IT departments continually seek ways to reduce costs, resolve performance issues and optimise their mainframe systems. A performance and capacity focused assessment is a valuable tool to identify application, database and system optimisation opportunities, find ways to reduce CPU utilisation peaks, address underperforming transactions, optimise batch, resolve service degradation issues, and even help reduce capacity needs ahead of upgrades. In our real-world experience, depending on your software stack, size of the system and other factors, a focused assessment can provide a wide range of performance improvements and cost-saving measures to help many organisations achieve consumption savings in the 8-25% range.