Patent ID: 7917417

Claim:
A computer-based, automated organizational and personal portfolio management system for aggregation, storage, and retrieval of professional development data for an employee-based organization, comprising: a processor; a computer repository coupled to the processor; a memory configured to store program instructions executable by the processor to implement at least two professional development software engines comprising: a professional development definitions engine configured to provide a user with a collection of one or more interface pages that enable users to add, view, update, and delete professional development data; and a professional development reporting engine configured to access a collection of metadata items stored in database descriptor tables, wherein users can select from the metadata items to control the scope of professional development data included in two or more different reports; wherein the program instructions are further executable by the processor to implement a method comprising: establishing on the computer system or the computer repository, and by using the professional development definitions engine, two or more professional development data portfolios, wherein each of at least two of the professional development data portfolios is associated with a different employee of the employee-based organization; collecting, into at least two of the professional development data portfolios, professional development data for at least two of the employees of the organization associated with the portfolio; aggregating at least two of the professional development data portfolios, the aggregating including professional development data of two or more of the employees of the organization; and generating, for at least one aggregation of professional development data portfolios that includes professional development data for at least two employees of the organization, two or more organizational-level professional development reports, wherein at least one of the organizational-level professional development reports includes data for the at least two of the employees that is different than the data included in at least one other of the organizational-level professional development reports for the at least two employees.