Patent ID: 8645904
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method in a data processing system, comprising hardware of one or more processors and one or more memories, for automatically analyzing an impact of changing a business requirement on an information technology infrastructure of an enterprise, the computer implemented method comprising: the data processing system receiving a request to perform an analysis of an impact on the information technology infrastructure of the enterprise by changing a particular instance of the business requirement; the data processing system determining which information technology assets of the enterprise are impacted by changing the particular instance of the business requirement, the determining including querying a model repository and isolating a sub-graph of a pathway graph of a topic map representing the information technology infrastructure, the sub-graph including the particular instance of the business requirement as a root node and the specific information technology assets impacted by changing the particular instance of the business requirement as connected nodes, and the determining being further based on associations between the particular instance of the business requirement and each of the specific information technology assets of the connected nodes in the sub-graph; the data processing system receiving from the model repository, as a result of the determining, an impact relevant subset of the topic map representing the impact on the information technology infrastructure of the enterprise by changing the particular instance of the business requirement that includes the particular instance of the business requirement as the root node and only those specific information technology assets impacted by changing the particular instance of the business requirement as connected nodes; and the data processing system outputting on an output device the impacts relevant subset of the topic map representing the impact on the information technology infrastructure of the enterprise by changing the particular instance of the business requirement.