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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2001
Dietrich Charisius, Stuttgart, DE;
Peter Coad, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jonathan Kern, Quakertown, PA (US);
Dietrich Charisius, Stuttgart, DE;
Peter Coad, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jonathan Kern, Quakertown, PA (US);
Borland Software Corporation, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide an integrated process modeling and project planning tool that allows an enterprise affiliate to improve a workflow that models a process. To improve the workflow, the tool initiates execution of a plan created from the workflow such that an instance of the process is at least partially performed, receives a characteristic about the performance of the plan, and modifies the workflow to reflect the characteristic so that a subsequent plan created from the modified workflow has the received characteristic.