Method for calculating business process durations

A business process reporting system, comprising:

• a computing system;
• an output device coupled to the computing system;
• logic, executed on the computing system, for defining a functional definition of a process;
• logic, executed on the computing system, for defining an execution definition of the process, wherein the execution definition, for reporting purposes, is independent of the functional definition;
• logic, executed on the computing system, for defining a plurality of starting tracking points, each starting tracking point associated with a particular first event of the execution definition;
• logic, executed on the computing system, for defining a plurality of ending tracking points, each ending tracking point associated with a particular second event of the execution definition;
• logic, executed on the computing system, for calculating a timing interval corresponding to the functional definition based upon a first execution time corresponding to one of the plurality of starting tracking points and a second execution time corresponding to one of the plurality of ending tracking points;
• and
• logic, executed on the computing system, for transmitting to the output device information corresponding to the timing interval.

A computer readable medium encoded with a program, the program comprising:

• a recording medium;
• logic for defining a functional definition of a process;
• logic for defining an execution definition of the process, wherein the execution definition, for reporting purposes, is independent of the functional definition;
• logic for defining a plurality of starting tracking points, each starting tracking point associated with a particular first event of the execution definition;
• logic for defining a plurality of ending tracking points, each ending tracking point associated with a particular second event of the execution definition;
• logic for calculating a timing interval corresponding to the functional definition based upon a first execution time corresponding to one of the plurality of starting tracking points and a second execution time corresponding to one of the plurality of ending tracking points;
• and
• logic for transmitting to the output device information corresponding to the timing interval.