Patent ID: 7281011

Claim:
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for defining and utilizing a standard operating environment for an information technology architecture, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising: identifying a segment of an information technology architecture for storage in a first data field of a data structure; identifying a technology service within the identified segment for storage in a second data field of the data structure; identifying a technology standard for the technology service for storage in a third data field of the data structure; identifying a product standard corresponding to the technology standard for storage in a fourth data field of the data structure; comparing a technology roadmap to the standard operating environment and vendor directives, wherein the vendor directives are derived from the standard operating environment; updating at least one data structure of at least one of the following: the standard operating environment and the vendor directives based of the comparison between the technology roadmap and the standard operating environment and the vendor directives; and providing the standard operating environment to a first entity and providing vendor directives to a second entity.