Case Study: Financial Services Provider Company saves millions and cuts IBM MLC costs with Precisely ZPSaver

Financial Services Provider Company - Customer Case Study

Financial Services Provider Company, a global financial services and technology firm, was facing soaring transaction volumes, rising IBM MLC (monthly license charge) costs and the prospect of expensive capacity upgrades while internal SLAs demanded faster transaction response. To address these challenges they engaged Precisely and evaluated its Syncsort ZPSaver zIIP offload solution using a Precisely SMF analysis.

Precisely performed a free SMF analysis and deployed Syncsort ZPSaver to offload Compression, Copy and Sort work to zIIP, converting CPU time savings into MIPS/MSU and dollar estimates. The result was immediate elapsed-time reduction, annual savings in the hundreds of thousands (contributing to multi‑million dollar overall savings), avoidance of near‑term upgrades and improved competitiveness for the Financial Services Provider Company.