Naked objects and competitive intelligence

I already post about naked objects. I really found the idea of letting users controlling the flow between objects instead of predefined application flows predefined by analysts and programmers. As I thought about naked objects and talked about it with others I found out that naked objects actually "invented" for competitive intelligence (CI) solutions. CI work is about identifying entities in your business environment and relations between those entities. Those entities could be Companies, figures, products, countries, organizations and so on. Finding different relations between entities usually helps analysts to drive into conclusion about "research target" intensions, movements, etc' that might harm or benefit their company. Searching after entities and links is very dynamic process. Usually its hours of reading that pop-up pre-defined as new entity types. The user need to draw "CI picture" that holds all instances of pre-defined entities, pre-defined links as well as new entity types and links which both of them contain new properties and methods. This "CI picture" is complex and dynamic objects graph that should be adjusted any time in the analysis process.

Now let's back to naked objects. If we are going to use it out of the box we can set pre-defined entities and types and the framework will let our user to create instances of those pre-defines entities and relegations between them. He can see entities from different systems (interior and exterior) and their relations on single page as he wants to see them and apply tier methods in the order he wants. If we will adjust the framework a little bit and enable creating of entities and links on the fly, by the user. Now our user can create any object graph that he wants. Upgrading the visual aspect of the framework so link analysis could be show with presentation algorithms and our user can get insights just by looking at presentations.

No doubt that such system that let the user set entities and relations, view them and activate them is any possible order is Killer application for CI market.