On 23/11/2012 4:06 AM, Ed Finnell wrote:
Is there a cost comparison vs SAS/MXG on PC?
The cost of EasySMF is $595 per user or $795 per LPAR for a site license, for a 12 month subscription. In both cases there are discounts for multiple licenses. No other software is required (except for Windows itself). MXG I think publish their price on their website. I don't know the cost of SAS.
However, EasySMF is different to MXG and I don't claim it is a replacement for MXG. Unless you are only a light MXG user you would probably find that it didn't have MXG functions you were used to.
The idea behind EasySMF was to create a product that would be valuable even if you already have MXG or similar software, and to make SMF data accessible outside the groups that traditionally have the MXG and SAS skills.
At every site I have worked there have been groups that would have found SMF information useful, but had no way to use it either due to no tools or no SAS skills. Ops analysts/schedulers, storage management and even systems programmers.
EasySMF is designed with more of a focus on problem solving than capacity planning. It is designed to help answer questions, and follow a thread through your SMF data where initially you may not know exactly what you are looking for. If you are investigating a problem you can move from one report to another without having to break your train of thought to code up a different report.
For example, you might look at all service classes, then details for a particular service class, a specific job in the service class, the history of that job, the datasets it used etc. As you move to different reports from different record types the filtering (service class, job etc.) is maintained.
If you don't already have a SMF reporting product, EasySMF will provide a lot of useful information and could be all you need. If you currently use MXG or a similar product, EasySMF will hopefully also provide a lot of useful information, but I do not claim it is a direct replacement for your current product.
"A replacement for MXG & SAS" is probably a simpler marketing message, but I think it would result in less satisfied customers.
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