217 results about "Business metrics" patented technology

Methods and systems are provided for analyzing the business rules, business metrics, and decision parameters for a firm or organization, processing a subset of such data to form output, and offering access to selective views of such output including evaluation and comparative data regarding execution of such business rules, information on corresponding business metrics or sets of business metrics, information on corresponding decision parameters or sets of decision parameters or scenarios, and other useful analytic information which can help a firm or organization evaluate and modify business policies based on said rules, metrics, and parameters. In addition to said rules, metrics and / or parameters, the data for the business rule analysis can include conventional historical data or hypothetical data based on simulations which the current system and method provide based on prescribed random and non-random algorithms. The simulated or hypothetical data enables users to conduct rule analysis based on historical data, simulated data, or hybrid models. In this manner, the methods and systems described in this invention provide for both an evaluation of a firm's current policies as well as an evaluation of policy modifications not actually executed but for which hypothetical data can be provided and analyzed.

A mobile integration engine application services component for accessing data and information stored in at least one multi-dimensional database and for presenting the accessed data and information to a browser-based application. The mobile integration engine application services component reads and translates the data and information, which includes data and information relating to critical business metrics as well as the data relational rules that govern the relationship of the data, and then creates markup language describing the accessed data and information for presentation to the browser-based application. An orthogonal drill mechanism creates a “drill-across” path from a first dimension to any other orthogonal dimension having a related dimension measure, allowing navigation between the orthogonal dimensions.

To help advertisers to manage their online advertising, some business metric, such as ROI, profit, gross profit, etc., may be estimated and / or tracked with respect to an ad campaign, or a portion of the ad campaign. An advertiser may provide a business metric target, such as a target ROI, a target gross profit, a target profit, etc. An ad delivery system may then adjust information in an ad campaign (or a portion of an ad campaign) in an effort to meet the target. Similarly, an advertiser may provide a goal, such as maximizing or minimizing a business metric. The ad delivery system may then adjust information in an ad campaign (or a portion of an ad campaign) in an effort to meet the goal. The targets or goals may be subject to one or more constraints. The advertiser may provide limits on values of one or more business metrics. The ad delivery system may then turn off, or govern, the delivery of ads if the limits are violated.

To help advertisers to manage their online advertising, some business metric, such as ROI, profit, gross profit, etc., may be estimated and / or tracked with respect to an ad campaign, or a portion of the ad campaign. An advertiser may provide a business metric target, such as a target ROI, a target gross profit, a target profit, etc. An ad delivery system may then adjust information in an ad campaign (or a portion of an ad campaign) in an effort to meet the target. Similarly, an advertiser may provide a goal, such as maximizing or minimizing a business metric. The ad delivery system may then adjust information in an ad campaign (or a portion of an ad campaign) in an effort to meet the goal. The targets or goals may be subject to one or more constraints. The advertiser may provide limits on values of one or more business metrics. The ad delivery system may then turn off, or govern, the delivery of ads if the limits are violated.

A method and apparatus of monitoring business metrics, the method and apparatus providing an interface with which a user can specify what metrics to monitor, what type of visual element to use to display monitored information, and how to position the visual element on a screen.

The invention discloses a method for monitoring long term evolution (LTE) network voice services. The method comprises a first step of collecting signaling and voice information of voice services of a 2G network, a 3G network and a 4G network of mobile communication; a second step of analyzing collected data, and generating complete voice records of every call of LTE users on the basis of multi-network multi-interface information relevance; and a third step of generating multi-dimension LTE voice service indexes on the basis of call recording information. Service quality of the voice services of LTE networks can be improved through the method.

A computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner includes executable instructions to construct a strategy map characterizing a presumed causal link between a first business metric and a second business metric. A first pattern within data associated with the first business metric is identified; a second pattern within data associated with the second business metric is located. Any relationship between the first pattern and the second pattern is specified.

A method, advertising network, and computer readable medium for forecasting ad traffic based on business metrics in performance-based display advertising. The method commences by defining a set of advertising campaign parameters, the advertising campaign parameters comprising target predicates, a campaign pricing model, and a campaign performance model. The method continues by forecasting a supply of impressions satisfying target predicates, based on a statistical analysis of a historical dataset containing impressions satisfying target predicates. Once a measure of forecasted supply is known, an auction model serves for calculating the likelihood of winning the forecasted impression at auction, based the campaign pricing model and the campaign performance model. Having a forecasted supply, and also an assessment of the likelihood of winning at auction, the method proceeds by determining values for various performance metrics. The performance metrics are displayed; the user makes changes to any one or more of the advertising campaign parameters.

The invention relates to the technical field of data analysis, and in particular relates to a data analysis self-help data fetching method and system based on indexes. The data analysis self-help data fetching method comprises the following steps: firstly, defining a business index, needing to be used for analyzing and inquiring, through a standard index defining method, and generating index result data; forming a basic data source of self-help data fetching by an index data result; providing various types of defined indexes and dimension information capable of being used for analyzing the indexes on a user data fetching interface; after freely selecting and configuring the needed indexes and inquiring dimension by a user, constructing a data inquiring sentence by the system through an SQL (Structured Query Language) configuration device according to an index and dimension selecting condition of the user; operating and generating a final data result and displaying to the user. The data analysis self-help data fetching method and system based on the indexes have the beneficial effects that free combination of data content and a displaying structure is realized, and a more convenient and flexible data multi-dimensional analysis means is provided for data analysis of the user.

Methods and systems operating in accordance with the present invention provide an interactive directed data analysis tool. The tool provides a user interface that receives a model from a data mining system. The tool computes specified business metrics representing business measures of quality reflected by the model. The model parameters may be manipulated by a user. Each time parameters of a model change, the business metrics are re-computed, thereby promoting directed data understanding by allowing a user to immediately see the impact of any changes made.

A healthcare provider performance analysis and business management system to provide a business-centric analysis of healthcare provider performance indicators. A comparison of the healthcare provider's business performance (as indicated by data collected from the provider for a number of business metrics) against best practices at similarly-situated healthcare providers (as represented by the “benchmarks” used for evaluation of business metrics) may allow the performance analysis system to provide feedback and best practice recommendation to the healthcare provider customer whose business performance is under evaluation. The evaluation of business metrics may proactively identify strengths and weaknesses within a customer's business organization, thereby helping executive management to identify business areas or practices that need the most attention or improvement. Customer-tailored technology solutions may be created to assure measurable and sustainable results. Because of rules governing Abstracts, this Abstract should not be used to construe the claims in this patent application.

A system and methods for capacity planning of electronic systems storage are provided. Features include a non-invasive data discovery and collection mechanism, an adaptive grouping mechanism, a flexible analysis mechanism, predictive modeling and forecasting mechanisms, and a business metric and correlation mechanism. A discovery engine that ascertains the availability of collectable entities. A collection engine in turn gathers information from and about entities discovered by the discovery engine. A grouping module groups together entities according to parameters specified by the user. An analysis and forecasting module allows a user to create, modify and save forecast scenarios from which a model is generated by a modeling module. Correlations can be identified between specified key business metrics and historical data. Once a model has been created, a forecast is generated and can then be analyzed using Bold Freehand Extrapolation, time-series analysis, and business trend-based forecasting.

Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system and method of compartmentalizing some or all aspects of clinical trial data acquisition and management. Moreover, embodiments include aggregation of the compartmentalized trial data to perform business metrics, trial interaction studies, and the like.

The present invention provides a resource prediction method and system and a capacity management apparatus. The method comprises the steps of according to a service prediction algorithm and historical data of an initial service index, predicting the initial service index, and acquiring a prediction result of the initial service index; acquiring an association factor of the initial service index, and acquiring historical data of the association factor; predicting the association factor according to the historical data of the association factor and the service prediction algorithm, so as to obtain a prediction result of the association factor; and according to the prediction result of the initial service index and the prediction result of the association factor, acquiring a prediction result of a final service index, and predicting resource consumption of a server according to the prediction result of the final service index. According to the resource prediction method and system and the capacity management apparatus, resource prediction accuracy is improved.

Using the way of destruct, the complex system is split into several different qualitative elements (the definition of indicator, the definition of database, the definition of scheduling, the definition of check way, etc.). Each element has its special concept. Combing different elements organically, a completely certain meaning indicator-checked incident is produced, and it is possible to finish the expected indicator-checked task flexibly. In the case of the check fails, due to the pre-warning it is possible to perform the manual intervention in time.

In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a single automated accounting and business analysis system is employed to acquire, organize, record, analyze and plan all the relevant financial and non-financial business metrics required by a company's management, suppliers, creditors, shareholders, regulators, etc. This includes all the internally generated metrics and external metrics such as data related to the economy, a particular industry, weather conditions, etc.

Techniques are provided for use in accordance with relates to computing utilities. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a method for use in a computing utility, wherein the computing utility comprises a plurality of application service provider systems and a utility controller, and each application service provider system comprising an application controller, comprises the following steps. An application request to one of the plurality of application service provider systems is obtained. Then, in response to the application request, at least one of: (i) the application controller of the application service provider system to which the application request is directed computes a value of a business metric associated with a resource action; and (ii) the utility controller computes a value of a business metric associated with a resource action.

The invention discloses a mobile data service end-to-end quality service method, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: configuring different data service systems according to the source-end-to-destination-end flow of a mobile data service to be analyzed; configuring influence relationships between service indexes of previous and next data service systems according to interaction relationships between the previous and next data service systems in the flow of the data service, and marking the service indexes with the influence relationships with identical identifiers; and monitoring the service indexes according to the influence relationships in real time to judge whether the service indexes are normal or not. The invention also discloses a mobile data service end-to-end quality analysis system, which comprises a service system configuration module, a service index configuration module and a service index analysis module. By the method and the system, the configurability of the service systems and the service indexes is achieved, 'lateral' influence relationships among the service indexes are established, development time is greatly saved, development efficiency is greatly improved, abnormal service indexes can be positioned at any time, and problems can be timely discovered.

Methods and apparatuses for computing a variance for the difference between two business metrics. In one embodiment, the method accesses a response model and a plurality of activities with start and end values for each of the plurality of activities. Furthermore, the method computes a variance for the difference between the first and second business metrics for each of the plurality of activities using the response model by setting that activity to one of the corresponding starting and ending values and setting others of the plurality of activities to the value state opposite of that activity, wherein the variance for an activity is the change in contribution for that activity between the start and end sales volumes.

The invention discloses a business data processing method. The method comprises the steps that an indicator requirement configured by a user for an established business indicator is received, and configuration of the business indicator is completed based on the indicator requirement; business data matched with the configured indicator requirement is acquired from a database connected with the business indicator based on the configured business indicator, wherein the database is a distributed database; and analytic statistics is performed on the acquired business data to generate an indicator result of the business indicator, and the indicator result is displayed according to preset visual display rules. The invention furthermore provides a business data processing system. Through the business data processing method and system, business personnel can acquire the indicator result in time to know a business development schedule and a variation trend, the user is better helped to make a decision, and therefore business processing efficiency is improved.

Systems and methods are disclosed for managing customers using customer segmentation. In one embodiment, a customer relationship manager may implement a customer management architecture to define one or more customer segmentation rules based on one or more business metrics, and to organize customers into one or more customer groups based on the one or more customer segmentation rules. The customer relationship manager may then establish a customer segment based on the one or more customer groups, and develop a segment management plan for managing customers in the customer segment. Using the customer management architecture, the customer relationship manager may further set a growth target for the customer segment, and track performance of the customer segment in achieving the growth target.

A system and method for correlating business metrics and business transformations includes correlating metrics between a first level and a second level within a business metric hierarchy, and correlating at least one business transform and at least one metric at the first of the plurality of levels.

The invention discloses a financial service management information platform which comprises a foundation platform and an application platform. The financial service management information platform can realize cross-system and trans-department data information sharing on the basis of finishing basic data merging and integration of each legal person organization. Data application marts having different service themes are established through a unified data view, the data application marts comprising a business report data mart, a business index system and business analysis data marts having different topics. Therefore, service level of a rural credit system is improved, and wisdom cooperation financial service is realized under the premise of guaranteeing the system to have good expansibility, safety and stability and high availability.

A computer-implemented system and method for evaluating customer activity. Data about the customer activity is received and is used to generate actual data values associated with preselected business metrics. One or more business metric score cards may be generated to assess how the business metrics are performing as well as what business metrics can be changed to better meet business goals.

The invention discloses a CDN quality evaluation system comprising: a data collection subsystem used for collecting a business index when a terminal user accesses CDN by passive monitoring or active dialing test; a data application subsystem used for scoring the CDN quality of each node according to the collected index to obtain an intuitive quality score; meanwhile in combination with geographic information, the CDN business range is divided, poor quality nodes and high quality nodes are analyzed through the obtained quality score, quality early warning is executed according to analysis result, and visible comprehensive display of the quality of the nodes is realized. The CDN quality evaluation system provided by the invention provides reference of the quality monitoring and optimization of CDN nodes by evaluating the quality of the nodes, intuitively displaying the quality conditions of the nodes, analyzing the quality of the nodes and the regions and globally displaying the quality of the entire CDN business.

The invention provides a 4G user loss early warning method and system based on multi-dimensional combined variables, and the method comprises the steps of obtaining a significant index which influences user loss, wherein the significant index comprises a consumption transaction index, a competitor influence index, an abnormal silence index, a remote roaming index, and a use time index; and calculating a loss probability through the trained user loss early warning model, and if the loss probability is greater than a set threshold, determining that the user is a to-be-lost user, and concluding into five influence dimensions, namely a consumption transaction index, a competitor influence index, an abnormal silence index, a remote roaming index and a use time index. A principal component analysis idea is applied to recombine and integrate a plurality of variables in a dimension into a modeling index with the maximum information value, so that the problems of collinearity of an estimation equation and loss of original data information are solved, the value of a service index is maximized, and the data prediction accuracy is improved.

The invention discloses a user perception and analysis method and system based on mobile Internet videos. The method comprises the following steps: defining a video business behavior; analyzing a video format to obtain relevant video parameters comprising a video definition buffer time, a video resolution and video content packet format analysis; designing a video business perception and analysis method with a pressure valve leakage bucket as the principle in combination with self video definition, SP definition, operating system definition and other various conditions that affect video playing, judging initial video buffer completion, video blockage occurrence and playing recovery conditions based key parameters based on video perception, and accurately feeding back real perception conditions of a user and video business conditions. By adopting the user perception and analysis method and system disclosed by the invention, the user perception definition accuracy of the video business having the maximum single business traffic of the mobile networking user can be improved, and the network conditions of the mobile Internet and auxiliary problem positioning can be embodied through the business indexes obtained by analysis.