Reports on long-term data are crucial instruments for planning and analysis. They are indispensable for the verification of service level compliance and serve as basis for usage-based cost allocation. 

theGuard! ApplicationManager allows you to create reports on all types of information such as events, performance metrics and availability. These reports are pre-configured and can be adapted to your individual requirements with respect to their contents and form.

Depending on the type of information theGuard! ApplicationManager includes various types of preconfigured report types (templates):

• overviews of systems and applications, e.g. inventory tasks 

• availability (up/down/not monitored)

• fault analysis

• applications with most frequent events (top ten, based on application type)

• event frequency (temporal distribution) 

• performance values and capacity utilization data per application

• quantitative distribution of specific KPIs (temporal distribution)

• system comparisons according to specified KPIs

• SAP cost allocation
  

ApplicationManager 3.0 employs the latest Microsoft Reporting Services technology which offers many benefits such as:

• support of various output formats
  
• individual configuration
  
• processing speeds
  

• reporting on SAP objects, databases such as Oracle, mail systems such as Exchange and operating systems
  
• preconfigured and realistic performance templates with key performance indicators (KPIs)
• reporting on real-time data
• wide variety of information
• simple configuration through wizards based on the existing data
• simple mass data configuration based on the collection principle
• templates can be exported and imported (XML format)
  
• reusable components
• individual adaptations (logos, titles, text in headers and footers)
• various formats: HTML, PDF, Excel, XML
  
• comprehensive and scalable infrastructure and tools of the Microsoft Reporting Services