41 results about "Business case" patented technology

Disclosed are assessment tools and related methods for analyzing potential transformations to a business' IT capabilities. In particular, a tool for scoping the potential opportunity incorporating a top-down approach and using previous credentials to make accurate estimations is disclosed. Additionally, a shaping tool employs a bottom-up approach to the assessment based upon more highly-detailed information of the structure of the IT department. Each tool also automatically calculates typical indices for evaluation of the business case of the IT transformation. Optionally, the tools are integrated, and also can automatically generate a business case presentation or a detailed analysis of all data involved in the assessment.

The present invention provides an on-line computer systems (herein defined to include software) that includes processes, technologies, facilities to manage comprehensively a “project.” Management defined as spanning the time from the idea or inception that inspired the project to the resulting products' or processes' ends-of-life. The system provides a central data depository for data and information generated or gleaned from others that bear on any and all aspects of a “project.” Common metrics, vocabularies, forms and other such data facilitates review, approval and management from all corporate functions. Hierarchical access to current stored information and condensed summaries allows timely decisions by upper corporate management. The present system facilitates analyses at detailed levels, or at overall levels, and includes comparisons to past projects and for collecting cumulative information that measure the overall impact of the projects past and present.

Disclosed is a method, system and service for developing an end-to-end process for managing acquisitions including, developing strategies and identify an appropriate company for acquisition, managing a transaction and negotiating a deal, integrating an acquired acquisition, and tracking performance against defined business case targets and milestones.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for change initiative management. In an embodiment, a method for initiative management includes identifying and defining an initiative and developing a business case for the initiative. The business case includes an initiative scorecard. The method also includes generating an initiative plan for the initiative. The initiative plan including an initiative risk assessment. The method furthermore includes managing execution of the initiative and evaluating execution and management of the initiative.

The invention discloses a cooperative method between networks, cooperative node and network side equipment. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining state information of districts of different standards, wherein, the state information expresses at least one of wireless resource state, terminal distribution and business case of district of different standards; according to the state information, sending cooperative indication information for the base station or base station controller of districts of different standards, thereby the base station or the base station controller can carry out cooperative method between networks according to the cooperative indication information. The cooperative method between networks, cooperative node and network side equipment of the embodiment can maximize wireless network resource utilization rate, so as to promote network performances.

Convenience Store Effectiveness Model (CSEM) is a self-contained PC application to quantitatively predict operational and financial impact of changes to Convenience Store (CStore) and Financial Services Center (FSC) operations. CSEM includes Simulation Analysis Module and Financial Analysis Module. Simulation Analysis Module includes FSC model and CStore model. CStore model predicts the effect of an unlimited number of changes in store design, customer demand patterns, and checkout procedures on store performance. Financial Analysis Module creates a Profit and Loss (P&L) statement showing cash flows, Net Present Value (NPV), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) for deploying FSCs using simulation results or user input values. An analyst can use CSEM to provide a sound and quantified basis for developing a business case for investing in new technologies, i.e., FSC, or other design and procedure changes in a convenience store environment.

A method and system for evaluating internal business investments by estimating decision-factor variations provides a powerful decision-making tool for deciding whether or not to invest in a particular internal business option or for selecting between business investment alternatives. The investment may be a capital investment, a program investment, personnel investment or other business strategy. Variations in cost, benefit, strategic alignment and risk values input to the business decision tool are used to adjust the business value of a business case. The variations can be estimated from data gathered from surveys of personnel rating a confidence or perceived variation from the input values, variations may be estimated in the computed business value due to interdependencies to other adopted or non-adopted business cases, or variations may be estimated based on actual historical collected data on business case performance. Statistical analysis, including real options analysis and / or efficient portfolio analysis can be used to provide a visual or other tool to a system user in order to evaluate multiple business cases.

Financial transformation in one aspect establishes a hub and spoke network of models including at least a process model as the hub and at least components model, value driver model, applications model, solutions models as the spoke connected to the process model. A plurality of correlations is inferred among said models using daisy-chain analyses that navigate the hub and spoke network of models, and heat map is generated. Heat map analysis, application shortfall analysis, organization shortfall analysis, solution analysis, and business case analysis are performed.

Disclosed is a method, system and service for developing an end-to-end process for managing acquisitions including, developing strategies and identify an appropriate company for acquisition, managing a transaction and negotiating a deal, integrating an acquired acquisition, and tracking performance against defined business case targets and milestones.

A system and methods to implement a computer program for mapping with modified features from web mapping and digital cartography applied to educational maps, to produce visual maps and mapped data for adaptive learning, competency-based education, and academic scheduling business cases.

The system and method of the present disclosure allow the user to enumerate a set of risk factors for each financial metric time-profile projection, and respond to a set of questions that is linear in the number of risk factors. In one embodiment, the risk elicitation on each risk factor uses user input of likelihood of risk and impact and / or severity. On each of the risk factors for any given nominal, financial projection estimate, the inputs are systematically converted into a net impact distribution for that nominal, financial estimate.

The invention provides an MAC (Media Access Control) address withdrawing method in a VPLS (Virtual Private Local Area Network Service) network and PE (Provider Edge) equipment. The MAC address withdrawing method comprises the steps: detecting that an AC link is in a fault and inquiring MAC addresses learned by an AC direct link interface, by the PE equipment; judging whether the quantity of the MAC addresses is more than a preset threshold value or not by the PE equipment, is so, encapsulating only one wildcard address in an MAC List TLV (Threshold Limit Value) of a MAC address list, and if not, encapsulating all the MAC addresses in the MAC List TLV; and sending an address withdraw message carrying the MAC List TLV to other PE equipment which belong to a same VPLS business case together with the PE equipment. According to the MAC address withdrawing method and the PE equipment, the problem of forwarding route errors caused by that a receiver PE misbelieves a sender PW (Pseudo Wire) during topological changing is better solved.

A method for developing a software project includes identifying business cases and goals for the software project, defining a common interface architecture through which components of the software project are to be integrated, identifying software project components to be integrated over the common interface, defining high level requirements of the project components, elaborating the component interfaces and defining detailed component requirements, implementing the project components, testing the project components individually, defining integration tests for testing integrated components, and executing the integration tests on a set of integrated components.

Record management of a business unit is aligned to a digital records policy of a business enterprise. The digital records policy may require process, technology and cultural changes to shift from paper to digital records management. Paper intensive processes tend to have a number of economic, environmental, and operational disadvantages. In addition, government regulations are increasingly requiring businesses to be able to locate and retrieve information quickly. An implementation document contains information about a business process so that a business process supporting digital records may be compared with a digital records policy of the business enterprise. If there are any gaps between the business process and the digital records policy, an action plan may be constructed in order to eliminate or mitigate the gaps. Also, the economic benefits for a business unit migrating to digital records may be analyzed by a business case wizard tool.

A luggage case is provided with straps or handles for carrying the case and a wheel and an extendable handle assembly for dragging or pulling the case. The wheel and extendable handle assembly is removably attachable to the case, such that it need not be carried when the case is carried by the straps or handles. The wheel and handle assembly are formed as a shell to snugly surround the luggage case. In the preferred embodiment, the case and the shell are joined by mating zippers at the bottom front and top rear edges of the assembly.

A travel article has an interior pocket that permits the insertion and / or removal of one or more items in the pocket from only the inside of the travel article. The travel article provides a window to allow any items inside of the pocket to be seen on the outside of the travel article. The travel article can be, for example, luggage, totes, toiletry kits, brief cases, duffels, backpacks, sling packs, business cases, business or craft organizers. The provision of such a pocket can allow a user to personalize the bag and can also facilitate bag identification.

A method of test integration for early application development is provided. The method comprises defining a business case, identifying a plurality of systems to enable the business case, identifying at least one control document including handshakes for the systems, and generating test cases for each of the systems, the test cases including the handshakes useful to test applications. A testing integration system for early application development is also provided. The system comprises an input module operable to permit selection of a plurality of systems defining a business case, a control document defining handshakes between the systems, a template operable to receive information related to the control document and further operable for arranging the systems to enable the business case, and a generator operable to generate test cases including the handshakes based on the arrangement of the systems in the template.

A luggage case system comprises a case, a wheel and handle assembly, and at least one clip. The case has a top, bottom, front, back and sides. The wheel and handle assembly comprises a partial housing including a bottom, a back, and sides, an extendable handle secured to said back. The partial housing conforms in shape to that of said case, such that said bottom of said case may be placed on the bottom of the partial housing, and said back and sides of said case will engage the back and sides of said partial housing. The at least one clip is configured to engage the case and the wheel and handle assembly to releasably secure the case to the wheel and handle assembly, whereby with said handle extended said case may be pulled by said handle.

A method and system to provide automated tracking of a business case with respect to a targeted aspect of the business process, such as an enterprise IT initiative pertaining to a change in the enterprise IT applications for introduction of a new enterprise IT application. Elements of a business case definition may be incorporated in an enterprise IT application and / or, for a Business Process Management Application, in a business process model. A business case tracking engine may automatically measure benefit indicators to produce a real-time or near real-time display that shows how well the business case is realized in practice, and to identify when the business case is fulfilled or invalidated. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.

Financial transformation in one aspect establishes a hub and spoke network of models including at least a process model as the hub and at least components model, value driver model, applications model, solutions models as the spoke connected to the process model. A plurality of correlations is inferred among said models using daisy-chain analysis that navigate the hub and spoke network of models, and heat map is generated. Heat map analysis, application shortfall analysis, organization shortfall analysis, solution analysis, and business case analysis are performed.

A system and method to offer a one or more experiences using various layers to at least one customer is disclosed. The method includes user experience layer having a first plurality of components owned by at least one service provider to evaluate a plurality of experimental changes of the at least one customer. The method further includes user service layer having a second plurality of components owned by the at least one service provider to offer a first plurality of services for the at least one customer. The method further includes an adaptation layer, a network service layer, a protocol layer and a platform layer having one or more components to provide one or more functionalities. Additionally, the method further includes a monitoring and control layer with one or more components to build management information across the one or more layers.

Record management of a business unit is aligned to a digital records policy of a business enterprise. The digital records policy may require process, technology and cultural changes to shift from paper to digital records management. Paper intensive processes tend to have a number of economic, environmental, and operational disadvantages. In addition, government regulations are increasingly requiring businesses to be able to locate and retrieve information quickly. An implementation document contains information about a business process so that a business process supporting digital records may be compared with a digital records policy of the business enterprise. If there are any gaps between the business process and the digital records policy, an action plan may be constructed in order to eliminate or mitigate the gaps. Also, the economic benefits for a business unit migrating to digital records may be analyzed by a business case wizard tool.

The invention discloses a method and a system of the digital postage applied in the commercial mail operation, wherein a commercial mail accepting system transmits the accepted client address and the related information to the commercial mail making system, a digital postage system generates the corresponding commercial mail postage check code information through a encryption algorithm according to the mail information in the commercial mail accepting system and required postage information, wherein the address column containing the commercial mail client name and address and the postage column containing the commercial mail postage information are respectively printed at different places when printing the commercial mail; the printed letter capsulation is put into an envelope with transparent windows, so the address column of the letter is over against the address window of the envelope, while the postage column of the letter is over against the postage window of the envelope, then is delivered. The invention reduces the step of passing through the postage machine to add the postage information of the traditional commercial mail, thereby saving the apparatus invest of the postage machine, reduces the processing cost of the commercial mail, moreover greatly advances the whole processing efficiency of the commercial mail.

The invention relates to the technical field of process optimization, and provides a sandbox simulation test method and device, computer equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a service test request, and determining a service test type according to a service test identifier carried in the service test request; querying information corresponding to a preset service test parameter format according to the service test identifier to obtain parameter format information of the service test type, and obtaining an input parameter carried in the service testrequest; when the input parameters pass the format verification according to the parameter format information, querying a preset sandbox database according to the input parameters, and obtaining service case data corresponding to the input parameters from the sandbox database; and performing field extraction on the business case data according to the input parameters to obtain a to-be-fed-back field, and feeding back the to-be-fed-back field. By adopting the method, the flow full coverage of the business scene can be realized, and the flow coverage rate of the business scene is improved.

A method for developing a software project includes identifying business cases and goals for the software project, defining a common interface architecture through which components of the software project are to be integrated, identifying software project components to be integrated over the common interface, defining high level requirements of the project components, elaborating the component interfaces and defining detailed component requirements, implementing the project components, testing the project components individually, defining integration tests for testing integrated components, and executing the integration tests on a set of integrated components.

A computer implemented system and method for evaluating the impact of a project implementation within a customer situation allows building a business case model for each category of products to be associated within the project implementation and then consolidating all the category business case models into a final general business case model.

The invention relates to the information processing technical field, and provides a service charge determination method and terminal equipment; the method comprises the following steps: obtaining alllists in a target system preset period; obtaining clerks, business sources and business types of each list, and checking a service charge proportion corresponding to each list from a pre-stored service charge proportion table; obtaining a business case number and service charge of each list, checking the service charge proportion corresponding to each list, and storing said information into a HIVE; determining the size of each list, and grouping obtained all lists according to the determined size of each list; parallelly calculating the service charge of grouped lists of each group according to the list business case number, business cost, and the service charge proportion stored in the HIVE, thus solving the problems that an existing database is slow in operation speed and reduced in database performance when using an existing method to calculate the service charges via the database, reducing the service charge calculating time, and improving the service charge calculating efficiency.

The invention relates to the field of testing, and discloses a business test case library establishment method and device, equipment and a storage medium, which are used for improving the accuracy of detecting a business function by using a business test case library. The method for establishing the business test case library comprises the following steps of matching a preset logical operation formula for each business test case by utilizing a test detection algorithm to obtain a business case mapping library; obtaining a target business function required in the target business task and a corresponding target business test case; executing the target business test case based on the business case mapping library, generating a target execution logic, calculating an analysis coverage rate based on the target execution logic, and supplementing the business case mapping library according to the analysis coverage rate; and carrying out clustering operation on the plurality of service test cases by utilizing a clustering analysis algorithm, and carrying out regression operation on the plurality of service test cases subjected to the clustering operation to obtain a final service test case library. The invention further relates to a block chain technology, and the business test case can be stored in the block chain.

Techniques for determining a business case for selecting a least cost technology are described. To this end, forecast sales data of one or more configurations of an assembled product is received. Usage factors of a plurality of subcomponents composing the assembled product are also received. A usage factor may suitably correspond to a combination of subcomponents to meet a configuration of the assembled product for one of the plurality of technologies. Cost data for subcomponents composing the plurality of technologies is also received. A technology cost for each of the plurality of technologies according to the forecast sales data of one or more configurations of the assembled product is calculated to define the business case for selecting the least cost technology.

Provide an approved management system and approval management, submission management for effective implementation, management submitted for approval for the application. A control part (21) of a recognition managing server (20) setting process in the system, included in the registration service orchestration step. Further, the control part (21) executes the user registration process, submitting the registration process path. And, in the recognition managing server (20), in the case of determining the business process and the application is registered, the business constituting the business process steps performed submission processing. Case based on the registered route submitted at the end of the previous business process step is submitted, the control part (21) to commence a subsequent step of the business. In the end all the steps to final approval of the business case, the control part (21) end of the business processes.