See, Control, and Prove Your True Mainframe Costs

ITBI turns raw z/OS data into clear insights into capacity, performance, and costs, so IT and finance can finally work from the same data.

ITBI delivered by SDS in partnership with SMT Data

The Most Business-Critical Platform is often the Least Transparent

For most large organizations, the mainframe is the backbone of the enterprise and one of its least transparent parts. The data exists, but it was never organized to drive decisions. ITBI (IT Business Intelligence) changes that. It collects your mainframe data and turns it into reliable, ready-to-use insight, showing who uses which resources, when, and at what cost. It blends technical metrics with business dimensions so a capacity number becomes a business answer.

THE MAINFRAME BLINDSPOIT

What Happens When you Cannot See the Estate You Govern

Consumption opacity. No reliable mapping of demand to applications or business units, which makes optimization and chargebacks guesswork.

Licensing and capacity overspend that persists undetected across contract cycles.

Aging expertise risk. Capacity knowledge sits with a shrinking pool of specialists, with no systematic way to capture it.

Forecasting gaps. Planning disconnected from real business demand leads to over-provisioning or unplanned constraint.

This is not an operational performance problem. It is a data and transparency problem, and it is exactly what ITBI solves.

WHAT ITBI DOES

One Platform for Capacity, Performance, and Cost Management

Capacity & Performance

More than 500 prebuilt reports across capacity, performance, subsystem activity, and change detection. Forecast growth on real data, not assumptions.

Cost transparency & chargeback

Map mainframe spend to applications, business units, and services. Produce defensible chargeback and showback, and remove the black box from cost.

Vendor & licensing intelligence

Validate invoices against entitlements and see actual utilization. Walk into renewals with should-cost intelligence instead of vendor numbers.

Governance & audit readiness

End-to-end traceability from usage to applications and owners, with audit-ready reporting for supervisory reviews and internal audit.

AI-ready data

Run modern analytics off the mainframe at a fraction of the compute costs, with AI-assisted analysis to speed insight and decisions.

Delivered as a service

Full hosted, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified, with the reporting workload removed from the mainframe entirely.

WHO IS FOR?

Answers for the Whole Mainframe Conversation

MAINFRAME OPERATIONS

Platform and performance teams

Pinpoint which workloads drive the four-hour rolling average, expose zIIP offload potential, and catch WLM and placement issues that inflate capacity without alerts. Capture expertise before it retires.

CFO & FINANCE

Cost owners

See which business activities drive mainframe cost, where inefficiency accumulates, and how much avoidable spend sits in the baseline. Treat the mainframe as a controllable, business-attributed asset.

PROCUREMENT

Vendor management

Independent invoice validation, utilization data your organization owns, and fact-based leverage that restores your position at renewal with IBM, Broadcom, BMC, and others.

RISK & COMPLIANCE

Governance teams

Full traceability, independent vendor oversight, audit-ready documentation, and evidence of operational resilience, applied uniformly across the mainframe.

WHY ITBI IS DIFFERENT

Not just another monitor or reporting tool

Business and technical in one platform.
Capacity, performance, costs, and application-to-business mapping together, not four seperate tools.
Proven in complex, regulated environments.
Financial services, insurance, service providers, outsourcers, and the public sector, including shared and multi-vendor environments.

Delivered as a service.
Fully hosted, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified, no workload added and no software installed on the mainframe.
Fast time to value.
Actionable insight within weeks, and it typically pays for itself within months.

What ITBI is not: not just another monitor, not a pure cost-cutting tool, and not a replacement for your team. It is the transparency and governance layer that makes everything else measurable.

PROOF AND OUTCOMES

Results in the World’s Most Demanding Mainframe Environments

MIPS cost reduced at DNB

saved at Danske Bank

prebuilt reports

years of mainframe domain experience

ISO 27001 Certified

SOC 2Type II Certified

ITBI as a Service

WHERE TO START

Begin with a low-risk, high-value conversation

A low-cost engagement that surfaces your data and builds trust quickly.

FIRST STEPMainframe Health Check

Compare current state against ITBI capabilities and quantify the opportunity.

ASSESSCost Optimization or Gap Analysis

Quantify ROI and then run a phased production evaluation using your real data.

PROVEBusiness Case & Evaluation

FAQ

Common Questions

What is ITBI

ITBI (IT Business Intelligence) is a cloud-hosted platform that turns mainframe data into insight for capacity, performance, and cost. It shows who uses which resources, when, and at what cost, blending technical metrics with business dimensions for full cost transparency.

Does ITBI add workload to my mainframe?

No. ITBI is delivered as a service and runs off-platform, so reporting and analytics do not consume mainframe capacity.

How is ITBI secured?

ITBI is ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified and delivered as a hosted cloud service following industry best practice.

How does ITBI relate to ConicIT and JOPAZ?

They are complementary. ConicIT predicts and prevents performance problems and forecasts demand. JOPAZ reduces MLC by moving COBOL batch to zIIP. ITBI measures and allocates the cost of that demand, validates the savings, and maps it all back to the business.

How fast is time to value?

Most organizations see actionable insight within weeks, and ITBI typically pays for itself within months.

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