Flexera InstallShield 2012

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

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

According to recent studies, enterprises are moving their desktops to 64-bit editions of Windows 7 at a rapid rate. More and more software companies are taking advantage by releasing 64-bit versions of their applications. InstallShield 2012 is the only installation solution capable of supporting the needs of todays sophisticated software producers for packaging both standalone offerings and complex suites.

With the new InstallShield Suite Project type, multiple products can be easily bundled together into a single, unified suite installation. This new functionality offers advantages over MSI chaining, InstallShield prerequisite support, and the user interface functionality that is provided by Windows Installer. A single installation that includes both 32-bit packages and 64-bit packages and runs only the appropriate packages on each target system.

With the new InstallShield Suite Project type, multiple products can be easily bundled together into a single, unified suite installation. This new functionality offers advantages over MSI chaining, InstallShield prerequisite support, and the user interface functionality that is provided by Windows Installer. 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 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.

The InstallShield 2012 Collaboration add-on has been significantly enhanced to better support distributed, collaborative installation development allowing product developers and technical writers to more efficiently create and manage their portion of the installation.

InstallShield 2012 has been enhanced with new capabilities to provide the most comprehensive support for 64-bit installation development like Updated dependency scanners to identify 64-bit dependencies of the 64-bit files in a project.

If your customers cannot easily track software usage they risk non- compliance, which creates substantial risk-exposure and pain that is attributed to the software producer, resulting in a negative customer experience and jeopardizing the software producer’s reputation. InstallShield 2012 is the only strategic installation development solution that creates ISO 19770-2 software identification tags as part of the installation development process.

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License is: Workstation license

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