Method and apparatus for facilitating management of information technology investment

• US 7,158,940 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2003
• Issued: 01/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Prosight Limited
• Inventors: Ofer, Amir, Cimral, John, Lawler, Mark S., Yokoyama, Doug, Tzur, Avrami
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, JAGDISH
• Application Number:
  US10/459,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20030236732A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,302 Days
• Field of Search: 705/7, 705/8, 705/9, 705/10, 705/11
• US Class Current: 705/7.39
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation

Abstract

A method and apparatus to facilitate management of IT investment includes storing data associated with performance metrics of a number of information technology (IT) projects, and generating a number of “scorecards” for a number of IT portfolios, using the stored data, with each scorecard indicating status of the IT projects of an IT portfolio relative to performance metrics, each IT portfolio having a subset of the IT projects. The method/apparatus further includes generating a number of “dashboards” for the IT projects, using also the stored data, with each dashboard graphically illustrating one or more aspects of at least one IT project, and facilitating navigation from a scorecard to a corresponding one of the dashboards for a selected IT project by a user of the scorecard through selection of a representation of the IT project.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing data associated with performance metrics of a plurality of information technology (IT) projects; and

generating a scorecard for an IT portfolio, using said stored data, with said scorecard showing where IT projects of said IT portfolio stand on said performance metrics, said IT portfolio having a subset of said IT projects, said scorecard having a plurality of rows and columns with measures of the performance metrics of a project populating corresponding columns of a row, and at least one column having a cross project composite measure of the performance metric populated in the column of a cross project summary row.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said measures and cross project measures of the performance metrics comprise selected ones of metric values and graphical indicators.

3. A computer program product comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium having stored therein

programming instructions to access stored data associated with performance metrics of a plurality of information technology (IT) projects, and

programming instructions to generate a scorecard for an IT portfolio, using said stored data, with said scorecard showing where IT projects of said IT portfolio stand on said performance metrics, said IT portfolio having a subset of said IT projects, said scorecard having a plurality of rows and columns with measures of the performance metrics of a project populating corresponding columns of a row, and at least one column having a cross project composite measure of the performance metric populated in the column of a cross project summary row.

4. The computer program product of claim 3, wherein said measures and cross project measures of the performance metrics comprise selected ones of metric values and graphical indicators.