PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Strategic Consulting Partnerships (SCP) provides its valued customers with complete integrated business and enterprise solutions utilising the best technology services and products from carefully selected partners. Our solutions are tailored to each customer’s unique requirements and based on appropriate innovation that is built on proven technologies and resourced globally.
SCP’s key strengths are based on many years practical experience implementing emerging technologies and accelerating lead times to generate revenue streams. We pride ourselves on our ability to build longstanding relationships based on success.
Our specialty lies in integrating complex hardware and software with products and services. SCP's IBM Z consultants have literally decades of experience and hold all relevant current IBM Z credentials and certifications.
Mainframe skills and Education
Mainframe Skills Development is core to SCP's mission to inspire, connect, train, and grow talent. SCP offers formal education and training courses, skills transfer and mentoring. SCP team with Protech to deliver an extensive curriculum of Z mainframe training, offering customised private classes both live and virtual classes. To learn more about SCP’s Mainframe skills curriculum click here.
Strategic Consulting Partnerships (SCP) is proud to join the IBM Mainframe Skills Council as the first member from Australia and New Zealand and share in the common goal of continuing the growth and success of the mainframe.
We look forward to sharing best practices we’ve learned through the development of our mentorship programs, challenging coursework, and success in placing course graduates in permanent roles, as we work closely with our fellow council members to co-create the next generation of talent solutions. To learn more about the IBM Skills Council click here.
Z performance Use Case
Customer was unsure about the recent growth of their CPU usage and needed to quickly identify if they had enough current capacity:
- SCP immediately asked for recent RMF and SMF reports. This proved difficult as the staff member had retired over a year ago and the reports were no longer available or usable
- SCP then rewrote the SMF reporting and managed to provide trend analysis within 2 days, which proved that their CPU usage was growing and was currently at 98%
- This headroom was not enough for the next phase of a large application upgrade, which was estimated to require 5% more CPU.
SCP recommended an immediate hardware CPU upgrade and install some ISV software sitting on a shelf for the past 18 months!
IBM Z Costing Use Case
Customer was being questioned by management about the total cost of running their mainframe system:
- Once again, SCP asked for recent system usage reports. This proved impossible as the basic SAS reporting had been ‘broken’ for over 2 years. SCP sent in a Systems Specialist and a SAS consultant and over 3 days managed to fix and create accurate reports
- A full budget analysis was built for the next 4 years with various options including systems upgrade options.
SCP recommended an upgrade to more modern and efficient hardware. This would reduce monthly z/OS license charges and other recommendations included rationalizing ISV software, would give a 3 year ROI for hardware purchase.