Case Study: Mexico-based Banking and Financial Services Provider achieves ~40% CPU-time savings and lower costs with Precisely (Syncsort MFX)

Mexico Based Banking and Financial Services Provider - Customer Case Study

Mexico Based Banking and Financial Services Provider faced escalating mainframe costs and performance risk when routine batch sort processing was consuming about $1 million annually in CPU time and encroaching on peak 11 a.m.–5 p.m. windows needed for transaction processing and CRM. The bank found IBM’s DFSORT inadequate and, through partner Devant Mexico, evaluated Precisely’s flagship sort utility, Syncsort MFX, to determine if a faster sort solution could reduce CPU consumption and protect vital business applications.

Precisely ran a Proof of Concept using the bank’s workloads, the customer licensed Syncsort MFX and moved it into production within two months. After implementation, the bank saw roughly 40% CPU-time savings for sort/copy/merge jobs, a 10–15% reduction in elapsed time, elimination of sort-related contention with interactive apps, and improved SLAs; a 21-day Precisely workload analysis extrapolated to an estimated annual sort cost drop from about $1,000,000 to ~$785,000 (a better-than-20% reduction). The customer is now considering adding Precisely’s Syncsort ZPSaver to further offload eligible work to zIIP processors and reduce CPU charges.