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OC Systems provides
software instrumentation tools and consulting
 services
that help organizations gain greater visibility
into large, complex applications.
The larger and more complex
an application is, the more difficult it
is to find out what is happening inside,
as the application executes.
There are many tools that
provide visibility into an application's
execution during development, but once the
application reaches integration and system
test, those tools are too invasive.
OC Systems offers tools
and services to provide that visibility
in the post-development environment. With
these solutions, defects and performance
problems that are not discovered until integration
can be resolved faster, reducing the risk
of slipping the schedule.
Once the application is
deployed, defects that are found in the
field can be debugged remotely and resolved
faster. This reduces downtime, lowers the
cost of supporting the application and improves
customer satisfaction.
Technology
Most of OC Systems products and services
are based on Aprobe, a patented software
instrumentation technology that lets you
monitor the execution of a software application,
log data, or alter its behavior.
Aprobe is an agent-based
system that is much less intrusive than
other agent-based tools. Agents, called
probes, are introduced at the machine-code
level while the application is in memory.
No changes are made to any application files
stored on disk, making it easy to insert,
modify and remove the probes.
Unlike most agents, which
simply monitor the execution, probes can
read parameters and collect other data about
the internal functioning of the application.
Probes can also change the execution of
the program as it is running, which can
be used to simulate faults or test fixes.
Clients
Clients include Lockheed Martin, IBM,
Sun Microsystems, Northrop Grumman, SAS,
Sandia National Laboratories, Cognos, Intel,
SAIC, General Dynamics and the U.S. Army.
History
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Founded in 1983, OC
Systems originally developed compilers
and other custom solutions for its clients.
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In the mid-1990s, it
evolved into a products company, first
offering an integrated Ada development
environment called PowerAda and then
introducing Aprobe, its powerful software
instrumentation technology.
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In 2001, the company
launched RootCause, an application management
tool used to track down performance
bottlenecks, memory leaks and other
problems in deployed applications.
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In 2004, OC Systems
used the Aprobe instrumentation technology
as the foundation for the Universal
Agent, a framework for integrating any
software application with Unicenter
NSM.
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OC Systems joined the
Eclipse foundation in 2005 and released
its first Eclipse add-in, Hitchhiker,
which provides testing, debugging and
performance analysis for C/C++ applications.
Ownership
OC Systems is a privately held company
that is owned by its employees.
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