Patent ID: 7350209

Claim:
A computer executed method of tracking resource usage information in an enterprise system having system components, the method comprising: creating a first graphical workflow in a graphical user interface by interconnecting graphical components with graphical transitions between the graphic components, the graphical components representing system components associated with a first business application executing on the enterprise system, the transitions representing flow of work between interconnected system components, wherein the first graphical workflow includes at least two branching components; assigning a probability of flow of work to one of the branching components that is not equal to probabilities assigned to the other branching components; collecting resource usage information from one or more of the system components associated with the first business application; correlating by computer computation the resource usage information to determine cumulative resource usage information for the first business application by using mathematical relationships associated with the graphical components and the transitions in the first graphical workflow; and storing the resource usage information and the cumulative resource usage information in a memory.