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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2012
Tom Odd Rojahn, Oslo, NO;
Tom Odd Rojahn, Oslo, NO;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A displayed navigational cube configured to be navigated for use by a service provider to enable the service provider to select at least one vendor for meeting requirements of the service provider for deploying a selected service in a service delivery environment. The displayed navigational cube includes mutually orthogonal axes of a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis. Subservices of the selected service, vendors, and requirements are respectively represented on the first, second, and third axis to define elements at each unique combination of subservice, vendor, and requirement. Each element is transparent or non-transparent such that the navigational cube includes transparent elements and non-transparent elements. Each transparent element denotes an indication that the vendor is unable to meet each requirement for implementing each subservice. Each non-transparent element denotes an indication that the vendor is able to meet each requirement for implementing each subservice.