Patent ID: 8095472
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for implementing a logically centralized source for collaboration on objectives comprising instructions stored on a tangible, non-transient computer readable medium, the computer program product operable when executed to: identify one or more requirements associated with a business entity for use in a business object stored within a logically centralized repository, the repository storing a plurality of business objects and a first of the identified requirements associated with a first requirement status; update a first requirement status associated with a first of the identified requirements to indicate that the first requirement is finalized when all the other identified one or more requirements are finalized; identify one or more solutions associated with the identified requirements for use in the business object, a first of the identified solutions associated with a first solution status and the first solution status associated with the first requirement status; update a first solution status associated with a first of the identified solutions to indicate that the first solution is finalized when all the other identified one or more solutions are finalized; wherein each requirement comprises a node within a hierarchically arranged requirement substructure and each solution comprises a node within a hierarchically arranged solution substructure, wherein the requirement substructure and the solution substructure are identically arranged; and notify a party of an update to one of the statuses associated with the identified requirements and solutions.