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by dblohm7 127 days ago
Similarly, I've seen this in enterprise IAM software, but again as data, not as code.

Imagine a very large company that has a heterogeneous setup: say it has plain LDAP for *nix machines and AD for Windows. The IAM stuff has connectors for both, and encoding the org chart into that product enables it to synchronize that structure into both systems.