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Financial Management/Accounting Workshop for z/OS Customers

What is a Financial Management/Accounting Workshop?

This is a two day customer workshop that reviews industry best practices for financial management/accounting and cost allocation in the Mainframe and Distributed environments. A subset of your current financial management/accounting methodologies will be reviewed, discussed and analyzed to identify which portions of the best of breed methodologies you already have in place and which ones can be added.

How Does It Work

An initial discussion will take place at an executive level to discuss the goals and objectives of the workshop. Once the sponsoring executive decides there is potential benefit to the organization, a questionnaire will be distributed to selected departments to gather information regarding your current, if any, financial management/accounting procedures. After the questionnaires are returned, an on-site workshop will be scheduled to discuss and review the results, share best practices and evaluate alternatives to enhance your existing methodologies.

Who Should Attend The Workshop

  • Executive Sponsor
  • IT Finance Managers
  • IT Capacity Planners
  • IT Budget and Forecasting

Who Needs This?

Organizations that are:

  • Experiencing challenges with consistent financial management/accounting and cost allocation models and methodologies
  • Experiencing internal challenges regarding who is responsible for increasing IT financial costs
  • Focused on having better Sarbanes-Oxley controls
  • Facing business decisions that need consistent and repeatable TCO or ROI models
  • Wanting to stay ahead of the curve and create a competitive advantage over competition that does not have a solid financial management/accounting or cost allocation process

What Concerns Will This Workshop Address?

  • "Why can't our cost be more predictable?"
  • "Is IT adding Value?"
  • "Our financial management/accounting process is not consumption based. Therefore, I don't know how my action will impact the charges I receive."
  • "I do not know what I am getting charged for! What do CPU minutes, DASD, and tape have to do with running my business?"
  • "How can we attain actionable information to manage IT cost?"
  • "How can we incent the business to save money?"
  • "We need a simple and fair way to distribute cost?"
  • "How can I manage the supply and demand of IT resources?"
  • "How come my IT spend continues to grow when the capacity is so cheap?"


For more information please contact either:

Jerry Bennett at 321-757-6924 Jerry.bennett@us.ibm.com, or
Theresa Ivan at 248-412-4019 tivan@us.ibm.com.