks and copyrighted images in the production of illuminated decorations. A device that will preferably provide a transparent or translucent three dimensional image of a popularly identifiable figure, such as a sports mascot or emblem, or a player in a sports uniform is provided. The popularly identifiable figure would be a trademark or copyrighted image from a popular sports team, and the trademark or copyrighted image would be licensed for production as part of a licensing agreement. Preferably, the sports team or university would enjoy advertisement for their organization any time the device was displayed. A light source affixed inside or behind the device will make it appear to glow. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140195305 | METHOD FOR CREATING A DIGITAL SOLUTION FOR A BUSINESS - A method of creating a digital solution, such as a website, for a business where business specific information is collected separately before digital solution information is collected that pertains to the creation and delivery of the digital solution. The business specific information collected may be industry specific, stored separately in the system from digital solution information, and the digital solutions created for optimal presentation on customer computer devices with different configurations through means such as transcoding. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195306 | ENTERPRISE DECISION MANAGEMENT - Embodiments relate to managing and executing interpreted language code. An aspect includes a parser configured to parse controlled language code against both a language grammar and for building an execution model comprising parsed known concepts. Another aspect includes a pattern matching engine configured to match patterns in the controlled language code with a patterns for a new concept. Yet another aspect includes a concept engine configured to create a new concept from the matched pattern and controlled language code and for saving the new concept into an object model and into a language grammar so that current and future parsing errors will not occur when recognizing the new concept. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195307 | STRATEGIC PLANNING MANAGEMENT - An information technology (IT) strategic management system (and corresponding methodology) that enhances efficiency and effectiveness of IT planning processes and projects is provided. In particular aspects, the systems commence with a review of current IT state and strategy influencers. The state is analyzed to establish (or alternatively, to update) a strategy summary. The strategy summary can be presented for leadership approval and subsequently communicated to stakeholders for deployment. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140214494 | CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEALS - Systems, methods, and machine-readable and machine-executable instructions are provided to determine context-aware information item recommendations for deals. An example of a computing system to determine context-aware information item recommendations can extract a set of information concerning pursuit of a deal by an enterprise, where a first portion of the set can be extracted from an electronic communication network and a second portion of the set can be extracted from a profile of elements to be included in a completed deal. The computing system can form a context-aware query by determination of semantic relevance of the set of information and can determine an output based upon correlation of the context-aware query with content of a resource description framework (RDF) triple store, where the output includes the context-aware information item recommendations for the deal. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140214495 | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Disclosed is a computer readable storage medium including executable instructions to provide a navigational menu and a choice of actions as a graphic user interface (GUI). The disclosed embodiments are particularly suited, but not restricted, to Business Intelligence (BI) applications requiring hierarchical menu items to be drilled down or up and searched across dimensions. Also disclosed is a computer readable storage medium including executable instructions to configure the content and the layout of a mobile application for a business intelligence dashboard, particularly displaying and interacting with data under any form of graphical or tabular visualization. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140222520 | MANAGING CUSTOMER CHANGE REQUESTS - Techniques for managing customer change requests include receiving a change request associated with a business project of a business enterprise, the change request including one or more parameters; comparing the one or more parameters with one or more business rules associated with the business enterprise; based on the comparison, determining that at least one of the one or more of the parameters satisfies at least one of the one or more business rules; in response to the determination, generating one or more requests for approval for the change request; receiving one or more approval responses from one or more entities associated with the business enterprise in response to the one or more requests for approval; and in response to receiving the one or more approval responses, updating a property associated with the business project. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222521 | INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION IN DISTRIBUTED WORK FLOW ENVIRONMENTS - Techniques for intelligently monitoring and verifying compliance in a distributed work environment. Sensors are configured to collect various data, including human behavioral data, related to the distributed work environment. A rules engine correlates the human behavioral data with other types of data collected from sensors, and analyzes the aggregate data to determine compliance with a set of standards. Other types of data may include machine data, biological and environmental data, logistical data, and operational data. The standards may include governmental regulations, industry standards, and company specifications. The rules engine estimates a current and/or future status of a parameter of the distributed work environment, and determines whether the parameter status satisfies the standards. If the rules engine detects non-compliance and/or potential non-compliance, it generates alerts and/or remediation instructions, and/or automatically implements corrective action(s) to resolve the non-compliance using machine-to-machine interactions. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222522 | INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION IN DISTRIBUTED WORK FLOW ENVIRONMENTS - Techniques for intelligently monitoring and verifying compliance in a distributed work environment. Sensors are configured to collect various data, including human behavioral data, related to the distributed work environment. A rules engine correlates the human behavioral data with other types of data collected from sensors, and analyzes the aggregate data to determine compliance with a set of standards. Other types of data may include machine data, biological and environmental data, logistical data, and operational data. The standards may include governmental regulations, industry standards, and company specifications. The rules engine estimates a current and/or future status of a parameter of the distributed work environment, and determines whether the parameter status satisfies the standards. If the rules engine detects non-compliance and/or potential non-compliance, it generates alerts and/or remediation instructions, and/or automatically implements corrective action(s) to resolve the non-compliance using machine-to-machine interactions. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222523 | TECHNIQUES FOR BUSINESS PROCESS DRIVEN SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) GOVERNANCE - Certain example embodiments tie the business process governance and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance processes together through the use of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) based messaging. That is, in certain example embodiments, a BPMN agent integrated into a SOA registry and publish/subscribe agents deployed to the SOA registry and a business process engine are used to bring the business and SOA governances together through an EDA that helps generate relevant messages from a BPMN model representing the various governance mechanisms. Advantageously, a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine and business analytics modules may provide monitoring and feedback to both parts of the overall architecture. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222524 | Challenge Ranking Based on User Reputation in Social Network and ECommerce Ratings - A network-based rating system provides a mechanism whereby users can submit and rate challenges in a challenge processing step and submit and rank ideas in an idea processing step that correspond to the challenges in the challenge processing step. The highest rated challenge is determined in the challenge processing step and is then submitted to users in an idea processing step. Alternatively, challenges submitted by users in the challenge processing step are submitted to users for ideas in the idea processing step on an ongoing basis. In these alternative embodiments, the challenge rated in the idea processing step is a challenge other than the highest rated challenge determined in the challenge processing step. In another embodiment, the users rating challenges are the same users rating ideas in the idea processing step and in other embodiments the users are not the same as those rating ideas in the idea processing step. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140236679 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TRANSITION PLANS FOR APPLICATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS - A method and a system for generating one or more transition plans for one or more applications of an organization are provided. Transition information for identifying a set of applications for transition is obtained from information corresponding to the one or more applications. One or more groups of the identified set of applications are created. Further, one or more activities for transition execution are identified for each application of the identified set of applications. Thereafter, one or more transition plans comprising the one or more identified activities are generated. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236680 | SERVICE SUSTAINABILITY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A service sustainability system and method. An example method may include identifying service-level factors for providing a service. The method may also include identifying dependencies between the service-level factors. The method may also include determining service-level resource consumption based on information corresponding to the service-level factors and dependencies between the service-level factors. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140257936 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A method of managing preset and bespoke projects efficiently within a collaborative environment that utilises intranets and or the internet to convey data and messages. In one expression of utility a method of commercialising of proposed intellectual property rights comprising five steps is disclosed. The steps are identifying and protecting intellectual property associated with the invention; developing a prototype product and or end user products based on the intellectual property rights being pursued; identifying and/or developing potential markets for the products; determining a preferred route to market for the products; and, depending on the preferred mute to market, either licensing the invention to 3rd parties and or establishing new companies to bring products to market directly. Also disclosed is a system for implementing the method. The system comprises data storage means including data structures, data processing means in communication with the data storage means, input means and output means. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140278811 | SALES AND MARKETING SUPPORT APPLICATIONS FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - Disclosed are media, systems, and methods for creating business intelligence (BI) applications. The BI applications display competitive intelligence (CI) including actionable contact information for individual sales targets associated with a business entity that utilizes particular enterprise. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140278812 | DIAGNOSTICS STORAGE WITHIN A MULTI-TENANT DATA CENTER - Diagnostic data is received at a multi-tenant data center. The diagnostic data is from a data system instance and the multi-tenant data center hosts data from a plurality of organizations. The diagnostic data is stored at the multi-tenant data center and a rules engine runs on the diagnostic data and provides optimization recommendations for the instance of the data system to which the diagnostic data was collected. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140278813 | RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - Techniques of the disclosure may include a method comprising receiving a first request for a recommendation to configure input data for output, determining, based at least in part upon templates, an object class corresponding to the first request, determining, based at least in part on input data and the templates, one or more output objects and one or more scores, wherein the output objects comprise configurations of the input data for the determined object class, and where each of the output objects is associated with a score. The method may further comprise outputting a indication of the output objects having an associated score that exceeds a specified threshold value, responsive to receiving a second request to resolve a specified output object, determining, based at least in part on the one or more templates and the second request, a resolved output object and outputting an indication of the resolved output object. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140278814 | CONTRACT-BASED PROCESS INTEGRATION - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing contract-based process integration. One computer-implemented method includes selecting a process integration (PI) scenario definition and a desired party with which to establish communication using an interface, determining at least one semantic contract associated with the selected PI scenario definition, querying the desired party to determine familiarity with the selected PI scenario definition and the semantic contract, analyzing known contract definitions with contract usages for each determined semantic contract to generate first party analysis results, computing an intersection between the first party analysis results and corresponding received analysis results received from the desired party, determining an agreed upon set of processing types with the second party by performing an intersection with contract usage processing types exchanged with the desired party, and generating a technical specification for a message signature based upon the agreed upon set of processing types. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140278815 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MARKET ANALYSIS AND AUTOMATED BUSINESS DECISIONING - One embodiment includes an environment for analyzing various data associated with companies, market participants, customers, products, services and/or related data, processing the data to identify factors correlating with market success, and for utilizing such data to suggest or optimize business decisions, measure return on investment, forecast sales or revenue, and/or to automate decisions regarding a company's operations, product development, marketing and/or allocation of resources. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140278816 | INTEREST GRAPH-POWERED SHARING - Techniques for organizing information, such as documents, presentations, web sites and web pages, audiovisual media streams, and the like are describe. This disclosed techniques include creating and using an interest graph to support the sharing of information via search, browsing, and discovery, etc. and measuring consumption, engagement, and/or influence based on that information. An interest graph expresses the affinity between people and information—the likelihood that a particular piece of information is of interest to a particular person. The interest graph is based on an understanding of relationships, monitoring of user behavior, and analysis of each piece of information. The interest graph represents many kinds of relationships, including: between users and other users, users and items, and users and collections. The interest graph can be computed using data both from a set of items and from user behavior. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140278817 | Systems and Methods for Managing Energy Generation and Procurement - A system and method for optimally assigning energy generation and procurement resources whereby information needed to calculate an optimal-cost generation plan is obtained by a database connected to the calculation module. Data from the database is automatically checked for errors, formulated into an objective function representing hypothetical generation plans, and framed within mathematical constraints by the module. Generation plans are automatically delivered in customizable formats, and functionality allowing for considerations beyond cost can be implemented. Functionality to automate the method based for periodic or event-based operation is also included. Further calculations based on hypothetical values are possible to determine how said hypothetical values would affect generation plans, or whether increasing generation-fleet output could result in added profits. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289021 | CROSS DOMAIN INTEGRATION IN PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT - Cross-domain integration within product lifecycle management can include providing a plurality of finite state machines (FSMs), wherein each FSM is associated with one business object of an integration flow between a first enterprise information system and a second enterprise information system. Each FSM defines a plurality of lifecycle states of the associated business object. A business rule can be associated with each lifecycle state of each FSM. For each FSM, the associated business rules are independent of the FSM. For a selected lifecycle state of each FSM, the associated business rule defines a condition causing a transition from the selected lifecycle state to a next lifecycle state of the FSM. A network of the plurality of FSMs is established by providing communication links among individual ones of the plurality of FSMs according to the business rules. The communication links define the integration flow. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140310069 | COORDINATED BUSINESS RULES MANAGEMENT AND MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for an integrated business rules management system (BRMS) and mixed integer programming (MIP) technology application deployment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of rules processing with MIP constraints can include selecting candidate rules from amongst a set of rules in a rules engine executing in memory of a computer and reducing the candidate rules to rules in a conflict set according to constraints specified in the candidate rules. The method also can include conflict resolving the rules in the conflict set and generating an agenda for the rules of the conflict set. Finally, the method can include adding constraints specified in the rules of the conflict set to working memory of the rules engine and applying the rules in the conflict set in agenda order to the working memory. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140310070 | COORDINATED BUSINESS RULES MANAGEMENT AND MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for an integrated business rules management system (BRMS) and mixed integer programming (MIP) technology application deployment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of rules processing with MIP constraints can include selecting candidate rules from amongst a set of rules in a rules engine executing in memory of a computer and reducing the candidate rules to rules in a conflict set according to constraints specified in the candidate rules. The method also can include conflict resolving the rules in the conflict set and generating an agenda for the rules of the conflict set. Finally, the method can include adding constraints specified in the rules of the conflict set to working memory of the rules engine and applying the rules in the conflict set in agenda order to the working memory. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140316858 | VIRTUAL BUSINESS PROCESS - A virtual process system includes a processor, a first physical business process coupled to the processor, and a second physical business process coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to execute a virtual business process according to a virtual business process definition. The processor is further configured to receive a first event relating to the first physical business process and a second event relating to the second physical business process. The processor is further configured to execute a first state transition in response to receiving the first event at the processor and execute a second state transition in response to receiving the second event at the processor and execute a behavior in response to a received event. The received event includes one of the first event or the second event. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316859 | Setting up Milestones for Desired Performance - Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to receive a desired uptime for one or more pieces of equipment. The computer may receive a set of supplies used in maintaining the one or more pieces of equipment. The computer may determine a plurality of actions for achieving the desired uptime based on a probability analysis of one or more maintenance records for the one or more pieces of equipment. The plurality of actions includes ordering one or more supplies in the set of supplies. The computer may create one or more milestones from the plurality of actions. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140324551 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PLANT OPERATING CAPACITY - A monitoring system is disclosed for acquiring output activity, utilization capacity and/or effluent data from an facility on a facility-by-facility and/or an industry-by-industry basis. The system is designed to generate a plant and/or industry output activity database that is updated on a continuous, near continuous, periodic and/or intermittent basis so that subscribers are apprised of changes in plant or overall industry output. A clearing house is also disclosed for distributing the acquired data to subscribers to aid in analyzing, predicting trends, pricing, maintaining, adjusting, minimizing, and/or maximizing individual plant or overall industry output. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140351023 | AGGREGATING BUSINESS ANALYTICS ARCHITECTURE AND CONFIGURATOR - A computer implemented method, a data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for designing an architectural solution. Functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements of the architectural solution are received. Responsive to receiving the functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, first level outputs are produced. Further input is received through a guided questionnaire based on the first level outputs. Responsive to receiving the further input, a list of client specific components and subcomponents, a client specific solution reference architecture, and a set of reference links is produced. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140358643 | Systems and Methods for Process Designing by Aligning With Objectives - Described herein is a system for designing processes in alignment with the business objectives. The system includes an objective formulation module defines a number of business objectives based upon a pre-defined criterion. A process mapping module associates the business objectives to the processes in the organization. The process mapping module maps the processes with the defined business objectives, determines unmapped processes, obtains modified processes based upon gaps within the unmapped processes, and links the mapped and modified processes to a number of functions in the organization. Further, a display module displays linkages of the mapped processes and the modified processes to the business objectives and the functions to enable a user in tracing the mapped processes and the modified processes to the defined business objectives and the functions. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140372181 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURATION OF BUSINESS UNITS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURATION OF BUSINESS UNITS - The present invention determines a configuration of sites that enables low-cost operation under normal circumstances, and maintains the stockout rate of end products at an appropriate value when trouble occurs. A device for determining the configuration of sites, comprising: a storage unit for storing information about sites, including information about the names and classification of the sites, transportation information including information pertaining to supply routes between the sites, cost information including the cost generated by the manufacture and procurement of products and commodity items, and trouble probability information including the probability of trouble occurring at the sites; and a stockout rate and cost evaluation unit for calculating the stockout rate and cost of the end products by setting the lowermost stream of the information about the sites as the starting point and creating a plurality of combinations for the configuration of the sites while varying the allocation ratios of the supply routes included in the transportation information, setting a commodity item in the site constituting the uppermost stream in the information about the sites as a starting point for each of the resulting combinations for the configuration of the sites and tracing end users in accordance with the supply routes included in the transportation information, calculating the stockout rate of each of the commodity items for each of the sites from the trouble probability information, calculating the cost of each of the commodity items for each of the sites from the cost information, and accumulating the results. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140379434 | APPLICATIONS FOR MAKING BREAKTHROUGH DECISIONS AND IMPROVING DECISIONS OVER TIME - Systems and methods are disclosed to assist in making decisions and in improving decisions with the goal of making exceptionally good decisions, indeed breakthroughs. Systems and methods also adapt and improve over time with experience and usage as users update the information based upon actual situations, thus iterating to better decisions. The system or application includes a repository or collection of decision apps or subprograms where each app is designed to help make a different type of decision. A breakthrough engine uses the apps (and other data) to actually make the decision. In particular, a decision is proposed, and metrics then evaluate the decision. If the decision quality not is exceptionally good, issues are suggested to be examined to improve the decision, and an improved decision is made. If this improved decision is not sufficiently excellent on the metrics, the process is repeated. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150025939 | Company Centric Social Media Platfonn for Content Sharing aud Tracking - Social networks by their nature are networks of people and their user-generated content. This content is usually un-curated and does not follow a general theme. This makes it very hard for people to find information they seek in these networks. When it comes to business centric communities, they need a better network where content is curated, tagged, and indexed properly thus making it easy for users to find the relevant content. SharePract is a community of curated, tagged, and indexed companies along with curated, tagged, and indexed content, making it easy for companies to find their business partners, clients, vendors, service providers, legal documents, marketing reports, business videos, webinars, and much more. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150046227 | INVENTORY DEPLOYMENT OPTIMIZATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer-implemented method is disclosed for optimizing a flow network. In the method, a computer system may obtain first data characterizing supply sites, demand sites, and lanes of a distribution network. The computing system may also obtain second data characterizing supply and demand for an item distributed within the distribution network. Using the first and second data, a computer system may determine a maximum possible flow of the item within the distribution network. Subsequently, the computer system may use the maximum possible flow as a benchmark in determining which lanes of the distribution network are required to achieve the maximum possible flow and which lanes of the distribution network are redundant lanes. From among a remaining set of required, non-redundant lanes, a computer system may select a lowest cost solution for achieving the maximum possible flow. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150058090 | Systems and Methods for Generating Solution Recommendations for Power Plant Operation - Systems and methods for generating solution recommendations for power plant operation can be provided by certain embodiments of the disclosure. In one embodiment, a system may include a processor configured to collect power plant operational data from power plant components. The power plant operational data may be analyzed to identify cost factors for the power plant components. Based at least in part on the power plant operational data and the cost factors, upgrade opportunities for the power plant components may be determined. Financial values may be calculated for the upgrade opportunities. Based at least in part on the financial values, recommendations may be generated using a product interaction database and provided as an electronic output to a user. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058091 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LNAPL REMOVAL BENEFIT ANALYSIS - A new environmental application, sometimes referred to as the LNAPL Removal Benefit Analysis is disclosed for evaluating the relative benefit of removing LNAPL from a site that has LNAPL and a related dissolved phase groundwater plume. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150066597 | PROFIT-BASED LAYOUT DETERMINATION FOR WEBPAGE IMPLEMENTATION - Systems and methods for automatic generation and efficient exploration of a large number of webpage layouts to discover a layout with superior empirical performance. A set of variants are displayed to visitors in accordance with a display probability distribution. Data related to visitors' interactions to the variants are collected and processed to evaluate their respective profit-related performances. The display probability distribution may be dynamically adjusted based on the profit-based evaluation. A profit brought by a webpage layout may be ascribed to a number of revenue sources. These difference revenues may be tracked and summed together to yield a profit assessment for a layout variant. Profit performance of a layout variant may be calculated using a Gaussian with NΓ | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150081396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE WITH AUTOMATED SOCIAL DISCOVERY - A system, process and method for automatically collecting, collating and transforming data into useful formats and displaying or otherwise outputting the transformed data into useable information. The system provides outputs that are useful in optimizing the enterprise performance of a business. The system, process and method are grounded in an established logical framework for systematically classifying areas of business concerns. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150088614 | ACTIVE STRATEGY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - A computer-implemented active strategy management platform (ASMP) performs the functions of: receiving ideas from at least one organizational stakeholder; receiving a selection of one or more of the ideas to implement as a strategic plan for a corresponding organization; transforming, via the ASMP, the idea into at least one strategic plan of the corresponding organization; transforming the at least one strategic plan into a plurality of operational execution components that align routine operational activities of the organization with broad strategic intentions; and identifying and outputting operational data related to executing strategic ideas in a manner that improves an ability of the organization to realize transformational business goals. The ASMP also automatically detects, based on the relationships mapped within a relational database, changes in operational execution that will impact strategic outcome achievement, in order to enable an organizational leader to proactively make necessary course corrections to a strategic plan. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088615 | System and Method for Processing and Dynamically Segregating Business Assets - Systems and methods for protecting business assets are provided. More specifically, provided herein is a system for protecting business assets, comprising a Series LLC computer system in electronic communication with one or more third party computer systems over a network to electronically receive asset information and liability information therefrom, an asset database in electronic communication with the Series LLC computer system, the asset database populated with the asset information received from the one or more third party computer systems, a liability database in electronic communication with the Series LLC computer system, the liability database populated with the liability information received from the one or more third party computer systems, a Series LLC management engine executed by the Series LLC computer system to automatically create Series LLC data by processing the asset information and the liability information to dynamically segregate business assets and liabilities, and a user interface engine of the Series LLC computer system to generate a user interface to present Series LLC data to a user. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150100386 | DIGITAL FRAMEWORK FOR BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION - Automated business model generation includes identifying constituent attribute text strings of an input offer that are relevant to pre-coded cost and revenue components within a matching threshold, and generating a business plan by linking said relevant pre-coded business plan components. The processor combines cost values assigned to the linked cost components and revenue values assigned the linked revenue components to generate composite cost and revenue values for the generated business plan as a function of probability weighting factors that are selected for the cost and revenue components as a function of entity identity attributes of the input offer. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100387 | PROVIDING GUIDANCE TO A BUSINESS ORGANIZATION BY ONE OR MORE OF A PLURALITY OF BUSINESS ADVISOR MODULES - Providing guidance to a business organization by one or more of a plurality of business advisor modules, including: receiving, by a business advisor module, one or more business objectives; receiving, by the business advisor module, one or more key artifacts; and creating, by the business advisor module in dependence upon the one or more business objectives and the one or more key artifacts, a business recommendation. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100388 | AGGREGATED SALES AND MARKETING STRATEGY TOOL - The disclosure provides systems and methods pertaining to the generation of sales and marketing strategies. One embodiment provides an aggregated sales and marketing analysis and strategy system. The system includes a processing engine that is coupled to a database and at least one client device associated with a GUI dashboard. The system performs the roles of analyzing raw sales and marketing data, generating one or more sales and marketing strategies based on information obtained through the analysis, and reporting the results of the analysis as well as the sales and marketing strategies to the GUI dashboard. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150106164 | QUANTIZING NETWORK INTERCONNECTIONS - A method of generating a quantitative assessment of a connection between a content distributor and a user may include accessing social networks on which the content distributor maintains an account, and receiving an input indicating the user. The method may also include passing an indication of the user to the social networks, and receiving data descriptive of connections and interactions of the at least one user account in the plurality of social networks. The method may additionally include calculating a value score based on the data descriptive of the connections and interactions of the user account in the plurality of social networks, where the relationship value score indicates a potential for generating new sales for the business through the user. The method may further include adjusting one or more policies that control how content is distributed from the content distributor to the user. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106165 | System and Method for Multi-Layered Monitoring and Control for Dynamic Situation Handling for Production Support - A system and method for selecting an optimal policy to be implemented in production support engagement. The system configures a knowledge base including plurality of policies, reference events, and reference scenarios. The plurality of policies is mapped with the plurality of reference scenarios and the plurality of reference events. The plurality of policies is defined in a plurality of layers in a manner that each policy corresponds to a particular layer of the plurality of layers. Relevant policies, out of the plurality of policies, may be selected based on an event received. Simulation may be performed on the relevant policies for identifying first candidate policy. The optimization may be performed on the relevant policies for identifying second candidate policy. The first and second candidate policy indicate the optimal policy to be implemented in the production support engagement. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150112769 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A WORKSITE - A computer-implemented method for managing a worksite is described. The method involves generating event objects comprising event information with respect to the worksite, processing said event objects to generate state objects describing states with respect to the worksite, processing said state objects to generate situation objects defining situations in the worksite; and process said situation objects to generate worksite impact objects estimating impacts on the worksite. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150120395 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR ACCESSORIES OF A BUSINESS AUTOMATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods of the present disclosure can facilitate a marketplace for a business automation system comprising at least one processor executing on a computing device. In some embodiments, the system includes an upload module, an accessory creation module, and a download module. The upload module may be configured to receive, responsive to a first user, a configuration of the business automation system of the first user. The accessory creation module may be configured to create, based on the configuration, an accessory comprising at least one of a solution set, a service board, and a project board. The download module may be configured to verify, responsive to a second user, the suitability of the accessory for the business automation system of the second user. The download module may be further configured to transmit the accessory to the second user. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120396 | Mission Metric System Design - The Mission Metric System is an original guiding utility for leaders to identify, measure, and act upon their organization's capacity to achieve mission. The Mission Metric System receives survey(s) and a value/mission statement; instantly presents a dashboard of measures; and instantly recommends leadership actions. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120397 | GENERAL ENTERPRISE MODELING SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR CONSTRUCTING ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure provides a method and system for method of dynamically constructing an enterprise application for an enterprise. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method includes generating a business model for an enterprise based on a first set of parameters specific to the enterprise, and generating an interface model for the enterprise based on a second set of parameters specific to the enterprise. The method also includes dynamically constructing an enterprise application for the enterprise based on the business model and the interface model. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150134423 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING, IMPLEMENTING, AND TRACKING STRATEGIC PLANS - In one aspect, a system may include a receiver configured to receive a message including a hierarchy identifier, an action, and a task indicator. The system may include a task information processor configured to determine a date range for the task and obtain a metric associated with the task. The system may include an action validator configured to identify one or more nodes within the hierarchical plan based at least partially on the location. The action validator is configured to obtain a date range and a metric for the one or more nodes. The action validator is configured to compare the task date range to node date range(s) and to compare the task metric with to node metric(s). The system also includes a hierarchy manager configured to permit the action based at least partially on the comparison of the date ranges and the comparison of the metrics. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134424 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING HYBRIDIZATION OF CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES BASED ON DATA MINING OF HISTORICAL DECISIONS - Computational methods and systems that aid an enterprise in deciding whether to execute an application entirely within a private cloud or a hybrid combination of the private cloud and public cloud services offered by a public cloud service provider are described. The methods and system receive a set of quantitative parameters associated with running an application using computational services provided by a public cloud service provider and a set of organizational parameters associated with an enterprise. The quantitative and organizational parameters are normalized and input to a decision model that generates a recommendation that indicates exclusive use of a private cloud or a hybrid private cloud and public cloud to execute the application. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150149257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENTERPRISE PROFIT OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods that provide profit optimization and give manufacturers adequate information and object data for making capital and strategic sales, operational, and procurement decisions. Disclosed are embodiments for comprehensive machine-executable decision-making systems that provide executives with tools that identify the best possible plan to optimize profits. The systems and related components eliminate subjectivity, controversy, and confusion while supporting the natural workflow of the leadership team in the creation and execution of a single optimal plan. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149258 | ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING OPERATIONS AT AN ENTERPRISE DATABASE - According to some embodiments, input data may be received from a data source in an enterprise database in accordance with an enterprise performance management planning model, stored by a processor at the enterprise database. An operation may then be performed on the input data to produce a result. The result may then be stored in a data target, wherein the data target points to a data holding entity in an instantiation of a plan data container at the enterprise database. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150310357 | Handling Process Instance Migration In Business Process Management - Process instance migration from a former process model to a new process model. A former process model and a new process model and their data models are analyzed to extract a process delta object model relating to changes in the new process model on which to define migration rules. One or more existing process instances are analyzed, and process instances whose current state has passed the changes in the new process model are retained. Candidate activities of the retained process instances, a set of conditions for the candidate activities, and a set of actions to be taken if a condition is met are generated. The generated set of conditions and set of actions may be presented to a user enabling the user to combine conditions and actions to produce a process instance migration program in the form of a set of rules. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150310364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRE-VALUATION ESTIMATES OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - A system and method for providing estimated business intelligence data, responsively to received company information, including a local front end comprising a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user for an electronic location of the received company information, and ones of the estimated business intelligence data to be displayed on the graphical user interface. The estimated business intelligence data for a company is based on the determined business intelligence data for a similar company. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150332185 | BUSINESS PROBLEM NETWORKING SYSTEM AND TOOL - A system for identifying and visualizing one or more interrelationships occurring amongst a plurality of business problems is provided. The system includes a business problem repository configured to store a plurality of business problem statements. Each business problem statement includes a plurality of components. The system also includes a connection engine coupled to the business problem repository and configured to determine one or more connections for the plurality of business problem statements by applying a one-to-one comparison scheme that is configured to generate a connection score for each comparison. The system further includes a connections repository coupled to the connection engine and configured to store the plurality of connections and corresponding connection scores. Further, a visualization engine is coupled to the connections repository and configured to generate a business problem network. The business problem network includes nodes and connections, each node representing a single business problem statement. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150339608 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMPLOYEES TO ENHANCE DEMONSTRATE AND ADHERE TO ORGANIZATION VALUES AND PERSONAL BELIEFS - The embodiments herein disclose a method and system for employees to enhance demonstrate and adhere to one or more organization values and personal beliefs. A user signs into the value adherence system and is assigned an activity. The response of the user and the validation of two reviewers have to be taken into consideration to signify completion of an activity. Several levels and activities once completed indicate demonstration of a value and manifestation of personal beliefs. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150347938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD SUPPORTING ONGOING WORKER FEEDBACK - A system and method that enables the ongoing communication, tracking, and management review of feedback among a population of workers and their management. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150356479 | ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK FOR HANDLING TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN DIFFERENT BUSINESS OBJECTIVES IN PLANNING AND SCHEDULING APPLICATIONS - A advanced planning and scheduling (APS) application for processing business objectives in a process industry. A method of the APS uses a business priority provided by a user for each the business objectives, ranks the business priority for each of the business objectives from a top priority to a lowest priority, and identifies a set of desired solutions for the top priority business objective. The method selects solutions in the set of desired solutions whose percentage change in honoring a second highest priority business objective is more than a percentage change in the top priority business objective. The method iterates through the solutions in the set of desired solutions for each of the remaining business objectives to realize an output solution such that the business objectives are optimized through successive linear programming. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150371164 | OPTIMIZED MENU PLANNING - A method for planning preparation of a plurality of dishes according to a plurality of corresponding recipes includes automatically identifying, by a processor, a plurality of candidate sub-recipes, wherein each candidate sub-recipe in the plurality of candidate sub-recipes comprises an intermediate component that is required by at least two of the plurality of corresponding recipes, and automatically selecting, by the processor, at least one candidate sub-recipe in the plurality of candidate sub-recipes for preparation, in accordance with at least one constraint on the preparation of the plurality of dishes. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371165 | SUBSCRIPTION BASED BUSINESS ANALYTICS - A subscription based business analytics system and process that collects and analyzes a member's business information across a range of categories pertaining to the business; including its organization, employees, licenses, the businesses' customers; including prospects and opportunities; the business' finances; the businesses' projects; and its banking. A provider utilizes the business analytics system to service the needs of its members. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160019480 | PRIORITIZING BUSINESS CAPABILITY GAPS - Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation to prioritize capability gaps, the operation comprising determining, for each of a plurality of business objectives, a weighted effectiveness, criticality, and differentiation (ECD) score, and determining operation of one or more processors, a priority value for each of a plurality of capability gaps based on: (i) the weighted ECD score of each business objective, and (ii) a degree of support the respective capability gap provides towards fulfilling each business objective, wherein each priority value reflects a degree of importance of a capability subject to the respective capability gap. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160026948 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PRODUCTION OF GLASS SUBSTRATES AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PRODUCTION OF GLASS SUBSTRATES - A system for managing production of glass substrates includes a first inspection device that calculates a lot average defect density based on defect data from an inspection of ten or more multi-sheet production glass substrates sampled from one lot, and a preliminary calculation device that preliminarily calculates a profit of an operator in an upstream-side step and a loss of an operator in a downstream-side step over a plurality of times while differing the number of defective virtual individual surfaces, and calculates an allowable number of the defective virtual individual surfaces based on results of the preliminary calculations when the profit is larger than the loss. The system also includes a second inspection device that calculates all the multi-sheet production glass substrates of the one lot to count the defective virtual individual surfaces, and a defect determination that determines whether the multi-sheet production glass substrate is non-defective or defective. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160026949 | PRODUCT PRODUCTION PLANNING METHOD - An accurate production plan can be achieved by enabling a combination constraint among grades and specifications to be considered so that the composition ratios of the determined grades and specifications and the actual composition ratios are consistent with each other. A method for designing a production plan on a car model in which a plurality of grades are set and a plurality of specifications for a plurality of categories are set for each of the grades by determining composition ratios of the grades and composition ratios of the specifications for the categories, includes: generating all-specifications-combination information which is information generated by combining the specifications in every combinable pattern; and calculating, by determining a composition ratio of any one of the grades, upper and lower limits of the composition ratio of an equipment, which is the specification related to and other than the determined grade, based on the all-specifications-combination information. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160034831 | DETERMINING A POLICY CHANGE FOR AN OUTCOME RELATED TO AN OPPORTUNITY - Determining a policy change for an outcome related to an opportunity includes monitoring factors and outcomes associated with opportunities stored in a customer relationship management (CRM) system, extracting the factors and the outcomes associated with the opportunities stored in the CRM system into a queryable database, analyzing, via a queryable database, the factors and the outcomes associated with the opportunities to identify patterns related to the outcomes of the opportunities, and determining, based on the patterns related to the outcomes of the opportunities, a policy change to improve the outcomes related to the opportunities. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160034832 | DETERMINING A MONETARY VALUE FOR AN OUTCOME BASED ON A USER'S ACTIVITY - Determining a monetary value for an outcome based on a user's activity includes monitoring activities of a user utilizing a number of applications associated with a customer relationship management (CRM) system, determining, based on monitoring the activities of the user utilizing the number of applications, outcomes for the activities of the user, the outcomes being associated with opportunities stored in the CRM system, assigning a contribution value to the outcome based on the activities of the user, and determining, based on the contribution value, a monetary value for the outcomes. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160055436 | DYNAMIC INNOVATION DRIVER - A dynamic innovation driver can include providing access to a database of items related to employee knowledge. Life cycle management of items in the database can be performed. The life cycle management can include receiving an item posted by an employee, assigning the item a status of draft, and facilitating a review of the item. The review of the item can result in the item being accepted or accepted based on input from at least one other employee. The participation by the employee in the posting and review of the items in the database can be tracked. Information about the participation may be provided to an employee assessment system. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160063406 | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for managing business development activity within an organization include a server reading and storing business development data and user data. The business development data is associated with the business development activity of users in an organization. An interactive display of business development data includes interactive links that allow a user to update the business development data via a remote computer. Requests to update the business development data based on recent business development activity may be initiated from or by the system for individual users or groups of users, for example, via automated messages with interactive links. Progress towards goals and metrics may be used to trigger requests for updates. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160071036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BUSINESS PARTNERS AND ASSOCIATED ASSETS IN FAVOR OF A PLURALITY OF ENTERPRISE - Provided is a system and method for automated management of business partners and their associated assets in favor of, and on behalf of, a plurality of business enterprises in the form of a single owner managed generic system for a variety of common business activities. A common set of business process user interfaces, database schema and metadata, enterprise eMail integration methods, and complementary methodologies are implemented around a generic work identifier. The work identifier is a unique handle to a particular business activity regardless of the many types of business activities, and is used to correlate business partner data with related eMail activities. Data is stored, managed, joined, associated, and correlated using the work identifier for a variety of rich business functionality across a variety of business enterprise common mission critical business partner and asset management requirements. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160071037 | SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING A MARKETPLACE OF GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITIES - A system and method that maintains a marketplace of procurement opportunities offered by government agencies. The system retrieves, from one or more servers, data associated with a procurement opportunity, based on which the system generated a procurement opportunity profile. The procurement opportunity profile is associated with the government agency profile corresponding to the government agency offering the retrieved procurement opportunity. The government agency profile includes information on open and awarded procurement opportunities offered by the government agency, such as the number of offered procurement opportunities, the total value of offered procurement opportunities, the number of fulfilling organizations that have expressed interest in or been awarded procurement opportunities, and the recency of the awarded procurement opportunities. Government agency profiles are updated by the system based on indications of interest from fulfilling organizations and indications that a procurement opportunity has been awarded. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160073573 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING 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 |
| 20160078378 | Systems and Methods for Adjusting Existing Well Plans - Systems and methods for adjusting existing well plans by adjusting existing well plans by matching the existing well plans that can be replanned with new well plans that are generated around the existing well plans that cannot be replanned such as, for example, drilled, planned and/or permitted wells. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160078379 | Automated Configuration Data Collection for Business Applications Using Feedback - A data collection method including collecting, by a configuration collector manager, configuration data, including configuration properties, from a plurality of data sources, creating, by a model discovery component, a business application model using the configuration data collected by the configuration collector manager, a collecting, from a business application model analysis user interface, edits and confirmations associated with the business application model, and a analyzing, by a feedback analyzer component, the edits and confirmations associated with the business application model and prioritizing the configuration properties based on the data sources and the edits and confirmations associated with the business application model. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160086114 | SERVICE-BASED CONSULTING FRAMEWORK - A system and method for providing end-to-end consulting activity is disclosed. The consulting system receives domain input from the user of the consulting system. Based on the domain selected, the system selects a methodology for consulting activity, comprising a template with a list of questionnaires. The questionnaire may be sent to respective stakeholders/consultants for providing response. The response provided by stakeholders may involve current state of the business, pain points and desired business capabilities. The consulting system determines gap between current state of business with desired state of business based by as-is, gap, and impact analysis. Business and functional requirement are converted into desired technical capabilities for generating technology roadmap using the stakeholder response. Further, request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) may be created as per client goals. The user may configure vendor evaluation parameters and associated weightages for evaluating the vendor. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160092810 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TARGET SETTING APPLICATION - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable mediums having program instructions thereon, provide for creating, storing and utilizing planned target data with a target-setting graphical user application based a cloud-based system. The target-setting application can create multi-dimensional target settings for any HANA or non-HANA based data source. The target-setting application can store planned targets for entities of an organization across varying dimensions and time granularity. Also, the target-setting application generates data access protocol service links of the target data so the target data can be consumed by both HANA and non-HANA based applications. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092811 | BUSINESS RULES FRAMEWORK - A business rule framework may be used to provide a vendor agnostic interface to allow one or more business users to design, deploy, test and/or monitor an operation of one or more business rules using a common user interface. The business rule framework may allow a user access to a business rule management system (BRMS) using a common interface, regardless of a vendor or version of BRMS being used by a business organization. The business rule framework may include a business rule governance interface allowing the business user with the common user interface to the BRMS, regardless of the version or vendor of the BRMS product being used. The business rule framework may also include a BRMS interface capable of communicating with different BRMS products. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160098654 | DATA QUALITY ANALYSIS TOOL - A data quality analysis tool and method for determining the business impact of a data set utilizing weighting and rule priority. The data quality analysis tool including a Rules Engine and a Scoring Engine. The Scoring Engine is configured to i) for each specific rule that has been met, determine a business impact score, ii) apply a weighting factor to each of the business impact scores to obtain a weighted business impact for each of the at least one specific rules, and iii) compute priority of the weighted business impact scores into a total business impact score. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160104083 | METHOD OF ACHIEVING HEALTH AGENCY AIMS THROUGH A PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT DASHBOARD - The present invention is directed to a management method to achieve organizational aims, comprising listing organizational aims, determining one or more goals to meet in order to reach the organizational aims, defining one or more performance measures each having numeric year to date measure data to measure attainment of each of the goals in a twelve month period, describing why each of the performance measures was chosen, naming person or personnel position responsible for ensuring entry of the year to date measure data, specifying frequency of entry of the year to date measure data within a twelve month period, labeling the year to date measure data with an appropriate unit of measure, stating a source from which the year to date measure data is to be collected, demarcating an annual target and a red line target for each of the year to date measure data, entering the year to date measure data to create entered year to date measure data, updating the year to date measure to create updated year to date measure data, calculating a progression of each of the entered year to date measure data and/or each of the updated year to date measure data in relation to the annual target and the red line target, and displaying the progression of the entered year to date measure data and/or the updated year to date measure data over the twelve month period. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160132800 | Business Relationship Accessing - A computer method and system provide means for inputting, verifying and outputting business relationship data to a user. The system comprises a database of business relationships between organizations, some of which are marked as visible or hidden. The system applies an algorithm to determine which relationships to verify. A user may search for an organization according to search criteria and the system will select a set of organizations that match the criteria. Web content is displayed based on the verification and visibility status of the relationships. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160162821 | COMPARATIVE PEER ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - Techniques are described for comparative peer analysis for business intelligence (BI). In one example, a method includes identifying, in response to an input indicating one or more features of a BI report context associated with an enterprise, one or more elements of information associated with one or more peer entities of the enterprise from one or more information sources, wherein the one or more elements of information associated with one or more peer entities correspond with the one or more indicated features of the BI report context. The method further includes generating an output comprising the one or more elements of information associated with the one or more peer entities that correspond with the one or more indicated features of the BI report context. | 06-09-2016 |
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