IBM ILMT ‘Software As a Service’ Managed Service by FIAC increases ROI

FIAC launches an innovative new ‘Software as a Service’ Managed Service helping organizations improve how they manage the IBM ILMT infrastructure. These new services are aimed to reduce the risk of penalties; help with the renegotiation of new IBM Purchases; Optimize IBM License costs.

London, United Kingdom – May 10, 2018 /NewsNetwork/ —

Fisher IT Asset Consulting (FIAC) is delighted to be able to announce two new additional service offerings, which extend their current IBM ILMT services, to improve the experience of their IBM Customers. These are the ILMT Managed Service and the ILMT ‘Software as a Service’.These new services have been created to help those organizations in the long term achieve the following benefits:

* Minimize the risk of penalties when IBM performs an audit.

* Enable and organisation to be in better position to negotiate new IBM purchases.

* Help optimize an organization’s IBM license costs.

IBM License Management Tool is one of the compulsory requirements for IBM customers who want to be eligible for IBM’s Sub-Capacity (virtualization capacity) licensing discount. A discount that allows IBM customers to license and pay for only the processing power (virtual cores) allocated to IBM applications running in a virtualized infrastructure. This is instead of the physical cores that may exist on physical host machines or cluster farms.

FIAC objectives with this new service is deploy and configure ILMT so it enables IBM customers to access the following features and benefits:

· Eligibility of Sub-Capacity licensing discounts;

· Discover all IBM software deployed across the customer’s infrastructure;

· Correctly classify and bundle the detected software titles in accordance to the customer’s purchased licence entitlements;

· Centrally track, monitor and report on consumption of IBM Processor Value Unit licences in real time;

· Enables capacity forecasting and planning for IBM PVU licences as well as the hardware infrastructure to optimize software and hardware spend

Having worked in this market space for a number of years, FIAC’s experience advising enterprise customers in managing their IBM licence reviews and sub-capacity violation has mainly been caused by the absence or miss-configuration of ILMT. Therefore, organizations who find themselves in this situation has proven to have been in the highest compliance risk of those IBM customers whom deploy PVU licences.

Eric Chiu, Managing Director of FIAC: ‘In line with our other IBM Services, we have decided to strengthen our portfolio of ILMT services by including the ‘ILMT Managed Service’ and ‘ILMT in the Cloud’. The Managed Service takes over the complete management of the IBM license metric tool, ranging from the maintenance of the server and the agent, up to the creation of the audit PVU sub-capacity reports. We then provide ongoing, proactive optimization of the ILMT and the Software bundles. Our aim is to highlight where cost savings can be made by assessing entitlement vs deployment. We hope then to make the organization audit ready by making sure the organization has regular reporting on the IBM Licensing framework. ‘ILMT in the Cloud’ enables the organization to gain greater benefit by deploying its own ILMT license to FIAC’s Cloud Infrastructure and outsourcing to FIAC the entire management of its ILMT, therefore reducing the cost of ownership of hardware, software and support overnight. Both services aim to provide a positive ROI within months.’

if you wish to understand how these new services can help you reduce your risk and return on investment of managing your IBM estate then contact FIAC at the details below. Web site: http://www.fiac.hwfisher.co.uk

Contact Info:
Name: Stephen Waugh
Email: swaugh@hwfisher.co.uk
Organization: Fisher IT Asset Consultancy Limited
Address: Acre House, 11-15 William Road, London, England NW1 3ER, United Kingdom
Phone: +44-20-7388-7000

For more information, please visit http://fiac.hwfisher.co.uk

Source: NewsNetwork

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