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 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, superior IT operations is a competitive essential.
To achieve this superiority, 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. Concurrently, the IT department must solicit
information from the leaders of the business about the IT usage and
anticipated demands that directly affect the IT infrastructure. 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
and to socialize that information 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.