Visual Analytics for Converging-Business-Ecosystem Intelligence

Visual analytics (VA)—the fusion of analytical reasoning and computational data analysis with rich, interactive visual representations—promises to provide many relevant techniques for business-ecosystem-intelligence systems. However, the effectiveness of such systems requires the careful curation of complex, heterogeneous, and distributed data; an in-depth understanding of the business ecosystem context and end-user domain; and the corresponding design of relevant visualizations and metrics.