Application MIPS Management
The "Root Cause" Approach to Reducing Costs
Are you looking for a way to reduce costs while simultaneously investing in driving business needs and competitive edge? If you are like most companies, you may have used a number of traditional approaches to cut costs, such as reducing head count, outsourcing, consolidating data centers and replacing "Grade A" products with cheaper (and inferior) alternatives. However, each of these methods poses an element of risk—and can end up costing more money than it saves—especially when working with complex environments.
An alternate—and low-risk—approach to cutting costs is to manage your MIPS usage better.
While you may think your MIPS consumption is static, the amount of MIPS used by the average IT organization is on the rise. Industry experts, specifically Gartner, predict that over the next three years most large mainframe users will experience anywhere from 15 to 20 percent growth in MIPS consumption.1 Even if some of your company’s legacy systems are classified as "static," MIPS consumption slowly accrues over time due to "minor" changes to applications, environments and databases. This increase often goes undetected, however, and the long-term effects can drastically increase MIPS expenditures for both hardware and software.
Mainframe costs are driven by MIPS consumption, MIPS consumption is driven by CPU usage, and CPU usage is driven by application code. Ultimately, reducing MIPS consumption means you have to start by measuring application performance and faults—both of which can, when problems occur, use up large quantities of CPU time.
Compuware’s Application MIPS Management solution focuses on MIPS usage, the root cause of hardware and software costs. Our solution incorporates best-of-breed technology, expertise and proven best practices to identify and reduce application performance problems and faults that waste valuable MIPS by:
Compuware’s Application MIPS Management solution can reduce MIPS growth and defer hardware and software upgrade charges. In fact, many customers attest to saving millions of dollars with our solution. If your application is not performing as expected and you want to limit MIPS growth, there are likely many opportunities to quickly improve efficiency, saving a substantial amount of CPU time. If you are currently involved in application performance or fault management, our solution can help you further reduce MIPS consumption.
Compuware’s Application MIPS Management solution is also particularly ideal for mainframe organizations using emerging technologies that tend to trigger increased CPU usage, such as WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 DDF and Java.
Compuware’s Application MIPS Management solution has multiple benefits:
- Delays or reduces CPU upgrades and associated hardware and software costs.
- Improves the quality of applications in terms of response and availability to business units and end users
- Helps you meet SLAs and prevent penalties, reduce outsourcing fees and lower potential chargebacks to business units
- Allows you to achieve a competitive advantage by better leveraging your existing technology
- Provides your staff with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to easily achieve lasting results on their own or through ongoing partnership with our experts who are available to assist at any time.
Any organization can benefit from our solution. Most improvements are simple solutions that can bring significant results with minimal impact on resource demands. If you need further assistance, consulting engineers are available to provide a variety of service options.
Want to learn how to reduce your software and hardware costs? Email us at enterprisesolutions@compuware.com.
1 "IBM’s Mainframe Endurance Will Pose New Challenges for Users," Rakesh Kumar, Gartner Research, May 19, 2006.
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