Patent ID: 7266821

Claim:
An enterprise-wide computer portal system electrically connected to a plurality of enterprise computer systems and configured to communicate with a plurality of enterprise users through a network interface, wherein at least one of the plurality of enterprise users communicates with the network interface through a computer network, the enterprise-wide computer portal system comprising: a service broker electrically connected to the network interface, the service broker controlling a level of access to the enterprise-wide computer portal system by an enterprise user and controlling the disposition of jobs within the enterprise-wide computer portal system; a job repository electrically connected to the service broker, the job repository comprising a computer memory encoded with a plurality of objects including at least one job, the at least one job having at least one set of job properties, wherein said set of job properties includes a set of input data; a job server electrically connected to the service broker, the job server configured to execute said at least one job and to produce an output report of the job, wherein the job server is configured to process the set of input data; and a job event server electrically connected to the service broker the job event server comprising a computer memory encoded with instructions for dispatching a job for processing on a corresponding job server according to a predefined schedule.