World class expert knowledge
SMT Data’s consultants assist clients carrying out strategic projects.
We have expert staff to help you addressing your challenges within capacity and performance across different platforms.
Our Areas of Expertise at your service
How we help you facing your daily challenges
Mainframe software analysis and optimization
- Batch Analysis and Batch Windows Improvement
- Migration from SAS to WPS
- Migration from internal developed Capacity Management tools to ITBI
- Migration from MXG, SAS ITRM to ITBI
- Migration from CA MICS (MXG + SAS) to ITBI
- Migration from Tivoli Decision Support (TDS) to ITBI
- Migration from other Capacity Management tools to ITBI
- Software Optimization
- Software Version Optimization
- WLM Policies setup
Mainframe
- Mainframe LPAR configuration
- Mainframe Architecture
- Mainframe Availability Management
- Mainframe Capacity and Performance Management
- Mainframe Cost Distribution
- Mainframe Cost Optimization
- Mainframe infrastructure specialist
- Mainframe infrastructure architect
- Mainframe Hardware Optimization
- Mainframe modernization
- Mainframe Outsourcer Advisory
- Mainframe Outsourcing Billing Models
- Technical project management
- Mainframe migration and upgrade measure (before, during and after analysis)
MQ (Message Queuing)
- Volume and trend / MQ Trace (Queue) Analysis
- MQ health check
WAS (Websphere)
- Volume and trend analysis of WAS
- WAS health check
- Problem Determination (root cause)
Storage
- Storage Performance and Capacity Planning
DB2
- DB2 Database Administration (DBA)
- DB2 Data Sharing and Parallel Sysplex Performance and tuning
- DB2 DSNZPARM review
- DB2 Health Check
- DB2 System Programming
- DB2 Application and System Tuning
CICS
- Health check of CICS environment
- CICS Technical setup and configuration
IMS
- IMS health check
- IMS Application Performance Tuning
Application Development
- Capacity considerations in software development/OpsDev
- Workload Offload
- Mainframe application modernization and offload
- Application optimization
- Application performance management
- Application performance tuning
- Capacity and Performance impact: before, under and after application changes
- Technical design and architecture (SOA, microservices, multi-platform)
Servers
- Distributed Capacity Planning and Server Consolidation
- Server Rightsizing
- Optimization
- Sourcing/Cloud considerations
- Cost Distribution
Performance
- Performance Engineering
- Performance and Capacity Management
- Performance tuning
- Online Performance Analysis
- Storage Performance and Capacity Planning
- Measurements and baselining
Datacenter architecture
- Infrastructure Planning
- IT Infrastructure Optimization
- Optimization of Technical Application Architecture
- Project Management – Large development and large infrastructure projects, including Technology Roadmap development and Infrastructure Design
Procurement and contract management
- Outsourcing planning and readiness
- Evaluation of alternative outsourcing pricing models
- Journey to Cloud: baseline, planning and pricing models evaluation
- Software license optimization
IT Finance
- Capacity and licenses baseline
- Budget, forecast and follow up on capacity and licenses
- IT cost showback/chargeback