In typical environments, analysts work in silos, analyzing only the area related to their particular skill set or work group. They are also limited by a lack of direct access to all relevant information. Most often than not, impact analysis hits a wall as soon as it would involve crossing the line between two applications, different skill sets, departments or analysis environments.
To bridge this wall, the analysis exercise either becomes manual and slow (meetings must be organized, resources must be coordinated between departments, etc.) or impacts are left to be found and corrected during testing phases, or both. Of course these all increase overall project costs significantly.
If an impact slips through the testing process, disaster looms when the application is put into production. As the error produces its unwanted results externally, a new type of cost is added with often large implications for the entire organization.
Time factors may also put increased pressure on executing a proper impact analysis. Lacking correct, current and complete documentation automatically means that any fix applied without the luxury of time for proper investigation inherently carries the possibility of unwanted ripple effects somewhere down the line, perhaps many levels separated. Applying emergency fixes in the middle of the night is a prime example for such possible problems, as changes are being made in real-time, relying on information that may not be up to date or is simply unavailable.
Mapador offers an impact analysis environment that overcomes these shortcomings. At the heart of our solution is Mapador APM, providing a common interface to all, regardless of platform or language. The information is presented in a format relevant to the particular user: programmers and business analysts can analyze their own areas of interest, presented in a format familiar to them, but can also see how any change they plan to make would affect other areas.
On many occasions, a particular project doesn’t even get off the ground as the perceived impact and the effort to find all such impacts are considered enormous. Mapador Target provides the perfect solution for these projects, providing a quick and correct estimate in a very short time-frame and cost-effectively. On many occasions, our technology helped clients to overcome this initial wall that prohibits otherwise extremely important projects to initiate. Delaying projects based on sometimes very rough estimates can prove costly if the project is thus delayed until the very last moment. With Mapador’s technology you can confidently determine ROI, schedule (or delay) projects, knowing that the impact and delivery estimate is correct and complete.
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