RiverMuse was founded in 2008 by Phil Tee, Fred Mutavdzic and, Mike Silvey, who each have have a 20 year track record in Network Management.

RiverMuse is the open source alternative to commoditised fault management solutions: enterprise consoles, event correlation and topology discovery and monitoring.

Combining RiverMuse's OpenMOS [Open Management Operating System] with a community of open source developers, will enable operations management customers, whether systems, network, applications or serice oriented, to benefit from the availability of an enterprise-class platform delivering class-leading functionality with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry, all for a fraction of the price of the legacy solutions in the market today.

Saddened by the fact that, while there has been no new innovation in Fault Management software since SMARTs and Riversoft in 1998 and, market consolidation has enabled a clutch of major vendors to price gouge a captive customer base, we decided to deliver a fault management solution that surpasses the functionality of all the commercial platforms, (IBM Tivoli Netcool, HP OpenView Operations / TeMIP, and Microsoft MoM), offers the lowest license costs and TCO in history, while delivering the best implementation and administration experience.

We plan on transforming the Network Management market by innovating features and functionality that deliver the best user experience imaginable and change the economics of the user community, not only in terms of the investment in cash and resources required to commission and maintain fault management solutions but also with respect their adaptability to changes in the managed infrastructure and business process integration demands.

RiverMuse Team

RiverMuse is built by a team of original founders of Micromuse® and RiverSoft® (now owned by IBM and marketed as IBM Tivoli Netcool Omnibus and Precision/IP Manager, Cisco InfoCenter and HP OpenView Advanced Edition). Combined, the team have over 60 years experience in Fault Management, Enterprise Consoles, Event Management and Correlation, Layer Independent Topology Discovery Containment and Root Cause Analysis.

RiverMuse has the most experienced Fault Management team in the industry.

• Chief Science Officer: Philip Tee – Co-Founder of Micromuse/CTO, Founder of RiverSoft/CTO & Chairman, Early software designer Avantgarde (Boole & Babbage/BMC Event Manager)
• Chief Technology Officer: Predrag [Fred] Mutavdzic – Architect Netcool Mediation Technologies, Micromuse
• Executive Director: Mike Silvey – Co-Founder of Micromuse/SVP Marketing and Business Development, VP Business Development and Marketing at RiverSoft.

Why Offer RiverMuse as OpenSource?

Well, although we are here to make profits, we’ve made RiverMuse Open Source because we actually believe that the core functionality of Fault Management should be a commodity component of operations infrastructure processes. We feel that some vendors have taken advantage of the fact that there is no competition in the market to use Fault Management as a Tax on their customers, in the form of increasing license, maintenance and services revenues, without delivering correspondingly increasing capability and value.

• RiverMuse has a clearly defined roadmap, performance goals, scalability and targets and threshold of robustness.
• The RiverMuse platform uses proven open source infrastructure components including rsyslog and MySQL.
• RiverMuse has a modern state-of-the art data and application architecture with innovations such as Unified Event Tags, Transportable Business Logic, an Open Network Management Operating System (OpenMOS) core, and support for multiple core processors with multi-threaded instruction processing.
• Accountability: RiverMuse is Professional Open Source, backed by a team with a clear track record in customer support, a history of listening to customers and reacting to their requirements and issues in a manner that reflects the nature of the business they support.
• Cost of Ownership: We believe that RiverMuse will cost less than 20% to own than its 20+ year old legacy competitors while offering a more coherent platform with a better user experience than the open source Element Management tools.