Tivoli Software encompasses a set of products originally developed by Tivoli Systems Inc.

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bought the company and ran the operation as its Tivoli Software division. Additional products were acquired and run under the Tivoli portfolio brand. IBM began phasing out use of the Tivoli brand in 2013 and by 2016 had moved the portfolio products into a revised and rebranded hierarchy.

History

Tivoli Systems Inc. was founded in

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in 1989 by Bob Fabbio and quickly joined by Peter Valdes, Todd Smith and Steve Marcie; all were former

employees. Bob Fabbio in an interview indicated the purpose was to provide systems management on systems from a diverse set of vendors while at IBM he had been directed to focus on IBM products only. As an

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Tivoli Systems developed and sold Tivoli Management Environment (TME) "

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and services. The then CEO Frank Moss saw the company listed on

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in March 1995 and the subsequent merger into IBM in 1996. At the start of 2002, Tivoli Systems Inc, became Tivoli Software, a brand within IBM. IBM initially grew the software portfolio under the Tivoli brand through

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and acquisition. There are some thoughts this may have resulted in the brand containing a large set of overlapping and marginal products In April 2013 IBM renamed "Tivoli Software" Division to " Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure". IBM moved away from the Tivoli brand as exemplified by the explicit rebranding of Tivoli Storage Manager to IBM Spectrum Protect and the renaming of IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler to IBM Workload Scheduler as of release 9.3.

Market position

According to IT analyst research firm

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, Inc., IBM in 2012 owned the largest share of the "IT Operations Management" software market, with an 18%

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. IBM was also the leading provider of Enterprise Asset Management software, for the 7th consecutive year, according t
ARC Advisory Group
a research analyst firm for industry and infrastructure.

Service management segments

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segments related to the Tivoli brand software and services included the following: * Virtualization Management * Storage Management *

IT Service Management Information technology service management (ITSM) are the activities performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control IT services offered to customers. Differing from more technology-oriented IT management approach ...

Application Performance Management In the fields of information technology and systems management, application performance management (APM) is the monitoring and management of the performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to detect and diagnose complex appli ...

Network Management Network management is the process of administering and managing computer networks. Services provided by this discipline include fault analysis, performance management, provisioning of networks and maintaining quality of service. Network managem ...

* System and Workload Automation * Server,

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Mobile Device Management Mobile device management (MDM) is the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops. MDM is usually implemented with the use of a third-party product that has management features for particular vendors of ...

Security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, or any other entity or ...

* Enterprise Asset Management *

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List of IBM Tivoli products

Tivoli products and integration platforms

IBM Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager

Tivoli Management Framework

Tivoli Management Framework (TMF) is a

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-based

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and

network management Network management is the process of administering and managing computer networks. Services provided by this discipline include fault analysis, performance management, provisioning of networks and maintaining quality of service. Network managem ...

framework. It allows administrators to manage large numbers of remote locations or devices. In the early years of TMF's lifecycle it was a pre-requisite to several other key Tivoli components. With IBM's adoption and promotion of other non-TMF based products, such as Micromuse Netcool Omnibus in February 2006 and the increasing general acceptance of

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in preference to CORBA meant TMF entered the latter stages of

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. The final independent release version of TMF was 4.1.1 with release 4.3.1 supplied with and to Tivoli Configuration Manager 4.3.1 in 2008.

Tivoli Service Request Manager

Tivoli Service Request Manager manages configuration items (CI) and critical assets. It was previously known as Maximo Service Desk.

Netcool/OMNIbus

IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus operations management software consolidates complex IT and network operation management tasks as the primary event management platform within the suite.