Mainframes today are the most preferred data servers for even the most technology- savvy organizations. Interestingly, the amount of work mainframes are doing around the world is ever more increasing.
Though the number of mainframes being used has dropped over the past years, but the amount of processing they do is on the rise. Most of the major banks, insurance companies and large government departments in more industrialized countries have mainframes supporting their businesses.
Some key challenges to the mainframe maze comes from dealing with fixed costs, shortage of skills, lack of innovation, lack of quality high cost of ownership. HCL's Managed Mainframe Services has solved the maze with our enables which are as follows:
Software & Hardware Factory Model
- World class Tier III+ equivalent enterprise class facility in Parsippany, NJ, US
- Highly leveraged shared delivery platform
- Aggregate client MIPS to garner volume discounts
- Strategic partnerships with ISVs like CA, BMC, Serena & IBM to lower the software spend through HCL agreements
- No Key-Hole approach & client retains the flexibility to choose the software to run its business
Operational Excellence
HCL holds the most congenial combination of operational excellence & mainframe skill expertise. HCL gives you the much needed robust governance framework along with the continuous improvement of the processes.
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| Global Deliver Model |
Ready to Use, Standardization &
Integrated Tooling Infrastructure |
| Process Alignment to ITIL V3 |
Unfiled and transparent reporting on
KPI's through MyDashboardTM |
| Shared Services |
Immediate technical and people
resource ramp-up and ramp-down capability |
| SOP's & RunBooks |
| Root cause Analysis |
Best of Breed ITIL based
Service Management Toolset |
| Role Based Skill Stratification |
Transformational Capabilities
HCL follows & delivers the Structured Transformation approach with true partnership mindset. This is achieved through a well laid out Application Modernization roadmap & Workload rationalization methodology.
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Determining Exact MIPS Utilization |
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System and Subsystem level Optimization (Infra) |
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Application level Optimization through Batch Optimization |
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Application level Optimization through Application Consolidation |
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Workload Rationalization |
The HCL Approach
With a belief in ‘Doing things differently’, HCL’s Managed Mainframe Services framework is nimble and adaptable to changing business requirements and rationalized for optimized usage of MIPS delivered through a highly leveraged automated utility environment. HCL’s Agile Managed Mainframe Services enables enterprises to lower TCO, increase quality of service, convert fixed cost to variable cost, and provide the much needed skills and expertise to manage it.