Method and system for business information networks

A method for sharing business information in a network, the network having users, users comprising individuals from at least one small-to-medium enterprise (SME) having SME supply chain data, the method comprising:

• establishing a plurality of user access profiles visible over a communications network, one user access profile per user;
• establishing at least one SME client process, each SME client process:
• in communication with:
• at least one SME supply chain data system and
• the communications network;
• and
• operative upon user direction, in accordance with the access profiles, to perform at least one of:
• access SME supply chain data,
• translate SME supply chain data from a native format to a common format, and
• transmit common format SME supply chain data via the at least one communications network;
• establishing, for each SME client process, a SME host process, the SME host process:
• in communication with the communications network;
• operative upon user direction, for the corresponding SME and in accordance with the access profiles, to perform at least one of:
• receive the common format supply chain data, and
• respond to queries of received common format supply chain data.