Tideway Systems Launches Tideway Foundation 7.0 By VSM News Staff published: Monday, October 29 2007
Innovative Pattern-Based Reasoning Engine Accelerates Complex Application Modeling and Delivers Industry’s First Data Provenance Capability
October 29, 2007, NEW YORK and LONDON – Tideway Systems, an independent leader in IT automation, today announced the availability of Tideway Foundation™ 7.0. The next-generation architecture and a new, pattern-based reasoning engine power Foundation 7.0’s unique ability to model business-critical applications in dynamic IT environments, helping enterprises better respond to changing data center requirements. Foundation is also first to offer Data Provenance, a definitive chain of evidence that relates each configuration item (CI) and attribute to its source, ensuring data quality can be trusted.
Based on client demand and collaboration with key customers, Foundation 7.0 offers enhanced reasoning and recognition capabilities that make it easier to manage change based on an “as is” model of precisely which infrastructure components are supporting critical business applications. The superior flexibility enables Tideway, its partners and customers to model custom and packaged software with complex architectures and behaviors - a task historically difficult to achieve with the traditional template-based approach to dependency mapping.
Jean-Pierre Garbani, senior analyst with Forrester Research and an advocate of solutions that enable IT organizations to manage change and keep costs to a minimum, wrote in his April 2007 report titled “The Key to IT Business Alignment is in Operations,” “In high-performing IT organizations, only 5% of operational expenses are attributable to unplanned work. These organizations have excellent insight into potential trouble spots and can proactively address risks before being forced to reactively solve IT problems. In most large organizations today, between 25% and 45% of operational expenses goes to unplanned work."
Foundation 7.0 allows IT organizations to apply best practices in change management and keep unplanned work to a minimum by providing a 360-degree view of the IT estate. This unique feature automatically generates a chain of evidence that links configuration items and associated attributes to their sources, providing unparalleled transparency. With greater confidence in the underlying data, Tideway Foundation ensures information is easily verified and therefore actionable.
“Tideway models complex business applications at the speed of configuration, not code, delivering faster time-to-value,” said Richard Muirhead, CEO and founder of Tideway Systems. “IT professionals are no longer forced to work in a blind spot, managing change based on data that is too often incomplete and unauthenticated. With Foundation 7.0, firms can leverage a shared platform to help cut costs, reduce operational risk, and rapidly respond to business change.”
About Tideway Systems
Tideway Systems provides a shared platform for technologists to visualize and report on the data they need to make informed decisions. Tideway Foundation™ software continuously maps application relationships to physical and virtual infrastructure, including the dependencies between them. This single, automated view of application topology enables enterprises to cut costs, reduce risk and better manage change. Tideway is rated as a category leader by prominent analyst firms. Clients include Dresdner Kleinwort, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), ING, Linklaters and Mizuho Bank. For more information, visit www.tideway.com.
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