Notifying a user about relevant data for opportunities

Abstract

Notifying a user about relevant data for opportunities includes obtaining, from a database, opportunities, the opportunities representing a complex record structure in the database, in which each of the opportunities captures a number of fields of metadata, analyzing the metadata associated with the opportunities to identify patterns for the opportunities, identifying, based on the patterns, correlations for the opportunities, and notifying, based on the correlations, the user about relevant data for the opportunities.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for notifying a user about relevant data for opportunities, the method comprising:
 obtaining, from a database, opportunities, the opportunities representing a complex record structure in the database, in which each of the opportunities captures a number of fields of metadata;   analyzing the metadata associated with the opportunities to identify patterns for the opportunities;   identifying, based on the patterns, correlations for the opportunities; and   notifying, based on the correlations, a user about relevant data for the opportunities.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , in which the metadata for each of the opportunities comprises a design specification, a platform specification, a fixpack specification, a version specification, an operating system (OS) specification, a time line, a risk, a cost, a performance result, an integration middleware specification, members associated with the opportunities, an upgrade, a product, a staging, or combinations thereof. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , in which analyzing the metadata associated with the opportunities to identify the patterns for the opportunities comprises comparing metadata for an opportunity having a less mature maturity level with metadata for an opportunity having a more mature maturity level. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , in which the relevant data comprises information to aid the user in maximizing success for each of the opportunities. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising updating the database with the correlations and the relevant data associated with the opportunities. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising determining a maturity level for each of the opportunities. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising applying a weight to the metadata associated with each of the opportunities to determine the relevant data that is used to notify the user.