Microsoft System Center Reporting Manager 2006

Microsoft System Center Reporting Manager 2006 delivers a rich platform for enterprise analysis of management data so that IT administrators and managers can query, report, and forecast IT operations for higher service quality at a lower price.

System Center Reporting Manager 2006 is first step in helping address these concerns through providing a data warehouse and reporting platform to enable the integration of management data contained in Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, and Active Directory.

• Make more informed decisions about IT systems resource utilization.
• Better plan hardware, software, and security update deployment.
• Obtain data necessary to troubleshoot more effectively and in less time.

Make informed IT systems resource decisions
If you are planning to consolidate servers, analyzing if your servers are equally loaded, or trying to better understand how server performance has varied over many months, you will need to integrate server performance data with Business Context data over a long period of time. System Center Reporting Manager 2006 will give you this data warehousing ability and provide you with visibility into asset information, performance and business context regarding all servers and server groups in your environment, for example, you will be able to identify servers with spare capacity to host a new application.

Make decisions on hardware acquisition
With System Center Reporting Manager 2006, you will be able to analyze trends before making a decision. You will also be able to evaluate and compare server performance across vendors before acquiring new equipment.

Improve software and security updates deployment
System Center Reporting Manager 2006 will provide you with information to evaluate efficiency and effectiveness regarding the deployment of new applications and security updates. This will allow you to improve these processes and planning. With System Center Reporting Manager 2006, you will be able to analyze the impact that such configuration changes could have on the performance of your servers.

Provide support more effectively and in less time
With System Center Reporting Manager 2006 IT professionals responsible for support will be able to determine the scope of their activities, getting a sense for number of installations that need to be supported, or hardware characteristics. This information will be broken down by cost center, business unit and geographical region.

Integrating Operations and Technology
System Center Reporting Manager 2006 will increase operational efficiency by providing a platform for integrating operations management data and change and configuration management data.  In order to realize the full benefits of this integrated technology, it is also important for enterprises to implement the operational processes and best practices necessary to effectively manage Windows-based systems and applications.

With the majority of TCO attributed to operational costs, Microsoft offers a series of Solutions Accelerators for Infrastructure Management. Developed as part of Microsoft Solutions for Management, the Solution Accelerators are focused on addressing the operational, people and process issues associated with managing your environment. Integrated with Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) management best practices, based on the discipline of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the Solution Accelerators provide the prescriptive guidance required for planning, implementing and operating your environment according to industry management best practices.

• Patch Management
• Business Desktop Deployment
• Windows Server Deployment
• Service Monitoring

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