Blue Hill typically saves customers more than 20%. We have achieved even greater savings, as much as 40%. There are many factors that influence the amount of savings, such as the types of IBM products you use, staffing, and third party software products.

Many of our customers are either moving away from the mainframe or have applications that will not work with newer releases of the OS. Unlike others, Blue Hill does not dictate the OS release you run on, you do. Upgrades, if desired, are done on your schedule, not ours.

At times, you may run on a dedicated mainframe, however, typically, customers are placed in a dedicated LPAR and given all the MIPS, DASD and tape resources required to run your applications. This gives Blue Hill the greatest leverage to be able to offer you better pricing.

There are always exceptions to the rule, however, typically Blue Hill will use our IBM software licenses. This allows us to give you the best possible pricing. Most ISV (third party) software licenses will remain in your name. Since you have already purchased them, the most economical thing to do is to continue to pay the maintenance fees. In some cases where we do have a license or a replacement product, we will offer that to you. Many times this creates an additional costs savings.

Blue Hill will work with you to understand how your work is currently being accomplished and what is the best approach to staffing. We can provide all systems programming and operations support. This approach typically yields the greatest cost savings to our customers. We usually encourage our customers to retain the production control responsibilities, however Blue Hill can handle that as well if desired.

Blue Hill offers both traditional tape backup and restore and high availability disaster recovery. Many of our mainframe customers already have a subscription-based disaster recovery service, however, Blue Hill can replace that service with our dedicated offering. We provide dedicated resources (MIPS, DASD, TAPE etc…) in our Branchburg, NJ back-up and recovery facility. Blue Hill will work with you to develop a plan that gives you the RPO and RTO you require and test the plan on an annual or semi-annual basis as required.

A typical mainframe migration takes 45-60 days. Blue Hill has completed migrations in 30 days when required, however, on average, 45-60 days gives us plenty of time to build and test the environment, as well as conduct end-user testing.

Blue Hill offers flexible contract terms to meet the specific needs of our customers. A majority of our contracts range from 3-5 years, with options to renew. However, Blue Hill offers shorter terms as well if necessary.