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AVIcode Announces Intercept Studio 3 

BALTIMORE, MD – (3/24/06) Baltimore-based AVIcode is pleased to announce Intercept Studio 3, the next generation of the company's flagship product for Microsoft .NET Framework-based application monitoring and diagnostics. In this latest release, Intercept Studio provides support for monitoring applications built on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. In addition, its always-on monitoring capability now features automated collection and categorization of application faults related to performance, application failures, connectivity, or security issues.

Existing AVIcode customers, like JPMC, Citigroup, and Computer Sciences Corp., are accustomed to real-time notification of performance degradations and code failures. The new version of Intercept Studio will also monitor and classify connectivity errors that impact operational workflow, such as the connection between an application server and web browser or database server. In addition, Intercept Studio 3 will monitor for "permission denied" -type security issues and automatically collect information such as connection string, resource name, and security context.

AVIcode CEO Mike Curreri noted, "By looking at these four critical areas of application availability and reliability, Intercept Studio is now responding to the unique needs of individual users in their roles as developers, quality assurance and support, IT operators, and database administrators, providing value throughout the application lifecycle."

With many organizations migrating to the .NET Framework, AVIcode sees further opportunities to expand and has incorporated support for monitoring the latest generation of applications on the .NET Framework 2.0. "Organizations worldwide are adopting the latest .NET Framework-based technology for their application development efforts to take advantage of best-in-class reliability and usability features in web application development," said Ian Knox, group product manager of the .NET Developer Product Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. "AVIcode's Intercept Studio is making the development process easier for these organizations by providing real-time application monitoring throughout the application lifecycle."

For application developers that have already incorporated their own error handling code or instrumentation, Intercept Studio will now be able to incorporate and correlate events captured via traditional instrumentation with its own root cause data. By correlating all application events, organizations will maximize their existing investments, minimize their on-going development costs and time to market, and ensure the fastest possible problem resolution for in-production applications. Intercept Studio 3 will also be able to operate in an agent-less mode. This will allow organizations to gain better insight into instrumentation log data by using the Intercept Studio console's rich user interface.

Intercept Studio 3 also enables adherence to IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards. Intercept Studio 3 features ITIL-based incident management integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, allowing organizations to comply with industry best practices for application implementation and management.

"We are committed to providing our clients with the most advanced features and functionality to both meet their needs today, and lead their movement to tomorrow's advances," said Curreri. "Through full support of the .NET Framework 2.0 as well as ITIL, Intercept Studio 3 delivers on that promise."

Intercept Studio is the only solution designed to permit always-on monitoring of .NET Framework-based applications in production. It proactively identifies and reports on application faults and performance degradations without burdening the application server. Accordingly, it delivers complete root cause analysis, enabling fast error resolution throughout the application's lifecycle.

AVIcode's clients often report that Intercept Studio pays for itself within months in terms of time and cost savings. More information on Intercept Studio 3 is available at the company's website – www.avicode.com.

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 443.543.0030 or info@avicode.com, or visit the company Web site at http://www.avicode.com for an evaluation edition of AVIcode software.

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Press contact: Marty Brandwin, AVIcode (443) 543-0030, marty.brandwin@AVIcode.com