AVIcode’s .NET Application Monitoring Software Will Ship With Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

AVIcode’s .NET Application Monitoring Software Will Ship With Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Intercept Studio .NET Management Pack Delivers Real-time Health Monitoring for Custom .NET Applications

Redmond, WA and Baltimore, MD – Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and AVIcode, Inc. today announced that the Operations Edition of Intercept Studio®, AVIcode’s industry-leading .NET application monitoring software for the Microsoft® .NET Framework, will be distributed with Microsoft Operations Manager® 2005 (MOM 2005). Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005 will be distributed as the Microsoft .NET Management Pack from the MSDN® web site and from the MOM 2005 web site beginning July 2005. With its availability, MOM 2005 will become the complete platform for managing .NET Framework applications, allowing customers to establish enterprise standards for monitoring the health of ASP.NET, Web Services and .NET remoting applications.
Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005 provides real-time, in-production monitoring of custom .NET applications. Through the combination of Microsoft’s industry-leading Web services oriented architecture, the manageability of Windows Server System technologies using MOM 2005, and the application management features of Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005, operations managers will have unsurpassed insight and control over the health and performance enterprise systems.
"Intercept Studio Operations Edition provides real-time application monitoring, enabling operations managers to have the specific information they need to know about health and service level performance of applications in production, which is a core component of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative, a commitment to help IT teams capture and use knowledge to design more manageable and automated IT systems." said Felicity McGourty, director in the Windows and Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft. "Combined with MOM 2005, users now have a comprehensive ability to monitor system health and performance."
"AVIcode is committed to providing the most advanced real-time, in-production application monitoring available in the industry," said Mike Curreri, CEO of AVIcode. "With the delivery of Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005, we have worked closely with Microsoft to provide a solution that of unparalleled system health monitoring capability."

With a rich set of capabilities that are tightly integrated with MOM 2005, Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005 provides visibility into the performance and behavior of deployed .NET applications, significantly reducing troubleshooting and maintenance costs. For customers desiring end-to-end integration with Visual Studio, AVIcode also provides Intercept Studio Enterprise Edition. This full-featured product delivers complete error and performance bottleneck analysis, including line of source code root-cause analysis with functional parameters, member variables, local functional variables; and availability, performance and reliability reports for line-of-business applications.

Rich Monitoring and Diagnostic Capabilities

Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005 provides the following functionalities operations managers require to monitor and analyze all deployed applications on the .NET Framework:

• Integration with MOM 2005 for point-and-click management
• Automated deployment on demand through MOM 2005
• Exception Monitoring for ASP.NET and Web Services applications hosted by IIS, including
- Reporting of unhandled exceptions, without instrumentation or code injection
- Event consolidation into alerts based on unique root cause
- Reporting of handled exceptions
- Collection of critical exception data providing a complete operations center health view
• Performance monitoring for ASP.NET and Web Services applications hosted by IIS
- Allowing the establishment of SLA thresholds for execution of pages and calls
- Automated reporting of slow performing applications and functions
- Collection of information about total server side request execution, total execution time for resource call groups, including all OLEDB, ODBC, SQL Client, Oracle Client and Web Service calls, and the total time of internal execution
• Support for display of Application specific Product Knowledge

Customer Benefits

Intercept Studio Operations Edition for MOM 2005 brings significant benefits to operations managers responsible for delivering business-critical applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework:

• Real-time insight into the functionality, performance and behavior of ASP.NET, Web services and .NET applications in production
• A rich set of capabilities that are tightly integrated into Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
• Improvement of the speed, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of managing .NET applications in production
• Compatibility with AVIcode’s Intercept Studio Enterprise Edition for complete root-cause analysis and reproducible test case data-collection with integration with Visual Studio

Broad Support for Microsoft

All AVIcode software solutions come in versions that support the Microsoft .NET Framework. Intercept Studio Enterprise Edition is fully integrated with MOM 2005 and ships with plug-in integration with Visual Studio for display of the specific lines of errant source code. AVIcode is a Premier Partner in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) Program.


Availability

Microsoft will begin distributing AVIcode’s Intercept Studio Operations Edition as the Microsoft .NET Application Management Pack for MOM 2005 in the third quarter of 2005.

About AVIcode

AVIcode, a software development company, produces application fault management software. AVIcode’s products are designed to protect software investments by simplifying application maintenance and troubleshooting, dramatically reducing defect resolution time. AVIcode’s flagship product, Intercept Studio, detects crashes and performance degradations of production applications running on the Microsoft .NET Framework. For more information, contact AVIcode at 443.543.5858 or info@avicode.com, or visit the company Web site at http://www.avicode.com/ for an evaluation edition of AVIcode software.

About Microsoft

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