Patent ID: 8266096

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, the method comprising: storing information technology (IT) vendor information from an organization's IT vendors in a database; defining, by a vendor portfolio definer, a plurality of vendor portfolios and storing the plurality of vendor portfolios in the database, wherein defining the plurality of vendor portfolios includes, for each vendor portfolio, one or more of: defining, by a risk management definer, one or more organizational risk levels for the vendor portfolio; defining, by an access controller, one more user access criteria for the vendor portfolio; and associating, by a meta data editor, one or more meta data items with the vendor portfolio; populating, by a vendor portfolio populator, a first vendor portfolio with a first subset of the organization's IT vendors and associated IT vendor information; populating, by the vendor portfolio populator, a second vendor portfolio with a second subset of the organization's IT vendors and associated IT vendor information; and managing, by a vendor portfolio analyzer, the organization's IT vendors, using one or more processors, by analyzing at least one business metric across the first vendor portfolio.