Performance Tuning

Change is coming – and you need to be ready.  Perhaps you are adding more users and many more employees to your system due to system rollouts or acquisitions.  Or, your system is running slow, and you are faced with deciding if you need to invest in new hardware or software purchases. Perhaps an upgrade is in the work, or, your IT operations are moving to a hosted environment, and you want to make sure that your systems don’t suffer a major performance hit. 

No matter what the change is, it is important to do your due diligence and ensure that you are fully knowledgeable about the impact, and you have taken steps to ensure a smooth transition.

This is where Sability comes in.  We’ve helped many organizations address these issues – giving them the confidence to maintain high services levels while moving forward with business plans.  Our clients who have used the benchmarking services come from large enterprises in a wide range of industries, from retail to logistics.

What we do

Sability offers many different services to help prepare for a benchmark evaluation, from scope management and benchmark discovery to design. Sability’s consultants understand the different expectations for a WFM system based on load, time of year and on-demand requirements, and we work with you to develop plans to accommodate peak performance times.

We develop and execute test scenarios that emulate beyond your peak production requirements.  We perform multiple runs, making adjustments as we go for immediate improvement gains.  And, when we’re done, we deliver a comprehensive report with our findings of further recommendations for even more improvement gains.  Supporting this valuable service is Sability’s thorough understanding and track record with today’s leading testing tools.

Realizing ROI from Performance Tuning

Benchmarking and Performance Tuning provides clients with confidence to move forward, minimizing risks of production system crashes that can adversely affect your business operations.  A few of our recommendations:

• 300% performance increase attained by adjusting COGNOS server parameters to avoid expensive crashes and reboots
• Moving from a single to distributed environment to accommodate more users – and improve processing speed
• Increasing clock batch parameters to maximize server utilization

Confidence to Implement Change

Plan for the best – expect the worst!  At Sability, we can help you navigate the technical landscape with smooth transitions that will keep your business operational.