"They're getting much more support for standard J2EE apps, and that's a direction that we will be moving toward just to get a little bit lower-level instrumentation," said Scott Metzger, CTO of TransUnion's TrueCredit.com, which provides online credit management.

"It would provide us the ability to dive deeper into the application monitoring," said Metzger, who has seen a demonstration of QuickVision 6.0 but is still using an earlier product from ClearApp. TrueCredit.com has used Acsera Manager in an SOA to assist with root-cause analysis for application recovery.

Although QuickVison can visualize transactions with .Net systems, it does not yet provide visibility into .Net environments. That functionality is planned for early 2007, Donohue said.

QuickVision differs from network management platforms such as CA Unicenter and HP OpenView in that the other products provide a resource-based approach to monitoring and management while QuickVision offers deeper visibility, digging down into code, Donohue said. ClearApp's offering can complement Unicenter or other network management products.

QuickVision 6.0 ships on Sept. 12, with list pricing beginning at US$9,000.