Methods and systems for managing community information

A server-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, by a server, over a communication network a first set of metadata from a computer of a first client company corresponding to transactions using a software application of different versions of a first enterprise resource planning system operated by the first client company, wherein the first set of metadata does not contain underlying transaction data;
• receiving, by the server, over the communication network a second set of metadata from a computer of a second client company corresponding to the software application of different versions of a second enterprise resource planning system operated by the second client company, wherein the second set of metadata does not contain underlying transaction data;
• comparing, by the server, the first set of metadata corresponding to each version of the first enterprise resource planning system operated by the first client company with respect to each other to determine performance data associated with one or more features corresponding to each version of the first enterprise resource planning system operated by the first client company, wherein the one or more features are selected from a group consisting of a response time and a volume;
• comparing, by the server, the second set of metadata corresponding to each version of the second enterprise resource planning system operated by the second client company with respect to each other to determine performance data associated with the one or more features corresponding to each version of the second enterprise resource planning system operated by the second client company;
• comparing, by the server, the first set of metadata to the second set of metadata to determine performance data associated to the one or more features corresponding to each version of the software application in the first enterprise resource planning system operated by the first client company and the second enterprise resource planning system operated by the second client company;
• and wherein the server performs a comparison between the first set of metadata and the second set of metadata taking into consideration data corresponding to configuration of the computer of the first client company and the second client company;
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• presenting, by the server, on a graphical user interface of the computer of each of the first client company and the second client company, the performance data corresponding to performance of transactions using different versions of the software application in the first enterprise resource planning system operated by the first client company and the second enterprise resource planning system operated by the second client company, performance of each version of the first enterprise resource planning system operated by the first client company, and performance of each version of the second enterprise resource planning system operated by the second client company, wherein the graphical user interface of the computer of each of the first client company and the second client company comprises a panel for each version of the software application, and within each panel, the graphical user interface comprises a listing of the performance data of the transactions with respect to each other and other computers of other companies running the same software application, and wherein the computer of the first client company is configured to execute a new version of the software application based on an evaluation of the performance data of the transactions associated with the different versions of the software application in the first enterprise resource planning system with respect to the computers of other companies running the same software application.