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SoftBase Attach Facility ROI and Savings

SoftBase's Attach Facility, powered by MRF, can help your organization save IT costs in a very short amount of time. It can literally pay for itself within a year's time, and potentially save your organization millions of dollars in a 5 year period.

We've run multiple scenarios to show you how Attach Facility can save money for different size shops.


Scenario 1

This shop is licensed for less than 100 MIPS, and has approximately 300 applications that could benefit from utilizing multi-row FETCH. Each application utilizes 10 CPU seconds per day due to open cursor FETCHs (for a total of 3,000 CPU seconds or 50 CPU minutes), and implementing multi-row FETCH will reduce this CPU time by 40%, saving 20 CPU minutes per day. The shop has a DB2 CPU cost per minute of $40, so a reduction of 20 CPU minutes results in $800 saved daily.

Each of these 300 applications have 3 open row cursors and will require 20 hours each to manually recode and test for multi-row FETCH, requiring a total of 6,000 developer hours. Or the shop can use Attach Facility's MRF feature to implement multi-row FETCH automatically. Let's look at the results below.

MRF ROI Scenario 1

Using Attach Facility, this shop not only saw an ROI on their investment of over 150% within 1 year , but saved more than $1 million dollars over a 5-year period!


Scenario 2

This shop is licensed for 500-1000 MIPS, and has approximately 750 applications that could benefit from utilizing multi-row FETCH. Each application utilizes 10 CPU seconds per day due to open cursor FETCHs (for a total of 7,500 CPU seconds or 125 CPU minutes), and implementing multi-row FETCH will reduce this CPU time by 50%, saving 62.5 CPU minutes per day. The shop has a DB2 CPU cost per minute of $30, so a reduction of 62.5 CPU minutes results in $1,875 saved daily.

Each of these 750 applications have 3 open row cursors and will require 15 hours each to manually recode and test for multi-row FETCH, requiring a total of 11,250 developer hours. Or the shop can use Attach Facility's MRF feature to implement multi-row FETCH automatically. Let's look at the results below.

MRF ROI Scenario 2

Using Attach Facility, this shop saw not only an ROI of over 70% on their investment within 1 year, but saved over $2.2 million over a 5-year period!


Scenario 3

This shop is licensed for more than 1000 MIPS, and has approximately 1,500 applications that could benefit from utilizing multi-row FETCH. Each application utilizes 10 CPU seconds per day due to open cursor FETCHs (for a total of 15,000 CPU seconds or 250 CPU minutes), and implementing multi-row FETCH will reduce this CPU time by 50%, saving 125 CPU minutes per day. The shop has a DB2 CPU cost per minute of $25, so a reduction of 125 CPU minutes results in $3,125 saved daily.

Each of these 1,500 applications have 3 open row cursors and will require 12 hours each to manually recode and test for multi-row FETCH, requiring a total of 18,000 developer hours. Or the shop can use Attach Facility's MRF feature to implement multi-row FETCH automatically. Let's look at the results below.

MRF ROI Scenario 3

Using Attach Facility, this shop saw not only an ROI of over 120% on their investment within 1 year, but saved over $3.9 million over a 5-year period!


Your shop is different

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