Abstract: A platform provides customers with complete and compelling consumption-based service while using the information it gathers to improve the customer's experience. This capability includes cloud integration to monitor the customer's cloud workload which is then used to identify risks and make recommendations on how to mitigate those risks through the management of the customer's security infrastructure. The platform relies upon third party security products from independent security vendors to provide the technology that forms the platform's security portfolio. Through the platform's web-based vendor portal, each vendor maintains its own product information including features sets, target customer demographics, applicable software stacks, compliance/regulatory capabilities and pricing. By cross referencing this product information with specific customer information, the platform can intelligently promote the correct products and capability upgrades at the right time to the right customers.

Abstract: A system for automating and managing an intellectual property environment in an organization over a network of computers. The system has user interface displays on each of the computers, and includes computer readable code devices in computer readable media for displaying, and methods for displaying, a number of management tools in the form of frames or screens or pages that provide for users submitting and sharing innovations, innovation analysis, finding experts for collaboration and evaluation of innovations, highlighting, spotlighting and showcasing innovations and innovation development, creating and responding to innovation challenges, and timelining, tasking and workflow peculiar to innovation management in an organization.