Mizuho Financial Group. Seventy one million dollars saved on IBM mainframe licensing.

Mizuho Financial Group saved seventy one million dollars on IBM mainframe licensing through IBM mainframe optimization framework, IBM zSeries licensing framework, IBM ELA framework optimization, and the IBM internal assessment framework. The IBM mainframe framework, the IBM zSeries framework, the IBM ELA framework, the IBM PVU and VPC framework, and the buyer side moves on the IBM mainframe optimization framework across the contracted IBM mainframe renewal cycle. Read the related IBM services practice, the IBM knowledge hub, the IBM licensing assessment service, the IBM ELA renewal strategy guide, and the CA mainframe licensing CIO playbook.

The customer profile

Mizuho Financial Group is one of the largest global financial services groups, with operations across more than forty countries and approximately sixty thousand employees worldwide. The customer's IBM mainframe estate spans IBM zSeries mainframes, IBM Db2 for zSeries, IBM CICS, IBM IMS, IBM MQ for zSeries, and the broader IBM mainframe software framework, with material IBM mainframe framework across the customer's broader banking operations framework.

The customer's IBM mainframe framework anchored the broader IBM software framework against the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework at the upper customer scale. The customer ran the IBM mainframe framework alongside the customer's broader banking operations framework, with material commercial sensitivity to the IBM mainframe framework against the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework.

The opening publisher quote

IBM's opening IBM mainframe renewal framework quote anchored the broader IBM mainframe framework at the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework. The opening IBM mainframe renewal framework anchored Mizuho's IBM mainframe framework against the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework, with substantial IBM mainframe framework escalation against the broader IBM mainframe framework.

The opening IBM mainframe renewal framework included substantial IBM zSeries framework escalation across the customer's IBM Db2 for zSeries framework, the customer's IBM CICS framework, the customer's IBM IMS framework, the customer's IBM MQ for zSeries framework, and the broader IBM mainframe software framework. The publisher anchored the IBM mainframe framework against the broader IBM mainframe trajectory rather than the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework.

The Redress approach

Redress anchored the IBM mainframe framework against the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework. The framework segmented the IBM mainframe framework across the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework, the customer's actual IBM mainframe product framework, the customer's actual IBM mainframe licensing framework, and the customer's actual IBM mainframe renewal framework.

Redress applied an internal IBM mainframe assessment framework against the customer's actual IBM mainframe deployment framework. The internal IBM mainframe assessment framework segmented the IBM mainframe framework across the customer's actual IBM zSeries deployment framework, the customer's actual IBM Db2 for zSeries framework, the customer's actual IBM mainframe support framework, and the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework.

The buyer side moves

Redress applied an eleven move framework across the IBM mainframe optimization framework. One. Anchor the IBM mainframe framework against the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework. Two. Segment the IBM mainframe framework across the customer's actual IBM mainframe product framework. Three. Run the IBM mainframe internal assessment framework across the customer's actual IBM mainframe deployment framework. Four. Apply the IBM zSeries licensing framework optimization against the customer's actual IBM mainframe framework.

Five. Build a credible competitive posture across alternative IBM mainframe framework, alternative core banking framework, and alternative database framework. Six. Run the broader IBM ELA framework against the IBM mainframe framework. Seven. Negotiate the IBM mainframe framework against the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework. Eight. Run the IBM mainframe utilisation framework across the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework. Nine. Lock in price protection terms across the contracted IBM mainframe renewal cycle. Ten. Apply the IBM mainframe support optimization framework. Eleven. Run the broader IBM vendor management posture across the contracted IBM mainframe framework.

The commercial outcome

Mizuho closed the IBM mainframe renewal framework at seventy one million dollars below the publisher's opening IBM mainframe renewal framework quote. The framework anchored the IBM mainframe framework against the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework rather than the publisher's preferred broad IBM mainframe framework. The framework delivered material commercial saving across the IBM mainframe framework against the publisher's opening IBM mainframe renewal framework quote.

The framework also locked in price protection terms across the contracted IBM mainframe renewal framework, with the cumulative effect that Mizuho's IBM mainframe framework ran alongside the customer's broader banking operations framework. The framework delivered the cleanest commercial framework for Mizuho's IBM mainframe framework, with material commercial leverage at the broader IBM mainframe renewal cycle.

How we engage

• IBM mainframe scoping. Six week engagement that scopes the IBM mainframe framework, anchors the customer's actual IBM mainframe utilisation framework, and identifies the immediate commercial moves at the next IBM mainframe renewal cycle. IBM services practice.
• IBM licensing assessment. Internal IBM software assessment engagement that handles the IBM mainframe framework across the customer's actual IBM mainframe deployment framework. IBM licensing assessment service.
• IBM ELA renewal. ELA renewal engagement that handles the IBM ELA framework, the IBM mainframe framework, and the broader IBM renewal conversation across the renewal cycle. IBM ELA renewal service.
• Vendor Shield. Always on multi vendor management posture that covers the IBM mainframe framework alongside the broader enterprise software estate. Vendor Shield.
• Run the assessment. The software spend assessment sizes the broader IBM software framework against the customer's actual IBM software deployment framework.