The company sells downloadable software that monitor, visualize and troubleshoot IT environments and collect information both from hardware, software, virtual and/or cloud based services.
[3] The company was founded in 2004 by Jan Josephson and Fredrik Åkerström in Stockholm, Sweden.
The company was conceived to create an IT monitoring solution that can handle a large IT environment.
Users can create own packs and set their own standard on how to monitor a specific device within the network.
They include: OP5 has been mentioned in news and has received several awards,[13][14][15] such as Cool Vendor by Gartner 2010[16]