Title:
AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2005070161
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
The present invention provides systems and methods for obtaining, standardizing, aggregating, analyzing, reporting and delivering financial and operational information associated with one or more businesses. Business performance information having a user-defined format is obtained from a business and is standardized by mapping to a standard format, preferably using an automated process. Various analysis techniques may be performed on the converted business performance information and one or more performance reports and/or alerts may be generated and delivered. The standardized performance information also may be provided to requesting parties for additional processing. The present invention also provides a system and method for maintaining a database of aggregated, standardized business performance information from a plurality of businesses. Performance information from a particular business may be compared to representative performance metrics derived from the aggregated performance information to benchmark the performance of the particular business relative to similar businesses.
Inventors:
ECKART LOREN
WOOSLEY ROBERT
WOOSLEY ROBERT
Application Number:
PCT/US2005/000888
Publication Date:
November 24, 2005
Filing Date:
January 12, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ILUMEN INC (US)
International Classes:
G06Q10/00; G06Q30/00; G06Q50/00; (IPC1-7): G06F17/60
Foreign References:
| US6556974B1 | 2003-04-29 |
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