Catalog assets in the repository so that you can efficiently find them later. Cataloging assets reduces asset duplication and maintenance costs, and improves consistency.
Use reports to plan solutions, quantify results, and review compliance.
The following figure shows the relationship between the administrator and user roles in a deployment of IBM® Rational® Asset Manager.
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.