Support for IBM software licenses and ILMT for GLS

The IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) is provided free of charge by IBM to ensure monitoring of IBM software in virtualized environments.

IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

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Mix of IASP & ILMT support for optimal license management

To minimize financial risk and personnel time, UTA resorts to proactive management of the license inventory (IASP) by TIMETOACT. In this way, not only will IBM license audits be avoided in the future, but TIMETOACT will also ensure compliance-compliant use of the ILMT as part of license management.

License and software consulting from a single source

TIMETOACT has been supporting the sports retailer for more than two years, not only for the support of the ILMT, but also for consulting on IBM Cognos - which was part of the IBM audit, among other things.

Continuous license support pays off

If IBM software is used, the compliance-conforming use of the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) plays a decisive role. TIMETOACT ensures compliance with IBM regulations for a city administration in North Rhine-Westphalia and continuously monitors the correct licensing.

N-ERGIE bypasses costly IBM audits with IASP program

The management of IBM licenses poses challenges for companies. By participating in the IASP program, N-ERGIE Aktiengesellschaft avoids time-consuming IBM license audits.

IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT)

The IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) is provided free of charge by IBM to ensure monitoring of IBM software in virtualized environments.

HOCHBAHN Managed Services

A high-performance and transparent IT forms the basis for being able to react quickly to new requirements. The IT specialists of TIMETOACT GROUP take over the managed services for the entire IBM WebSphere platform of Hamburger Hochbahn AG (HOCHBAHN).

Heras: Microsoft cost savings despite price increase

in order to save costs for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, Heras chose the TIMETOACT cost optimization approach for Microsoft.

Custom licensing

MARKANT Handels und Service GmbH (MARKANT) is fully exploiting the potential of its IBM software licenses with this year's license renewal. Instead of relying on IBM's traditional Passport Advantage model as in the past, MARKANT is using a licensing concept specially adapted to the company for the first time.

License and contract optimization

Based on the license analysis, we check the feasibility of potential savings from both a technological and commercial point of view.

Less risk and cost for HDI with ISO/IEC 19770-1

HDI AG was the first end-user organization worldwide to be certified according to ISO/IEC 19770-1 in February 2023. TIMETOACT GROUP accompanied HDI with ITAM maturity analyses, identification and implementation of optimization measures as well as in obtaining the certification.

Managed service support for optimal license management

To ensure software compliance, TIMETOACT supports FUNKE Mediengruppe with a SAM Managed Service for Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle and IBM.

License analysis and license consulting

Only well-founded information can serve as a basis for meaningful decisions or budgeting. Therefore, we are happy to offer you an inventory of your licenses and our experts will also analyze your infrastructure.

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License Management – Everything you need to know

License management is not only relevant in terms of compliance but can also minimize costs and risks. Read more in the article.

FinOps Microsoft - Microsoft Cloud Cost Optimization

TIMETOACT offers license management and compliance consulting in the Microsoft area, as well as technical consulting (e.g. on the use of Azure Services).

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TIMETOACT provides support for ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification

As Certification Patron, we support you with ISO/IEC 19770-1 certification so that you can benefit from the advantages of certification. We develop and optimize your ITAM system according to the "Plan-Do-Act-Check" process model for an effective and efficient license management.

Managed service support for central platform stability

To ensure the quality, availability and performance of the platform at all times, TIMETOACT supports N-ERGIE as a managed service partner.

Digital transformation in public administration

The digital transformation will massively change the world of work, especially in public administration. We support federal, state and local authorities in the strategic and technical implementation of their administrative modernisation projects.

Reduce your costs with Software Asset Management (SAM)!

Companies find it increasingly difficult to keep track of the software they use. We support you in this!

Introduction of Jira to Hamburger Hochbahn

The Hamburger Hochbahn AG controls the development of its new mobility platform "Switchh" via the Atlassian project management tool Jira – introduced, administered and hosted by the TIMETOACT GROUP.

Cloud from Atlassian

Atlassian Cloud gives even small teams the ability to leverage the Atlassian product world. It allows you to flexibly adjust the number of users. Furthermore, you can choose from three paid variants of Cloud products. In this way, you always adapt your Atlassian product to your individual requirements. The multiple certified Atlassian Cloud solutions are hosted at Amazon Web Services Inc.

FinOps Consulting

We advise you both commercially and technically on how to gain transparency over your cloud costs and how to reduce them sustainably.

IT Asset Management – Reducing Costs and Risks Sustainably

We help customers to increase the transparency of IT assets in use, identify potential savings for hardware and software, and avoid compliance risks at the same time.

TIMETOACT becomes OpenChain Partner

TIMETOACT becomes an official partner of OpenChain, a project of the Linux Foundation: With this partnership, the IT company qualifies to advise companies on the implementation of open source license management programs and to support customers adopting OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230.

FinOps

Gain visibility into your cloud costs and sustainably reduce them by applying best practices from FinOps.

Jira Service Management from Atlassian

Enable developers, operators, and other teams from different departments to collaborate and improve their service management responsiveness. Respond quickly to incidents, requests, and changes, and provide your customers with an optimized service experience.

Confluence from Atlassian

Create, organize, and collaborate on tasks - all in a single place. Confluence is a workspace for teams and organizations where you can store your documentation and collaboratively develop and share knowledge. Dynamic pages give your team a place to create, capture, and collaborate around projects or idea development.

Software Asset Management

Software Asset Management is a continuous process. In order to establish this process successfully in the company, it is necessary to involve all stakeholders affected in design and implementation.

IPG

Introduction of an Identity Management System (IDM)

Introduction of an identity management system (IDM) in a corporate division with the focus on automating the joiner/mover/leaver processes. In addition, data cleansing was to take place in the user area to also enable a reduction in licensing costs.

Internal and external security

Defense forces and police must protect citizens and the state from ever new threats. Modern IT & software solutions support them in this task.

IT Controlling – Determination and allocation of IT costs

We help to make IT controlling processes efficient and effective and to introduce suitable procedures for the internal allocation of IT costs.

TIMETOACT GROUP offers ISO/IEC 5230 certifications

IT company deepens partnership with OpenChain and expands open-source software offering.

TIMETOACT and Raynet deepen partnership

The synergy of Raynet's future-oriented technology and TIMETOACT's many years of expertise provides medium-sized companies with optimal software asset management - without the need for costly tools.

24/7 support guarantees stable operation of the intranet

The experts took over the operation of HCL Connections in the fall of 2020 and have since ensured the fail-safe stability of the platform.

Interactive stock map for Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen

TIMETOACT develops an interactive monitoring map to visualize the central alarm management and service monitoring for the Swiss Federal Railways, in short: SBB.

Demand Management – Clarity on IT needs

We help to determine your effective IT needs, e.g. for workstations with Microsoft Office 365. Save money by only buying what you really need.

Managing sensitive data through digital personnel files

TIMETOACT enables the digital management of approximately 1600 files and 20,000 personnel documents for Pfalzwerke. Managing and editing sensitive personnel data is now secure, requires less effort and is possible from anywhere.

Interactive online portal identifies suitable employees

TIMETOACT digitizes several test procedures for KI.TEST to determine professional intelligence and personality.

TIMETOACT GROUP becomes patron of ITAM Forum

As part of the cooperation, TIMETOACT GROUP now also offers companies comprehensive consulting services for IT Asset Management certification ISO/IEC 19770-1

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From zero to one hundred in just three months

Attacks on IT infrastructure are a serious threat to companies. Silhouette Group wanted to better protect itself against cyber attacks. ✅ Read more.

HDI AG receives ITAM certification ISO 19770-1

With the help of TIMETOACT GROUP, HDI AG is the first consumer company worldwide to receive ITAM certification according to ISO 19770-1.

McKesson: Spend Management cuts software costs by 15%

McKesson's plan to significantly optimize its software spend and make its financial planning more transparent and efficient paid off: Thanks to the strategic consulting and services provided by TIMETOACT's spend management team, the company achieved savings of 15% with one of the largest software manufacturers and at the same time reduced the allocated risks by 89%.

Smarter mobility with the portal switchh

Subway, S-Bahn, bus, car, ferry or bicycle: The pilot project "switchh" of HOCHBAHN in cooperation with Europcar and Car2Go makes Hamburg mobile.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Accelerator

For a quick start in certain use cases, specifically for certain business areas or industries, IBM offers so-called accelerators based on the "Cloud Pak for Data" solution, which serve as a template for project development and can thus significantly accelerate the implementation of these use cases. The platform itself provides all the necessary functions for all types of analytics projects, and the accelerators provide the respective content.

Semper uses TIMETOACT Vacation Manager as SaaS

Maximum convenience in vacation management: educational institution benefits from user-friendliness of M365-compatible TIMETOACT solution.

The digital customer file with IBM Content Manager

The prefabricated house specialist SchwörerHaus KG has relied on IBM technology for many years to set up a digital customer file.

Interdisciplinary collaboration at C&A with Atlassian

To homogenize the toolchain TIMETOACT replaced two independent ticketing systems for C&A Services GmbH &Co. with the Atlassian product range. With this step into the enterprise cloud, the fashion retailer is putting is putting an exclamation mark on cross-departmental and cross-location digital collaboration.

Bundled expertise for fast mail migration to M365

Based on the ten-year partnership with TIMETOACT, the experts supported the mail migration from Lotus Notes Domino to M365 - together with novaCapta. As a Managed Service Partner, TIMETOACT continues to ensure optimal functionality of the mail system.

Digitized processes increase efficiency

TIMETOACT & X-INTEGRATE accompany energy supplier e-regio on the way to digitalization. The consulting services in the project included the fields of content management, archiving, collaboration and automation.

Reference story Media Broadcast: Always on Reception

Together with TIMETOACT, Media Broadcast is digitizing its processes to provide unprecedented transparency and reliability of services.

Electronic archiving system at EDEKA Südwest

After the independent merchants, we took care of self-operated grocery stores: In the meantime, TIMETOACT GROUP has digitized business records for 1,200 stores of EDEKA Südwest.

Talend migration in record time

TIMETOACT migrated the Talend Data Integration Suite, including all workflows and processes, to the internal system environment of the municipal utility (with a subscription license) within a very short period of time and will continue to provide support as a support partner in the future if required.

TIMETOACT simplifies reporting in IBM Cognos

In the course of modernizing the application for Bette GmbH & Co. KG, TIMETOACT individually expanded the filter and selection options in IBM Cognos to include important customer-specific functions. The family-owned company particularly benefits from the search and grouping function.

Flexibility in the data evaluation of a theme park

With the support of TIMETOACT, an theme park in Germany has been using TM1 for many years in different areas of the company to carry out reporting, analysis and planning processes easily and flexibly.

Automation lays the foundation for smooth archive changeover

For Rottendorf Pharma GmbH, the ECM experts of TIMETOACT GROUP have reattached all file attachments from the IBM archive to the corresponding e-mails in the mailing system. This was done automatically and with little manual effort using the specially developed Notes tool "ArchiveUsers".

Database technologies

Flexible, secure and fast database systems form the stable basis of your daily work. We manage your databases optimally.

Buchi Labortechnik AG: Successful migration to the cloud

The Swiss family-owned company Büchi is a global leader in laboratory technology solutions for research and development (R&D), quality assurance and production. By using Atlassian products such as Jira Software and Jira Service Management, the company can ensure modern project management and effective IT support. After implementing the Atlassian Suite, BÜCHI decided to migrate to the Atlassian Cloud with the support of catwork Switzerland.

Modern and user-friendly service portal

TIMETOACT implements a new service portal for FitX with Jira Service Management, replacing the former system in a short time. With the modern and user-friendly Atlassian tool, problems, malfunctions and damage can be easily reported and specifically processed in all 95 fitness studios in the future.

KBC – Replacing CA-TELON

Find out, how KBC replaced CA-TELON, saved maintenance costs and enabled innovation.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & Archiving

With Enterprise Content Management (ECM), all data, information and documents are stored, archived and managed in a context-related manner on a single platform. ECM systems offer numerous advantages for managing the increasing number of (un)structured electronic documents and data.

Decision Optimization

Mathematical algorithms enable fast and efficient improvement of partially contradictory specifications. As an integral part of the IBM Data Science platform "Cloud Pak for Data" or "IBM Watson Studio", decision optimisation has been decisively expanded and embedded in the Data Science process.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & Archiving

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & Archiving

Demand Planning, Forecasting and Optimization

After the data has been prepared and visualized via dashboards and reports, the task is now to use the data obtained accordingly. Digital planning, forecasting and optimization describes all the capabilities of an IT-supported solution in the company to support users in digital analysis and planning.

Central service monitoring at Vodafone

For over 15 years, TIMETOACT has maintained an IT partnership with Vodafone that is second to none.

AI & Digitization for the Transportation and Logistics Indus

Digitalisierung und Transparenz der Prozesse sowie automatisierte Unterstützung bei der Optimierung können Logistikunternehmen helfen, den Spagat zwischen Kosten und Leistung besser zu bewältigen, um langfristig als wertvoller Partner der Wirtschaft zu agieren.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & Archiving

Central Capacity Management for Sunrise

Know what's coming: TIMETOACT simplifies and centralizes Sunrise's network capacity management.

IBM Spectrum Protect

Spectrum Protect is the leading data protection solution from the American industry leader IBM. As TIMETOACT, we take a holistic view of cyber security and focus on building resilient IT and OT.

Viessmann

With over 12,300 employees, Viessmann's administrators have a handful to do. The self-service tool Advanced Admin supports them in the processing of daily tasks.

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation

The IBM Cloud Pak for Automation helps you automate manual steps on a uniform platform with standardised interfaces. With the Cloud Pak for Business Automation, the entire life cycle of a document or process can be mapped in the company.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

The Cloud Pak for Data acts as a central, modular platform for analytical use cases. It integrates functions for the physical and virtual integration of data into a central data pool - a data lake or a data warehouse, a comprehensive data catalogue and numerous possibilities for (AI) analysis up to the operational use of the same.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data System

With the Cloud Pak for Data System (CP4DS), IBM provides the optimal hardware for the use of all Cloud Pak for Data functions industry-wide and thus continues the series of ready-configured systems ("Appliance" or "Hyperconverged System").

edcom supports Stadtreinigung Hamburg

Stadtreinigung Hamburg completed a 12 month online project to migrate 1,500 email accounts from IBM Notes to Exchange/Outlook.

vdek introduces new Data Warehouse solution

The TIMETOACT GROUP supports the Verband der Ersatzkassen e. V. in the switch from a system environment to the latest IBM technology.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Test-Drive

By making our comprehensive demo and customer data platform available, we want to offer these customers a way to get a very quick and pragmatic impression of the technology with their data.

HCL license and price adjustments as of 8.8.2024

HCL Software has informed us that the license and maintenance prices for the various product categories will be increased as of 8.8.2024.

sehen!wutscher

With over 70 stores across Austria, sehen!wutscher is considered one of the largest opticians in the country. With CLOUDPILOTS, they also live precision and quality behind the scenes.

TIMETOACT implements integrated insurance software

Less than one year from project start to system implementation: TIMETOACT developed the integrated, browser-based insurance software "HERMES" for the VOV D&O insurance association. The cross-departmental individual software completely covers all core processes of the insurance company. Users particularly appreciate the intuitive user interface and the high performance of HERMES.

Recertification solution of FI-TS

With the support of TIMETOACT GROUP, the IT service provider succeeded in raising the quality of authorization recertification to a new level.

Inventory management with Jira and Confluence from Atlassian

The catworkx approach for lifecycle management of IT inventory: The lifecycle of the inventory is modeled as a specific Jira workflow and various inventory categories are mapped and managed as task types. Confluence is perfectly suited for the documentation.

IBM Cloud Pak for Application

The IBM Cloud Pak for Application provides a solid foundation for developing, deploying and modernising cloud-native applications. Since agile working is essential for a faster release cycle, ready-made DevOps processes are used, among other things.

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eXplain – Coaching Whitepaper Download

Mastering legacy transformation: coaching as a key discipline for consistent success.

TIMETOACT GROUP acquires Atlassian Partner catworkx

The acquisition is in line with the expansion of the consulting portfolio of TIMETOACT GROUP to become the leading Atlassian partner in the German-speaking region. The partnership between the two groups, which has already existed for some time, will now be merged and expanded under the umbrella of the TIMETOACT GROUP.

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eXplain – Partnering Whitepaper Download

PKS as a partner for IT service providers in order to be visible in the market in a sustainable and differentiating way.

Dresscode and eBagTag - Customized protective clothing

Bayer AG communicates with its customers in the field of Crop Science via online portals developed by TIMETOACT GROUP.

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Broadband cable monitoring at Kabel Deutschland

Agile to the goal: TIMETOACT launches a monitoring tool for Vodafone Kabel Deutschland: for more profitability. For more clarity. For satisfied customers.

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eXplain - Download code analysis whitepaper

eXplain - The tool for code analysis on the IBM i (AS400) & IBM Z (mainframe)

Consulting on the ivv collaboration strategy

The future collaboration of ivv is characterized by modern communication and collaboration tools. It is defined for cross-organizational work in association and with external parties.

novaCapta

Union Investment: Integrated Governance for M365

Union Investment chooses M365, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online on Azure - the most advanced cloud delivery platform for business use. Clear governance and user-oriented self-service features are provided by novaWorxx.