With an ever increasing quantity of data and new regulations to comply with, IT managers are turning to new tools to help them sort through this mess. Data is spread across the organization and it is not easily available. IT managers have to dedicate a great deal of resources, and sometimes develop custom solutions, just to put data together and produce the necessary reports. System Center Reporting Manager 2006 will be a first step in helping address these concerns through providing a data warehouse and reporting platform to enable the integration of management data.