New White Paper Confirms the Economics of ClearPath Systems

Your ClearPath mainframe is the hub that drives your business. Powering a diverse array of applications and business processes, it remains a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art platform that continually promotes agility, responsiveness, and innovation.

However, ClearPath systems are the subject of widespread misconceptions, particularly when it comes to understanding the real cost of ownership. All too often, economic comparisons with other system types are made without considering all the relevant factors. In fact, alternatives that appear on the surface to be cheaper often prove to be far more expensive in practice.

For example, advocates of the great “client/server boom” in the early 1990s predicted the death of mainframes. Experience proved otherwise. In addition to serious reliability and security problems, client/server systems’ management costs, which were generally ignored by the enthusiasts, turned out to be as much as 70 percent of the total cost — completely altering the economics of their decision. 

So if you are interested in learning about how ClearPath systems deliver great economic value from your IT investments, we encourage you to read the new white paper “Delivering Value: The Economics of ClearPath Systems.”

Authored by Peter Bye, this paper examines the wide range of factors that contribute to the overall cost of an IT platform, and looks at the ways in which the economics of ClearPath systems excel when compared to the alternatives. Additionally, it provides in-depth analyses of the platform’s capabilities, discusses the cost-saving qualities of each, and reviews how they work together to contribute to your ability to economically deliver IT service, ensure reliability, availability, and security, and speed the development of high-value applications.

The economic strengths of the ClearPath mainframe discussed in this particular paper can have a positive impact throughout your organization, and are best summed up in the following categories:

• Reduced Administration Time:  High availability, efficient operations, support for multiple business-critical applications, the ability to accommodate processor loads close to 100 percent, and cross-platform automation enable ClearPath systems to operate with lower overall complexity, helping you more effectively manage the platform with fewer resources.
• Better Cost Management: With the ability to pay for only the resources you consume, while providing the flexibility to add processing power as needs dictate, ClearPath systems help you drive cost efficiencies and maintain the agility needed to capitalize on emerging business opportunities. What’s more, tight interoperability with co-operating systems and technologies allows the platform to fully participate in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework, which enables you to extract greater value from existing investments and avoid the expenses and risks associated with new implementations.
• Shortened Development Time: Offering a wide range of development options, including the popular Eclipse IDE (for Java, COBOL, ALGOL, and more) and Unisys Enterprise Application Environment (EAE), Agile Business Suite, and Business Information Server (BIS) tools, the platform speeds the release of innovative, high-value applications and IT services, without requiring specialist knowledge, or extensive, time-consuming training programs.
• Lower Risk: The high levels of reliability, security, availability, and stability inherent in the mainframe environment are cornerstones of the ClearPath platform, and work together to help you maintain operations and quickly recover in the event of a failure — helping you reduce the risks and costs associated with data vulnerability, downtime, and a lack of responsiveness.

The above factors maximize the value of the mission-critical applications that are typical of ClearPath environments. ClearPath users simply don’t have to contend with the erratic behavior, unavailability, and poor security that are inherent in many other platforms — shortcomings that dramatically undermine confidence in sensitive systems in finance, government, and other sectors, and even lead to loss of business or worse. ClearPath users expect and get systems that are totally predictable and secure — all with the highest levels of productivity, too.

An indispensible resource for the ClearPath advocate, “Delivering Value: The Economics of ClearPath Systems” centralizes key ClearPath value propositions and documents many of the qualities you were already aware of — as well as some things you may not know.

As such, this paper helps you understand the ways to maximize the platform’s economic value — and gives you the facts and figures you need to prove that your ClearPath mainframe is the most powerful, reliable, and economically sound system available. Visit the eCommunity to read it today.