Benefits of Using AdminStudio

Decrease Costly Deployment Failures
The price of a single deployment failure can be significant. If a bad rollout negatively impacts the performance of a mission-critical application, it can grind your business to a halt. Using AdminStudio to eliminate catastrophic application and patch deployment failures keeps your organization productive and saves your enterprise money.

Reduce Your Software Rollout Times
AdminStudio seamlessly speeds you through a structured application preparation process that significantly reduces the time needed to roll out software. AdminStudio is packed with automated tools and wizards that do the bulk of the work for you, so you can get your end users the reliable applications they need in less time.

Standardize Your Application Preparation Process
Using AdminStudio's integrated toolset to standardize the way your packages are prepared lets you achieve reliable, repeatable results that translate into easier-to-manage software across your organization.

Increase Employee Productivity
Your end users require the right applications to do their jobs effectively, so when that software isn't available or breaks down, productivity suffers. AdminStudio not only enables you to get employees the mission-critical software they need faster, but it helps ensure those applications behave reliably throughout their lifecycles.

Easily Migrate Applications to Windows Installer
Migrating your legacy applications to MSI is difficult. AdminStudio takes the complexity out of MSI conversion, enabling you to complete your application migration project on time. With AdminStudio, your software can leverage all the Windows Installer features that translate into a lower cost of ownership for your Windows platforms - and fewer headaches for IT.

Capture and Leverage Application-Related Data
AdminStudio captures and stores all your application-related data in the fully searchable Application Catalog. Making this permanently captured data easily accessible to IT ensures more efficient collaborative packaging projects, more successful deployments, and more efficient application repairs and upgrades.

Free Up IT Resources
Standardizing on AdminStudio means that time you would have wasted manually packaging applications and repairing deployment messes is given back to IT to focus on other tasks and projects.

Improve Enterprise-Wide Perception of IT
When software continually breaks down, when it takes IT forever to deploy mission-critical applications, when patch deployments continually crash workstations…people notice, and IT gets the blame. AdminStudio helps eliminate all these problems, improving your organization's overall satisfaction with IT.

Solution Profiles

Repackaging and Customizing Applications - Is this process giving you headaches? Taking too long? Repeated for every slight difference between user groups? You need a solution that is easy and reliable. You also need a solution that leverages Windows Installer to lower your desktop TCO.

Engineering Desktop Images without Conflicts - Conflicting applications can be a wide-awake nightmare when you need to back out a mass deployment at 4:30 am. You need to find and resolve all application conflicts before you deploy.

Migrating to Windows 2000 or XP - Are you moving your organization to Windows 2000 or Windows XP? Take full advantage of Active Directory and the TCO-reducing features of these Windows platforms by repackaging your applications into a Windows Installer format.

Key Features

• Leverage the power and reliability of InstallShield, with features designed specifically for corporate IT professionals.
• Hide the complexities of migrating applications to a Windows 2000 standard installation package.
• Decrease your time to deployment.
• Rapidly and accurately repackage any application.
• Easily modify any part of your silent installation without having to repackage.
• Eliminate single target packages, with installations that work on all the latest versions of Windows.
• Identify and resolve conflicts prior to distribution, improving reliability of production environments.
• Leverage investment in existing deployment solutions such as SMS, Tivoli, Novadigm, and Marimba.
• Complete the promise of Windows 2000 and Active Directory's reduction in total ownership costs.
• And much more!

AdminStudio Editions Quick Comparison

MSI Authoring and Customization
Generate and customize package installations to meet any requirement.
Standard, Pro

Software Deployment Preparation
Prepare software for deployment using virtually any distribution system.
Standard, Pro

Identify and Eliminate Application Conflicts
Prepare conflict-free, reliable software packages for deployment across the enterprise.
Pro Only

Quality Assurance Testing and Standards Enforcement
Verify and test packages to guarantee they will work – and continue to work– as expected once installed.
Pro Only

Application and Data Management
More effectively manage your applications, data, project workflows.
Pro Only

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