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ASG and Tideway Partner

Published: July 9, 2008

The partnership allows ASG to sell Tideway Foundation as a fully integrated and functional component of ASG’s MetaCMDB.

ASG Software Solutions, the originator of ASG’s Business Service Platform (BSP), a true platform for Business Service Management (BSM) and ASG’s MetaCMDB, recently announced its partnership with Tideway to provide customers with a single solution for complete discovery of both packaged and custom applications in mainframe and distributed environments. The partnership allows ASG to sell Tideway Foundation as a fully integrated and functional component of ASG’s MetaCMDB, automatically discovering and mapping run time infrastructure to business applications, enabling the clear alignment of business and IT.

Tideway is a recognized leader in mapping application relationships to physical and virtual infrastructure, including the critical dependencies that exist between these elements. ASG is not only an industry leader in application portfolio management with its powerful ASG–becubic product, but is also a major innovator in CMDB technology with its MetaCMDB, which features ASG–Rochade technology. The combination of the technologies from Tideway and ASG creates a complete CMDB solution that is unparalleled in the marketplace.

According to a report by Glenn O’Donnell, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., “the configuration management database (CMDB) is a major topic for IT operations professionals, as maturing IT organizations now comprehend its pivotal role in operational process initiatives such as ITIL.” And as this technology type and vendor landscape continues to mature, O’Donnell writes, “there will be no competitive differentiation in the data held or exchanged, only in how the vendor assembles and leverages such data. Expect the big four…to move more slowly than smaller, nimble players…such as ASG and Tideway."