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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Shubhi Asthana, San Jose, CA (US);
Valeria Becker, Buenos Aires, AR;
Kugamoorthy Gajananan, Tokyo, JP;
Aly Megahed, San Jose, CA (US);
Taiga Nakamura, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mark A. Smith, Leichestershire, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for selecting a set of information technology (IT) services peer deals to an in-flight deal for each first level service in the in-flight deal includes receiving a detailed cost structure for historical information, in-flight deals information, market deals information, services baselines and deals metadata, and multiple peer deals for selection. For historical information and market deals information, all missing baselines for all services in the in-flight deal and all missing unit cost for services are augmented at the first level service. The multiple peer deals are classified into different clusters at the first level service. A closest cluster to the in-flight deal at the first level service is selected. For each second level service of the in-flight deal the method: classifies the selected peer deals into different clusters. A predetermined number of peer deals that appear in a largest number of the selected clusters is selected.