Patent ID: 8763006
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining that a workflow is to be created for an Information Technology (IT) environment, the IT environment including resources to be used to execute a business application, the business application defined based on a customer's specification to achieve an overall business requirement of the customer's business and having a quantitative business goal defined by the customer, the business application having an overall state produced based on state across a plurality of resources to be used to execute the business application, wherein a state of a resource includes at least one of available, degraded and unavailable defined based on a customer's own sensitivity to what can be tolerated for correct execution of the business application to meet the customer's defined quantitative business goal; and programmatically creating, by a processor, based on a current state of the IT environment, the workflow, the programmatically creating comprising: