International Business Machines Corporation

Kyndryl, Inc.

David B Flaxer

John George Vergo

Anil Nigam

Guy Jonathan James Rackham

Paul Gregory Greenstein

Jun-Jang Jeng

Yumman Chan

Miu-To Brenda Lam

Wan Ngai W Lee

Clifford A Pickover

John Richard Smith

Richard Thomas Goodwin

Liang-Jie Zhang

Raman Harishankar

Tian-Jy Chao

Shubir Kapoor

Jen-Yao Chung

David Leslie Cohn

Vijay Sourirajan Iyengar

Henry C Chang

George M Galambos

Rama Kalyani Tirumala Akkiraju

Gary A Fisher, Sr

Qun Zhou

Haifei Li

Robert D Dill

Christopher Murasso

Robert Cornelius Hampshire

Robert H Guttman

David Robert Kress

Loraine Arnold

Jeffrey A Neville

George Edmund Pohle

Shanker Ramamurthy

Stephen Michael Smith

Laurie A Tropiano

Pooja Yadav

Robert C Hampshire

A method for managing a business. At least one relationship is determined between N business components (B, B, . . . , B) and respective N costs (C, C, . . . , C) and respective N values (V, V, . . . , V) pertaining to the N business components. The N business components are a subset of M business components (B, B, . . . , B) of a Component Based Model (CBM) of the M business components subject to M&#x2265;2 and N&#x2264;M. Determining the at least one relationship includes relating business components of the CBM with an Information Technology (IT) model of an IT system. The IT model includes abstract IT structures, virtual IT structures, real IT structures, or combinations thereof.

Coupling of a business component model to an information technology model

Meta-Rules are a special set of business rules whose purpose is to enable business rules selection and subsequent rule invocation by a business rules manager. Contained within a Meta-Rule are business policy and other information that enables the selection of a business rule used by a business application. Meta-rules allow the system to dynamically select and identify specific business rules to be executed within a given business application. By enabling a higher level of abstraction, and relying on rules to resolve specific business rule selection and invocations, Meta-rules further separate the binding of business knowledge and practice from application programming logic. The application programmer is freed from having specific knowledge of the business rule; all that is required is an assertion that a rule is to be used.

Method and apparatus for using meta-rules to support dynamic rule-based business systems

Improvements in the creation, maintenance and management of web based information are provided. A development environment conducive to separation of tasks and data, works in combination with the means to present views of changed information for approval to users. Data from file systems and database systems can be combined to create a rich source of material for users, while changes to such material can be effectively controlled and released for production.

Method and apparatus for editing a production data store by shadowing content

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.

Method and system of using artifacts to identify elements of a component business model

A system and method is described for using a component business model to partition a business into non-overlapping components, and then allocating different components to appropriate organizing strategies, based on attribute values assigned to each component. In the best mode of implementation there are two attributes: whether or not the component differentiates the business within the market place; and whether the component is industry standard or is tailored by the organization. These attributes and their values map the components of the business to a matrix. Based on the combination of attribute values in each cell of the matrix, available organizing strategies are also mapped to the matrix, thereby identifying for each component an appropriate organizing strategy.

System and method for using a component business model to organize an enterprise

An Enterprise Management Portfolio Hub allows a user to perform enterprise portfolio management activities from a single point of control. EPMH relates information, analysis, display and control based on the organizing concept of the business components that comprise the CBM map of the enterprise by collecting portfolio information from existing portfolio management tools and generating a portfolio model. It allows the user to interact with or access information from various Portfolio Management applications and services through the portfolio model. EPMH supports evaluative techniques that can be used to identify areas for business transformation and to generate transition plans.

Method and system for enterprise portfolio management based on component business model

Generating a transition plan for a computer resource portfolio, representing each resource as a state machine, by generating a transition plan, the transition plan having a set of acts for transitioning states of the resources, to move the computer resource portfolio from a present state, the present state based on an inventory of present computer capabilities, to a future state. The future state is identified based on a difference between a present state and an identified state meeting given performance requirements. The transition plan is optimized to maximize the sum value of the computer resource portfolio values added over the state sequence of the transition.

Enterprise portfolio analysis using finite state Markov decision process

A method (and structure) of querying one or more Web-based data sources, includes receiving a query statement including at least one query, parsing the input query to identify a target data source for each query, and dispatching each query to a respective one of the data sources for a target data source search. The query statement further includes an aggregate operator defining at least one logical operation to be performed on a result returned from the target data source searches.

Method and structure for federated web service discovery search over multiple registries with result aggregation

A method of creating a data structure or map describing the I/O configuration and of verifying and resolving errors in configuration data in a system in which processors are coupled to one another or to device control units either directly or through a dynamic switch by way of links attached to link adapters of respective end units. Each pair of unit link adapters coupled to the respective ends of a link exchanges information identifying the unit and the adapter on that unit. A physical configuration map indicating the actual physical system configuration is constructed from such 'nearest neighbor' information. This physical configuration map is compared with a logical configuration map indicating the user-defined logical system configuration to determine the existence of any discrepancies therebetween, and one map is conformed to the other as appropriate.

Method and apparatus for verifying the configuration of a link-connected

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