Consultancy Services

Consultancy Services.

SMT Data supports clients with several different services, mainly based on the utilization of the ITBI™ Solution. SMT Data prides itself of having among its consultants some of the world’s most renown experts within the fields of capacity and performance management. Our consultants have many years of experience in helping customers with smaller and larger projects aimed at improving the transparency into the IT infrastructure and carrying out specific projects.

Beside the mentioned services listed, we offer specialized ad-hoc consultancy within various subdisciplines within capacity and performance and we can support your specific project adding highly qualified skills to your internal team. These areas include z/OS, Work Load Manager (WLM), Coupling Facility, DB2, CICS, MQ, WAS, etc.

Our consultants have many years of experience especially within Financial Institutions, Insurance Companies, Retail, Telecommunications, Government Institutions, Manufacturing, and Service Providers. In general costumers with substantial IT installations.

Managed Services for ITBI for IBM Z

Mainframe Modernization Advisory

Mainframe Cost Optimization

FinOps: Mainframe cost distribution

Mainframe Outsourcing Health-Check

Journey to Tailored Fit Pricing

DevOps Optimization

Evaluation of distributed workloads on MIPS usage

Understanding the Mainframe “offload boomerang”

Before and after study with ITBI

Our senior consultants

World class expert knowledge

Mary Solomon

Vice President of ITBI Services

Mary Solomon has been part of the SMT Data team of mainframe consultants since 2018. Mary has an MCA in Computer Application from Sastra University and over 10 years of mainframe experience.

Jens Olesen

ITBI Director

Jens Olesen joined SMT Data in 2007. His main focus is helping customers maximize the benefits of using ITBI. Before joining SMT Data, Jens has worked as consultant for various international financial institutions. He has an extensive experience in technical architecture and cost optimization of infrastructure, middleware and applications on different platforms.

Gabriel Guth

Senior ITBI Consultant

Gabriel Guth joined SMT Data in 2024, bringing over 25 years of experience in the IT industry and extensive expertise in system performance. Gabriel supports clients worldwide, with a primary focus on customers in Central Europe.

Ralph Amirtharaj

Senior ITBI Consultant

Ralph Amirtharaj joined SMT Data in 2019. Ralph holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and has extensive experience in Mainframe Architecture, Performance Architecture and Consulting, Performance and capacity Management, Database Administration, Application Performance Tuning and Distributed Capacity Planning.

Steven Thomas

Principal ITBI Evangelist

Steven Thomas has been part of the SMT Data management team since 2011. Steven holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford and has over 40 years of technical and business experience from Saxo Bank, Fidelity Information Services, and IBM.

Kim Mortensen

Senior ITBI Consultant

Kim Mortensen joined SMT Data in 2023. Kim has more than 30 years of IT experience and solid knowledge within the IT industry. Kim has great mainframe-specific skills with extensive experience in Mainframe Performance Management and Analysis, and helping customers reduce costs.

Our Areas of Expertise

SMT Data’s consultants assist clients carrying out strategic projects. We have expert staff to help you addressing your challenges within capacity and performance across different platforms.

Their expertise are at your service when facing your daily challenges.

Mainframe

Mainframe LPAR configuration
Mainframe Architecture
Mainframe Availability Management
Mainframe Capacity and Performance Management
Mainframe Cost Distribution
Mainframe Cost Optimization
Mainframe infrastructure specialist
Mainframe infrastructure architect
Mainframe Hardware Optimization
Mainframe modernization
Mainframe Outsourcer Advisory
Mainframe Outsourcing Billing Models
Technical project management
Mainframe migration and upgrade measure (before, during and after analysis)

Mainframe software analysis and optimization

Batch Analysis and Batch Windows Improvement
Migration from SAS to WPS
Migration from internal developed Capacity Management tools to ITBI
Migration from MXG, SAS ITRM to ITBI
Migration from CA MICS (MXG + SAS) to ITBI
Migration from Tivoli Decision Support (TDS) to ITBI
Migration from other Capacity Management tools to ITBI
Software Optimization
Software Version Optimization
WLM Policies setup

Application Development

Capacity considerations in software development/OpsDev
Workload Offload
Mainframe application modernization and offload
Application optimization
Application performance management
Application performance tuning
Capacity and Performance impact: before, under and after application changes
Technical design and architecture (SOA, microservices, multi-platform)

CICS

Health check of CICS environment
CICS Technical setup and configuration

IMS

IMS health check
IMS Application Performance Tuning

MQ (Message Queuing)

Volume and trend / MQ Trace (Queue) Analysis
MQ health check

IT Finance

Capacity and licenses baseline
Budget, forecast and follow up on capacity and licenses
IT cost showback/chargeback

Servers

Distributed Capacity Planning and Server Consolidation
Server Rightsizing
Optimization
Sourcing/Cloud considerations
Cost Distribution

DB2

DB2 Database Administration (DBA)
DB2 Data Sharing and Parallel Sysplex Performance and tuning
DB2 DSNZPARM review
DB2 Health Check
DB2 System Programming
DB2 Application and System Tuning

Performance

Performance Engineering
Performance and Capacity Management
Performance tuning
Online Performance Analysis
Storage Performance and Capacity Planning
Measurements and baselining

Datacenter architecture

Infrastructure Planning
IT Infrastructure Optimization
Optimization of Technical Application Architecture
Project Management – Large development and large infrastructure projects, including Technology Roadmap development and Infrastructure Design

Procurement and contract management

Outsourcing planning and readiness
Evaluation of alternative outsourcing pricing models
Journey to Cloud: baseline, planning and pricing models evaluation
Software license optimization

WAS (Websphere)

Volume and trend analysis of WAS
WAS health check
Problem Determination (root cause)

Storage

Storage Performance and Capacity Planning

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March 15, 2023