Essentials.
ITBI™ transforms your mainframe data into reliable insights for optimizing capacity and performance, driving business success. The system offers detailed visibility into resource usage across your organization, identifying who is using which resources and to what extent.
The solution features a comprehensive suite of standard reports that enables you to pinpoint cost drivers, identify performance bottlenecks and detect changes affecting cost or service quality. In addition, ITBI enhances your technical data with business dimensions, promoting transparency in the relationship between capacity costs and business activities.
ITBI’s intuitive design provides an easy-to-navigate user interface. It includes features such as report search, favorites, user administration capabilities and a dedicated Help Universe for support.
ITBI empowers advanced users to customize analyses by creating or modifying reports and queries, tailoring the solution to meet specific needs. Moreover, ITBI ensures security and compliance with industry best practices and legal mandates delivered as a cloud-based solution: ITBI as a Service (ITBIaaS).
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the purpose of ITBI™?
ITBI transforms mainframe data into actionable insights that optimize capacity and performance. It gives you clear visibility into resource usage—revealing who is using what, when, and how much—while blending technical metrics with business dimensions to enhance cost transparency and operational decision-making. ITBI’s intuitive design, complete with report search, favorites, user administration, and a Help Universe, supports both ease of use and compliance via a cloud-based ITBI as a Service (ITBIaaS) offering.
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What do ITBI™ Standard Reports offer?
ITBI includes more than 500 pre‑built reports that cover capacity, performance, subsystem activity, change detection, and billing—including Tailored Fit Pricing models. Users can explore both high-level overviews and granular drill-downs. The portal supports flexible data export options, keyword search, and is backed by a rich Help Universe. Advanced users can create custom reports using the Report Builder or request them from SMT Data’s expert team.
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What is the ITBI™ Data Lake, and how does it support analysis?
The ITBI Data Lake is a centralized repository for SMF data, storing everything from raw files to decoded tables (following IBM naming) and MXG-style view tables (pre-selected, analysis-ready fields). It enables deep-dive analytical workflows—ideal for ad-hoc queries, event-based reporting, or complex logic not supported in standard BI reports. Analysts can use preferred tools such as SQL, SAS/MXG, Python, R, or Athena for rapid, flexible querying.
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What benefits does ITBI™ Cost Allocation provide?
ITBI Cost Allocation brings transparency and accountability to mainframe spending—removing the “black box” impression. It answers key questions like “who used what, when, and at what cost?” and delivers precise cost allocation across business units.
If you are interested in learning more, our whitepaper Mainframe Cost Allocation provides a deep dive into this subject and gives you all the information you might need.