Whats New in Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manger V7.1?
IBM Tivoli® Usage and Accounting Manager Enterprise Edition V7.1 provides an excellent solution for customers seeking to perform resource accounting, cost allocation, and, optionally, chargeback billing based on actual usage of virtually any IT resource across the enterprise — ranging from mainframes to virtualized servers to storage networks and more. This product provides solutions to the following client challenges: • Inability to accurately assess usage in virtualized environments — It is hard to assess which IT resources are being utilized, how much they are being utilized, and who is utilizing them in the new virtualized environments. • Inability to determine the cost of an IT service or application — Clients cannot determine whether IT is offering a competitive service or whether the service can be procured more cost efficiently elsewhere. • IT resource and expense justification — IT needs to determine how their operating expenses relate to the segments of the business that deri
