In information technology, gap analysis is an assessment tool to help identify differences
between information systems or applications. A gap is sometimes called "the space between where we
are and where we want to be."
A gap analysis helps bridge that space by highlighting which requirements are being met and
which are not. The tool provides a foundation for measuring the investment of time, money and human
resources that's required to achieve a particular outcome.
In software development, for instance, a gap analysis can be used to document which services
and/or functions have been accidentally left out, which ones have been deliberately eliminated and
which still need to be developed. In compliance, a gap analysis can be used to compare what is
required by law to what is currently being done.
This was last updated in March 2011
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