Method and system for contextual messaging as utilized for decision support

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving and storing information from an administrative client that establishes memberships of a plurality of clients to a common contextual messaging system;

receiving and storing nomenclature information from the administrative client that establishes a nomenclature for the common contextual messaging system;

receiving a plurality of messages from one or more of the plurality of clients;

determining a message context for each message using the nomenclature information;

clustering the messages based on the message context in a message database;

determining a current context associated with each request to access the plurality of messages from a plurality of users;

determining a message view for each request based on a correlation of the current context of the request with the message context of each message;

providing to a first device a first message view associated with the plurality of messages based on a first current context associated with a first request from a first user, the first request being from the first device; and

providing to the first device a second message view associated with the plurality of messages based on a second current context associated with a second request from the first user, the second request being from the first device, the first message view being different from the second message view.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein message context comprises category, supplier, and product.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein authorization to create messages is determined by administratively controlled user permissions; and determining if the first client has adequate permission to create a message.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein messages are delivered based on a set of message delivery rules.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein messages are read-only or read-write.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein messages may be edited or deleted by a message author.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein messages may be deleted by a user other than a message author.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein message views contain programmatic actions.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of messages includes a first message;

the first message view includes a first subset of information from the first message; and

the second message view includes a second subset of information from the first message, the first subset of information being different than the second subset of information.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of messages includes a first message and a second message;

the first message view includes information from the first message but not the second message; and

the second message view includes information from the second message but not the first message.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein:

the first request is from a first application at the first device; and

the second request is from the first application at the first device.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions, said plurality of instructions when executed by a computer, cause said computer to perform:

receiving and storing information from an administrative client that establishes memberships of a plurality of clients to a common contextual messaging system;

receiving and storing nomenclature information from the administrative client that establishes a nomenclature for the common contextual messaging system;

receiving a plurality of messages from one or more of the plurality of clients;

determining a message context for each message using the nomenclature information;

clustering the messages based on the message context in a message database;

determining a current context associated with each request to access the plurality of messages from a plurality of users;

determining a message view for each request based on a correlation of the current context of the request with the message context of each message;

providing to a first device a first message view associated with the plurality of messages based on a first current context associated with a first request from a first user, the first request being from the first device; and

providing to the first device a second message view associated with the plurality of messages based on a second current context associated with a second request from the first user, the second request being from the first device, the first message view being different from the second message view.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein message context comprises category, supplier, and product.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein authorization to create messages is determined by administratively controlled user permissions; and wherein the plurality of instructions cause the computer to perform determining if the first client has adequate permission to create a message.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein:

determining a current context includes, for each request, determining a current context of a workflow for the user issuing the request;

providing the first message view includes filtering the plurality of messages to provide a subset of the plurality of messages based on the first current context; and

providing the second message view includes filtering the plurality of messages to provide a second subset of the plurality of messages based on the second current context, the first and second subsets being different.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 12 , wherein:

the first request is from a first application at the first device; and

the second request is from the first application at the first device.

17. A system, comprising:

a contextual messaging host server;

a database that stores nomenclature, product and messaging information in communication with the contextual messaging host server; and

an administrative client in communication with the contextual messaging host server that establishes memberships of a plurality of clients to the common contextual messaging host server;

wherein the administrative client establishes a nomenclature for the common contextual messaging system; and

wherein the contextual messaging host server receives a plurality of messages from one or more of the plurality of clients, determines a message context for each message using the nomenclature information, clusters the messages based on the message context in a message database, determines a current context associated with each request to access the plurality of messages from a plurality of users, determines a message view for each request based on a correlation of the current context of the request with the message context of each message, provides a first message view associated with the plurality of messages based on a first current context associated with a first request from a first user and provides a second message view associated with the plurality of messages based on a second current context associated with a second request from the first user, the first message view being different from the second message view, the first request and the second request being from a first application at a first device.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein message contexts include category, supplier, and product.

19. The system of claim 17 , wherein authorization to create messages is determined by administratively controlled user permissions.

20. The system of claim 17 , wherein messages are delivered based on a set of message delivery rules.

21. The system of claim 17 , wherein message views contain programmatic actions.