tableBASE Return On Investment 

The IT business environment is now characterized by calculated investment decisions and fiscally responsible attitudes. IT spending has become more conservative, and business leadership is now more involved than ever in IT sales cycles. Therefore IT departments must aim to deliver long-term value and to illustrate positive ROI in all procurement plans. IT managers must now:

IT projects that show low risk and high rewards are the ones that get careful consideration and approval.

Return on investment (ROI) is a tool that can be used to help you understand the benefits your business will reap from a specific technology purchase, or more importantly, how long it will take your company to profit from its technology investment.

Calculating the Return on Data Kinetics tableBASE product investment

What kind of payback might you expect from your company's investment in Data Kinetics tableBASE? To answer that question, you’ll need to understand the impact of your current issues on your bottom line, and how tableBASE can have a positive effect. As you already know, tableBASE can:

Your benefit analysis will depend on your specific business needs. Here are some characteristic areas for which ROI can be demonstrated for your tableBASE investment, along with some typical industry scenarios:

  Improving Performance

Faster mainframe applications maximize transaction volumes and increase transaction-based revenues accordingly. When tableBASE was benchmarked by IBM against an optimized DB2 a performance improvement of 6 to 30 times faster was recorded. How can you capitalize on this dramatic performance improvement with existing applications, and how does this translate into savings?

Let’s assume, for example, that a typical application spends 80% of its time doing I/O and 20% of its time processing business logic. If there are eight I/O channels per unit of work, and tableBASE can eliminate the need for six (because the content is in memory), tableBASE can eliminate 60% of the time spent performing I/O.

With tableBASE, the application is now using only 40% of the original CPU resources. To calculate ROI, you can apply this saving to what you pay for a CPU hour. Also, reducing I/O means avoiding the addition of new channels or DASD controllers, eliminating the ”hard costs“ associated with these types of hardware.

  Reducing Maintenance: Strategic architecture for tactical spontaneity

Using tableBASE application processing rules and decision logic are removed from programs so changes are made in tables, not in the code. Eliminating the need to alter program code--bypassing the necessary implementation, testing and deployment--means that engaging new business opportunities can take hours rather than months.

Consider the case of a large Insurance company that had cloned its Property and Casualty applications across 80 different markets over 50 states. When changes were required, it took six months to modify and test each of the cloned applications. These applications were consolidated using tableBASE--only one application was required for all 80 markets. There was an 80 to 1 improvement in maintenance costs.

  Replacing in-house table management systems

Financial services companies, particularly those in the insurance sector, realize that they must access their data from reference tables, for the sake of efficiency. To this end, many insurers have taken on the task of developing their own homegrown tabling and table management systems. These systems are at a crossroads. Many are not optimized for 64-bit mainframes and some have difficulty dealing with the advanced facilities of Workload Manager and DB2 stored procedures. Furthermore, the growing demands of web services and globalization means that these homegrown systems are, or soon will be due for major overhauls.

At a minimum, these systems will tie up three full-time developers to keep up with ongoing maintenance and adding new capabilities to the software, preventing their involvement in other business-critical IT projects. This might necessitate either further resource dollar expenditures on expensive temporary resources, or the delay or suspension of IT projects. Once installed, tableBASE will allow you to free-up full-time IT resources to concentrate more effectively on other high-priority projects.

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