Patent ID: 8615399
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of evaluating business services comprising: receiving at a first computer system, from a second computer system operated by a user, a plurality of user inputs reflecting business factors that define a business environment for a particular business enterprise, the plurality of inputs including a first set of inputs representing business issues selected from a predetermined group of business issues and a second set of inputs representing business objectives selected from a predetermined group of business objectives; executing a computer-based process to identify services, the computer-based process including: sending the subset of identified services over a network to the second computer system operated by the user for display on a display device associated with the computer system operated by the user; sending one or more of cost associated with the identified services, cost savings associated with the identified services and return-in-investment associated with the identified services over the network to the second computer system operated by the user for display on the display device associated with the second computer system operated by the user; and storing, in computer-readable storage, a business case for implementing the identified services, the business case including the plurality of inputs, the identified subset of services and one or more of the cost associated with the identified services, the cost savings associated with the identified services and the return-in-investment associated with the identified services.