Patent ID: 8060484

Claim:
A data processing system for managing data, the data processing system comprising: a bus; a communications unit connected to the bus; a storage device connected to the bus, wherein the storage device includes computer usable program code; and a processor unit connected to the bus, wherein the processor unit executes the computer usable program code to generate a user interface; receive, by the user interface, a first selection from a user of at least one data type of a set of data types to be measured for relevancy, the set of data types comprising an age of data, a modification of data, and an access of data; and wherein the age of data by the first selection is used to examine for relevancy an age of data records; and wherein the modification of data by the first selection is used to examine for relevancy a last change and a frequency of modification of data; and wherein the access of data by the first selection is used to examine for relevancy a last access and a frequency of access of data; receive, by the user interface, a second selection from the user for a granularity of the at least one data type to be measured; collect a set of data records from multiple sources, wherein the set of data records are a historical record of changes to a component managed by a change management process and wherein each source may have a different historical record of changes to the component; analyze the set of data records to determine a relevance for the data type selected by the user based on the granularity selected by the user, which forms a result; and display, by the user interface, the result to the user, wherein the result includes a visual representation of the relevance of the data type selected by the user based on the granularity selected by the user.