About This Book

Audience

SAS IT Resource Management — Gallery Manager, referred to as Gallery Manager throughout the remainder of this document, provides information about the performance and capacity of IT infrastructures. This information addresses the needs of particular groups of people based on their roles and the tasks that they perform in an enterprise.

SAS IT Resource Management: Gallery Manager User’s Guide is written for the following types of users:

IT Resource Management Administrators

These users are responsible for building and managing IT data marts and preparing data for reports. They use Gallery Manager to work with gallery folders and reports that are accessible from the application.

IT Resource Management Users

These users are business people who are interested in the overall performance aspects of IT at a company. They use Gallery Manager to create, view, and manage their own galleries of SAS IT Resource Management reports.

Some organizations have different individuals performing the duties of each of these roles. Others are organized so that one person handles several roles.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for using SAS IT Resource Management are:

An operating environment that includes SAS IT Resource Management software.
A user ID and password with permissions that are appropriate for that user's use of IT Resource Management functions.
Depending on your role, you might need direct access to the SAS technologies upon which SAS IT Resource Management is built and which are installed with this solution. If you have questions about this, contact your system administrator.