Patent ID: 7882058

Claim:
A method of providing hosted business resource automation within a logical framework, comprising: hosting a business resource automation system for a company; structuring said business resource automation system as a hierarchical structure, said hierarchical structure including a solution level, a subscriber level, a plurality of levels thereunder corresponding to a subscriber's business processes, said levels being styled as at least one of channels and silos; terminating the hierarchical structure in an echelon, said echelon corresponding to a role of a user within a subscriber enterprise with a unique set of input, output and information access requirements; and receiving a request for at least one business document from a user; determining at least one echelon of the user within the hierarchical structure; in response to a user request, automatically generating a business document as a business resource using the hosted business resource automation system, said business document being dependent on an echelon of the requesting user so as to match the level of information in the document with the level of the user in the company.