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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2011
Jerome Labat, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ramachandran Varadharajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Wilson W. Lau, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas C. Bishop, San Diego, CA (US);
Jerome Labat, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ramachandran Varadharajan, Fremont, CA (US);
Wilson W. Lau, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas C. Bishop, San Diego, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the deployment and execution of a software offering. During operation, the system obtains a service definition of the software offering. Next, the system creates a work-breakdown structure based on a set of policies from the service definition. Finally, the system uses the work-breakdown structure to automatically provision a set of resources for use by the software offering without requiring manual configuration of the resources by a user.