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Software is Getting
More Complex.
Creating a Software Installer
Doesn't Have to Be.
NEW: InstallShield 2012 Spring
supports
all the new Microsoft technologies.
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Introducing InstallShield 2012
Used by over 70,000 software producers on more than 500 million
desktops. InstallShield 2012 is the only installation solution capable of
supporting the needs of today's sophisticated software producers for packaging
both standalone offerings and complex suites. InstallShield 2012 has been
updated to deliver a fresh, positive and friendly experience to meet the
exacting standards of a new generation of app-savvy users. And, it's the only
solution providing automated tools that empower software producers to
productize, package and install their products in both traditional MSI and
virtual formats. Understanding the needs of today's decentralized agile teams,
means that Flexera Software can design a world-class installation solution that
supports the installation authoring, building and bundling requirements of these
teams.
InstallShield 2012: Microsoft's installation software of choice includes the following new capabilities:
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Suite Installations:
Today's software producers are highly sophisticated when developing, packaging
and distributing their software products. It's critical that they are able to
offer products to the market as standalone offerings or bundled suites, while
creating a unified installation experience. Until now, there hasn't been a
solution that supports the complex product packaging requirements for a unified
suite installation experience. With the new InstallShield Suite Project type,
multiple products can be easily bundled together into a single, unified suite
installation eliminating the need to develop a complex custom launcher or
bootstrapper application.
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Installation Streaming:
Meeting the needs of a new generation of "app-store savvy" users means that
installations must be painless, fast and virtually transparent. With the new
Installation Streaming feature, end users need only download a small file to
quickly start the installation, giving a more immediate interaction with the
product installation. As only the required packages are ever downloaded, the
overall installation time can be greatly reduced.
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Installation Collaboration:
Installation development used to be an isolated, tactical step at the tail end
of an application development process managed by a dedicated team member. Today,
it must be integrated into the agile development practices, where installation
responsibilities are distributed amongst the team and are an essential element
of the iterative, development process. The InstallShield 2012 Collaboration
add-on has been significantly enhanced to better support distributed,
collaborative installation development allowing product developers and technical
writers to create and manage their portion of the installation.
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64-Bit Enhancements:
Windows 7 adoption continues and is also driving the adoption of the 64-bit
operating system. Gartner predicts that by 2014, 75% of corporate PCs will be
running 64-bit version of Windows. Comprehensive support for 64-bit installation
development is now mandatory and InstallShield 2012 has been enhanced with new
capabilities to provide the most comprehensive support for 64-bit installation
development.
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Application Tagging:
Enterprise customers have grown more sophisticated about software compliance
management. If customers cannot easily track software usage they risk
non-compliance. Software "self-instrumentation" or tagging is evolving as an
industry standard, enabling software producers to create smarter applications
that give customers better information for software asset management and license
optimization initiatives. InstallShield 2012 is the only strategic installation
development solution that creates ISO 19770-2 software identification tags as
part of the installation development process. This enables software producers to
help their customers by delivering better visibility into installed software
estate in order to facilitate software compliance efforts.
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InstallShield 2012 Spring Now Available
The
technology landscape continues to change at an unprecedented rate, software
developers using Visual Studio are having to become more agile in their
development of applications within different environments.
How can you aid
developers to stay competitive and get their solutions to market faster?
InstallShield 2012 Spring delivers a big step forward to developers creating
applications for Windows 8, Visual Studio 11, Microsoft’s SQL Azure and System
Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
InstallShield 2012 Spring provides developers with support for emerging
technologies and automated tools that allow developers to bundle and install
their products in both traditional MSI and virtual application formats.
New Features
in InstallShield 2012 Spring:
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Enabled hybrid cloud
deployments with SQL Azure
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Support for pre-release
versions of Windows® 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 11
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New end-user interface
with redesigned built-in wizard pages and editor
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Automatic check and
download of updates and patches at run-time
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Includes support for
Microsoft® System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and
PowerShell
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Stay connected to customers with an
automated update and patch solution*
*Applies to customers with maintenance
plans.
Large
organisations are selecting their software by judging whose applications are
easy to install, deploy and manage.
InstallShield 2012 Spring provides developers with a strategic installation
solution that makes them competitive in the tender process by demonstrating easy
deployment and management application tools to meet the organisation's
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The global de facto standard on more than 500
million PCs, InstallShield is a strategic installation development solution
designed for traditional and agile development teams and their Windows-based
installation and virtualized deployment requirements. Supporting the needs of
today’s sophisticated software producers for packaging standalone offerings and
complex suites, InstallShield provides automated tools to productize, package
and install software with minimal scripting, coding and rework...
More developers trust InstallShield to give their
software a flawless, localized installation experience, keeping their users
happy and support cost down.
Download trial version of InstallShield 2012 now.
InstallShield 2012: Microsoft’s Installation
Solution of Choice
The world has changed. Development teams are more
distributed. Products are more complex. Users are more sophisticated.
InstallShield 2012 continues to meet the exacting standards of today’s agile
software vendors, and exceed the expectations of today’s sophisticated users.
- Supports packaging for both standalone
offerings and complex suites.
- Delivers a fresh, positive and friendly
“app-store-like” experience.
- Provides automated tools for software
producers to productize, package and install their products in both MSI and
virtual formats.
- Supports installation authoring, building
and bundling requirements of decentralized agile development teams.
Suite Installations
Until now, there hasn’t been a solution that
supports the complex product packaging requirements for a unified suite
installation experience. With the new InstallShield Suite Project type, multiple
products can be easily bundled together into a single, unified suite
installation.
- A next generation setup launcher (Setup.exe)
that can conditionally run multiple installations (.msi or .exe) and apply
Windows Installer patches (.msp) as needed on target systems.
- An entirely new end-user interface with
redesigned built-in wizard pages and a new wizard page editor.
- An integrated progress bar that presents a
unified, visual indication of the overall status of the entire suite
installation process.
- Settings to specify whether to have a single
entry in Add or Remove Programs.
- A single installation that includes both
32-bit packages and 64-bit packages and runs only the appropriate packages
on each target system.
Installation Streaming
Meeting the needs of a new generation of
“app-store savvy” users means that installations must be painless, fast and
virtually transparent. The new Installation Streaming feature reduces the
downloading wait time required before installation can begin.
- End users need only download a small file to
quickly start the installation.
- Based on the selected install options, only
the required packages are downloaded from the web or extracted from the
installation.
- Flexible options for specifying the run-time
location of each package, including:
- On the Web, available for download by
Setup.exe.
- Embedded in Setup.exe and extracted to
the target system.
- Uncompressed and stored on the suite
source media.
Installation Collaboration
Today, installation development must be
integrated into agile development practices where installation responsibilities
are distributed amongst the team and are an essential element of the iterative
development process.The InstallShield 2012 Collaboration add-on has been
significantly enhanced to better support distributed, collaborative installation
development.
- A new project type called Developer
Installation Manifest (DIM) which is a feature-sized collection of related
items such as product files, shortcuts, registry entries, text file changes,
IIS Web sites, and other elements that together make up a discrete portion
of a product installation.
- A new Developer Installation Manifest Editor
that can be separately installed and used by the entire product development
team to create and manage their installation files. The manifest can then be
dynamically or statically linked by the Installation Author to the product’s
Basic MSI project.
- The InstallShield Premier Edition includes 5
licenses of the Developer Installation Manifest Editor, enabling product
development teams to immediately start working collaboratively.
64-Bit Enhancements
Windows 7 adoption continues and is also driving
the adoption of the 64-bit operating system. InstallShield 2012 provides the
most comprehensive support for 64-bit installation development.
- Updated dependency scanners to identify
64-bit dependencies of the 64-bit files in a project.
- Support for setting permissions for files,
folders and registry keys in 64-bit locations.
- A prerequisite that installs the 64-bit
version of the Microsoft VSTO 2010 Runtime.
Application Tagging
Software “self-instrumentation” or tagging is
evolving as an industry standard, enabling software producers to create smarter
applications that give customers better information for software asset
management and license optimization initiatives. InstallShield 2012 is the only
strategic installation development solution that creates ISO 19770-2 software
identification tags as part of the installation development process.
- Automatically creates the ISO 19770-2 tag
during the installation development process and ensures it is deployed as
part of the application’s install.
- Enhanced General Information view to manage
the required metadata elements.
- Installs the tag in the locations as defined
by the standard.
- Digitally sign tags (available in Q4 2011)
in addition to your application files and setup.
Continued Innovations
- New monitoring method for COM extraction.
- Merge Module Projects now include built-in
support for IIS, Text File Changes, and XML File Changes.
- Automation interface support for specifying
the required execution level for Setup.exe.
- New prerequisites that install Internet
Explorer 9, SQL Server 2008 R2 Native client, Windows Identify Foundation,
and more.
- The ability to determine if Adobe Reader 10,
Internet Explorer 9, or Microsoft Office (2010, 2007, or 2003) is installed
on a target system.
Editions and Licensing Options to Fit Your Needs
- Available in three editions: Premier,
Professional, and Express in both English and Japanese.
- Buy InstallShield as either a node-locked
license or a concurrent license that developers can share.
- Buy extra
Standalone Build licenses to better integrate installation and product
build processes.
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InstallShield 2012 Express
InstallShield Express Edition is ideal for
software developers and setup authors looking for a quick, easy, and
cost-effective solution for creating reliable Windows Installer (MSI)
installations.
Unlike homegrown solutions, InstallShield Express
Edition shields you from the complexities of building a setup. It comes with an
easy-to-use Project Assistant – a wizard that guides you through the MSI
installation creating process, step-by-step.
- Easy to learn and use—The
Express Edition sizably reduces the time required for setup authors to
successfully complete installation projects. It also lets experienced
developers save time by more efficiently jumpstarting new projects.
- Avoid risk exposure and
non-compliance—InstallShield 2012 is the only strategic
installation development solution that creates ISO 19770-2 software
identification tags as part of the installation development process.
- Fits into any budget—The
Express Edition is ideal for software developers and setup authors looking
for a cost-effective solution for creating reliable Windows Installer (MSI)
installations.
- Available in different languages—The
Express Edition is available in English and Japanese to offer developers the
flexibility to build in their own language.
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InstallShield 2012 Professional
InstallShield Professional Edition is a powerful
and easy-to-use solution for building Windows installations. It is ideal for
both novice and seasoned software installation developers. While most homegrown
Windows installation tools are not optimized for current industry standards,
InstallShield Professional lets you take advantage of all the latest
technologies.
Although missing many of the features of the
top-tiered InstallShield Premier Edition, InstallShield Professional Edition
does have all the functionality of the InstallShield Express Edition, plus the
following:
- Advanced support for new
technologies—Includes new prerequisites that install Internet
Explorer 9, SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client, Windows Identity Foundation,
and more.
- Avoid risk exposure and
non-compliance—InstallShield 2012 is the only strategic
installation development solution that creates ISO 19770-2 software
identification tags as part of the installation development process.
- Maintain a clean build system—Each
license of InstallShield Professional Edition includes one free Standalone
Build license.
- Reduce development time—Quickly
and easily build your installations by moving pieces of an existing project
(dialogs, custom actions, or features) to another installation project;
create and manage re-usable project outlines so you don't have to start your
installations from scratch.
- Easily customize your installations—Modify
the layout of existing end-user dialogs; manage multiple product versions,
allowing specific features to be included in a release via user-defined
flags; and much more.
- Build installations for 64-bit
installations—Create reliable installations for both 32-bit and
64-bit applications in one installation project.
- Better control your installations
with InstallScript—Add InstallScript custom actions to your MSI
projects or create InstallScript projects that control your entire
installation.
- Validate your installations for
Windows 7—Ensure your software installs and runs reliably on
Windows 7.
InstallShield Professional Edition is available
as a node-locked or concurrent license. You can also optionally purchase the
Virtualization Pack with the Professional Edition to support building Microsoft
App-V virtual packages |
InstallShield 2012 Premier
The top-tier InstallShield Premier Edition is the
world’s most powerful and flexible solution for Windows installations. Software
companies serious about providing reliable, professional installations for their
applications trust the InstallShield Premier Edition.
InstallShield Premier Edition gives you
all the capabilities of our
Professional Edition,
plus tons of exclusive
functionality, including:
- Support complex requirements with
minimal scripting or coding—With the new InstallShield Suite
Project type, multiple products can be easily bundled together into a
single, unified suite installation, eliminating the need to develop a custom
launcher or bootstrapper application.
- Provide an "app-store like"
experience—End users only need to download a small file to quickly
start the installation.
- Support distributed, collaborative
installation development—The InstallShield 2012 Collaboration
add-on allows distributed product developers and technical writers to more
efficiently create and manage their portion of the installation. Premier
Edition includes 5 licenses of Developer Installation Manifest Editor.
- Avoid risk exposure and
non-compliance—InstallShield 2012 is the only strategic
installation development solution that creates ISO 19770-2 software
identification tags as part of the installation development process.
- Advanced support for new
technologies—Includes new prerequisites that install Internet
Explorer 9, SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client, Windows Identity Foundation,
and more.
- More control over the user interface
layout—An entirely new user interface with redesigned, built-in
wizard pages and a new wizard page editor.
- Leverage the advances offered by
64-bit operating systems—The most comprehensive support for 64-bit
installation development including 64-bit dependency scanning, setting
permissions for files, folders and registry keys, and a prerequisite that
installs the 64-bit version of the Microsoft VSTO 2010 Runtime.
- Maintain a clean build system—Each
license of InstallShield Premier Edition includes five free Standalone Build
licenses.
- Avoid common installation issues—Validators
in the InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite alert you if your
installation violates any best practices guidelines.
- Easily convert legacy installations
into MSI packages—With InstallShield Repackager, you can easily
create MSI packages.
- Localize your installation—InstallShield's
multilingual support lets you create installations for 35 runtime languages
from one installation project.
- Quickly roll out new installations—With
network repositories, it's easy to build a repository of common elements
that multiple installation authors can access and reuse in projects.
- Create trial versions without
modifying code—With the try-and-die type of trialware's simple
configuration changes, you can easily offer potential customers a fully
functional. trial version of your product (After the predetermined trial
limit has been reached on an end user's machine, the trial version
automatically expires).
- Save time with the IIS Scanner—Only
the Premier Edition allows you to import the IIS data from an existing Web
site into your InstallShield project automatically using the IIS Scanner.
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Maintenance
Bronze maintenance:
- Automatic notification of and access to all
product updates (free) and upgrades (chargeable for
non-maintenance-plan-holders) for subscription period
- A maintenance plan card detailing all
benefits and plan specifics
- 24 x 7 access to knowledge base
- 24 x 7 access to product Web communities
- Sample code, sample projects and white
papers
- Technical webinars / online product
demonstrations
- Unlimited Web-based requests using eService
Silver maintenance:
In addition to all the above, silver maintenance
includes:
- Unlimited telephone support requests
Gold maintenance (not available for
InstallShield Express Edition):
In addition to all the above, gold maintenance
includes:
- Access to priority support channels for
quickest service
- Priority involvement in Beta programmes.
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