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Mainframe TCO
Understand your total cost of ownership and accurate utilization of mainframe environments
A clear, defensible view of mainframe costs
Mainframes account for 72% of the world’s transaction workloads, but enterprises can struggle with opaque costs, complex chargeback models, and limited visibility into cost drivers.
IT Finance and IT leaders need to be able to understand mainframe total cost of ownership (TCO) to have an accurate picture of mainframe environments. Mainframe costs span hardware, software, licensing, labor, storage, and networking, and are tracked through usage-based metrics that are precise for IT but often meaningless to business stakeholders.
Without visibility into what’s driving these costs, or how they relate to specific business units, organizations are left with limited ability to accurately allocate them or understand the actual costs for valued business transactions.
A 360° view of mainframe economics
IBM Apptio’s Mainframe TCO solution helps you understand your total cost of ownership, accurate usage, & utilization of mainframe environments. It supports a variety of performance data sources, but when paired with IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS performance management software, it unlocks deeper insights and a 360° view of mainframe economics. It surfaces detailed insights across total costs, consumption trends, and cost allocation, helping organizations manage mainframe spend and better inform modernization decisions.
Cost Transparency & Allocation
Unit Rates & Consumption Insights
Showback & Chargeback
Workload Efficiency
Complete visibility into mainframe costs and usage
Mainframes continue to play a central role in powering the world’s most critical business operations, from financial transactions to core enterprise applications. Find out how to get complete visibility into mainframe costs and usage with the new IBM Apptio Mainframe TCO solution. Transform cost and usage data into insights for precise allocation, better utilization, and smart modernization.
Are you maximizing the value of your mainframe?
Mainframes remain integral to enterprise operations and are best for modern workloads. As your organization continues to rely on mainframes for critical workloads, do you have full visibility into its cost and consumption, across business units, applications, and modernization efforts?
- Cost transparency & allocation
- Unit rates & consumption insights
- Showback & chargeback
- Workload efficiency
Answers questions like:
- What is the TCO for our mainframe services?
- Which components (such as software, compute, or storage) are driving the most cost?
- Are costs being allocated fairly to the business units that consume them?
Answers questions like:
- How is mainframe being consumed across products, applications, and workloads?
- What are my unit costs and how are they trending with increasing number of workloads?
- Are there anomalies or spikes in consumption that need further investigation?
Answers questions like:
- Which business units and business applications are consuming the most mainframe resources?
- Are we fairly allocating costs based on actual usage?
Answers questions like:
- What are all the workloads and applications currently running on mainframe?
- How are they utilizing GCP and zIIP capacity?
- Are there inconsistencies or spikes in usage that could indicate inefficiencies or unexpected cost drivers?
Cross-organizational collaboration
Mainframe TCO insights provide value across multiple stakeholder groups, from executives and finance to IT operations and application owners.
Executives and IT leadership
Need visibility into total IT costs, alignment with digital transformation, and evaluate against peer/industry benchmarking metrics.
IT Finance
Allocate costs effectively across business units, require granular cost transparency to support decision making, improve forecasts
IT operations and enterprise architects
Need to assess technical debt, maximize mainframe usage, and make decisions on workload modernization
Infrastructure and application owners
Depend on accurate cost allocations and business transaction volumes to understand and determine the value of mainframe applications to their org.