SAS® IT Resource Management
Optimize IT resource capacity and performance across the enterprise
SAS IT Resource Management allows organizations to analyze, monitor and anticipate the utilization and performance of the IT infrastructure by providing an enterprisewide view of IT services and resources. The solution ensures delivery of IT services and resources in an efficient, cost-effective manner while demonstrating measurable value to business incentives.
Benefits
- Measure all IT resources and services.
- Dynamically size your IT infrastructure.
- Reduce costs and use resources more effectively.
- Better align IT and business.
Features
- Interactive data integration environment
- Enterprise connectivity and interpretation of IT performance data
- Flexible and open IT data mart
- Data staging and data aggregation
- Reporting and analysis
“With SAS, an administrator can organize all the information they need, making it far easier to manage the entire system.”
—Haidong Tang
Technical Manager in the Data Strategies department, Shanghai Baosight
Shanghai Baosteel Group
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Reporting capabilities provide a single, centralized view of IT resources and services across the enterprise.
How SAS® Is Different
SAS IT Resource Management is the most flexible and customizable IT management solution on the market. With a fact-based approach to managing your IT infrastructure, SAS IT Resource Management delivers the utilization, availability and performance informa¬tion required to know and forecast IT resource needs.
- Strong data integration capabilities provide a single, centralized view of IT resources and services across the enterprise.
- Delivers foresight into IT planning scenarios for future growth based on business demands.
- Fast, self-service access to reports and analysis for decision makers to have quick and accurate analysis of all IT resources and services.
Benefits
- Measure all IT resources and services. SAS IT Resource Management stages, standardizes, transforms, aggregates and delivers analysis and report-ready IT performance data from virtually any data source. Using one platform to manage any IT-related data saves time, shortens learning curves and facilitates the use of common analysis methodologies throughout the IT organization.
- Dynamically size your IT infrastructure. SAS IT Resource Management can help you predict when you might exceed resource capacity so you can plan accordingly. Concise reporting of IT resource performance data helps identify underutilized IT resources and brings insights to infrastructure consolidation projects.
- Reduce costs and use resources more effectively. SAS IT Resource Management delivers the information required to know and forecast IT resource needs, uncover bottlenecks and address poor service-level delivery. With this information, IT organizations can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of procurement processes, deployment planning and operational activities.
- Better align IT and business. SAS IT Resource Management provides you with fast, self-service access to IT resource performance reports and analysis as well as the ability to answer questions related to IT resource utilization and future investments to support an evolving business environment.
Features
- Interactive data integration environment
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- A visual design tool provides an easy-to-use GUI for enhanced data integration capabilities and administrative tasks prior to creating reports.
- Wizards are specifically designed for building IT data marts, adapters, aggregations, staged tables and columns, and for ranking IT data.
- A centrally managed and shared metadata repository for data marts facilitates consistency and reuse of metadata.
- Enterprise connectivity and interpretation of IT performance data
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- Adapters deliver a complete data model for each IT resource data source and convert raw IT resource data to analysis and report-ready information.
- Device-independent measurement units and standardized variable naming conventions of IT resource measurements enable complex IT metrics to be communicated and consumed by both IT and business users.
- Key IT metrics unique to and across adapters allow resource performance characteristics to be analyzed and reported across data sources. Key metrics are logically grouped into Server Performance, Resource Utilization, and Workload Profiling and Characterization categories.
- All SAS IT Resource Management adapters conform to standards for:
- Aggregations, simple and summarized.
- Ranks for IT measurements in the context of aggregations.
- Filters for IT measurements in the context of aggregations.
- Report groups.
- Adapters supported by SAS IT Resource Management are: NTSMF, HP OpenView Performance Agent, OpenView Reporter (i.e., distributed system-based adapters); BMC Performance Manager; DCOLLECT, EREP, IMF, NTSMF-MXG, TMON2CIC, TMONDB2, TMS and VMMON (i.e., z/OS-based adapters via MXG); NTSMF (Windows only); SAR (UNIX only); SAR R/3 (application-based adapter); and user-written adapters.
- Flexible and open IT data mart
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- The data mart contains jobs, aggregation tables, information maps, libraries, staged data and other tables. Multiple IT data marts can be created for each of the site's adapters or business areas.
- SAS IT Resource Management data marts are designed for database-independent persistence and multithreaded ETL processes.
- Data staging and data aggregation
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- Unique staging transformations associated with each supported adapter load raw data into staged tables. Staging transformations detect and handle duplicate data and generate computed columns from the input data.
- Aggregation transformations create analysis and report-ready performance data, providing specifications for: identifying the location of input data, filtering data, populating computed columns, calculating statistics, performing rolling accumulations and ranking individual class variables.
- An aggregation transformation allows IT resource data to be summarized over any time period and for as many time periods as the user desires.
- Reporting and analysis
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- A Windows reporting client application generates business-quality reports to communicate the results of analyses. It also can be used to create SAS Stored Processes, which can be deployed within Microsoft Office applications or a Web browser.
- A Web-based interface is available for ad hoc reporting of IT resource performance.
- A Microsoft Office add-in can be used by business users to access, analyze and report on IT resource performance data and distribute the results to other stakeholders in the enterprise.
System Requirements
Server environment
- AIX: Release 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 on POWER
- HP/UX PA-RISC: Release 11i, Version 1, 2 and 3
- HP/UX Itanium: Release 11i, Version 1, 2 and 3
- Solaris on SPARC: Version 8, 9, 10
- Solaris on x64: Version 10, Update 3
- Windows (x86-32): Windows NT 4 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional
- z/OS, Version 1 and higher
Middle tier
- AIX: Release 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 on POWER
- HP/UX Itanium: Release 11i, Version 1, 2 and 3
- Solaris on SPARC: Version 8, 9, 10
- Solaris on x64: Version 10, Update 3
- Windows (x86-32): Windows NT 4 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional
Client environment
- Windows (x86-32): Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional
- Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6
Included third-party software
- MXG on SAS IT Resource Management servers licensed and installed on z/OS
- NTSMF on SAS IT Resource Management servers licensed and installed on Windows
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