CIMS Data Collectors for Mainframe Systems
CIMS Data Collectors for Mainframe Systems performs collection, analysis, reporting and chargeback of enterprise-wide resource metrics. The CIMS product produces invoices, detail and summary reporting files, and can export usage/cost data to external accounting systems across multiple platforms.
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Resource Accounting and Chargeback for Legacy Systems
Today?s enterprises are increasingly complex in their Information Technology infrastructure. It is imperative that organizations are able to track and report on the IT resources being consumed and the costs associated with this usage. This holds true for all platforms found in today?s Enterprise. CIMS is an essential component of an effective financial management solution. CIMS fairly and accurately determines the cost of providing information services, and allows the charging of users and customers for the technology resources they consume.
With CIMS Data Collectors for Mainframe Systems, you can accurately collect and consolidate data from a wide variety of batch, on-line or external system sources in the mainframe environment. CIMS is able to process data from any resource that has a usage log file. Once this data is collected and integrated into a common database, CIMS? powerful reporting options allow you to create a multitude of invoices, reports, spreadsheets, and graphs. When integrated with other CIMS products, this information is available for viewing on your Web Browser.
CIMS provides Job Accounting, Chargeback, Cost Analysis, and Resource Utilization reporting, in addition to reports, graphics, and files for Capacity Planning and Resource Monitoring.
CIMS provides comprehensive support for dozens of legacy resource items such as MVS, OS/390, z/OS, CICS, DB2, VM/VSE, Storage, Print, and many others.
CIMS includes support for many other billable items such as personnel time, networks, helpdesk fees, recurring/miscellaneous charges, etc. Any usage log file and any resource contained in a usage log file may be a CIMS billable item.
Some of the Benefits of CIMS Data Collectors for Mainframe Systems:
Determines the cost of providing IT services.
Eliminates the common CFO perception that IT is a "black hole" of costs.
Uses minimal system resources.
Does not require a large dedicated staff to operate.
Provides cost and resource utilization information to organizations for their own chargeback needs or for outsourcing purposes.
Benefits those organizations that choose to outsource by determining profitability on fixed price contracts.
Provides easy output of costed data to other important financial systems such as General Ledger, Product Profitability, Activity Based Costing/Management, etc.
When used with CIMS Server:
Provides full control of legacy chargeback from the mid tier Windows environment
Provides full web-based reporting
Provides web report drill downs to user selected levels
Provides custom web based reports
For more information about any CIMS product, please visit the CIMS Lab, Inc. web site at www.cimslab.com. For information about demos or an onsite-visit please call 1-800-283-4267.