Patent ID: 8352414

Claim:
A method of analyzing data to create a model of an organizational process based on noisy activity logs, wherein said noisy activity logs comprise unstructured activity logs of systems and activities associated with the organizational process, the method comprising: identify said organizational process; search for information indicating an activity of the model from a corporate information repository containing said noisy activity logs; extract said information from the corporate information repository to capture activity based information characterizing said activity; verify that said activity is part of the organizational process, wherein the verifying of said activity comprises checking an input and an output of said activity to verify a correct result for the activity within said organizational process; incorporate said activity into the model in response to verifying said activity as part of the organizational process; validate the model based on inputs from one or more domain experts; and analyze exceptions to the model; wherein the search for said activity compares an ontology of said activity with a plurality of ontologies contained within said corporate information repository, wherein the ontology of said activity is a representation of a set of goods and services associated with the activity and relationships between the set of goods and services.