International Business Machines Corporation

Gerhard Sigl

Juhnyoung Lee

Rakesh Mohan

Thomas Dean Rosinski

Jed Kreamer

Vikas J Shivpuriya

Biplav Srivastava

Vibha Singhal Sinha

Pankaj Dhoolia

Richard Thomas Goodwin

Ying Huang

Pietro Mazzoleni

Rema Ananthanarayanan

Santhosh Babu Kumaran

Kumar Bhaskaran

Debdoot Mukherjee

Aubrey J Rembert

Sweefen Goh

Igor Anatolyevich Naumov

Senthil K Mani

Anca Andreea Ivan

Shiwa S Fu

Mangala Gowri, Iii

Maharshi H Desai

Charbak Chatterjee

Rajesh Chopra

Stephen K Kibby

Kathleen Byrnes

Manas R Kumar Singh

Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay

Christina Derra

Paul R Boulineau

John D Cann

Rajat Dugar

Andrew Raymond

Annette Simonato

A system for calculating financial benefit estimations and generating reports for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations to determine financial benefits of implementing multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for generating financial benefit estimations and reports for the implementation of packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN).

Method and system for estimating financial benefits of packaged application service projects

A method for configuring a software package for an enterprise includes gathering desired To-be configuration requirements for a software package through at least one questionnaire; gathering current As-Is raw data for the enterprise; displaying the To-Be configuration requirements and As-Is raw data; comparing the To-Be configuration requirements and As-Is raw data; selecting final To-Be configuration requirements; and generating and executing configuration code for the software package to pre-configure the software package with the final To-Be configuration requirements.

Methods for configuring software package

Harvesting assets for packaged application practices, in one aspect, may include obtaining one or more work products associated with deployment of packaged software applications, extracting content and style, enhancing content and style with models of work products, and storing assets in asset repository.

Harvesting assets for packaged software application configuration

An estimation system for deriving multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications with self-calibration and refinement of project estimation models, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform self-calibration and refinement of project estimation models for multi-dimensional project plans; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for self-calibration and refinement of project estimation models for multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN).

Method and system for self-calibrating project estimation models for packaged software applications

A system for estimating and generating project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based on a series of estimation and implementation models, and to perform calculations of project plan details and project plan schedules; an estimation knowledge base layer configured to hold and derive the series of estimation and implementation models; and wherein the system for estimating and generating multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications is carried out over networks comprising: the Internet, intranets, local area networks (LAN), and wireless local area networks (WLAN).

Method and system for estimating project plans for packaged software applications

A method for scoring and ranking multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications, the method includes: determining one or more dimensions for a project plan; assigning one or more attributes to each of the one or more dimensions; assigning one or more utility functions to each of the one or more attributes; assigning one or more weights to each of the one or more attributes; assigning one or more ordering factors to one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions; calculating a series of scores for the one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions; ranking the one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions based on the calculated series of scores; and wherein each of the one or more combinations and permutations of the dimensions represents a different individual multi-dimensional project plan.

Method and system for evaluating multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications

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Gerhard Sigl