Perspectives are views for organizing related features and functions that are integrated within Aperi's user interface using the Rich Client Platform (RCP) framework. Each perspective provides a complete set of tools for performing a specific set of enterprise management tasks.
The ability to switch between perspectives provides you with a single interface
for quickly accessing different tools to monitor and manage your storage devices.
You can switch perspectives using the perspectives button 
that appears on the right side of the toolbar.
The following perspectives are currently available:
- Classic View: Use this perspective to perform tasks such
as configuration, data collection, policy management, alerting, and reporting.
This is the perspective that appears when you log in to Aperi. Click here
for more information about IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center.
- Report Viewing: Use this perspective to create and generate your own reports BIRT, an open source Eclipse-based reporting system. BIRT provides you with the ability to generate a number of reports based on storage data collected by Aperi. In addition to generating reports, it supports HTML pagination, PDF, Table of Contents (TOC) functionality, and export to CSV. Click here for more information about the Element Management perspective.