System and method for deploying a virtual laboratory environment for a business

A method utilizing an information technology system for managing analysis programs provided for multiple end-user customers comprising the steps of:

• a. identifying all end-user customers as unique and specific entities by collecting and inputting data about said end-user customers in a computing means;
• b. allowing said end-user customers certain and specific rights to Internet functionality features and the data repository of said end-user customers;
• c. identifying all vehicles or pieces of machinery or equipment as unique and specific units of the data repository of said end-user customers;
• d. combining and organizing the data repository of said end-user customers such that all data is sorted, accumulated, aggregated, trended, and managed in relation to the unique and specific entities of said end-user customers and said vehicles of pieces of machinery or equipment;
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• e. handling for said end-user customers one or more business transactions selected from the group consisting of:
• i. customer registration,
• ii. equipment registration,
• iii. ordering test kits, supplies or laboratory testing analysis,
• iv. reporting laboratory analysis results,
• v. generating invoices for test kit and supply orders or analysis services,
• vi. management of accounts receivable, and
• vii. collecting payments and disbursing revenue-sharing benefits or supplier payments.

A system for managing large corporation oil analysis programs comprising:

• a. at least one first means for storing archival analysis data at a first remote location;
• b. at least one second means for storing archival analysis data at a second remote location;
• c. an information technology system computing means for retrieving data from said first and second remote locations, storing said data, and capable of logic- and algorithmic-based analysis of a database;
• d. processor means for calculating and comparing the performance of oil brand products in the sets and subsets for a vehicle or piece of machinery or equipment relative to the performance of other oil products in the sets and subsets of a vehicle or piece of machinery or equipment, the variable of usage of the oil product and/or equipment, and the workflow recommendations, actions and outcomes;
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• e. means for displaying the results.