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Computer system and method for producing analytical data related to the project bid and requisition process

  • US 7,925,568 B2
  • Filed: 04/10/2003
  • Issued: 04/12/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for producing analytical data in a system for managing one or more projects and one or more bids and having transactional data stored therein, comprising:

  • conducting an on-line bid process on the system;

    entering bid data into data fields of a bid during the on-line bid process as part of the transactional data, the data fields being part of a uniform data structure for the transactional data;

    associating the transactional data with a plurality of profiles having a profile type according to the uniform data structure, the plurality of profiles comprising profiles of each having at least one profile type selected from among a vendor-profile type, a buyer-profile type, a commodity-profile type, and a project-profile type;

    wherein each of the plurality of profiles comprises profile properties defined for the profile type;

    receiving a request for analytical data as a function of the transactional data from a requestor, the request for analytical data comprising a request for aggregate analytical data related to at least one of;

    a plurality of projects, a plurality of vendors, a plurality of buyers, and a plurality of commodities;

    filtering the transactional data via at least one of the profile properties;

    generating the analytical data based on the transactional data in response to the request, the generation comprising aggregately analyzing the filtered transactional data responsive to the request;

    providing information indicative of the aggregate analytical data to the requestor; and

    wherein the method is performed via one or more computers comprising a processor and memory.

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