Digital Degrees of Separation for Software Deployment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Organizations face challenges in determining the appropriate software applications for users and groups, as they lack objective measures to assess user needs and available market software, leading to disparate application deployments without a comprehensive digital strategy.

Innovation Solution

A digital degrees of separation determination system that uses user credentials to classify users, identify digital needs, query market-available software, and compare characteristics with user-accessible software, calculating a digital degrees of separation value to guide software application decisions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If organizations deploy software applications to users without objective measures, then software deployment can be performed, but the deployment becomes disparate and lacks comprehensive digital strategy

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesoftware deployment efficiencyVSAvoidlack of objective measures on user needs and market software

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by classifying users into digital personas before deployment, and by proactively querying market-available software applications. This preliminary classification and market survey enable objective measurement of user needs and available solutions, eliminating the information loss that leads to disparate deployments.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes feedback loops by comparing characteristics of market-available software with user-accessible software, and by measuring digital degrees of separation. This feedback mechanism provides objective measures that guide future deployment decisions, ensuring comprehensive digital strategy alignment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If organizations query market-available software applications, then objective measures of market software can be obtained, but the process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveobjective measure of market software availabilityVSAvoidsoftware application assessment process

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex assessment process into distinct manageable steps: user classification into digital personas, identification of digital needs, querying market-available software, obtaining user-accessible software lists, and comparison of characteristics. This segmentation reduces the perceived complexity while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary comparison mechanism that bridges market-available software and user-accessible software through characteristic comparison. This intermediary step simplifies the overall process by providing a structured approach to measuring digital degrees of separation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If the system compares characteristics of market-available and user-accessible software, then digital degrees of separation can be calculated, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegap analysis between software capabilitiesVSAvoidsoftware comparison and analysis time

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary classification of users into digital personas and pre-identification of digital needs before conducting the software comparison. This preliminary action reduces the scope and time required for characteristic comparison by focusing only on relevant software applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the comparison parameters to key characteristics that define software capabilities relevant to digital needs. By focusing on these specific parameters rather than all possible software attributes, the system reduces processing time while maintaining comprehensive gap analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9811844B2Systems and methods for determining digital degrees of separation for digital program implementation

Publication Date: 2017.11.07 WIPRO LTD

AI summary

This disclosure relates generally to enterprise software management, and more particularly to systems and methods for determining digital degrees of separation for digital program implementation. In one embodiment, a digital degrees of separation determination system is disclosed, comprising a hardware processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor for obtaining user credentials, and determining a user classification based on the user credentials. The processor may execute the instructions for identifying a user digital need based on the user classification, and querying a database for market-available software applications related to the user digital need. Further, the processor may execute the instructions for obtaining a list of user-accessible software applications related to the user digital need, and comparing characteristics of the market-available software applications to the user-accessible software applications. Also, the processor may execute the instructions for calculating a digital degrees of separation based on the comparison.