Tidal’s Integrated Suite: The Future of Cloud Migration

Beyond Technical Challenges: A Business-First Approach

Cloud migration is a rapidly growing market, projected to reach $1.3 trillion in 2025 (Gartner). Yet, 74% of migrations exceed budget and timeline expectations (IDC).

Why? Because cloud migration isn’t just a technical shift—it’s a strategic business transformation requiring coordinated planning across applications, infrastructure, networks, and finances.

That’s why Tidal goes beyond traditional migration tools, offering a comprehensive, data-driven platform that ensures your cloud strategy delivers measurable financial and operational impact from day one.

Simply put: Cloud migrations are hard. Tidal makes them easy.

Real-World Impact: Financial Services Success Story

A mid-sized financial services firm with 500+ applications and strict regulatory requirements needed to exit their data center while modernizing their infrastructure. Using Tidal’s integrated platform, they:

✅ Identified $4.2M in annual savings through strategic application modernization

✅ Reduced migration planning time from 4 months to 6 weeks

✅ Maintained regulatory compliance throughout their cloud journey

✅ Achieved 25% lower cloud costs than initially projected

How Tidal’s Integrated Suite Enabled Their Success

Tidal Calculator

What it does: Instantly models the financial impact of various cloud migration scenarios, turning infrastructure data into actionable directional business cases.

Business impact: Identifies potential savings with TCO analysis, projecting 30%+ cost reduction over five years.

Key differentiator: Unlike basic cloud calculators, Tidal takes an application-centric approach, mapping workloads to business services rather than just infrastructure components.

Value proposition: “Increase agility while lowering costs for faster value realization”

Why it matters: Many companies fall into the “lift-and-shift-then-optimize trap,” delaying cost savings and cloud-native benefits. Tidal Calculator helps avoid this pitfall by showcasing the return on investment of optimization and modernization upfront.

For the financial firm: Calculator identified 42% projected cost savings, highlighting the business case for modernization and securing executive buy-in with clear ROI justification.

Tidal Accelerator

What it does: Provides a data-driven application assessment and migration strategy recommendation that aligns cost, performance, and organizational goals.

Business impact: Cuts migration planning time from months to weeks through automated assessments and structured workflows.

Key differentiator: Accelerator intelligently recommends the best migration strategy for each workload—whether rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, or retire.

Value proposition: “Move smarter, modernize faster - Maximize your migration project ROI” Why it matters: By analyzing application dependencies and business priorities, Accelerator ensures each migration wave is optimized for both cost and efficiency.

For the financial services firm: Accelerator discovered 50+ critical application deficiencies that were not captured in their CMDB and identified legacy systems ideal for containerization—reducing risk while accelerating modernization.

Tidal LightMesh

What it does: LightMesh simplifies and automates IP address management (IPAM) for seamless cloud networking.

Business impact: Enhances network visibility, prevents misconfigurations, and reduces manual effort.

Key differentiator: Bridges the gap between planned and live networks with real-time synchronization to cloud services and on-premises networks alike.

Value proposition: “Ensure your network is ready for migration”

Why it matters: Working alongside Accelerator’s migration planning, LightMesh ensures applications move into cloud environments that are already configured for scalability and compliance.

For the financial services firm: LightMesh helped them manage 8,000+ IP addresses, identify potential conflicts, and automate subnet planning for their AWS landing zones—maintaining security and compliance throughout migration.

Tidal Saver

What it does: Provides development teams with VM and database scheduling across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, without requiring access to the cloud consoles or APIs.

Business impact: Saver reduces cloud costs by up to 70% through automated scheduling and real-time cost monitoring.

Key differentiator: Fast to setup. Easy to use, graphical UI for managing calendars of schedules across multiple teams and cloud environments.

Value proposition: “Turn cloud efficiency into competitive advantage”

Why it matters: As part of Tidal’s integrated suite, Saver works alongside Calculator, Accelerator, and LightMesh to continuously refine cloud efficiency from initial planning to ongoing operations.

For the financial firm: Saver identified $350,000 in annual savings through resource scheduling and rightsizing, ensuring the promised TCO benefits materialized

The Power of Integration: Force Multiplying Your Cloud Transformation

What sets Tidal apart isn’t just its individual components—it’s how they seamlessly integrate across the migration lifecycle. This integration delivers:

End-to-End Data Flow

Calculator’s financial models feed directly into Accelerator’s planning
Accelerator’s application dependency mapping feeds into move group planning which integrates with migration tooling, like Azure Migrate and RiverMeadow
Saver’s optimization maintains the efficiency that begins with Calculator

Cross-Product Orchestration

When Calculator identifies savings opportunities, Accelerator shows exactly how to achieve them
Once in the cloud, Saver maintains the promised TCO reductions

Unified Data Model

Every Tidal product operates on a unified data model for applications, infrastructure, and costs
Changes in Accelerator or Calculator instantly update in the corresponding platform, eliminating silos
Teams work from the same source of truth, enabling better decisions

The Overall Impact: A Future-Proof Cloud Strategy

With Tidal, the financial firm turned a high-risk, high-cost migration into a strategic success. By leveraging Tidal’s integrated suite, they:

🚀 Cut migration planning time by 75%

💰 Saved $4.2M annually through modernization

⚡ Eliminated $350K in wasted cloud spend with automated resource optimization

The result? A faster, cost-effective, and scalable cloud transformation—delivered on time and built for future innovation.

Strategic Partnerships

Tidal’s strategic partnerships with AWS and Microsoft provide customers with additional advantages:

AWS-funded Optimization and Modernization Assessment (OMA) Program

Helps uncover modernization opportunities, overcome roadblocks, and accelerate your journey to becoming cloud-native. The program includes specialized migration readiness assessments and technical validation workshops, with assessment costs often fully covered by AWS. With a 75% success rate—more than double the industry average—OMA is a proven accelerator for cloud optimization.

Microsoft Azure Migration Program Integration

Enables streamlined planning and execution for Azure migrations with specialized tooling for Microsoft workloads. Tidal integrates with Azure Migrate, extending a customer’s server discovery into actionable and transformative cloud adoption programs. These partnerships ensure Tidal customers benefit from the latest cloud innovations while maximizing their investment in cloud technology.

Why Tidal? The Integrated Advantage

While competitors offer standalone tools that create information silos, Tidal delivers one of the most comprehensively integrated platforms in the industry, spanning your entire migration journey—from initial assessment to long-term optimization. This approach eliminates the gaps where time, money, and opportunities are typically lost.

For enterprises facing complex cloud migrations, Tidal provides the clarity, confidence, and control needed to transform migration challenges into business advantages.

Tidal doesn’t just help you navigate to the cloud—we ensure you thrive once you’re there.