Data analysis system and method for predicting meeting invitees

A computer implemented method comprising:

• storing, by one or more processers, as part of electronically stored relationship data, user data identifying a plurality of individual users that are associated with a first entity and the individual users' respective user email addresses, and contact data identifying a plurality of individual contacts associated with a second entity and the individual contacts' respective contact email addresses;
• monitoring, by the one or more processors, emails exchanged through an enterprise mail server of the first entity and automatically extracting email communication data including email addresses included in one or more of From, To and Carbon copy (Cc) fields of the emails;
• identifying, by the one or more processors, based on comparing the extracted email communication data with the user data and the contact data, emails that are exchanged between one or more of the individual users with one or more of the individual contacts and storing, as part of the electronically stored relationship data, for each identified email, activity data that includes:
• (i) time stamp data for the email and;
• (ii) participant data that identifies the one or more individual users and the one or more individual contacts whose email addresses are included in one or more of the From, To or Cc fields of the identified email;
• computing, by the one or more processors, respective user-contact relationship scores between respective individual users from the one or more individual users and respective individual contacts from the one or more individual contacts, each respective user-contact relationship score representing a relationship strength between the respective individual user and the respective individual contact based at least in part on a user-contact communication score that is a function of the number of the identified emails for which the respective individual user and the respective individual contact are both identified in the participant data;
• storing as part of electronically stored relationship data, by the one or more processors, the computed user-contact relationship scores;
• receiving, by the one or more processors, a list of invitees for a future meeting, the list of invitees including at least one of the individual contacts associated with the second entity;
• selecting, by the one or more processors, one or more additional individual contacts from the plurality of individual contacts associated with the second entity based on the user-contact relationship scores;
• and
• adding, by the one or more processors, the one or more selected additional individual contacts to a potential invitee list for the future meeting.