Friday, 24 November 2006

Tidal Announces Intersperse 6.0, Aims at Simplification of SOA Applications

Tidal Software, a provider of application scheduling and performance management software has unveiled Tidal Intersperse 6.0, for monitoring and managing SOA solutions based on Java and .NET. According to the company, with Intersperse 6.0, Tidal Software...

Tidal Software, a provider of application scheduling and performance management software has unveiled Tidal Intersperse 6.0, for monitoring and managing SOA solutions based on Java and .NET. According to the company, with Intersperse 6.0, Tidal Software brings to SOA performance management detailed transaction tracing that can readily capture transaction flow inside components, between tiers, and across application servers for monitoring and management in production environments.

The company boasts by saying that the release leverages detailed transaction tracing to build composite SLAs, enabling proactive performance management in the business context across the multiple applications and servers that are often involved in composite SOA applications. Intersperse 6.0 delivers a customisable user interface to provide a visual, role-based display of the wide range of information needed for managing SOA deployments. And with this release, Intersperse 6.0 now supports Tomcat and SAP NetWeaver and offers expanded coverage for WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, and .NET, the company added.

While SOA makes the creation of rich, composite applications possible, it has introduced new complexities in managing the operation of these dynamic systems. Traditional systems management tools that approach the problem from either a server or network centric view do not have the fine grain visibility into the composite SOA application to be able to proactively pinpoint the performance problems in the business process context, the company continued.

"Management of the new enterprise applications requires a greater level of insight through consolidation and visualisation of a large amount of complex information," said Will Cappelli, research vice president at Gartner. "Fine grain monitoring at each server leaves administrators to infer much about the health of a system from observing each of its parts. Effective management of these composite applications will benefit from detailed visibility into the flow of transactions across servers and applications."

Tidal Intersperse 6.0 is in general availability today. Currently licensed customers who are under maintenance are entitled to free upgrade to Intersperse 6.0.