This service is specific for mainframe environments.

There’re many companies worldwide using the SAS language on PC, or a distributed platform, to load and analyse statistical data coming from mainframe systems; you can find many examples simply subscribing to the MXG mailing list.

This kind of application is a great candidate to downsizing; there’re many advantages, and amongst them a great reduction in direct and indirect costs:
• The cost of the SAS licence is by far cheaper than on the mainframe;
• The resource usage of the applications loading and analysing statistical data is removed from the mainframe, thus reducing the z/OS and software products cost;
• Optimization of the daily SMF processing that will use a dedicated environment, without interferences and contentions with other mainframe applications;
• Simplicity of management and sizing of the environment with less upgrade costs.

You’ve also to consider that statistical data, which is important, is not “mission critical” and it is generally available for long time on tapes.

EPV Technologies has unique experience and skills in this area; that allowed us in the past to succeed with this kind of projects, even in huge environments, solving all the troubles, especially those related to data transfer and scheduling on distributed platforms.