AdminStudio Suite: The Latest Advances in Application Readiness

If you are a Wise Package Studio^™ customer considering a move to AdminStudio^® you are most likely evaluating and aligning your application packaging requirements with today's business imperative to quickly adopt the latest technologies such as Windows 7 and Application Virtualization. As the complex combinations of deployment types continue to grow, so does the list of application readiness requirements.

AdminStudio offers a suite of automated tools proven to decrease traditional application preparation time by up to 70% and virtual package preparation time up to 9 times faster than manual sequencing. With added capabilities to speed Windows 7 migrations, AdminStudio is the packagers' end-to-end solution of choice. AdminStudio Suite eliminates the need for multiple standalone tools and provides an integrated solution with advanced capabilities beyond what Wise Package Studio offers today:

• Automated Windows 7 Application Compatibility Testing and Remediation
• Application Compatibility Testing for Internet Explorer 8 & 9
• Automated Application Compatibility Testing and Conversion to Microsoft App-V, VMware^® ThinApp^™ and Citrix^® XenApp Virtual Formats
• Advanced Package Editing and Authoring Capabilities
• Ability to Assess Compatibility and Repackage 64-bit applications
• Tight Integration with Leading Software Deployment Tools
• Enterprise Class Reporting and Application Management
• Workflow Manager* to centrally control the software packaging process

Automated Wise^® Data Conversion Tool

In addition, the process of converting from Wise Package Studio to AdminStudio is greatly simplified with an automated conversion tool which takes Wise® WSE software packages and their associated meta-data and imports them directly into the AdminStudio database.

Automate Windows 7 Compatibility Testing and Remediation

• AdminStudio reduces the time and effort involved in a migration to Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit versions) and Windows Server 2008 R2 by automatically assessing and fixing over 98% of installation package related application compatibility issues.
• Additionally, it enables you to quickly determine the issues around moving Web applications and users to Internet Explorer 8 & 9, often a major challenge tied to a Windows 7 migration.
• Learn more about application compatibility. 

Application Compatibility Testing for Internet Explorer 8 & 9

• Drag and drop multiple Website addresses (URLs) or Web based applications into the testing process to automatically pinpoint Internet Explorer 8 and 9 compatibility issues.
• Automatically test applications that are accessed by, or depend on a browser for their compatibility with Internet Explorer 8 & 9.

Virtualization Suitability Testing, Automated Conversion, Validation and Editing

• Automatically runs tests on an application to determine whether it's suitable for conversion and deployment as a virtual application.
• Converts multiple MSIs and legacy installers to industry leading virtual formats including Microsoft App-V, Citrix^® XenApp^™ and VMware^® ThinApp^™.
• Testing, validation and editing of MSI packages is extended to virtual formats so packagers can manage a virtual package with the same tool and processes as a traditional package.
• Direct Editing of App-V Packages - The Virtual Package Editor in AdminStudio Suite enables direct editing of App-V packages eliminating the need to re-convert from an MSI when a change to an App-V package is required.
• Learn more about application virtualization. 

Tight Integration with Leading Software Deployment Tools

• Admin Studio Supports the leading software deployment tools - including Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager, Novell^® ZENworks, LANDesk^® Management Suite, BMC^® Configuration Management (Marimba), Citrix XenApp, and IBM^® Tivoli^®.
• Integrated with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for direct importing and exporting of packages.

Advanced Package Editing and Authoring Capabilities with InstallShield

• Create and edit MSI installations, virtual profiles, patches and transforms.
• Support for Windows Installer Chaining.
• The ability to edit Window Installer Patch (MSP) file and convert an InstallScript MSI installation to a basic MSI package while preserving the original components and much of the installation logic, architecture, and maintainability of the original installation package.

Enterprise Class Reporting and Application Management

• Out -of-the box Application Readiness state dashboards, a customizable reporting infrastructure, and process templates to implement best practices packaging standards.
• Application centric management and reporting that groups different application package formats (deployment types) and shows them under each application so the growing number of deployment types can be easily managed side-by-side.

Workflow Manager

• Workflow Manager® is a Web-based process management solution to centrally control the software packaging process-from application request submissions through to deployment.
• Workflow Manager is integrated with AdminStudio^®, workflows can include AdminStudio tasks, and progress is automatically reflected in the Workflow Manager UI. The combined solution shares the same Application Catalog, so all package files and metadata generated by AdminStudio is automatically captured along with application request and workflow information from Workflow Manager. This data is accessible anytime using Workflow Manager's powerful reporting tools and can feed into your configuration management database (CMDB) to simplify ITIL or Microsoft MOF and BDD implementations.
• Learn more about workflow application packaging. 

AdminStudio Suite is the industry's only automated application compatibility testing, fixing and packaging solution for MSI and virtual formats that integrates with existing systems management technologies to power an Application Readiness process.

For the complete set of features go to AdminStudio Suite.

*Workflow Manager is sold separately