The number one thing that slows down any growing business is finding the money you need to actually fund growth. Chances are, you’re looking for any way to free some up. Well, as it turns out, there’s some of that extra money hidden in your mainframe.

You’re paying a lot just for using your mainframe every month, but you don’t need to. Thirty percent of the to\tal cost of your mainframe is in the mainframe Monthly License Charges (MLC) that IBM is charging you. These charges aren’t based on your total mainframe usage but on a four hour peak and, since you’re paying indefinitely, they’ll cost you more in the long-run than any other part of your mainframe budget. With BMC, you can lower those peaks and save ten to thirty percent of your MLC immediately.

BMC is the only company innovating with new mainframe management solutions like BMC Cost Analyzer and BMC Intelligent Capping. These affordable tools can help you identify exactly what is causing your mainframe processing peaks and then move those workloads or tune those processes in order to reduce unnecessary licensing charges and save you money.

As an example, assume that you’re using 120 Million Service Units (MSUs) of processing at your peak. This would mean you are spending approximately $100,000 per month on those Mainframe Licensing Charges alone. But using Cost Analyzer, you can identify which processes are driving that peak and then use Intelligent Capping to bring the 120 MSUs down to, say 100, giving you nearly 17 percent savings. Further tuning and moving of applications and workloads could save you another 10 percent.

That’s 26 percent savings on your MLC costs, around $30,000 each and every month. That’s a huge amount that you can put to work on your next critical growth initiative. If you’re interested in saving that kind of money on a monthly basis, contact BMC for more information on our mainframe MLC cost management solutions.