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:
-
IT performance measurements and
analysis over any time period
-
comparative performance of IT resources
over multiple time periods (for baseline, peak, seasonal, and change
analysis)
-
peak period identification and
analysis of those periods (single and periodic)
-
workload analysis for enhanced
business processing
-
ranked (top, bottom, and so on)
resource consumption, availability, and response time measurements
-
correlation of performance measurements
for root cause analysis
-
operational level agreement analysis
(for example availability and response time)
-
candidate lists of resources that
are appropriate for consolidation and virtualization consideration
-
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.