How Much Can Tideway
Foundation Save Me?

How Much Can I Save with Tideway Foundation?

Tideway Foundation pays for itself - sometimes in as little as 30 days! With a single system of record for all physical and virtual assets you can rapidly identify opportunities for cost savings in hardware (eliminating excess, orphan or zombie servers) and software. A comprehensive and accurate and automated view of "Application Topology" enables better change management decisions and faster recovery when incidents occur. This 360-degree view of applications and infrastructure helps you uncover potential risk (unnecessary vulnerabilities in the infrastructure or areas where you’re out of compliance). And, Foundation automates what is today, a manual and vastly inaccurate process.

Tideway Foundation Return-on-Investment (ROI) Analysis

Total Savings
NPV

How much money can Tideway Foundation save your organization? In aggregate, we’ve saved our customers well over half a billion dollars. This ROI calculator can help you gauge the potential savings in your environment. This example highlights the ROI for a customer using the Tideway Gold packaged service to implement Foundation for a data center with 1,000 servers. Results are evaluated over four years. Roll over the icons for more information on each line-item. You can also use your own numbers!

The Detailed Savings

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Foundation Cost Savings Analysis Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Removed decommissioned servers
Refreshed servers
Power savings
Reduction in failed change rate & fix time
Business application modelling
Automated audits
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Foundation Cost Avoidance Analysis Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Reduction in major incidents
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Foundation Investment Analysis Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
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With ROI like this, it’s clear why Tideway clients call our implementations 'self-funding initiatives'!

Our Assumptions

We've made some assumptions about the savings you can achieve with Foundation, based on our experience and that of industry experts. It’s not possible to adjust these assumptions in this online calculator, but if you are interested in a customized ROI analysis, please contact us and we can tweak the model based on your needs.
Our Experience Tells Us:
Time to fully audit a server   1 hour
Time to audit service map dependencies per server   1 hour
Expected decommissioned servers   2.6%  
Expected obsolete equipment needing refresh   3.6%  
Expected unsupported operating systems   0.6%  
Expected unknown security flaws   1.8%  
Expected network/server misconfigurations   2.9%  
CMDB starting data quality level   75%  
Faults caused by poor change process   80%  
Faults eliminated through higher Data Quality   25%  
Reduction in change remediation time   30%  
Changes per server   4.4 per year