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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2003
Les Keay, Richmond Hill, CA;
Craig Alan Keenan, Naperville, IL (US);
John Arthur Ricketts, Clarendon Hills, IL (US);
William Stephen Schaefer, Durham, NC (US);
Les Keay, Richmond Hill, CA;
Craig Alan Keenan, Naperville, IL (US);
John Arthur Ricketts, Clarendon Hills, IL (US);
William Stephen Schaefer, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An example of a solution provided here comprises: performing a spending simulation, process simulation, information technology simulation, and value simulation, providing interactions among the simulations, and representing with the simulations the use by a client organization of one or more business transformation outsourcing services, such as sourcing, procurement, and payables.