Patent ID: 8682701
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A pipeline budgeting tool embodied on a computer readable medium and executable by a processor, wherein the pipeline budgeting tool comprises: an interface component to accept, for each of multiple projects in a software pipeline, a set of inputs that includes 1) resource demand, 2) budget constraint, 3) start date, and 4) a capital expenditure/expense flip date, wherein the capital expenditure/expense flip date comprises a date at which an expense involved in a corresponding project is converted into a capital expenditure; and an affordability determination component that aggregates the inputs, calculates an overall capital expenditure/expense ratio, and compares the ratio to a threshold as of a predetermined date, wherein the affordability determination component determines a violation date on which the ratio falls below the threshold, and wherein the affordability determination component advances a first subsequent capital expenditure/expense flip date of a project to the violation date, thereby preventing the ratio from falling below the threshold.