Patent ID: 8285616

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for causing a computer associated with a database to provide an enhanced credit evaluation report, said method comprising: collecting from a source, data about an entity of interest, for storage in said database; linking said entity of interest to a related entity in a corporate family tree stored in said database; receiving a request for said enhanced credit evaluation report about said entity of interest; obtaining user-specified rules or criteria for evaluating credit of said entity of interest; dynamically selecting from a database of trade experiences stored in said database, based upon said user-specified rules or criteria, (a) trade experiences for said entity of interest and for said related entity, and (b) trade experiences for a peer group; dynamically assessing performance across said trade experiences for said entity of interest; and generating, using said computer, said enhanced credit evaluation report of said entity of interest based upon a comparative analysis of said trade experiences for said entity of interest and for said related entity and said trade experiences for said peer group.