Tidal Software: Unified Workload Automation Platform

Enterprises around the world rely on SAP to power their business. While SAP’s ERP is certainly a mission-critical application, modern technology landscapes include a myriad of other systems that comprise end-to-end business processes. Organizations can improve their SAP operations by integrating process activities across systems and applications with workload automation. Although many SAP solutions have embedded tools for job scheduling, those tools have limitations. They can’t manage scheduling activities beyond the boundaries of SAP and lack robust functionality for complex schedules. Additionally, using disparate tools requires more time, increases costs and creates scheduling silos that impede an end-to-end view of progress across multiple stages in a business-critical process. Tackling these SAP challenges is Tidal Software with their leading enterprise workload automation platform that orchestrates the execution of complex workloads across systems and applications.

Tidal offers a comprehensive set of ERP integrations for SAP, including S/4HANA, and numerous other solutions from SAP such as Financial Closing Cockpit, Process Orchestration and Integrated Business Planning. In addition to integrating with SAP’s latest offerings, Tidal continues to support legacy solutions (e.g., SAP’s R/3 version) for customers who are unable to keep pace with SAP’s product releases – or for customers in a hybrid situation with a mix of legacy and newer SAP solutions. Tidal’s integrations for SAP are accomplished through pre-built, agentless adapters. With these adapters, the Tidal Automation platform takes control of the built-in schedulers and services in SAP applications to provide advanced scheduling functionality and centralized management of critical processes to ensure that they meet their SLAs.

Consolidating SAP scheduling activities with Tidal reduces total cost of ownership, eliminates silos and enables customers to monitor and achieve end-to-end optimization of all their business activities, not just SAP processes. Beyond SAP, customers can leverage Tidal to centrally manage their scheduling activities for other prominent technologies – such as the cloud, IT service management, data analytics and more – to optimize technology initiatives and investments. “Our workload automation capabilities improve SAP operations and overall enterprise processes. With Tidal, customers increase their organizational efficiency and performance against SLAs,” explains Rick McNees, CEO, Tidal Software.

The Tidal platform delivers exceptional scalability and resiliency for managing business-critical processes. It is designed with flexibility to run on-premises, in the cloud or hybrid environments. The platform can run jobs on physical and virtual servers as well as in cloud computing instances and containers. Tidal’s advanced user interface is secure, easy to learn, and can be shared with business, operations and application teams that want to monitor their own processes. It also integrates into enterprise application change management lifecycles, supporting CI/CD development processes and providing a complete record of changes to satisfy audit requirements.

Today, Tidal has nearly three decades of experience integrating their workload automation platform with SAP solutions. Tidal’s core philosophy is CustomerFIRST – an unmatched customer-centric approach that emphasizes communication, partnership, collaboration and exceptional technical support. Development efforts continue to focus on comprehensive coverage for the SAP portfolio, as well as integrating with the new technologies that enterprises are adopting as they transform their businesses. “Our investments to date and product roadmap both demonstrate Tidal’s commitment to keeping pace with customer requirements for the ever-evolving SAP solutions landscape. Our development has been customer-driven, responding to requests for integrations with other solutions in their SAP environment,” concludes McNees.