Patent Document ID: 8549036
Application ID: 10745837
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of managing information technology (IT) for an organization, the method comprising: receiving and storing information in a computer-implemented relational database; and organizing the information in data groups in the computer-implemented relational database, the data groups comprising: an information technology (IT) services data group, the IT services data group including information about an IT service provided to an organization; an IT resources data group, the IT resources data group including information about an IT resource of the organization used to provide the IT service; an IT consumers data group, the IT consumers data group including information about an IT consumer within the organization that receives the IT service, the information about an IT consumer including organizational identifiers that identify organizational units within the organization; and an IT projects data group, the IT projects data group including information about at least one IT project of the organization, the information about at least one IT project of the organization including an IT project identifier that identifies each IT project, a plurality of priorities for the at least one IT project, wherein each priority of the plurality of priorities is associated with a different organizational unit; linking information from each data group to information in the other data groups including linking the at least one IT project to each organizational unit associated with the at least one IT project using the IT project identifier and the organizational identifiers; and implementing at least one IT enterprise management function using the information from the IT services data group, from the IT resources data group, from the IT consumers data group, and from the IT projects data group including, generating a report for display that provides the plurality of priorities for the at least one IT project that have been prioritized by the different organizational units associated with the at least one IT project based on the linked IT project to each associated organizational unit and the plurality of priorities including displaying a priority for the at least one IT project by a particular organizational unit relative to a total number of IT projects pertaining to that organizational unit.