Case Studies (show)

Find out how Tideway's customers have used Tideway Foundation in their own environments to help cut cost and risk.

• Forrester Case Study - IT Services Provider
  A Europe-based IT services provider that has more than €4 billion in annual turnover, and more than 100,000 users from hundreds of clients, applied automated application discovery (AAD) to its application portfolio. What it found was disconcerting but also highly enabling. The bottom line? Based on a detailed, empirical understanding of its current state, this company was able to put in place an informed enterprise architecture for providing its services to its clients.
• A Leading Global Investment Bank
  Tideway Foundation helps ensure the bank’s vital business decisions are based on current and reliable operational data.
• Linklaters: A Leading Global Law Firm
  As a leading legal organisation, Linklaters depends heavily on accessing accurate information around the clock. Crucial to providing and storing this data is a robust and reliable IT infrastructure.

Datasheets (show)

Find out more about the technical aspects of Tideway Foundation and associated integrations to partner products.

• Tideway Knowledge Update Service
  Find out how Foundation stays up-to-date, and is able to recognise the newest product versions and technologies in the market.
• Tideway Foundation 7.2
  Key features and benefits of the latest release of Tideway Foundation 7.2 including a high level architecture diagram.
• Tideway Infrastructure Baseline Service
  If you’re looking for a fast and accurate way to baseline your data center before a project – Tideway’s baseline service may be the answer. This datasheet describes what you get from the service.

Demos (show)

Find out more about Tideway Foundation. These flash demos play in your browser window.

• Using Foundation for Software License Management
  Auditing how much software you have in use in the data center is a huge manual task. Tideway Foundation automates the process, giving an accurate count of software products and versions in use. This makes license negotiation easier, reduces the risk of under licensing, and identifies software that can be consolidated to save money.

Podcasts (show)

These are our downloadable Podcasts.

• Carphone Warehouse Podcast
  The Carphone Warehouse is Europe’s leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,400 stores in 9 countries. Carphone Warehouse had a bold vision, to create an internal ‘ERP for IT’ — a single system of record that would provide greater control over the IT estate while reducing costs and boosting efficiency. The comprehensive initiative relied on ITIL principles as well as implementation of a global CMDB. To realize this vision, Carphone Warehouse engaged Tideway to deliver an automated, accurate inventory of their estate that gave them the actionable intelligence needed to drive key IT initiatives like compliance, consolidation, license optimization, standardization and virtualization.
• EMA-Tideway Podcast - Infrastructure Baseline
  Listen to Martin McEvoy – Senior Consultant from Tideway and Dennis Drogseth from EMA discuss why a baseline is an essential start to any ITIL project.

Whitepapers (show)

Read in depth viewpoints from Tideway and leading analyst firms on how Tideway Foundation can help transform your IT organization.

• Data Center Optimization Whitepaper
  Find out how Tideway Foundation supports various data center optimization strategies.
• IT Outsourcers: Cutting the Cost of Service Transition
  Find out how to address the knowledge gap that causes Service Transition cost and time overruns.
• License Optimization
  Find out how to meter software usage accurately with Tideway’s new approach to license optimization.

Webinars (show)

Find out first-hand the successes that our customers have achieved in their own words. These on-demand webinars run directly in your browser using Flash. If you're not logged into the site already, you'll need to log in or register first.

• Carphone Warehouse Case Study Webinar
  The Carphone Warehouse is Europe’s leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,400 stores in 9 countries. Carphone Warehouse had a bold vision, to create an internal ‘ERP for IT’ — a single system of record that would provide greater control over the IT estate while reducing costs and boosting efficiency. The comprehensive initiative relied on ITIL principles as well as implementation of a global CMDB. To realize this vision, Carphone Warehouse engaged Tideway to deliver an automated, accurate inventory of their estate that gave them the actionable intelligence needed to drive key IT initiatives like compliance, consolidation, license optimization, standardization and virtualization.
• Forrester Research - Get Your Assets Covered
  Hear from featured guest speakers, Evelyn Hubbert, senior analyst from Forrester Research and Kosten Metreweli, VP Product Marketing at Tideway as they share ways to “Cover Your Assets” to improve IT efficiency. They explore: optimization of server resources with intelligence on the power consumption, heat output and rack space; mapping the carbon footprint of a distributed business application and ensuring end-of-life, unsupported software is not being used in production applications.
• Dresdner Kleinwort Case Study Webinar
  John Bratkovics, Global Head of Networks, Voice, and Collaboration Technologies and Head of Infrastructure Americas, from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein discusses how they have used Tideway Foundation to help cut cost and risk from their global IT infrastructure.
• IT Outsourcer Case Study Webinar
  Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how a leading European outsourcer used Tideway Foundation to accelerate and de-risk the service transition phase of a major outsourcing project. You can also download a whitepaper on how Tideway Foundation helps IT outsourcers from the whitepapers section, and a Forrester Research case study from the case studies section.
• JPMorgan Case Study Webinar
  Watch this on-demand webinar to find out how JPMorgan are using Tideway Foundation to improve their ability to charge back for shared services.

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