Tidal Automation
Tidal Automation centrally manages job scheduling across business, operations, and IT processes.
What Tidal Automation is
Tidal Automation centrally manages job scheduling across business, operations, and IT processes. It can run on premises or in the cloud while coordinating workloads hosted in either environment. Schedules may follow times and calendars or respond to file arrivals and database changes. The system monitors activity, sends event alerts, and can begin recovery actions after failures. Users can define SLA policies for critical jobs and receive real-time warnings when work is at risk or past its SLA. Tidal lists more than 40 prebuilt integrations, including AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and ServiceNow. An API and CLI connect application targets across environments. Security options include directory authentication, password-vault integrations, role-based access, and policy management. Reports, dashboard charts, Tidal Explorer analytics, and an APM Data Stream provide operational views. A mobile app monitors schedules, queues, and logs and allows job overrides, holds, stops, releases, and resumes. Pricing is available on request.
Good
- Runs workloads on premises or in the cloud
- Supports time-based and event-based scheduling
- Offers more than 40 prebuilt integrations
- Includes SLA alerts and recovery actions
- Mobile app provides job controls
Watch out
- Pricing is available only on request
- No free plan is offered
- Downloading requires a support-portal login and service contract
- Production support requires a support plan
Who it suits
It suits organizations coordinating scheduled workloads across on-premises and cloud environments. Teams needing SLA monitoring, integrations, recovery actions, and mobile job controls may find its feature set relevant.
Verdict
Tidal Automation provides centralized scheduling, monitoring, SLA tracking, and recovery across mixed environments. Its integrations, security controls, reporting, and mobile operations support are aimed at enterprise workload coordination.
Plans and prices
From Tidal Automation's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Tidal Automation | Priced on request | Enterprise workload automation · custom configuration |
The facts
Each one read from Tidal Automation's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API and CLI
- Tidal offers an API and CLI for integrating application targets and orchestrating targets on premises or in the cloud.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Download access
- Downloading Tidal Automation requires logging into the support portal and having a valid service contract associated with the profile.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- Tidal can run on premises or in the cloud, and can run workloads hosted in either environment.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker says Tidal has more than 40 pre built integrations and lists vendors including AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and ServiceNow.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Mobile access
- The mobile app provides schedule, queue and log monitoring and lets users override, hold, stop, release or resume jobs.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Monitoring and recovery
- Tidal monitors scheduling activity, can alert on events, and can initiate recovery actions when a job fails.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Tidal Automation centrally manages and controls job scheduling across business, operations and IT processes.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- Tidal provides out of the box reports, dashboard charts, Tidal Explorer analytics and an APM Data Stream for operational data.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Scheduling
- It supports time based and event based scheduling, including calendars, file arrival events and database changes.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- Tidal supports enterprise directory authentication, password vault integrations, role based access control and policy management.checked 9 Oct 2026
- SLA tracking
- Users can define SLA policies for critical jobs, with real time monitoring and alerts for jobs at risk or past their SLAs.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- All support plans include 24/7/365 technical assistance for production environments and direct access to Level 2 support engineers.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Supported environments
- Official installation documentation lists Windows and Unix for the Master and Windows, Linux and Solaris among agent downloads.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Company history
- The maker says its workload automation history began in 1979, and Tidal Software was acquired by Redwood Software in 2023.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1979checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Vienna, Virginia, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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