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KMD A/S
Fact-based DevOps and agile capacity management with ITBI
EquensWorldline
ITBI provides necessary information for assessment of increase of usage not related to actual business volume.
Posten Norge AS
The advantages from introducing ITBI have been noticeable, and in economic terms alone we see significant cost savings.
Danske Bank
We constantly seek what we call normal state of operation. And I don’t believe that’s something you can achieve by hard work alone.
Coop
IT Business Intelligence takes the guesswork out of our jobs. We don’t work with assumptions anymore – we are fact-based.
DNB
It is Norway’s largest bank by a wide margin and it is a substantial player in the insurance and real estate sector as well.
Danske Bank II
Understand, explain, control, reduce, and avoid operational cost drivers on servers running MS Windows and Linux – ITBI for Servers.
DNB II
How DNB, one of the largest Financial Services groups in the Nordic region, saved 25% on their MIPS cost with the help of SMT Data’s ITBI solution. Outsourced Mainframe.
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Blog
Tailored Fit Pricing – IBM’s Strategy and Objectives
From where we were Even though Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP) for Software (SW) has been in the marketplace for a 2+ years, I thought it would first be helpful to share some thoughts as a [...]
Everyone is talking about “IBM Tailored Fit Pricing”: but why?
"IBM Tailored Fit Pricing" (IBM TFP) has been available on the market for 2 years, but many customers are still not sure whether they can benefit from this model. And at the latest since the [...]
A day at work with ITBI
The case: DNB Background DNB is Norway’s largest financial services group and among the top 5 in the Nordic region. The group offers a broad range of financial services and has several international branches [...]
The important routine of server rightsizing
A discipline, you need to master! The backbone of all major corporations is a large and complex IT infrastructure Digitalization opens a lot of opportunities. Slowly but surely, it transforms any kind of company into [...]
Ecosystems relations at SMT Data
In 2020, SMT Data has been strengthening its ecosystem relations with several new partnerships. This is a conscious focus area, well founded in our Dreams and Details inspired strategy of working with collaborations within sales, [...]
Avoid IT overconsumption and reduce your CO2 footprint
The footprint of IT has reached the same levels today as the global CO2 emissions of global air traffic. Furthermore, various studies show that in the coming years the digital revolution entails the energy consumption [...]
Managing capacity for seasonal peaks
The case: Posten Norge Background: Posten Norge AS is a Nordic postal and logistic group that develops and delivers integrated solutions in postal services, communications, and logistics, with the Nordic region as its home [...]
The future of mainframe applications begins in the past: create transparency and regain control
Guest blog by Heidi Schmidt, PKS Legacy systems and applications are still the backbone of our economy We all know it: nothing drives our everyday life more than classic mainframe applications programmed more than [...]
EY’s Nordic IT sourcing & cloud survey 2020
Our valued partner EY, recently published the Nordic IT sourcing & cloud survey 2020, which can be found here. Around 80% of SMT Data’s Nordic customers have outsourced their mainframe and/or server infrastructures, and [...]
Mainframe modernization and offload
Mainframe or not Mainframe, that is the question? Part II This is the second blog in a series of four blogs looking at the main strategic themes that are currently discussed in companies working [...]
Mainframe or not Mainframe, that is the question?
In this and in my coming three blogs, we are going to look at some of the main strategic themes that are currently discussed in companies working with Mainframes. We will among others address [...]
How well is your mainframe outsourcer managing capacity and performance? – Part 6 – The tradeoff between cost and performance
How well is your mainframe outsourcer managing capacity and performance? Part 6: The tradeoff between cost and performance This is the sixth in a series of blogs about how to follow up on your [...]
