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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1998
Michael Ruffin, Calumet Park, IL (US);
Kristin R. Jayaram, Fishkill, NY (US);
Ann C. Merenda, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Timothy I. Morrison, Tillson, NY (US);
Carlos A. Ordonez, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Allen H. Preston, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Joseph L. Temple, III, Hurley, NY (US);
Eva L. Yan, Hyde Park, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The information technology environment and requirements of a business entity are evaluated via an interactive engagement process, system and program product to successively match the entity's needs to a set of information technology solutions so as to generate a business solution deliverables such as a formal solution proposal. The engagement entails the determination of the entity's ability to participate in the evaluation. The engagement next includes partitioning the entity's information technology infrastructure into segments along the lines of established business criteria, receiving profile information from the entity thereon and mapping the profiled segments to potential solutions creating an ordered listing of solutions. Ordered solutions may be selected for detailed investigation including a further profiling of the segment to which the solution is to be applied and a workload analysis of the proffered solution. Upon successful completion of the workload analysis a business solution proposal and other deliverables may be generated.