To better understand a company, people may not only need to know its revenue, industry and products, but want to know its investors, business partners, and transactions with others. How a company relates to other companies or stakeholders, is often key intelligence to business analysts in decision making. However, due to the large data volume and scattering of relative information, the manual analysis of the relationships are often ineffective and inefficient.

IBM Connection Network Intelligence (CNI) is an innovative Relationship Analysis technology developed by IBM China Research Lab, which is designed to help business analysts and decision makers to get insights from the inter-relationships of companies and stakeholders based on built-in domain knowledge. By integrating relationship, transaction and financial information into a holistic relationship network for analysis, it can help the analysts and decision makers to analyze the complex relationships between companies and stakeholders for a variety of business applications:
- Securities Fraud Investigation
- Securities Investment Analysis
- Banking Credit Risk Management
- Corporate Internal Reporting