Patent ID: 9691042
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for tracking and managing changes by interaction with buttons displayed on a graphical user interface, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a new enterprise asset to an enterprise architecture; identifying one or more defined capabilities associated with the new enterprise asset; identifying one or more new resources associated with the new enterprise asset; implementing the one or more defined capabilities and the one or more new resources; maintaining a hierarchical relationship of the one or more defined capabilities and the one or more new resources, and tracking the one or more defined capabilities and the one or more new resources based on assigned performance based metrics; defining the hierarchical relationship between the one or more new resources and the one or more defined capabilities to determine which one or more resources supports which one or more defined capabilities; providing a hierarchical visual management tool comprised of the graphical user interface implemented in a processor and configured to generate a display of the hierarchical relationship between the one or more defined capabilities and the one or more new resources to allow a user viewing the graphical user interface to define and test the assigned performance based metrics in a prototype environment to obtain estimates on performance of the one or more defined capabilities and the one or more new resources, wherein the graphical user interface is configured to display different levels of the hierarchical relationship in response to activating of buttons displayed on the graphical user interface, and wherein at one level of the displayed hierarchical relationship a plurality of capabilities are displayed and at a lower level of the displayed hierarchical relationship one or more resources determined to support a selected one of the capabilities are displayed; traversing between different levels of the hierarchical relationship by activating selected ones of the buttons on the level of the hierarchical relationship currently displayed by the graphical user interface to thereby move up or down the hierarchical relationship to display different levels of the hierarchical relationship depending on the selected buttons; displaying, by a traceability scale indicator on the graphical user interface, a current level of the hierarchical relationship which has been selected by the activation of the buttons displayed on the graphical user interface to identify to the user in real time the current level as a capability level when the current level is the one level where a plurality of capabilities are displayed, and to identify to the user in real time the current level as a resource level when the current level is the lower level where the one or more resources determined to support a selected one of the capabilities are displayed; modifying the obtained estimates on performance using real performance information as the real performance information is observed from the implementing the one or more defined capabilities and the one or more new resources in order to determine whether the hierarchical relationship of the one or more defined capabilities and the one or more new resources is configured to satisfy the assigned performance based metrics; and evaluating evolutionary changes of the new enterprise asset, comprising: providing a download mechanism on each of the levels of the display to provide for downloading display data shown on a currently displayed level of the display into database formats other than eBVW database format for at least one of maintenance and reports.