Adaptive customized presentation of business intelligence information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9053440-B2
Application number	US-201113341644-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2011
Priority date	Dec 30, 2011
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

In one example, a method includes receiving information on a user role of a user account associated with a business intelligence system. The method further includes gathering information on interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system. The method further includes generating an initial business intelligence output based on data from one or more data sources. The method further includes generating a customized business intelligence output for the user account based on the initial business intelligence output, the user role, and the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system. The method further includes providing the customized business intelligence output to the user account.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computing system comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more computer-readable data storage devices; and
an enterprise software application, stored on the one or more computer-readable data storage devices for execution by the one or more processors, and configured for customizing a business intelligence output for a user account, wherein the enterprise software application comprises:
program instructions for receiving information on a user role of a user account associated with a business intelligence system;
program instructions for gathering information on interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system, wherein gathering the information on the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system comprises recording one or more interactions the user account has with each of one or more levels of detail in a multidimensional data source associated with the business intelligence system;
program instructions for generating an initial business intelligence output based on data from one or more data sources;
program instructions for determining weightings of associations between the user account and the one or more levels of detail in the multidimensional data source based on the one or more interactions the user account has with each of one or more levels of detail in the initial business intelligence output;
program instructions for generating a customized business intelligence output for the user account in one or more subsequent business intelligence outputs based on the initial business intelligence output, the user role, and the weightings of associations between the user account and the one or more levels of detail in the multidimensional data source based on the one or more interactions the user account has with each of one or more levels of detail in the initial business intelligence output; and
program instructions for providing the customized business intelligence output to the user account in the one or more subsequent business intelligence outputs, wherein providing the customized business intelligence output to the user account comprises presenting search results for a search of the customized business intelligence output that are ranked or filtered based at least in part on the weightings of associations between the user account and the one or more levels of detail in the multidimensional data source based on the one or more interactions the user account has with each of one or more levels of detail in the initial business intelligence output.

2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the user account is a first user account among a plurality of additional user accounts associated with the business intelligence system, the enterprise software application further comprising:
program instructions for receiving information on user roles of the additional user accounts;
program instructions for gathering information on interactions of the additional user accounts with the business intelligence system;
program instructions for generating additional customized business intelligence outputs for the additional user accounts based on the initial business intelligence output, the user roles, and the interactions of the additional user accounts with the business intelligence system; and
program instructions for providing the additional customized business intelligence outputs to the additional user accounts.

3. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for generating the customized business intelligence output for the user account comprise program instructions for presenting an initial view of information from a multidimensional data source at a level of detail selected based on the user role and the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system.

4. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for generating the customized business intelligence output for the user account comprise program instructions for indicating one or more recommendations for specific information in the customized business intelligence output based on the user role and the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system.

5. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for generating the customized business intelligence output for the user account comprise program instructions for providing customized report prompts in the customized business intelligence output based on the user role and the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system.

6. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for providing the customized business intelligence output for the user account comprise program instructions for emailing the customized business intelligence output to an email address associated with the user account.

7. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for providing the customized business intelligence output for the user account comprise program instructions for providing the customized business intelligence output to a dashboard associated with the user account.

8. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for providing the customized business intelligence output for the user account comprise program instructions for presenting the search results for the search of the business intelligence output that are further ranked or filtered based at least in part on the user role.

9. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for generating the customized business intelligence output for the user account in the one or more subsequent business intelligence outputs based on the initial business intelligence output, the user role, and the weightings of associations between the user account and the one or more levels of detail in the multidimensional data source based on the one or more interactions the user account has with each of one or more levels of detail in the initial business intelligence output comprise program instructions for ranking the one or more levels of detail based on user interactions with a BI output beyond a default view focused on a primary level for the user account.

10. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for gathering the information on the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system comprise program instructions for creating associations between the user account and interactions of the user account through authoring or analysis tools with one or more levels of detail in the multidimensional data source.

11. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for gathering the information on the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system comprise program instructions for creating associations between the user account and interactions of the user account with one or more hierarchical filters with one or more levels of detail in the multidimensional data source.

12. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions for gathering the information on the interactions of the user account with the business intelligence system comprise program instructions for creating associations between the user account and interactions of the user account with one or more slicer controls with one or more levels of detail in the multidimensional data source.

13. The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising program instructions for modifying the weightings of associations between the user account and the one or more levels of detail of the interactions of the user account w

Assignees

• Chmiel Matthew S
• Hiltz-Laforge Jason
• Pourshahid Alireza
• Watts Graham A
• IBM

Inventors

• Chmiel Matthew S
• Hiltz-Laforge Jason
• Pourshahid Alireza
• Watts Graham A

Classifications

• G06F16/24578

  using ranking · CPC title

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06Q10/06 Primary

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

• G06F17/30867

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/3053

  Physics · mapped topic