Asset management

Administrators must set up and design asset management systems so that the requirements for all teams in an enterprise are met.

Asset management involves a core set of tasks:
  • Cataloging and maintaining assets.

    Catalog assets in the repository so that you can efficiently find them later. Cataloging assets reduces asset duplication and maintenance costs, and improves consistency.

  • Automating asset reviews and compliance
  • Understanding the impact of asset changes
  • Auditing and using reports to monitor asset reuse and consumption.

    Use reports to plan solutions, quantify results, and review compliance.

  • Integrating with your development and business processes

The following figure shows the relationship between the administrator and user roles in a deployment of IBM® Rational® Asset Manager.

The image shows tasks for administrators to install, configure, and deploy Rational Asset Manager, and also to manage the system. The image also shows tasks that users perform, including search, download, create, modify, and review assets.Click here for information on the installation roadmapClick here for information on administering the repositoryClick here for information on configuring Rational Asset ManagerClick here for information on searching for assetsClick here for information on downloading assetsClick here for information on creating assetsClick here for information on modifying assetsClick here for information on reviewing assets
For more information about the responsibilities of each role, click the corresponding area in the image.
As the figure shows, administrators install and configure the system. They also set up the governance policies to determine how users can view and work with asset types in each community. Administrators perform these tasks:
  • Configure assets
  • Define category schemas
  • Manage users, roles, and groups
  • Monitor the system

A user's ability to perform actions in communities and assets is based on user roles. After users log on to Rational Asset Manager, depending on their role, they can find, download, review, modify, create, and publish assets.

While you design a system, you must analyze the impact of capturing asset relationships, planning for changes, and preventing changes that might negatively affect the system. To do an impact analysis, you can use a visual browse diagram.