Patent ID: 8606623

Claim:
A computerized method comprising: establishing, by a computer, a peer set comprising a plurality of companies in a particular industry; retrieving, by the computer, a master file, wherein the master file identifies a plurality of metrics of interest associated with a first company and the peer set of companies in the particular industry; retrieving, by the computer, an output parameter file comprising a set of format parameters defining a format of a customized output deck associated with the first company and the peer set of companies in the particular industry, wherein the set of format parameters comprises a positive algebraic indentation value; formatting, by the computer, a plurality of slides according to the set of format parameters by indenting the metrics of interest associated with the first company and the peer set of companies by the positive algebraic indentation value; retrieving, by the computer, first data relating to the indented metrics of interest associated with the first company and second data relating to the indented metrics of interest associated with the peer set of companies in the particular industry; calculating, by the computer, a normalization index based on the second data, wherein the normalization index represents a benchmarking metric for comparing the first company to the peer set of companies in the particular industry; calculating, by the computer, a percentage difference between the first data and the normalization index; and generating, by the computer, the customized output deck comprising the plurality of formatted slides according to the set of format parameters of the output parameter file, wherein the customized output deck comprises the indented metrics of interest associated with the first company and the peer set of companies in the particular industry, the calculated percentage difference, and the normalization index, and wherein the customized output deck preserves an anonymity of each of the peer set of companies in the particular industry.