Quantitative metrics for assessing status of a platform architecture for cloud computing

US10049337B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Salesforce.com, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Gerhard Mack · Bad Rodach, DE
• Stefan Pühl · Langen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 31, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 14, 2018
• Expiry date: Feb 8, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0637
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An architecture for realizing a customer system on a cloud computing platform is defined in terms of a plurality of architecture types, each type (AT) defined by plural architecture type units (ATUs), each ATU comprising a set of ATU Details. The ATU Details are ordered into a series of discrete stages. Maturity of the architecture is determined as a single architecture pulse (AP) numeric value for each architecture type. The pulse reflects the extent to which the ATUs of the architecture type have reached a requisite level of quality, and an extent to which the ATUs are created in a sequence consistent with the series of discrete stages. The AP pulse values may be combined to form a single success platform pulse (SPP) for tracking overall condition of the platform architecture with a single numerical value.