Duration
4 days
Course Outline
VMware vRealize® Business™ (formerly VMware IT Business Management Suite™) provides transparency and control over the costs and quality of IT services, enabling CIOs and CFOs to align IT with the business and accelerate IT transformation. This four-day training course discusses IT costing as well as configuring and managing vRealize Business. This course will give you an understanding of the concepts and functionality of IT finance management with vRealize Business.
Product Alignment
- vRealize Automation 7
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Understand the vRealize Business system components
- Understand, create, and manage cost models, hierarchies, cost allocations, and reports
- Analyze IT costs and business allocations
- Read data from various sources into the system
- Manipulate data and perform calculations to optimize costs
- Create various types of reports, including dimensional reports and dashboards
- Use dimensions to manage organizational structures
- Create and manage cost allocations, plans, and budgets, including security, and permissions in the vRealize Business environment
Intended Audience
IT and business professionals who seek to understand IT finance management and related skills, such as costing, reporting, and management
Prerequisites
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course or VCA-DCV certification.
Outline
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
- Introduction to vRealize Business
- Differentiate vRealize Business editions
- Understand the importance of service-based budgeting
- Define cloud business management
- Explain the need for IT Business Management Office
- Understand the integral role of vRealize Business in IT Financial Management (ITFM)
- Understand and Configuration
- Understand the prerequisites for vRealize Business application installation
- Understand the prerequisites for vRealize Business database installation
- Identify backup strategies for vRealize Business
- Identify content important packages for vRealize Business
- Understand the main interfaces available in vRealize Business
- Cost Modeling
- Understand how adapters, operators, and flows are related to cost models, reports, and dashboards
- Define the relationship between a cost model and budgets
- Define the functionality of a cost model
- Understand the significance of a cost model in planning and budgeting
- Understand the elements of a cost model
- Understand how to build and populate a cost model
- Understand how to plan and commit budgets for a cost model
- Define allocation models available for cost mode elements
- Dimensions
- Understand the relevancy of dimensions
- Define levels in dimensions
- Explain the relationship between dimensions and domains
- Security and Permissions
- Understand the security features of vRealize Business
- Understand identity management options in vRealize Business
- Explain what role domains play in user management
- Data Input and Manipulation
- Understand the relationship between adapters, operators, and flows
- Understand adapter types
- Define operators
- Explain options for data manipulation
- Explain the significance of flows
- Understand how to create adapters, operators, and flows
- Define data input methods for reports, cost models, and dashboards
- Reports and Dashboards
- Understand how to create custom reports
- Understand how to publish reports
- Understand how to design dashboards
- Understand how to create and publish dashboards
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.