Patent ID: 7848973

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for demographic reporting of billable project activity, comprising: capturing and storing in a database, all billable project activity data associated with an information technology (IT) migration project, wherein the billable project activity data includes records for a plurality of devices that received or will receive a migration-related service and records for a plurality of employees affected by the migration-related service, the records including device and employee identifiers; where the records reflect migration-related service that will be received, updating the records in the database after the migration-related service is complete; using a processor operably connected to the database to hierarchically organize the billable project activity data into a plurality of billable project activity reports, based on selected demographic criteria; generating and providing a billable project activity report for display in a user interface (UI), wherein the UI comprises a data navigation pane for selecting a billable project activity report to be displayed and a data viewing pane for displaying and navigating through the selected billable project activity report; and navigating through the billable project activity report to determine costs associated with a selected level of the billable project activity report, wherein the costs associated with the selected level of the billable project activity report are equal to a sum of the costs at a next lower level of the billable project activity report, wherein costs in a billable project activity report are rolled up based on the selected demographic criteria, such that the rolled up costs are displayed in the data viewing pane when an appropriate demographic criteria is selected, and wherein at least one of the billable project activity reports provides information regarding why specific costs to be billed have not yet been billed.