[1] Thus, ADU saves a great deal of time and expense for organizations that are involved in the change control and impact analysis of complex computer systems.
[3] The process of gaining application understanding is greatly accelerated when the extracted metadata is displayed using interactive diagrams.
[5] Significant reductions in the effort and time required to perform full impact analysis have been reported when ADU tools are implemented.
A newly hired developer will be productive much sooner and will require less assistance from the existing staff when ADU tools are in place.
[4] ADU software is usually written to scan the following application structures: The output of the ADU process frequently includes: Note that a registered data element is any data element that already exists within a metadata registry.