Patent ID: 7349862

Claim:
A method for monitoring business intelligence indicators comprising the steps of: (i) generating a monitoring repository by: a) generating an executable function from a plurality of executable functions by an executable function manager; the generated executable function receiving the business intelligence indicators as inputs, the business intelligence indicators including a state, and a state history; b) incorporating the business intelligence indicators into indicator groups, the indicator groups having an indicator group state, and an indicator state history; c) establishing thresholds for each of the business intelligence indicators, the thresholds defining states for the business intelligence indicators, each of the states having an assigned priority according to a status map; and d) assigning a state for each of the business intelligence indicators based on the established state and the assigned priority; (ii) updating the monitoring repository by: a) retrieving a current value for each of the business intelligence indicators from a data source through data acquisition, data transformation, or data propagation; b) assigning the current values to the business intelligence indicators; and c) determining and comparing the state for each of the business intelligence indicators based on the current value; (iii) creating a report based on the updated monitoring repository.