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"Agile software development is key to our global product strategy, and implementing a strategic installation solution that supports agile development is critical. Flexera Software has listened and has delivered InstallShield 2012, a game-changing product that offers tremendous functionality for our agile team to integrate installation development into our processes and support our iterative, collaborative team." Mark Hanson Software Engineer Advanced Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software "InstallShield 2012's new Suite tool offers us a convenient way of integrating redistributable packages of the Microsoft products MS.NET or MS Visual Studio into the setups of our software solutions, such as our new RIB iTWO Business Suite for digital engineering and construction. All in all a promising supplement for the development of RIB software systems." Johannes John Senior Setup Developer RIB Software AG "Moving from WiX to InstallShield was an easy choice. InstallShield makes it simple to build, compile, and customize our MSIs, and it doesn't have the steep learning curve you get with WiX." Rajesh Rajashekar Software Developer NetApp

"InstallShield 2011 should be an installation development environment of choice for Visual Studio users, ensuring that Visual Studio applications of any kind can be professionally installed and work with the latest Microsoft technologies and platforms."

Jason Zander
Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio
Microsoft

"InstallShield continues to prove that they are the leader in the market for installation development. Constantly updating features, providing support with short turnaround times and staying integrated with the latest tools such as Visual Studio 2010 has kept us onboard with their software. We look forward to what they have to offer in future versions. Thank you!"

JP Williams
Buildmaster
Accusoft Pegasus

"InstallShield 2010 is awesome. I'm extremely excited about the new Microsoft App-V support, which will significantly cut our support costs due to a smoother rollout. I strongly recommend upgrading to InstallShield 2010."

Tim Stevens
Software Installation Developer
Viewpoint Construction Software

"I love the new InstallShield 2010. It has tons of new features that long-time customers have been asking for, like the new Text File Changes view, categorized Custom Actions and Adobe Flash billboards."

Samir Vaidya
Product Architect
Computer Sciences Corporation

"We provide software to more then a third of the nation's banks, so we need to be prepared for the most demanding deployment tasks. InstallShield has always exceeded our expectations and kept us updated in an industry where change is the norm. We're excited about the new features and increased functionality of InstallShield 2008, and especially the XML testing feature, which lets us test xml file updates without having to first build and run the setup."

Randy Dugger
Deployment/Development Analyst
Information Technology, Inc.

"We're excited about the release of InstallShield 2008. The product's enhancements have made this a great user-friendly product, with all the features necessary to help us create installers that fit the quality of our financial software product portfolio."

Bindu Chirra
Developer
DMAXX, LLC

"Our product is very large and contains many components. Without InstallShield's Automation Interface it would be next to impossible to create everything by hand. It allows me to easily identify and modify components—which is a huge timesaver! "

Pete Delgado
Senior Software Engineer
Product Installation Group
UGS Corporation

"As the leader in business intelligence, SAS sells custom solutions for complex problems - not shrink-wrapped products. So the ability to dynamically create solutions on-the-fly, taking various software components and putting them together in ways that makes sense for our customers, is important to us. With InstallShield's new Collaboration and Assembly features, SAS will continue to deliver our software in new and unique ways to solve new and unique business problems for our customers. Providing the smoothest possible installation experience for SAS solutions allows our customers to deploy our software easily and seamlessly, reducing the amount of time it takes to start getting a return on their investment. "

Jason Losh
Software Manager
Release Management Division
SAS

"BMC Software has been working closely with InstallShield development to establish installation criteria for our industry-leading Infrastructure Management solutions. As a result of this collaboration on the InstallShield product, we believe our customers will speed their 'time to value' when installing our award-winning PATROL and SmartDBA solutions."

Sean Duclaux
Director, Product Management
BMC Software

"Microsoft is pleased to work with InstallShield to provide our mutual customers with the ability to create powerful, flexible and reliable installations from within Visual Studio .NET on the Windows platform. "

Nick Abbott
Group Manager
.NET Developer Product Management Group
Microsoft Corporation

"With InstallShield, our OpenViz development team is able to easily build deployments for all platforms with a single tool, thereby reducing overall costs in implementation and maintenance. The new features in InstallShield, such as support for MSI 3.1 and XML configuration, allow us to stay ahead with the latest deployment technologies and easily maintain our scripts. With Trialware, setting up new packages as evaluation versions is a breeze. "

Anoop Chatterjee
Manager, Product Development
Advanced Visual Systems

"One nice touch in this version is a repository for components - dialogs, merge modules, SQL scripts, and so on. The Professional Edition, which I tested, allows you to keep a local repository on your own computer for these components, so that they can be used in multiple projects. The Premier edition adds a network repository for multi-user sharing. Another significant advance in the Premier Edition is the introduction of assemblies to the product. These are not .NET assemblies but an InstallShield technology designed to make it possible to dynamically reuse components across multiple installers. These modular components are versioned and can be shared between multiple installed products without anything breaking on uninstall. Organizations shipping suites will appreciate the flexibility that assemblies give to build multiple different product editions with little overhead. This looks especially useful when you're working on a cross-platform installation. "

Mike Gunderloy
Contributing Editor
Developer Central

"Our products and installers are localized into nine different languages. We depend on InstallShield's pre-translated dialogs to reduce development time and costs and to help us get our product out the door. "

Pete Delgado
Senior Software Engineer
Product Installation Group
UGS Corporation

"We chose InstallShield Express for its feature set, which met every requirement we had for our installation. In addition, InstallShield Express is an intuitive, user-friendly installation solution that can be used without a manual. InstallShield's expertise and knowledge of their customers' needs is clear-Express has excellent value and we will continue to use it for all future installations."

Robert Harvey
Giardina & Associates

"InstallShield Express is the easiest way to deploy applications. End users appreciate a reliable and well-known installation solution. "

Kurt Bilde
University of Southern Denmark

"InstallShield Express is the easiest and most intuitive installation program to use. Even though it is an 'express' version, it contains many valuable features and is fully extendable through custom actions. We are happy to be able to provide professional-looking installations of our products to our customers. "

Carsten Pedersen
Manager, Software Development
Dantec Dynamics A/S

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