IBM Apptio Mainframe TCO Solution
Overview
Mainframes continue to play a vital role in enterprise operations and are well-suited for modern workloads. When it comes to high-transaction workloads, mainframes remain the preferred choice due to its reliability, efficiency, and security.
Solution
IBM Apptio Mainframe TCO
To maximize the business value of your mainframe environments, it's crucial to understand your total cost of ownership and accurate utilization. This solution provides a clear and defensible view of mainframe costs, thereby enabling accurate cost allocation, comprehensive utilization tracking, and data-driven decision making.
- Cost Transparency & Allocation
Get a full view of mainframe TCO with cost per MSU, GCP/zIIP usage, and spend by application or workload to support accurate allocation and reporting. - Cost Pool Composition & Peer Comparison
This report provides a detailed breakdown of your mainframe TCO across key cost pools, which include, hardware, software, labor, facilities, and outside services. - Unit Rates & Consumption Insights
Track GCP and zIIP MSU trends to spot underutilization, detect anomalies, and identify patterns to optimize mainframe resource utilization. - Showback & Chargeback
Allocate costs by actual usage and provide clear, defensible views to business units. - Workload Efficiency
See what's running on your mainframe, identify redundant workloads, and reallocate or retire them to optimize resources and improve efficiency.
Cost Transparency & Allocation – TCO
Key Benefits
- Comprehensive view of total cost and consumption by combining costs, GCP/zIIP MSUs, and calculated unit costs in one screen.
- Understand cost and usage trends over time and compare to business volumes and transactional unit costs to identify inefficiencies and anomalies.
- Break down key cost drivers across labor, vendors, and applications—including spend by labor, vendor, and application.
Cost Pool Composition & Peer Comparison
Key Benefits
- Provides a detailed breakdown of your mainframe TCO across key cost pools, which include, hardware, software, labor, facilities, and outside services.
- Benchmark percentages are overlaid to highlight how your cost structure compares to industry norms.
- These insights help you to identify potential cost optimization areas, validate budget assumptions, and support strategic improvement initiatives.
Cost Transparency & Allocation – Unit Costs & Consumption
Key Benefits
- View mainframe costs and consumption in a flexible table format using filters and optional dimensions, metrics, and time.
- View consumption of both GCP and zIIP MSU and compare different types of workload processing.
- Analyze trends across various time periods - monthly, quarterly, or as needed for reporting.
- Export data for further analysis in other tools or dashboards .
Mainframe Utilization
Key Benefits
- View MSU consumption trends by workload category, helping users track usage across different types of processing.
- Track usage by workload type, product line name, product name, and application name.
- Monitor month-over-month MSU consumption with conditional highlights identifying significant month-over-month changes.
- Quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year views help understand long-term consumption trends.
Mainframe Showback & Chargeback
Key Benefits
- Connect mainframe usage to costs by application, workload, or business unit.
- Ensure cost allocation reflects true consumption with IBM IntelliMagic Vision data .
- Deliver clear, defensible showback and chargeback views for business units.
- Make cost discussions productive by grounding them in data
Mainframe Utilization & Efficiency Insights
Key Benefits
- Identify mainframe efficiencies through workload-level utilization insights that reveal patterns, spikes, and underused capacity to inform smarter planning and usage decisions.
- Track all workloads and applications currently active on the mainframe, along with their MSU consumption.
- Track consumption trends by workload type, product line, and application to identify inefficiencies.
- Track workload spikes and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
Mainframe TCO – Model View
Key Benefits
- Visualize cost flow from beginning to end in the cost model.
- Trace the underlying cost drivers feeding into the mainframe processor including direct costs from the General Ledger (e.g., depreciation) as well as labor and vendor costs.
- Visualize how usage data drives the allocation of mainframe TCO to the business applications.
