Patent ID: 8731983

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a selection of a business metric that corresponds to a register to store metric values of the business metric, the selection of the business metric indicating the business metric as selected by a user; receiving a selection of a business rule usable to generate the metric values of the business metric, the selection of the business rule indicating the business rule as selected by the user; receiving a selection of a decision parameter included in the business rule, the selection of the decision parameter indicating that the decision parameter is selected by the user; receiving a selection of a set of parameter values of the decision parameter, each of the set of parameter values being usable to modify the business rule, the selection of the set of parameter values indicating the set of parameter values as selected by the user; receiving a selection of input data able to be processed with the business rule to generate the metric values of the business metric, the selection of the input data indicating the input data as selected by the user; generating the metric values of the business metric selected by the user, the generating of the metric values being performed by a computer and including: modifying the business rule by using each parameter value of the set of parameter values as the decision parameter; and processing at least some of the input data with the modified business rule; and identifying the decision parameter as a most critical decision parameter that, as a result of its parameter values being changed by a predetermined percentage affects the business metric most compared to other decision parameters included in the business rule.