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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2008
Liang-jie Zhang, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Hong Cai, Beijing, CN;
Jen-yao Chung, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Liang-Jie Zhang, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Hong Cai, Beijing, CN;
Jen-Yao Chung, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A service-oriented architecture for enterprise project management integrates business processes, human resources and project management within an enterprise or across the value chain network. A representation having direction and attributes is provided to show the dependencies between a business value layer and a project-portfolio layer, and between the project-portfolio layer and resources. The representation is mapped to a Web Services representation in UDDI, Web Services interfaces, and Web Services based business processes through rope hyper-linking.