ZETALY Cost Control
Take back control of your mainframe budget
A comprehensive solution to control costs & keep track of your budget
ZETALY Cost Control (CC) is an analytics solution designed to control the financial impact of your mainframe. Through a modern, easy-to-use interface, the solution gives you instant visibility of your costs to help you make informed decisions.
See the costs of your current production in near real time
Understand cost factors, trends, and distribution between software
Assess the impact of business activities on mainframe costs
Automate chargeback reporting for internal and external customers
Track your mainframe budget and prevent overruns
Keep an eye on your contractual commitments to stay within budget
See the costs of your current production in near real time
Could you wait two months to check your bank statement to manage your personal finance? And yet, this is the amount of time it takes to get the software bill for your current consumption. To gain visibility, ZETALY CC first collects your consumption data in near real time. Next, it calculates the actual costs and reports them in the currency of your choice. These calculations factor in your various contracts and associated pricing models.
Understand cost factors, trends, and distribution between software
If you want to bring your mainframe costs under control, you need to know where they come from. ZETALY Cost Control is here to help you understand your consumption and its impact on your costs. Through detailed analytics dashboards, you can analyze what is driving costs at the infrastructure level (CPC, LPAR…) and at the software level. Using the history, you can also monitor your costs over time and make projections.
Assess the impact of business activities on mainframe costs
In order to calculate the ROI of your mainframe platform, it is necessary to link costs to your different business activities. How much does your customer database cost you today? Your credit card payment service? Your invoicing service? ZETALY CC links a business activity to its actual cost. Knowing the costs of a specific workload, application or business unit has never been easier.
Automate chargeback reporting for internal and external customers
Every organization has its own chargeback methods, and these can be complex. As a result, manual calculations may be tedious. You also need to be able to justify the costs you charge back to your customers. With ZETALY CC, specify your chargeback rules and get a detailed report for each of your customers. These reports include details of resource consumption and associated chargeback costs.
Track your mainframe budget and prevent overruns
Being able to monitor your budget is one of the keys to cost control. ZETALY Cost Control helps you track the consumption of your annual budget month by month. With projections, forecast when you might go over budget in order to take corrective measures. You can also track your budgets and its components year-by-year.
Keep an eye on your contractual commitments in order to stay within budget
Failing to meet your contractual commitments can have a strong negative impact on your budget. Add your current contractual agreements and licensing terms in ZETALY CC’s settings. From there, you will be able to monitor how you are doing in real time and know in advance if your current consumption puts you at risk of future overruns.
Improve the profitability of your mainframe with ZETALY Cost Control
Optimize and reduce mainframe costs
Stay within your annual budget
Get a better understanding of your cost structure
Gain increased visibility of your mainframe ROI
Easily build a strong investment case
Make the case for mainframe competitiveness
Get sharable explanations to justify extra costs
Get better outcomes in your contract negotiations
Understand which pricing model is best suited to your environment
Identify cost reduction opportunities
