• Forthcoming Workshops: Using Microsoft Excel for Effective Capacity & Performance Management, London & Edinburgh
• Latest Training Course Calendar
• New Article: IBM Mainframe Capacity & Performance Management
• New Article: Microsoft Excel - The Capacity Planners' Tool of Choice
• New Article: An Interview with Andy Bolton on Capacity Planning Tools
• Presentations given at UKCMG 2006 Annual Conference

Using Microsoft Excel for Effective Capacity & Performance Management

Capacity and performance practitioners traditionally used SAS to undertake analysis and reporting. However, Microsoft Excel is widely available but its capabilities are surprisingly underused, especially its ability to analyse and report on capacity and performance data. This seminar gives practical advice on how to undertake a multitude of tasks using Excel. The workshop is platform independent, using various sources of data in demonstrations, and focuses on providing a value-for-money approach to capacity and performance analytical tools. Topics covered include pivot tables, filtering, batch modelling, surface plots, forecasting functions, automation and charts.

Feedback from attendees of previous events can be found by following this link. This workshop will cost £450+VAT. Those registered on or before 20th September will quality for a discount of £100+VAT. To register please email Excel for Capacity and Performance Workshop, or call 020 7841 7431. More details...

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Please click on the above links to review the course descriptions or email us at Capacitas Training. More details...

IBM Mainframe Capacity & Performance Management

It is often said that the discipline of Capacity and Performance Management (CPM), along with other traditional service management processes, grew out of the management of the IBM Mainframe. This may or may not be true; however, this article looks at what sets this platform aside from others from a CPM viewpoint, instrumentation and workload management. More details...

Microsoft Excel - The Capacity Planners' Tool of Choice

When one attends IT industry user groups, e.g. UKCMG, the choice of software tools can be bewildering and the costs associated with them potentially prohibitive. Fortunately Microsoft Excel can be used for the analytical, automation and presentation tasks that make up the majority of the CPM practitioner's working day. More details...

An Interview with Andy Bolton on Capacity Planning Tools

Andy Bolton, Chief Executive Officer, Capacitas, was interviewed by Drew Robb, freelance journalist, for Building a Model Infrastructure published in ComputerWorld. This material was also used for Capacity Planning: Art, Science or Magic published on EarthWeb. More details...

Please see our Research section for a selection of white papers, presentations and articles on various areas of performance assurance and capacity management.

Capacitas staff presented on the following topics at the UKCMG 2006 Annual Conference in June 2006:

• A Ten-Step Plan to Effective Capacity Management
  (Neil McMenemy & Andy Bolton)
• Cost-Effective Capacity Modelling: A Real-Life Case Study
  (Paul Seaton-Smith)

The presentation material is available on our website Research area.

Recent customers of Capacitas include: BSkyB, easyJet, Prudential and Yahoo!. For more details on what some of our customers have to say about us please have a look at our Testimonials page.

Capacitas and easyJet: A Success Story

Low-fares airline easyJet has, since 1998, delivered exceptional value to its customers by pioneering online booking of air travel. In addition to reducing operational costs the internet has grown rapidly to become the company’s primary sales channel, with over 98% of sales delivered via the easyJet.com portal. As easyJet grew it recognised the need to adopt a robust capacity management process and tool to ensure future revenues were realised. Read more...

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