About AVIcode

The AVIcode Advantage

AVIcode is the only solution appropriate for in-production, always-on root-cause monitoring and analysis of .NET applications.

AVIcode’s technology offers imperceptibly light overhead in the production environment.
AVIcode’s technology is the only solution architected for both pre- and post-deployment environments. Referring to AVIcode as a “Hot Vendor,” Gartner says:
“AVIcode is the first software company we've seen that combines predevelopment/AD group and post-development group thinking in its products…. AVIcode's Intercept Studio provides non-intrusive monitoring of AD tools and enables software defects to be detected, tracked and resolved through the development process. AVIcode's tool enables both ends of the development process to understand where and why defects occur…. Developers responsible for the health and management of their enterprise's applications should consider AVIcode's innovative technology for detecting and reporting application faults in interconnected systems exploiting .NET.”

AVIcode is the only Microsoft-designated .NET monitoring standard.

AVIcode is the only provider of a .NET management pack for MOM 2005 and Operations Manager 2007.
Through a development agreement with Microsoft, AVIcode's health state alerting technology is built into Operations Manager 2007.
AVIcode is the only provider of monitoring solutions for custom BizTalk Server 2006 and SharePoint Server 2007 applications.
AVIcode is tied directly to the Design for Operations Starter Kit being distributed by MSFT for Visual Studio Team System. Intercept Studio is much more than a monitor and recorder of CLR data.
AVIcode is specifically recommended in Microsoft's whitepaper "Managing .NET Web Applications with System Center".

Intercept Studio is an intelligent-agent based system that declaratively detects and reports only upon the occurrence of a critical event.

Intercept Studio captures all of the appropriate Common Language Runtime information related to that unique event-type based on its own internal language and intelligence.
The result: Intercept Studio delivers all of the information needed for a reproducible test case and clear event consolidation based on root-cause.
Intercept Studio requires no instrumentation or recompiling.
Further, because it is “always-on” in its “full-strength” configuration, it provides a basis for truly meaningful reporting of performance trends allowing for maximizing application support resources in support of business needs.

Using the foundation of Intercept Studio, AVIcode has created a paradigm for application health modeling and monitoring.

Operational application manageability is realized through the ability to automatically generate MOM Management Packs based on health models. Infrastructure is provided for application Service Level Agreement monitoring and collection of root cause information for application errors.
AVIcode bridges the gap between operations and development by integrating operational root cause information into Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

As a consequence, AVIcode’s technology is used throughout the application lifecycle:

Providing development teams with the ability to minimize instrumentation coding and maintenance, without the need to recompile; and deploy applications with health modeling and monitoring built into the architecture
Providing QA teams with a mechanism to capture unhandled errors before they occur in production, improving application quality
Providing operations teams with definitive root cause analysis to eliminate finger pointing and accelerate problem resolution
Providing support teams with the information they need to effect fast error resolution, including the precise line of problem source code

AVIcode’s current product line is currently recommended by Microsoft to the analyst community as the primary case study for the Dynamic System Initiative.

Microsoft has produced two webcasts in the last two months demonstrating and emphasizing how AVIcode’s product create true life-cycle application management in an early realization of DSI.
AVIcode and the realization of DSI have been the subject of keynote and session presentations by Microsoft executives at MMS, PDC, TechEd, IT Forum and the launch events of both MOM 2005 and VSTS.
eWeek has described AVIcode as Microsoft’s “secret weapon” to make DSI a reality in its battle with IBM.

No other application monitoring solution is more closely aligned with Microsoft’s own vision of DSI, or is more completely delivering the components needed for application life-cycle management, or more closely integrated with Microsoft’s own product lines and .NET strategy. And, no other product on the market provides a more complete solution for the needs of both operations and application development/support in deploying .NET applications.