The business network data management platform

Abstract

The discovery, representation and reconstruction of Business Networks (BN) from Network Mining (NM) raw data is a difficult problem for enterprises. This is due to huge amounts of fragmented data representing complex business processes within and across enterprise boundaries and heterogeneous technology stacks. To remain competitive, the visibility into the enterprise and partner networks on different, interrelated abstraction levels is desirable. We show the data management capabilities of a novel data discovery, mining and network inference system, called Business Network System (BNS) that reconstructs the BN - integration and business process networks - from raw data, hidden in the enterprises' landscapes. The paper covers both the foundation and key data management characteristics of BNS. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.