5. PROFILE AND TRENDING ANALYSIS


The Profile and Trending Analysis software provides a
convenient method for presenting historical data, calculating
growth rates, and estimating future values of the data
elements contained in your Capacity Planning database.  The
facility is designed to address two requirements:

o  Tabular reporting of historical data observations

o  Provision of simple "sense of direction" estimates of
   future values.

The reports can be produced at either the WEEKS, MONTHS, or
DAYS timespan.

The following sections describe Profile and Trending Analysis
and its reports.

This section contains the following topics:

5.1 Functional Description

5.2 Usage Guidelines

5.3 Standard Output

5.4 Analytic Technique Tutorial

5.5 Component Operation

5.6 Case Studies