PreEmptive Solutions
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PreEmptive Solutions is a Cleveland-based software company specializing in application protection and application analytics solutions for the .NET and Java platforms. Software producers (ISVs, enterprise developers and hardware vendors who include software in their solution) use PreEmptive products and software plus services
solutions to protect the intellectual property (IP) in their applications, prevent application vulnerability exploitation as well as report on application usage and performance metrics.
Typically, code obfuscation is used by malicious programmers seeking to avoid detection of illegal activities, virus authors, and hard-sell internet and software marketing agencies who wish to avoid detection by software intended to block unwanted advertisements.
In 1998, PreEmptive released DashO for Java application protection and optimization (the name DashO comes from the compiler optimization flag "-o")
In 2002, PreEmptive released Dotfuscator
for .NET application protection and optimization.
In 2003, Microsoft first includes a lite version of Dotfuscator in Visual Studio..
In 2008, PreEmptive expanded DashO and Dotfuscator to include Runtime Intelligence giving software producers an easy way to monitor and measure applications.
In October 2008, Microsoft and PreEmptive announced that Visual Studio 2010 will include an updated version of Dotfuscator with Runtime Intelligence.
In November 2010, PreEmptive and Microsoft Announce Runtime Intelligence Analytics and Code Obfuscation for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone Marketplace
Today, PreEmptive has over 4,000 corporate clients in over 100 countries.
Software plus services
Software plus Services combines hosted services with locally running software in a variation on cloud computing. Such composite applications combine traditional software with remote services to provide a consistent user experience across devices and form factors.There are various reasons for this...
solutions to protect the intellectual property (IP) in their applications, prevent application vulnerability exploitation as well as report on application usage and performance metrics.
Typically, code obfuscation is used by malicious programmers seeking to avoid detection of illegal activities, virus authors, and hard-sell internet and software marketing agencies who wish to avoid detection by software intended to block unwanted advertisements.
History
PreEmptive was founded in 1996.In 1998, PreEmptive released DashO for Java application protection and optimization (the name DashO comes from the compiler optimization flag "-o")
In 2002, PreEmptive released Dotfuscator
Dotfuscator
Dotfuscator is software used for obfuscation of .NET assemblies. Among its abilities are mangling of identifier names into unreadable characters, but also changing control flow into being more unreadable at the IL-level for a human and other relatively advanced changes.Note that name mangling...
for .NET application protection and optimization.
In 2003, Microsoft first includes a lite version of Dotfuscator in Visual Studio..
In 2008, PreEmptive expanded DashO and Dotfuscator to include Runtime Intelligence giving software producers an easy way to monitor and measure applications.
In October 2008, Microsoft and PreEmptive announced that Visual Studio 2010 will include an updated version of Dotfuscator with Runtime Intelligence.
In November 2010, PreEmptive and Microsoft Announce Runtime Intelligence Analytics and Code Obfuscation for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone Marketplace
Today, PreEmptive has over 4,000 corporate clients in over 100 countries.
Product offerings
PreEmptive Solutions produces DashO, Dotfuscator and Runtime Intelligence Services. These tools help protect intellectual property, decrease vulnerability probing, detect and report tampering, and monitor application usage. In addition, a lite version of PreEmptive's Dotfuscator product ships by default inside Microsoft's Visual Studio.- Dotfuscator for .NET - An .NET application protection, instrumentation and optimization platform.
- DashO for Java - A Java application protection, instrumentation and optimization platform.
- Runtime Intelligence Services A software-plus-services solution that captures and processes application adoption, feature usage, and end-user behavior.