Patent ID: 8095416
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for dynamically generating a business intelligence alert trigger, comprising: identifying a business attribute; monitoring, using a computer system, data values associated with the business attribute; analyzing, using the computer system, the data values associated with the business attribute to establish a baseline value of the business attribute; generating, using the computer system, a trigger value based on a variance from the baseline value of the business attribute; repeating the monitoring, analyzing and generating to dynamically update the baseline value of the business attribute and the trigger value based on new data values and historical data values associated with the business attribute; comparing, using the computer system, the data values associated with the business attribute to the trigger value; and selectively generating, using the computer system, an alert based on the comparison; wherein the generating, using the computer system, the trigger value based on the variance from the baseline value comprises performing, using the computer system, a statistical analysis of the data values associated with the business attribute relative to the baseline value over a historical period; wherein the historical period comprises an entire period of time during which the data values have been analyzed.