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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2005
Nathan Sauders Caswell, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Gina M. Comer, New Orleans, LA (US);
Michael A. Limanni, Jr., Bonney Lake, WA (US);
Nathan Sauders Caswell, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Gina M. Comer, New Orleans, LA (US);
Michael A. Limanni, Jr., Bonney Lake, WA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An alliance business relationship is managed by receiving a request for a relationship from a firm. An alliance taxonomy stored in a database is used to determine whether the request is an alliance. An opportunity in the request is identified and quantified. The alliance is formed, executed, and subsequently terminated. Thereafter, the alliance is again evaluated against the criteria in the taxonomy to determine whether another relationship type applies.