What is our primary use case?
My main use case for BMC AMI Cloud Analytics is to gain insights into data, storage utilization, and huge volumes of data. In a large enterprise environment, we used to have significant mainframe workloads to gain insights into data storage and organization.
What is most valuable?
The best features BMC AMI Cloud Analytics offers include reporting, storage usage, and trends. One of the strongest features is the visibility into storage consumption, and the second is cost optimization, which provides visibility of storage costs and opportunities for optimization. The reporting and dashboards offer centralized reporting and operational visibility to create dashboards for better decision making. Scalability is also a key feature as it can handle the growing volumes of mainframe and cloud storage data. Moreover, capacity planning allows the teams to manage future storage requirements and prevents unexpected capacity issues.
BMC AMI Cloud Analytics provides excellent visibility into storage, while its reporting and capacity planning, along with analytics capabilities, have been particularly valuable in supporting operational efficiency and optimizing cloud storage usage on a daily basis. BMC AMI Cloud Analytics had a positive impact on our organization by improving visibility into storage utilization and historical trends. The platform enabled us with capacity planning for optimizing resource usage and reduced the manual effort required for analyzing large volumes of operational data. Instead of manually tracking information from multiple sources, teams could view analytics and trends from a single platform. This saved our team considerable time. Without the analytics tools, teams often spent considerable time gathering and analyzing usage information, but this particular tool saved time and effort for the employees. Additionally, using this tool improved our retention policies and saved a significant amount of time as data volumes continue to grow, enabling us to efficiently analyze storage trends without relying on manual processes. This improved planning accuracy, reduced analysis time, and helped optimize our storage consumption, resulting in better operational efficiency and cost management.
What needs improvement?
BMC AMI Cloud Analytics can be improved in many ways, such as having more customizable dashboards for better flexibility and data insights. Additionally, enhancing the reporting capabilities is important because organizations nowadays often need more detailed and flexible reports, as well as AI and ML integration that could help predict future trends. The user experience can also be improved, and for very large environments, additional optimization options would be beneficial to ensure the performance of BMC AMI Cloud Analytics.
The support can also be improved, and the user experience as well. An improved and shorter user interface and navigation would enhance the overall user experience and simplify the administration of day-to-day tasks.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with this solution for 4.8 years in the education sector.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
BMC AMI Cloud Analytics is very stable in my experience.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
BMC AMI Cloud Analytics has very strong scalability.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for BMC AMI Cloud Analytics is quite good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have not used any different solution before BMC AMI Cloud Analytics.
What was our ROI?
I see a return on investment with BMC AMI Cloud Analytics as the logs used to take three to four hours, but after implementing it, the time has been reduced to 15 to 30 minutes. Our team works very efficiently now, so it has saved a lot of time for us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been good because both the pricing and licensing components have been generally positive for us. The licensing model aligns with enterprise requirements and the value provided through improved visibility and capacity planning justifies the investment. The pricing structure can be complex, but in my company, another team handles all of this licensing structure.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have not evaluated other options before choosing BMC AMI Cloud Analytics because since my joining at TCS startup consultancy services, they used BMC AMI Cloud Analytics for that project.
What other advice do I have?
I would strongly recommend organizations use BMC AMI Cloud Analytics, as it is a useful tool for them. BMC AMI Cloud Analytics is a very good tool to handle storage for the mainframes in our company. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?