Abstract: An enterprise hierarchical performance model and performance monitoring, evaluation and decision support system is disclosed to collect enterprise data, calculate and display performance information including performance, progress, and risk of one or more metrics and/or indicators, and execute an action in accordance with enterprise conditions.

Abstract: Systems and methods for data collection and processing. A system includes a forms processing subsystem including a form designer and a form processing and workflow module, and a client subsystem including a form submission manager and a client data store. User provided information is maintained locally in the client data store.

Abstract: A system for synchronizing application programs which together provide a multi-modal user interface, which comprises multiple application programs which provide the various interface of the multi-modal interface and which are in communication with a synchronization manager. Means are provided to detect status changes in the application programs and to communicate such status changes, in the form of data updates to the synchronization manager. The synchronization manager is operative to communicate such a data update to the application program in which the data update did not originate so that the application programs are synchronized.

Abstract: A method of synchronising the delivery to a user of first information which is to be presented to the user via a visual display of a multi-modal interface and of second information which is to be presented to the user over a visual or an audio interface of the multi-modal interface, in which the multi-modal interface process estimates the total time needed to deliver the first information to the visual display or to a store local to the visual display, estimates the total time needed to deliver the second information to the visual or audio interface or to a store local to the visual or audio interface; and then uses the estimates to determine whether the presentation to the user of the first or second information to the user needs to be delayed to achieve a desired synchronism of presentation; and then applies any delay determined to be necessary to achieve the desired synchronism of presentation.

Abstract: The invention relates to multi-modal computer interfaces and the synchronisation of two or more application programs which have user interfaces which make up the multi-modal interface. The invention employs a synchronisation server process with blackboard style data store for posting the changes made to any one particular application program to the other application programs. Data updates pass via the synchronisation server. A map file is provided for translating data provided by one application program into the formats suited to other application programs, and vice versa. In this way, application programs are not limited by a common dialogue but are autonomous, thus providing a cohesive and highly flexible user interface.