Using organizational awareness in locating business intelligence

A computer program product for using organizational awareness in locating business intelligence, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to:
• receive an identity of an individual in an organizational hierarchy of users to form an identified individual;
• identify people related to the identified individual in the organizational hierarchy of users using a people information database and relationship criteria to form related people, the relationship criteria including a set of definitions describing associations between data items of one or more documents, between people, and between a combination of the data items and the people, wherein the relationship criteria comprises one or more metrics comprising at least one of the following:
• matching semantics, reference counts, data sources, or a negative context;
• identify documents associated with the related people to form identified documents, wherein the identified documents include documents to which at least a portion of the related people has access;
• gather information for the identified documents, the information including respective data items for each of the identified documents and respective metadata for each of the identified documents to form gathered information, wherein the metadata includes semantics of ad hoc user defined tags;
• analyze, based on a subset of the relationship criteria, the gathered information to form inspected information, the inspected information including at least one of 1) the respective data items for at least one or more of the identified documents, 2) a number of references to data source query items defined in the at least one or more identified documents, or 3) a hash map of the references;
• and
• create, based on semantic content of the inspected information, a list of suggested documents, wherein the list of suggested documents includes one or more of the identified documents not accessed by the identified individual.

An apparatus to use organizational awareness in locating business intelligence, the apparatus comprising:

• a communications fabric;
• a memory coupled to the communications fabric, wherein the memory contains computer readable program code;
• a communications unit coupled to the communications fabric;
• an input/output unit coupled to the communications fabric;
• a display coupled to the communications fabric;
• and
• a processor unit coupled to the communications fabric, wherein the processor unit executes the computer readable program code to direct the apparatus to:
• receiving an identity of an individual in an organizational hierarchy of users to form an identified individual;
• identifying, by a processor, people related to the identified individual in the organizational hierarchy of users using a people information database and relationship criteria to form related people, the relationship criteria including a set of definitions describing associations between data items of one or more documents, between people, and between a combination of the data items and the people, wherein the relationship criteria comprises one or more metrics comprising at least one of the following:
• matching semantics, reference counts, data sources, or a negative context;
• identifying, by the processor, documents associated with the related people to form identified documents, wherein the identified documents include documents to which at least a portion of the related people has access;
• gathering, by the processor, information for the identified documents, the information including respective data items for each of the identified documents and respective metadata for each of associated with the identified documents to form gathered information, wherein the metadata includes semantics of ad hoc user defined tags;
• analyzing, based on a subset of the relationship criteria, the gathered information to form inspected information, the inspected information including at least one of 1) the respective data items for at least one or more of the identified documents, 2) a number of references to data source query items defined in the at least one or more identified documents, or 3) a hash map of the references;
• and
• creating, based on semantic content of the inspected information, a list of suggested documents, wherein the list of suggested documents includes one or more of the identified documents not accessed by the identified individual.