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

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Optimize and reduce mainframe costs

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Stay within your annual budget

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Get a better understanding of your cost structure

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Gain increased visibility of your mainframe ROI

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Easily build a strong investment case

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Make the case for mainframe competitiveness

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Get sharable explanations to justify extra costs

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Get better outcomes in your contract negotiations

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Understand which pricing model is best suited to your environment

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Identify cost reduction opportunities

Ready to take back control of your mainframe budget?