Business process assistance wizard
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsPrashant Gupta, Abhijit Gore, Amit Kumar, Kulothungan Rajasekaran, Derik Stenerson
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Abstract
A business process guide may assist tracking and updating business processes, such as marketing business processes. The business processes may be part of a customer relationship management system. High level business process elements may be displayed which may be selected to display additional information about the elements.
Claims20
A method of providing guidance through a business process lifecycle, comprising:
- presenting a business process user interface on a display with phases of the business process displayed comprising planning, preparation, launch and monitor;
- providing additional detail below each phase of the business process where the additional detail is obtained by selecting the displayed business process phase;
- and
- allowing selection of the additional detail and opening a related form to the selected additional detail in another window on the display.
A computer readable medium with computer executable instructions, wherein the computer executable instructions comprise:
- presenting a business process user interface on a display with phases of the business process displayed comprising planning, preparation, launch and monitor;
- providing additional detail below each phase of the business process where the additional detail is obtained by selecting the displayed business process phase;
- allowing selection of the additional detail and opening a related form to the selected additional detail in another window on the display;
- and
- allowing an indication that the additional detail below each phase of the business process is complete.
A computer system comprising a processor, a memory and an input/output circuit wherein the memory stores computer executable code to be executed by the processor, the computer executable code comprising code for:
- presenting a business process user interface on a display with phases of the business process displayed comprising planning, preparation, launch and monitor;
- providing additional detail below each phase of the business process where the additional detail is obtained by selecting the displayed business process phase;
- allowing selection of the additional detail and opening a related form to the selected additional detail in another window on the display;
- allowing an indication that the additional detail below each phase of the business process is complete;
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- minimizing the business process user interface while working on the business process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.