Patent Document ID: 20100082696
Application ID: 12243851
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for inferring and visualizing correlations of different business aspects for business transformation, comprising: loading into memory one or more business models, said one or more business models including at least business component model, business process model, value drivers and metrics model, application model, organization model, solutions model; selecting a model topology, the model topology representing data schema for connecting said one or more business models; configuring one or more qualitative relationships between one or more entities in said business models; configuring one or more quantitative properties of said one or more entities in said business models based on said configured one or more qualitative relationships; inferring one or more qualitative correlations from the said qualitative relationships among said one or more entities in said business models, the step of inferring utilizing one or more logical rules; determining quantitative correlations from said quantitative properties of said one or more entities, said determining utilizing statistics, data mining, mathematical models, simulations, optimizations, or combinations thereof, said quantitative correlations including distance, intensity, direction, or combinations thereof; and generating visualization of said qualitative correlations and quantitative correlations.