Patent Document ID: 8478623
Application ID: 13541238

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of creating a physical information environment for a specific industry type, the computer-implemented method comprising: selecting a candidate industry type to describe a customer's operations, wherein the candidate industry type has specific information environment requirements; selecting a set of information environment components that is specific to the candidate industry type; identifying inherent constraints on the set of information environment components, wherein the inherent constraints are for the candidate industry type and the set of information environment components; a processor recursively optimizing the set of information environment components to create a set of optimized information environment components that meets the inherent constraints and key performance indicators (KPIs) of the candidate industry type; defining a hierarchy of KPIs for the candidate industry type; the processor predicting access patterns to the optimized information environment components based on the hierarchy of KPIs of the candidate industry type, wherein higher ranked KPIs take precedence over relatively lower ranked KPIs in determining access priorities for accessing components in the set of optimized information environment components; and constructing and deploying a physical information environment that comprises the set of optimized information environment components.

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Claim 7:
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining, by a quality engine, a quality level for a first database and a second database within the set of information environment components, wherein the quality level is determined according to a source, an age, and a security level of data within each database, and wherein the first database is determined to have a higher quality than the second database; determining an importance level for a first project and a second project, wherein the importance level is determined by different project definitions for the first project and the second project, and wherein the first project is determined to be more important than the second project; and assigning the first database for use by the first project and the second database for use by the second project.