Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Christopher P Stine

Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Ashvin Mathew

Christopher S Hargarten

Soren Francker

Jesper K Olsen

Ingibjorg Numadottir

Chandrudu Pokala

Brett M Davis

Guner Akturk

Heriberto Coll

Donna Daem

The described implementations relate to installation of customized applications. One technique obtains a software application generated by a producer. The technique identifies customizations made by a customizer to the software application that are desired by a customer. The technique further installs the software application and the customizations on the customer's computer in a single operation.

Installation of customized applications

A method and system for configuring an instance of a business information application program based on data exported from an instance of the application program is provided. Each instance of the application program has a database storing an organizations' business data. Template providers desiring to provide a template containing configuration and instance data to organizations using the application program may use the application program to set up configuration and instance data for a particular type of organization. Once the database is populated with configuration and instance data, the template provider can use an export function to export the configuration and instance data to a template file. The template file is then provided to an organization that wants to initialize its database based on the template. The organization uses an import function to import configuration and instance data from the template into the organization's database.

Exporting and importing business templates

A contact identification system provides a network of members with each member of a network having a relationship with one or more other members of the network. The contact identification system identifies relationship paths between a first member of a first network and a second member of a second network by traversing relationships to identify relationship paths that include a common member that is common to both the first network and the second network. The contact identification system generates an intermediary score for each identified relationship path to indicate whether the identified relationship path includes an intermediary who can effect a successful introduction between the first member and the second member. The contact identification system then identifies as potential intermediaries the common members based on generated intermediary scores.

Identifying intermediaries and potential contacts between organizations

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