Patent ID: 7072900

Claim:
A method of developing topography based management systems, said method comprising: analyzing a topography design corresponding to a topography; identifying one or more topography requirements based on the analysis; creating topography components corresponding to the identified topography requirements, wherein each of the components is adapted to interoperate with one or more operating environments, and wherein at least one of the components is a topography neutral application component that is adapted to interoperate with more than one topography; and storing component data in a topography data store, the component data describing one or more of the components, wherein the component data includes one or more fields selected from the group consisting of a component identifier, a target platform, a development environment, a control model, a topography scale, a management style, a component dependency, a component placement, a component packaging data, a component bundling data, a component build option, and a component runtime option.