Patent ID: 8285576

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of creating a physical information environment for a specific industry, the computer-implemented method comprising: selecting a candidate industry type to describe a customer's operations, wherein the candidate industry type has specific information environment requirements; selecting a set of information environment components that is specific to the candidate industry type, wherein the set of information environment components is modeled and simulated in software; identifying inherent constraints on the set of information environment components, wherein the inherent constraints are from the candidate industry type and the set of information environment components; a processor recursively optimizing the set of information environment components in order to comply with the inherent constraints and to meet the specific information environment requirements; based on optimized information environment components, simulating construction of an information environment in order to define an architecture of a simulated information environment for the candidate industry type; constructing and deploying a physical information environment that comports with the architecture of the simulated information environment; defining a hierarchy of key performance indicators (KPIs) of the candidate industry type; recursively optimizing the set of information environment components in order to meet the KPIs of the candidate industry type; and predicting access patterns to the optimized information environment components based on the hierarchy of KPIs of the candidate industry type, wherein higher ranked KPIs take precedence over relatively lower ranked KPIs in determining accessing priorities of the optimized information environment components.