BMC Capacity Trending Advisor

Smarter, faster capacity trending - reduce costs of over provisioning capacity

IT problem

According to leading analyst data, there’s a good chance you are still forecasting capacity utilization trends in spreadsheets. You are likely collecting information, manipulating data, analyzing results, and producing reports all manually. This takes a lot of time and energy — and also risks inaccurate data

BMC solution

BMC Capacity Trending Advisor makes it easy for you to forecast capacity utilization trends by automating the entire process — from collecting information to manipulating data to analyzing preliminary results to producing reports. Ensuring that mainframe, distributed, and virtual resources are used to their optimal potential — without over-provisioning. The solution:

Features and benefits

• Define business events and thresholds, and calculate costs for the project

• Calculate correlation coefficients and creates expressions using the selected metrics

• Define business events and thresholds, and calculate cost for the project

• Create a trending project which means you can specify dates, select metrics, define trend lines, and customize graphs that will be  included in the report

• Choose metrics including user added performance-related “business metrics” from different CDB’s and/or different platforms (mainframe (z/OS, z/VM), distributed systems (AIX, etc.)) for the same period of time

Key differentiators

• Replaces multiple spreadsheets with a single, enterprise wide tool that contains the most relevant metrics
• Chose from several different trending approaches before making final recommendations

 

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