Competition is intense, budgets are limited, resources are stretched, but profits must increase – these are the challenges companies face today. When it comes to managing mainframe networks and applications that process your business-critical data, these challenges translate into lowering IT operational costs, reducing risks, optimizing productivity and offering added value to your client-base. To maximize the investment in mainframe systems, IT management solutions must be high quality, simple to implement, cost effective and deliver outstanding results quickly.

ZEN, a suite of specialized management tools for z/OS networks developed by William Data Systems (WDS), meets the high-demands required for optimal business service. ZEN offers a breadth of targeted components aimed to meet your unique needs. They can be implemented individually or together to create specific network management solutions that support your z/OS network management needs efficiently, easily and with minimal investment.

The suite consists of solutions that boost network performance and security:  ZEN FRAMEWORK, a central interface which enables users to seamlessly integrate and easily operate tools, and a selection of specialized components that provide network performance management, monitoring, alerting, tracing, reporting and security. ZEN components are critical to maintaining business continuity and service levels for z/OS networks.