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

Gain actionable insights into effective cost management

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VP of IT Ops: Demystify cost data and identify budget risk

• 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

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

• 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

Next Generation Practitioner: Leverage automated intelligence to get definable business metrics

• 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