IBM Capacity Management Analytics helps IT infrastructure managers and data center executives analyze performance, availability, scalability, resource use, and planned capacity. Its Solutions Kit provides a predefined data model, reports, and predictive and prescriptive models for understanding and planning infrastructure resources. The product can forecast future capacity requirements and detect CICS transaction anomalies in real time. Reports offer drill-through to related reports and prompts for date range, time range, and aggregation interval. The distributed-platform product includes IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM SPSS Modeler Gold, IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio, the Solutions Kit, and the Solutions Installer; IBM Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS is a separate purchase for this edition. Installation can use the installer or manual component setup, and deployment is on premises across IBM z Systems and distributed infrastructures. The installer supports Linux on System z or x86-64 and requires English on installer and client computers. The product is paid; no plan price is listed.
Who it is for
It suits IT infrastructure managers and data center executives planning capacity and resource use. The Solution Kit documentation also identifies administrators, analysts, report authors, content administrators, and modelers as intended users.
What is good
- Forecasts future capacity requirements.
- Detects CICS transaction anomalies in real time.
- Reports drill through to related reports.
- Supports long-term planning across IBM z Systems and distributed infrastructures.
What to know first
- IBM Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS costs extra for distributed platforms.
- The installer requires English on installer and client computers.
- No plan price is listed.
Verdict
IBM Capacity Management Analytics combines capacity planning and analysis tools for on-premises IBM z Systems and distributed environments. Note the separate z/OS prerequisite for the distributed-platform product and the installer’s English-language requirement.
IBM Capacity Management Analytics plans and pricing
All plansCompared on release orchestration software
- Deployment model
- on-premises
- Demand forecasting
- Yes
- What-if scenarios
- Yes
- Service-level planning
- Yes
- Resource domains
- IBM z Systems and distributed infrastructures
- Planning horizon
- long-term
