Patent ID: 7809600

Claim:
A method for planning a business decision, the method comprising: obtaining requirement-indicating data of a first entity with respect to a transactional subject, wherein the obtaining comprises extracting a subset of the requirement-indicating data from a requirement-indicating database associated with an enterprise resource planning system, wherein the extracting process is based on a process based on previous history of usefulness of prior extracted data; automatically transmitting the obtained requirement-indicating data from a first business entity to a second business entity over a communications network; automatically feeding the transmitted requirement-indicating data into an electronic processor for monitoring the transactional subject, the electronic processor being associated with an electronic processing system of the second business entity; and generating a business decision of the first business entity and the second business entity that is based on the requirement-indicating data and that is made solely by the electronic processing system without the need for manual data entry into or manual data extraction from the electronic processing system.