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TCOnow! for SAP on Mainframe & RISC

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What will this tool help me decide?
If SAP on Mainframe & RISC is Right For You

TCOnow! for SAP on Mainframe and RISC is a software tool that will allow you to understand your SAP costs. By answering a limited number of questions, TCOnow! will generate a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) migration analysis of comparison of your existing environment with a new one. It will help you determine if you should migrate from NT4, Windows 2000, mixed Windows, Solaris, UX, and AIX to a different UNIX environment.

TCOnow! will also demonstrate how your SAP cost picture would change if you ran just your database on z/OS. You will be able to see the effect of using Capacity on Demand, as well as how different risk strategies (including running your database on a zSeries mainframe) can change your system architecture and overall cost. If you are trying to decide if you should use SAP on mainframe and RISC, then this is the product for you!

Interview Process:		First you must decide which systems to compare. Then, select from several server consolidation strategies, including “capacity on demand.” You will also be able to select from one of 17 industry groups (see the default costs for employee salaries, benefits, depreciation method and schedule, cost of capital, etc). You will also be able to obtain the pricing and performance of more than 500 different servers.

Results:		Once you have completed the interview process, our software will combine your responses with our industry data to automatically generate a business case. It will configure your optimal servers, including partitioning and clustering when appropriate. It will also provide capacity planning as changes to growth assumptions occur. You will be able to see all technical and financial implications of each option.

A Step Further:		Once you have reviewed your analysis, you can go back in and change any of your decisions or underlying assumptions. This means you can change your availability requirements and see how that ripples through your server configuration and all of your other cost categories. You will also be able to change your server consolidation strategy or database vendor to see the impact on your total cost of ownership. You can see how industry warranty and support terms affect your project costs, or see how changes in your financial assumptions will change your comparison.

Customized Business Report

CIOview's software creates a complete business case, detailing the costs of possible solutions. For the financial people, it includes cost factor breakdown. For the technical people, it includes a complete break-down of deployment.

With a tool this powerful, you can give everyone the information they want…and look great doing it.

Purchasing Research - Done!

Conducting the research necessary to make a purchasing decision can be very time consuming. The process of reading through reviews, listening to the experience of colleagues, and trying to sift through the marketing materials can make it difficult to reach a clear decision. CIOview's software takes all of the pertinent industry information into account and applies it to your specific situation – giving you the most accurate analysis possible.

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	Extensive What if Analysis After you have reviewed your cost comparison, the software allows you to drill-down and change any of the underlying assumptions. The software is intelligent enough to allow you to change everything from the server model selected, to the cost of the power for the servers. This means you can continue to modify your report until you reach the completed solution you desire.

Respected Independent Third Party

You can be assured that as a third party provider, we provide you with only objective information. This independence is recognized by some of the top names in the IT field through the use of our products and strategic partners with associations such as ISECOM and AIIM.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

By answering as few as 45 questions, TCOnow! will generate a side-by-side cost comparison for your:

Servers
Software
Storage
Network
Services
Training
Facilities
On-going costs
Downtime
Support and maintenance

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