Patent ID: 8738425

Claim:
A method of performing temporal root cause analysis, the method comprising: performing, a computational device, predictive analysis for a set of influencers and for a set of performance indicators to determine a first future value of a performance indicator of the set of performance indicators at a selected predictive future time, the set of performance indicators associated with the set of influencers by a model, the set of influencers associated with a set of present influencer values and a set of future influencer values, each future influencer value of the set of future influencer values associated with a future action time of a plurality of future action times; determining that the first future value of the performance indicator at the selected predictive future time is not in compliance with a business rule associated with the performance indicator; performing, the computational device, root cause analysis by identifying a subset of influencers of the set of influencers based on the effect of a change in an influencer future value at a selected influencer future time of each influencer of the subset of influencers on the future value of the performance indicator at the selected predictive future time, the subset of influencers provided in an ordered list of the subset of influencers based on the effect of the change in the influencer future value on the future value of the performance indicator; displaying on a display device the ordered list of the subset of the influencers; receiving a what-if scenario from a user, the what-if scenario including a user adjusted future value of an influencer; performing predictive analysis using the user adjusted value to determine a second future value of the performance indicator at the selected predictive future time; and displaying on the display device the second future value of the performance indicator.