Identification and evaluation white space target entity for transaction operations

A system for evaluating white space target entities, comprising:

• one or more computers with executable instructions that when executed cause the system to:
• collect data from a knowledge domain relating to a plurality of entities and text data extracted from one or more data sources;
• create an enterprise social network graph having one or more nodes relating to the collected data;
• rank the one or more nodes in the enterprise social network graph;
• and
• recommend to a selected node one or more potential target nodes as a candidate for establishing a potential relationship according to the ranking.

A computer program product for evaluating white space target entities by a processor, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

• an executable portion that collects data from a knowledge domain relating to a plurality of entities and text data extracted from one or more data sources;
• an executable portion that creates an enterprise social network graph having one or more nodes relating to the collected data;
• an executable portion that ranks the one or more nodes in the enterprise social network graph;
• and
• an executable portion that recommends to a selected node one or more potential target nodes as a candidate for establishing a potential relationship according to the ranking.