Impact analysis systems dissected
In this chapter, we will spend time with specific types of systems that will allow corporations to perform some of the most complicated operations. In some cases, their information technology infrastructure will be set up to do this, and in others this will not be the case. Analyzing and understanding their businesses in the context of its environment and the impact that the environment has on the business can be tremendously complex. Doing this, in fact, means that companies need to do two very specific things:
They need to understand how their business will react to specific impulses from the environment or other. Assuming that they have modeled their business as a set of interdependent processes, people, and resources, it is easy to see how graph databases could be very interesting tools to better understand what would happen to the rest of the network if a part of the network changes. We call this the core impact analysis use case.
They need to be able...
