Case Study: IKON (Ikon Corp) achieves 24x7 reliability and faster threat detection with SmartBear AQtime

Ikon Ensures Software Performance with AQTime

Ikon Corp, founded in 2001, provides advanced “info‑investigative” software and services to Italian police, judicial authorities and corporate security. Its flagship product, A.D.M.I.N., is a 24x7 network auditing, detection and monitoring system that must be highly reliable, fast and leak‑free for remote, unattended operation—requirements that exceeded the built‑in Delphi/C++ Builder debugging tools and demanded accurate profiling, memory‑leak detection and code‑coverage validation.

Ikon selected SmartBear’s AQtime Pro for its broad profiler set, multi‑compiler and .NET/Win32 support, clear UI and responsive support. AQtime became central to Ikon’s test strategy (profiling unit tests, coverage analysis and platform compliance runs) and directly pinpointed a hard‑to‑find third‑party Oracle library bug via exception tracing; Ikon implemented a workaround, reported the issue to the vendor, and delivered a faster, more robust A.D.M.I.N. on schedule.

IKON

Luigi Sandon

Ikon