Advantages of Data Flow Analysis


(1)        Simplicity of Notation makes user to understand the process being studied and hence users can make suggestion for modification to more accurately understand and describe business activity. Avoiding mistakes at early stages helps in preventing system failure.
(2)        It permits analyst to isolate areas of interest in the organization and study them by examining the data that enter the process and seeing how they are changed when they leave.
(3)        A comprehensive system investigations produces set of many data flow diagrams some providing overview and other’s going into detail to show data elements, data stores and processing steps for specific components of a larger system.

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