It’s All About Data Quality

We believe quality is at the heart of sound change and configuration management. Any source of configuration information needs to be unimpeachable for IT staff to trust it and use it. That means maximum coverage of data center technologies with granular, traceable configuration detail, updated on a daily basis. Tall order?

The Flexibility of Patterns

Template-based discovery solutions are too rigid and simplistic for today’s rapidly changing IT infrastructures. Tideway Foundation™ uses pattern matching technology to distinguish everything from the simplest running software process to the most complex business applications imaginable.

Patterns naturally capture a sequence of discovery steps that branch intelligently according to need. Patterns are able to run commands, interrogate files and perform registry, WMI or XPath queries to obtain detailed configuration information – information which then guides subsequent steps of the discovery process. Patterns ensure that Foundation adapts easily to new technologies without changes to the core code. This flexibility allows Foundation to quickly recognize home-grown software and business applications. Combined with Foundation’s unique data provenance features, it’s easy to tell how, when and why any attribute of any CI has been set.

Keeping it all Up-to-Date

Tideway constantly creates new and updated patterns for common infrastructure technologies and business applications – so you don’t have to. These new patterns are delivered to Foundation via the Tideway Knowledge Update Service.

What does this mean to you? Maximum coverage of your IT estate, flexibility to model your own applications, minimum manual maintenance, and best of all – data you can trust.

Patterns model everything from the simplest running software to the most complex business applications.

Recent Pattern Updates

Sun Cluster New – Identify Sun Cluster instances with cluster nodes and full version information

IBM Lotus Notes Domino Server Identify instances with full version information, partition and domain information

The Industry View

“For executives trying to make sense of a rapidly changing business environment, superiority in pattern recognition is perhaps the greatest competitive advantage that can be developed.” Harvard Business Review, November 2007