Patent Document ID: 9600784
Application ID: 12062853
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: deploying and executing an improved enterprise management process of an enterprise management computer product on one or more computer nodes of a computer network; executing a computerized process to analyze and collect information regarding the execution of the improved enterprise management process on the one or more computer nodes of the computer network and estimate a value of the improved enterprise management process of the enterprise management computer product, wherein the estimated value comprises an indicator of reduction in a task complexity of the improved enterprise management process, wherein the computerized process comprises: identifying a process context for the improved enterprise management process under which the enterprise management computer product is to be evaluated, wherein identifying the process context comprises (i) identifying one or more tasks that make up the improved enterprise management process and (ii) mapping the one or more tasks to standard tasks and a hierarchical process structure, winch are defined by a knowledge base of standard management processes; generating the process context as a data structure which includes the standard tasks that are mapped to the one or more tasks of the improved enterprise management process based on said mapping and said hierarchical process structure; quantifying a process baseline for the improved enterprise management process based on the tasks included in said generated process context, wherein the process baseline is quantified using at least one key performance metric and at least one complexity metric for the tasks included in said generated process context, wherein quantifying the process baseline comprises quantifying the process context using a complexity analysis process framework which estimates a complexity with regard to performing the tasks included in said generated process context that make up the hierarchical process structure representative of the improved enterprise management process executing on the one or more computer nodes of the computer network, wherein the complexity analysis process framework determines an execution time for each of the tasks included in said generated process context as a percentage of an overall turn-around time of the improved enterprise management process executing on the one or more computer nodes of the computer network, and limits the complexity analysis to those tasks with execution times that are deemed to take a significant amount of time of the overall turn-around time; utilizing the process baseline to determine an improvement measure for the improved enterprise management process, wherein the improvement measure is achieved based on the deployment of the improved enterprise management process; and utilizing information generated from the process context, the process baseline, and the improvement measure to generate said estimated value which comprises the indicator of the reduction in a task complexity of the improved enterprise management process of the enterprise management computer product; and outputting the estimated value for assessment of process improvement of the improved enterprise management process executing on the one or more computer nodes of the computer network, wherein the computer comprises a memory and a processor device operatively coupled to the memory and configured to perform the computerized process.