Leading National Home Mortgage Company Selects Crayon to optimize IBM Software Estate - Crayon US

Case Studies Leading National Home Mortgage Company Selects Crayon to optimize IBM Software Estate

Company Background

A National leader in the mortgage industry, the company provides servicing and originations for homeowners throughout the United States. The company reached out to Crayon after having undergone an audit the previous year, paying several million dollars in audit fees. They discovered that their ILMT report was old and not implemented properly, and they didn’t have the in-house expertise to move forward in a state of continuous compliance.

The client's IBM License Management Tool (ILMT) report was not current and improperly implemented

Objectives

Identify production vs. non-production environments
Locate inaccurate ILMT Tool assumptions
Review components of the licensing estate that are eligible for bundling
Ensure that environment is aligned to their Passport Advantage Agreement
ILMT installed, configured and reporting correctly.

Solution Overview

Crayon worked with each product owner at the company and evaluated each server in the estate and then executed on a number of solutions to optimize the environment.

Bundling optimization was completed through multiple bundling analyses, reviewing where single licenses could be alternatively deployed as part of a bundled software license.
Backup and Disaster Recovery Servers were identified and removed from the licensing estate.
Decommissioning was performed on unused servers that were waiting for deployment.
Upgrade to the latest version of ILMT was performed, along with the accurate classification of all software with the tool.
Reporting was subsequently produced, reducing all of the audit findings to zero gaps in compliance.

Crayon was able to help the client realize one million dollars in customer savings.

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