PreEmptive Solutions sets .NET app shelf life
July 14, 2008 —
The creator of portfolio management software is giving enterprises and ISVs the ability to encode end-of-life milestones into managed code just as bureaucrats and lawyers stamp expiration dates onto egg cartons.
On June 3, PreEmptive Solutions introduced Application Shelf Life, a development tool that instruments applications with an explicit shelf life, as well as being an accompanying Web service that analyzes user behavior.
Shelf Life works with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and PreEmptive’s Dotfuscator Professional .NET code obfuscation tool to inject policy-driven logic directly into an already compiled application or service.
Dotfuscator Community Edition is bundled with Visual Studio; the Professional Edition is an upgraded version of the Community Edition.
Policies establish the software’s life cycle, defining default aging behaviors and reporting requirements, as well as setting warnings to appear ahead of expiration dates. In the event of tampering, custom policies can trigger an application security response, such as a forced re-installation.
A reporting function sends notifications to IT administrators, ISVs and other stakeholders. “IT operations wants to know just as much as software publisher wants to know,” said Sebastian Holst, senior vice president of sales and marketing for PreEmptive
Applications are instrumented one by one, but PreEmptive takes a portfolio-based approach. A crawler service produces a manifest of existing .NET applications across the enterprise in order to begin the process of integrating Dotfuscator and Life Cycle’s into their development life cycle.
“For the first time, publishers may manage old releases as a portfolio, just as enterprises manage internally developed software,” said Holst. However, it is not limited to those scenarios; he noted that it could likewise be used to manage beta software and evaluation releases.
A service component collects runtime intelligence such as feature-level tracking and analysis of user behavior, Holst said. The analytical data can be fed into BPM, business intelligence and CRM systems.
Beyond the obvious marketing applications, an IT administrator can also use the analytics to determine whether an application is being used or if the wrong version is in service, Holst explained.
Enterprises are not always sure what they have or if anyone uses it, he said, noting that it is not an excuse for ad hoc management. Deleting an application that is used infrequently, such as one a financial auditor relies on, can be costly, he said.
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