Author: Robert Sample
Subject: Reply to: Report cost in CA-dispatch
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:39 pm (GMT 5.5)
This type of information can ONLY be gotten from your site since independent software vendor (ISV) contracts, like IBM contracts, tend to be customized to the individual customer.
That being said, CA like most ISV in the market, typically charges fixed fees based upon the machine size, followed by annual maintenance charges that are a percentage of the original fee. It would be rare for CA, or any software vendor, to charge usage fees. So the most likely answer is that you could reduce the number of CA-DISPATCH reports browsed to zero and the annual cost to your organization would not change (unless your company completely dropped CA-DISPATCH). There may be savings due to less CPU and disk space used, but those would not be large for 10 to 15 reports (unless they are atypical). But, again, check with your site support group's contracts group to find out for sure.
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Subject: Reply to: Report cost in CA-dispatch
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:39 pm (GMT 5.5)
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| Is CA-Dispatch cost based On number of users or number of reports or both? |
That being said, CA like most ISV in the market, typically charges fixed fees based upon the machine size, followed by annual maintenance charges that are a percentage of the original fee. It would be rare for CA, or any software vendor, to charge usage fees. So the most likely answer is that you could reduce the number of CA-DISPATCH reports browsed to zero and the annual cost to your organization would not change (unless your company completely dropped CA-DISPATCH). There may be savings due to less CPU and disk space used, but those would not be large for 10 to 15 reports (unless they are atypical). But, again, check with your site support group's contracts group to find out for sure.
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TANSTAAFL
The first rule of code reuse is that the code needs to be worth re-using.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth