Patent ID: 7523147

Claim:
A method of managing inventory for an information technology migration, the method comprising: obtaining at least one migration component for the migration, wherein the at least one migration component comprises at least one hardware or software component to be migrated, and wherein the migration comprises one of: a change from a first hardware technology to a second hardware technology, and a change from a first software technology to a second software technology, the migration further comprising receiving the at least one migration component into inventory, and deploying the migration component to a target; obtaining a set of history records for a migration variable for the at least one migration component, wherein each history record in the set of history records corresponds to a unique modification of a value of the migration variable during the migration and includes a set of modification attributes associated with the unique modification; and generating an activity display for the migration, wherein the activity display includes the set of modification attributes for at least one of the set of history records.