Merger integration toolkit system and method for milestone tracking
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a collaboration environment computer unit configured to;
provide a toolkit incorporating customized functionality on top of functionality of one or more applications for assisting users in performing an integration of businesses subject to a merger or acquisition there between,the customized functionality including a security layer and program milestone tracking not available in the one or more applications,define a plurality of cascading hierarchy levels for the security layer reflecting a level of access users are granted to a plurality of items stored in a respective library of the one or more applications,link to a project server associated with the one or more applications,manage the plurality of items by leveraging the functionality of the one or more applications based on linking to the project server,import the plurality of items to the toolkit based on managing the plurality of items,encode the plurality of items with hierarchical metadata based on the plurality of cascading hierarchy levels,the hierarchical metadata including hierarchy values such that a requesting user is denied access to a requested item when a hierarchy value of the requested item is inconsistent with a level of access corresponding to the requesting user,create and track program milestones based on the plurality of items, andgenerate and filter reports by each level in the cascading hierarchy levels based on the plurality of items that are encoded and the program milestones.
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Abstract
The present invention provides for a method and a computer system for providing functionality for electronically managing and supporting a merger integration of businesses, using software and other computer-implemented tools. In one aspect of the invention, the method and system provide program milestone tracking for an integration of businesses, where the businesses are subject to a merger or acquisition. The system provides a collaboration environment computer program for assisting a group of individuals performing the integration of businesses. The collaboration environment computer program provides administrative controls and communication among the group of individuals. A project management computer program assists the group of individuals and is configured to manage project schedules, budgets, and timeframes. A program milestone component is established and configured to facilitate creating and tracking program milestones for the collaboration environment computer program. The program milestone component also configured to interface the collaboration environment computer program and the project management computer program such that the collaboration environment computer program directly links to the project management computer program and receive program milestone updates.
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19 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
a collaboration environment computer unit configured to; provide a toolkit incorporating customized functionality on top of functionality of one or more applications for assisting users in performing an integration of businesses subject to a merger or acquisition there between, the customized functionality including a security layer and program milestone tracking not available in the one or more applications, define a plurality of cascading hierarchy levels for the security layer reflecting a level of access users are granted to a plurality of items stored in a respective library of the one or more applications, link to a project server associated with the one or more applications, manage the plurality of items by leveraging the functionality of the one or more applications based on linking to the project server, import the plurality of items to the toolkit based on managing the plurality of items, encode the plurality of items with hierarchical metadata based on the plurality of cascading hierarchy levels, the hierarchical metadata including hierarchy values such that a requesting user is denied access to a requested item when a hierarchy value of the requested item is inconsistent with a level of access corresponding to the requesting user, create and track program milestones based on the plurality of items, and generate and filter reports by each level in the cascading hierarchy levels based on the plurality of items that are encoded and the program milestones. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method comprising:
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providing, via a device, a toolkit incorporating customized functionality on top of functionality of one or more applications for users in performing an integration of businesses subject to a merger or acquisition there between, the customized functionality including a security layer and program milestone tracking not available in the one or more applications, defining, by the device, a plurality of cascading hierarchy levels for the security layer reflecting a level of access users are granted to a plurality of items stored in a respective library of the one or more applications, linking, by the device, to a project server associated with the one or more applications, managing, by the device, the plurality of items by leveraging the functionality of the one or more applications based on linking to the project server, importing, by the device, the plurality of items to the toolkit based on managing the plurality of items, encoding, by the device, the plurality of items with hierarchical metadata based on the plurality of cascading hierarchy levels, the hierarchical metadata including hierarchy values such that a requesting user is denied access to a requested item when a hierarchy value of the requested item is inconsistent with a level of access corresponding to the requesting user, creating and tracking, by the device, program milestones based on the plurality of items, and generating and filtering, by the device, reports by each level in the cascading hierarchy levels based on the plurality of items that are encoded and the program milestones. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to; provide a toolkit incorporating customized functionality on top of functionality of one or more applications for assisting users in performing an integration of businesses subject to a merger or acquisition there between, the customized functionality including a security layer and program milestone tracking not available in the one or more applications, define a plurality of cascading hierarchy levels for the security layer reflecting a level of access users are granted to a plurality of items stored in a respective library of the one or more applications, link to a project server associated with the one or more applications, manage the plurality of items by leveraging the functionality of the one or more applications based on linking to the project server, import the plurality of items to the toolkit based on managing the plurality of items, encode the plurality of items with hierarchical metadata based on the plurality of cascading hierarchy levels, the hierarchical metadata including hierarchy values such that a requesting user is denied access to a requested item when a hierarchy value of the requested item is inconsistent with a level of access corresponding to the requesting user, create and track program milestones based on the plurality of items, and generate and filter reports by each level in the cascading hierarchy levels based on the plurality of items that are encoded and the program milestones. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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