Mainframe Cost Allocation
About
A typical mainframe customer spends tens or hundreds of millions of euros a year on CPU related costs. For customers with their own mainframe, the costs of the hardware and software are driven by CPU usage. Outsourced customers are typically billed by their service provider based on CPU usage. These costs are frequently considered a black box. Allocation of costs to the application owners or business units using the capacity, if it is done at all, is often rudimentary.
This means that the people driving the costs have little transparency into how their actions affect cost. They don’t know how to reduce those costs and have limited motivation to do so. Even in cases where they decide to act, they are often shooting in the dark, and may invest significant effort in optimizations that don’t reduce costs in the end.
Cost allocation, if done right, can lead to massive savings for businesses.
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