Patent ID: 7685027

Claim:
A method of managing and affecting an enterprise-wide network migration from one type of network to another type of network, the method comprising the steps of: creating instances of databases for an enterprise-wide network migration from one type of network to another type of network, said databases including a migration manager database, a billing and reporting database, an instance manager database, and a documentation and rules database, said migration manager database including one entry for each client, machine, and device affected by the migration, and said instance manager database containing one entry for each instance of the migration manager database, and said documentation and rules database containing documentation and configurable rules common to all instances of the migration manager database; gathering information on the organization, location, hardware, and software affected by said migration into the migration manager database; building an inventory of the affected hardware and software using an inventory tracking tool or an inventory mailer; determining hardware that needs to be ordered for the migration using the migration manager database; ordering hardware and software for the migration based on said planning and said inventory, using an inventory tool; tracking and billing labor, hardware, and software as installed in said another type of network, using said migration manager database and said billing and reporting database; using said documentation and rules database to distribute updates of the documentation and configurable rules contained in the documentation and rules database to all of the instances of the migration manager database; and using an agent control facility including an agent control database for enabling software agents, executed by the agent control database, for performing agent executions including said creating, gathering, building and tracking, and wherein agents are enabled for all of the created instances of databases.