Patent ID: 8340995
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying elements of a component business model, comprising: identifying the business artifacts operated on by a business, wherein a business artifact is a concrete identifiable chunk of business information comprising forms, documents and/or messages, and is a concrete and identifiable container of business information wherein the container makes sense to a businessperson; using the business artifacts from the identifying step, processing the business into business services, wherein a business service is represented by an annotated sub-graph, annotated with a verb expression, and is some well-defined function that a business component offers to other business components and/or to external parties; clustering the business services into asset based non-overlapping components; clustering the components into non-overlapping competencies, wherein using the business artifacts to analyze the business further comprises, for each identified business artifact: