IT Management with SAS^® IT Intelligence

SAS IT Intelligence is a comprehensive solution that helps you optimize IT resources to support strategic business goals. It provides powerful tools to anticipate and align the right mix of IT systems, whether they are physical, virtual or cloud resources, to meet business demands. The solution also enables the assessment of IT performance and costs across your infrastructure. Organizations can then allocate costs at the facility, division, departmental or activity level and choose programs to recover those costs.

Components of IT Management with SAS^® IT Intelligence

• SAS IT Resource Management – Assess availability, forecast demand and infrastructure requirements, and report on metrics to deploy the right IT resources at the right time.

How SAS^® Is Different

SAS IT Management solutions enable you to access, enhance and aggregate IT performance measurements from physical and virtual systems and then transform the metrics into analyses.

• Produces report-ready performance management and capacity planning data sources, and provides more than 4,000 out-of-the-box IT reports.
• Applies industry-leading forecasting and analytic capabilities to create foresight into IT resource demand and capacity.
• Delivers resulting IT intelligence via an interactive Web application that allows IT and business organizations to retrieve that information in a self-service and on-demand manner.
• Supports accounting methodologies to make reliable cost information available for proper allocation and cost recovery/chargeback, based on actual consumption of resources in a shared IT environment. This capability can be delivered in a customized solution enabled by SAS Profitability Management and SAS Activity-Based Management software.