System and method of automated extraction and visualization of knowledge about enterprise technology, personnel and business functions

A method of improving the performance of an enterprise information computer system comprised of a plurality of elements representing the information contained with the system, the method comprising:

• automatically scanning a plurality of information sources of the enterprise information computer system to identify information artifacts in the information sources that describe one or more interrelationships between the elements;
• assigning a unique resource identifier (URI) to each of the identified information artifacts;
• moving each of the information artifacts to a storage location based on its assigned URI;
• programmatically scanning the information artifacts in the storage location by at least one parser to extract facts descriptive of at least one of the following:
• the elements;
• and the interrelationships;
• automatically generating a plurality of knowledge maps that describe at least one of the following based on the extracted facts:
• the elements;
• and the interrelationships;
• and
• displaying a visualization of at least one of the knowledge maps on a display.