SAS IT Resource Management is an IT performance management
and capacity planning solution that enables the analysis of any IT
data source. The solution creates an integrated IT performance data
warehouse, delivers and applies the advanced analytic capabilities
of SAS to that warehouse for the purposes of IT performance management
and capacity planning, and renders the IT intelligence necessary to
optimize the IT infrastructure. In addition, the solution leverages
the IT performance data warehouse and the SAS product capabilities
that are included in the solution for purposes beyond the scope of
IT performance management, such as IT financial management or IT service
management. With SAS IT Resource Management, IT departments can manage
and plan the usage of their resources to provide a stable yet scalable
IT environment for current and future operations.
In today’s competitive
business environment, the IT department must solicit information from
the leaders of the business about the demands that directly affect
the IT infrastructure. Concurrently, the IT department must deliver
enough information about the performance and capacity of IT resources
to allow the business's decision makers to understand and evaluate
their current consumption of IT. As such, the communication of IT
performance and capacity information must be in a language and format
that is suitable for its intended purpose and audience. IT performance
management and capacity planning software facilitates this communication
so that the IT department can plan and implement adjustments to the
IT infrastructure. This ensures that the business remains competitive
and responsive to its customers.
SAS
IT Resource Management renders the results of its IT analysis in reports
that communicate many topics of interest, including the following:
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IT performance measurements and
analysis over any time period
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comparative performance of IT resources
over multiple time periods (for baseline, peak, seasonal, and change
analysis)
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peak period identification and
analysis of those periods (single and periodic)
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workload analysis for enhanced
business processing
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ranked (top, bottom, and so on)
resource consumption, availability, and response time measurements
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correlation of performance measurements
for root cause analysis
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operational level agreement analysis
(for example availability and response time)
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candidate lists of resources that
are appropriate for consolidation and virtualization consideration
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forecasted or predicted IT capacity
needs
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exhaust prediction for resources
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compliance to regulatory requirements
Unique to SAS IT Resource Management
is its ability to facilitate the previously described IT performance
management and capacity planning features by using an application
called Gallery Manager. Gallery Manager is a Web-based application
that enables the many reports that are produced by the SAS IT Resource
Management solution to be grouped, filtered, managed, and viewed as
logical containers called galleries.