Our team of consultants and technologists have the necessary experience and expertise that you can trust. We can customize our services for your unique environment using one, or a combination, of our specialized capabilities. We are available to help your team where ever, and whenever, needed.
For cost savings, most of our services can be performed remotely, and on an on-call basis. If required or requested, our services could also be performed on-site.
Listed here are some of the consulting services that we provide:
Performance Management Services
We want to help you use your IT resources more efficiently and effectively by helping to identify wasted capacity and to provide you with the tuning recommendations to help your systems obtain optimal levels of performance. Our performance services will help you identify performance and availability problems before they begin to impact your systems, subsystems, and sysplexes. Our years of performance experience can help ensure you have the necessary recommendations to help you better allocate resources to those workloads with the highest business priority.
Our Performance and Capacity Services include:
- Performance Health Check® of your systems, subsystems, sysplexes, and databases
- WLM goal mode evaluations and exploitation
- e-business performance architecture & planning
- System, sysplex, and application tuning
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DB2 DBA and System Programmer Services
Our staff has a high degree of expertise from applications development (both for batch and on-line), DB2 systems and database analysis, performance (measurement, tuning, and analysis) for both for systems and applications, database design (both logical and physical), and as DB2 systems programmers.
We also have extensive experience with a variety of DB2 related vendor products. Included in this list are products from a variety of vendors such as IBM, Platinum, BMC, Princeton Softech, Candle, Compuware, Computer Associates, Landmark, and Oracle.
Our DB2 services include:
- System Software Upgrades and Installations
- SQL Performance Tuning
- DB2 System Resource and Configuration Services
- Database and Object Tuning and Design
- Disaster Recovery Design
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CICS Administration and Management Services
We provide a wide range of CICS subsystem and application performance services. Our staff possesses concentrated CICS and CICS application skill set and has worked with nearly every level of CICS and CICS Transaction Server.
Our CICS subsystem services include:
- CICS installation, maintenance and management
- CICS subsystem and application performance measurement and management
- Language and language environment management
- Application enablement and tuning
- Enabling CICS for e-business
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WebSphere & HTTP Server Administrative and Management Services
The WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and the IBM HTTP Server (IHS) are fast becoming integral components to most installation's e-business strategies. Both WAS and IHS are the bridges between your clients out on the web, and your servers, applications, and data.
Successful implementation of WebSphere and IHS is key to your e-business strategy. Our e-business team wants to help your team implement a successful web serving strategy, and we are available assist you with a wide variety of services.
Consider our skills for:
- Design, installation, customization, and verification of your web serving environment
- Migration from WAS 3.5 Standard Edition to WAS 4.0 Enterprise Edition
- Web enablement of your CICS or IMS application
- In-house education to help your teams better understand e-business on S/390
- Design of a web application deployment strategy
- Performance monitoring and tuning of your e-business environment
- Much more…
This is a new area to many, and we are confident that we can help.
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IBM Workload License Charges Planning Services
IBM's new Workload License Charges (WLC) pricing model will have a significant impact on your software costs ($$$). Let us help you to understand WLC and the possible pricing scenarios. We can evaluate your systems, help you to develop a transition plan, and assess the impact of WLC on your installation and workloads. Savings ($$$) to your software costs could be enormous.
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OS/390 and z/OS System Programming Services
We offer large spectrum of systems programming services to assist you with operating system upgrades, conversions, and support. In many cases these services can be provided remotely, but if needed, we can also assist you on-site.
Our system services include:
- System upgrades, conversions, and support
- Sysplex planning, implementation, and support
- Product support for both IBM and ISV products
- System, operations, and security management
- System consolidations
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e-business Planning & Implementation Services
The future of e-business is here, and we are positioning ourselves as a leading provider of e-business planning, management, and performance services. We know that you need to connect both new and legacy applications out to the web, and we want to help you do it.
Our e-business services include:
- Web server planning and implementation
- Design for optimal web, database, and transaction server performance
- Web enabling of legacy systems, databases, and applications
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DASD I/O Subsystem Services
We offer consulting on mainframe DASD I/O subsystems. These I/O services include competitive analysis, performance analysis, tuning, and capacity planning. If you believe you are experiencing DASD I/O performance problems, or if you are considering new DASD acquisitions, consult us before you make another move.
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WLM Conversion & Implementation Services
Our experienced team of WLM experts can help you to migrate you systems and sysplexes from the old static based SRM controls to the dynamic goal based WLM management. Not only will we help you define a WLM service definition that is right for your environment, but we will also lead you through a successful migration process.
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