System and method for identifying potential mergers and acquisitions

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with logic, the logic operable when executed by a processor to:

• access business transaction data for a plurality of customers of an enterprise, the business transaction data including expenditures and revenues for each of the plurality of customers;
• determine, based on the business transaction data, a first customer having an amount of expenditures corresponding to an amount of revenue of a second customer;
• access publicly-available financial information for the second customer, the publicly-available financial information including total revenue information for the second customer;
• determine, based on the accessed publicly-available financial information, whether the amount of revenue of the second customer exceeds a predetermined proportion of the total revenue of the second customer;
• and
• store information linking the first customer to the second customer in response to determining that the amount of revenue of the second customer exceeds a predetermined proportion of the total revenue of the second customer.

A method, comprising:

• accessing business transaction data for a plurality of customers of an enterprise, the business transaction data including expenditures and revenues for each of the plurality of customers;
• determining, based on the business transaction data and using one or more processing modules, a first customer having an amount of expenditures corresponding to an amount of revenue of a second customer;
• accessing publicly-available financial information for the second customer, the publicly-available financial information including total revenue information for the second customer;
• determining, based on the accessed publicly-available financial information and using the one or more processing modules, whether the amount of revenue of the second customer exceeds a predetermined proportion of the total revenue of the second customer;
• and
• storing information linking the first customer to the second customer in response to determining that the amount of revenue of the second customer exceeds a predetermined proportion of the total revenue of the second customer.