Software Deployment
Successful software deployment is to automatically handle your software distribution needs in a smart way.
There are two important factors for success for the chosen software deployment solution:
- Ease and cost of implementation
- Ease and cost to run, support and maintain
In addition a modern software deployment solution should fulfill the following conditions:
- Support distribution of any kind of software package (.exe, .msi, .msp, drivers, patches)
- Provide realtime reporting or feedback of each deployment
- Be scalable for all sizes and structures of organisations
- Integrate well into the existing infrastructure
- Support software deployment using the system or the logged on user's credentials
- Support software distribution during boot, logon, or anytime when the target machine is started
- Have support for slow network links such as VPN
- Have a client side target evaluation mechanism to decide if a software package should be downloaded and deployed or not
- Safe versus future infrastructure changes
- Mobile workforce support
- Policy based
- Software inventory features to make sure the software package has been installed
Software Deployment - Suggested product
The choice of software deployment solution is important since it affect your entire organization.
There are many products to choose between and you should make sure you choose one that is quick to setup, easy to learn, and powerful in its main task, deploying software.
Specops Software suggest Specops Deploy for software distribution.
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