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BMC AMI Cost Management

Demystify mainframe software license costs and take control of your cost drivers

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Three Strategies to Optimize Mainframe Software Costs to Meet Digital Demand

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Four Best Practices to Optimize Mainframe Software Costs

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Effective Mainframe Cost and Capacity Management

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Keeping up with digital demand can be a challenge. Managing your mainframe software costs shouldn’t be. Optimize IBM mainframe licensing charges which can consume 30%-50% of your mainframe budget.

BMC AMI Cost Management provides data-driven reporting, budget forecasting, and impact modeling—easily identifying cost optimization areas by translating technical cost data into insightful business metrics.

  • Transparent cost reporting with intuitive, interactive dashboards that track history and efficiency improvements, and analyze system and total cost data
  • Identification of workloads driving mainframe software costs so you can align cost optimization strategies with business demand
  • Predictive analytics evaluating the impact of IBM software license cost optimization activities for planning and ongoing budget management
  • Proactive reporting on planned vs. actual costs, variances, and forecasts of whether costs will put the budget at risk
  • Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP) reporting support giving you visibility into your monthly TFP cost drivers to allow you to control your TFP costs
  • Integration with Compuware Strobe for deep application-aware tuning with cost-aware workload analytics to project future mainframe software license costs
  • View mainframe software cost status vs. budget
    View mainframe software cost status vs. budget
  • See projected cost impact of potential changes
    See projected cost impact of potential changes
  • Identify key Tailored Fit Pricing cost drivers
    Identify key Tailored Fit Pricing cost drivers

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Gain actionable insights into effective cost management

Demystify cost data and identify budget risk

VP of IT Ops
  • Understand what’s driving IBM mainframe software charges with easy-to-use dashboards, intelligent discovery, and predictive analytics
  • Model the cost impact of changes, while tracking and forecasting your software budget
  • Predict the costs associated with deploying new applications, selecting a new pricing model, or making changes to your workloads

Align budget to business demands while managing evolving mainframe software license models

Mainframe Manager
  • Optimize IBM software licensing contracts and gain visibility into key workloads driving cost peaks
  • Identify budget variances in advance to target cost-optimization actions
  • Test-drive changes and see the cost impacts before committing to new pricing models or applications
  • Identify Tailored Fit Pricing workloads and specific capacity peaks and cost drivers

Leverage automated intelligence to get definable business metrics

Next Generation Practitioner
  • Easy-to-use, interactive planning component displays the cost impact of growing workloads
  • State-of-the art interface displays cost and utilization metrics in a complete yet concise manner, including key drivers of peak resource usage that contribute to mainframe license costs (MLC)
  • “What-if” predictive capabilities help you to test workload balancing so you can optimize monthly MLC costs and forecast when MLC costs will exceed budget

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