Root cause and transaction analysis capabilities are key to QuickVision 7's application performance automation ClearApp is announcing on Monday the availability of QuickVision 7, the company’s application performance automation product for SOA, J2EE, and portal applications. Root cause analysis improvements are highlighted.Featuring the company’s AppSchema modeling engine, QuickVision 7 is intended for automating application management.“It monitors the performance of deep pieces of an application,” including component-level activities that programmers look at, said Chris Farrell, vice president of product marketing and product management at ClearApp. This data is tied to specific functions being performed by the application, such as a balance transfer, he said. New features in root cause analysis include the ability to isolate the path through an application and gauging performance of individual requests. Until now, QuickVision only provided aggregate data on multiple requests, such as giving performance data for 100 users.“Our customers were asking for a little more granularity to help them isolate problems easier,” Farrell said.Exception tracking in the new release tracks exceptions as they occur in managed environments. Users can drill down on a specific exception to view an associated stack trace and receive alerts when user-specific service-level objectives linked with an exception type are violated. With the product’s Transaction Analysis capability, users specify conditions under which execution steps associated with a specific transaction can be recorded for later analysis.A new service level object blackout capability in version 7 is designed to prevent unwanted alerts from occurring during planned or unplanned down time. Also featured is WSRP (Web Services Remote Portlets) relationship tracking, in which performance measurements are taken for WSRP consumers or producers when a WSRP entity is selected.Memory leak detection in version 7 calculates the memory growth rate and tracks a growth trend to detect memory leaks. Usability enhancements include storage of minimum and maximum response time measurements in an embedded database. An improved portal desktop layout view enables faster identification of performance bottlenecks with tabular views, ClearApp said. The business process workflow view also has been improved for faster identification of performance bottlenecks.Perpetual licensing for QuickVision 7 starts at $9,000. Software Development