Assessing quality of an active directory

A computing apparatus, the computing apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the apparatus to:
• access user collaboration data of a plurality of users of an application;
• access a directory application that manages user profile data for each user of the plurality of users;
• apply a set of heuristics on the user profile data;
• validate results of the applied set of heuristics on the user profile data with the user collaboration data;
• assess a quality of the user profile data based on the validation;
• form a tree comprising leaf nodes and parent nodes based on the user profile data of the plurality of users, the tree indicating a manager hierarchy, a leaf node representing a user, and a parent node representing a manager of the user;
• apply a set of rules from the set of heuristics to the tree;
• update the tree based on the set of rules;
• and
• assess a quality of the updated tree based on a number of missing manager attributes from the user profile data of the updated tree.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• access user collaboration data of a plurality of users of an application;
• access a directory application that manages user profile data for each user of the plurality of users;
• apply a set of heuristics on the user profile data;
• validate results of the applied set of heuristics on the user profile data with the user collaboration data;
• assess a quality of the user profile data based on the validation:
• form a tree comprising leaf nodes and parent nodes based on the user profile data of the plurality of users, the tree indicating a manager hierarchy, a leaf node representing a user, and a parent node representing a manager of the user;
• apply a set of rules from the set of heuristics to the tree;
• update the tree based on the set of rules;
• and
• assess a quality of the updated tree based on a number of missing manager attributes from the user profile data of the updated tree.