Patent Document ID: 20080071595
Application ID: 11944617
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for business performance management (BPM) of a business unit defined by business processes, comprising: one or more tokens, each of which represents a business event from one of said business processes; a BPM loop comprising a plurality of nodes, said plurality of nodes including at least a sensing node for receipt via said tokens of event data corresponding to said business event and an execution node for sending action data to a business unit for implementation in response to said business event; one or more policies which govern transformation by said nodes of said event data into said action data, wherein each of said tokens is passed sequentially from node to node in a particular order around said BPM loop, beginning with said sensing node and ending with said execution node, application of a policy at a node being triggered by said token, each said node further comprising a data acquisition element for acquiring data from another node, a data processing element for transforming data in accordance with one of said policies, and a data output element for transmitting data to another node, wherein said event data is received by said sensing node in real time, said policies transform said event data in real time, and said action data is sent to said business unit in real time, and wherein said policies may be adapted dynamically, including removal or addition of nodes in said plurality of nodes, responsive to changes in said business process or a monitoring and control objective related thereto.