Patent ID: 7107268
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for managing enterprise operations comprising: logging on to a project manager server from a computer network, said project manager server executing a project manager for creating projects based upon project management trees containing one or more data objects disposed to cooperatively effect project management functions, said logging on including providing a user identifier to the project management server from a remote location and receiving a customized home page in accordance with the user identifier; defining one or more organizational entities within the enterprise; defining one or more user groups associated with each of the organizational entities; defining one or more users associated with each of the user groups; defining user roles associated with at least one of the users, said customized home page including one or more projects associated with the at least one of the users in accordance with the user roles; displaying a view of a first of said project management trees associated with a first project included within said projects to a first user of said users wherein a scope of said view is determined based at least in part upon membership of said first user within a first of said user groups, said view including representations of a plurality of data objects of said first of said project management trees; describing, within ones of said plurality of data objects, functions defining relationships between said ones of said plurality of data objects and other of said plurality of data objects and; interfacing with the first project by viewing ones of said plurality of data objects in accordance with the user roles.