Softwarepackaging
The term „Software Packaging“ identifies those activities
which prepare software so it becomes a „software
package“, which in its final status allows the automated
and unattended installation of software onto a defined
target system - and by the way, also allows the reverse
process, the de-installation of the software.
Software packaging is being used if the manual installation of software via regular data mediums (e.g. CD or DVD, etc.) does not make sense. This is almost always the case in those organization, which provide their employees with software via large networks. Simply from a timing perspective manual distribution and installations of hundreds of software applications does not make sense in an organization running thousands of workstations.
Considering how many mistakes can be made when performing an installation and how many time is needed to do corrections, manual installations are not wise from a factual point of view either. Managing your software becomes easier and its environment becomes more robust.
The systems stay stable and are more reliable after installation as well as de-installation. You can count on significantly less inquiries (incident tickets) at your service desk.
Software distribution, which is always independent from packaging, and the following installation of software packages are carried out secured reproducible and systematically following defined and agreed upon rules.
This avoids a more or less coincidental execution of installations where the loudest caller gets served first, where systematic and reproducibility are absent and e.g. time caused interrupts in failure cases are regular (“sneaker administration”).
Restore points are clearly defined as well as the interruption of package installations or their rejects.
All clients run significantly more stable and software administration costs get cut, additionally the uptime for users and therefore their productivity gets increased.
An application packaged in the standardized MSIformat can be used in different target environments with no or just low change efforts.
This holds true for some formats of software virtualization (e.g. SVS) as well. This way, a packaged application could run on a German PC whilst it got packaged for a British one (“Package-once-use-many”-method).
Your individual packaging needs are covered by Raynet for different operating systems, e.g. MS-Windows, Linux, Unix, OS/2, Apple MacIntosh, etc. Raynet packages in these formats:
» Process
» Software Virtualisation
» Onsite - Offsite
» Packaging Factory
Software packaging is being used if the manual installation of software via regular data mediums (e.g. CD or DVD, etc.) does not make sense. This is almost always the case in those organization, which provide their employees with software via large networks. Simply from a timing perspective manual distribution and installations of hundreds of software applications does not make sense in an organization running thousands of workstations.
Considering how many mistakes can be made when performing an installation and how many time is needed to do corrections, manual installations are not wise from a factual point of view either. Managing your software becomes easier and its environment becomes more robust.
The systems stay stable and are more reliable after installation as well as de-installation. You can count on significantly less inquiries (incident tickets) at your service desk.
Software distribution, which is always independent from packaging, and the following installation of software packages are carried out secured reproducible and systematically following defined and agreed upon rules.
This avoids a more or less coincidental execution of installations where the loudest caller gets served first, where systematic and reproducibility are absent and e.g. time caused interrupts in failure cases are regular (“sneaker administration”).
Restore points are clearly defined as well as the interruption of package installations or their rejects.
All clients run significantly more stable and software administration costs get cut, additionally the uptime for users and therefore their productivity gets increased.
An application packaged in the standardized MSIformat can be used in different target environments with no or just low change efforts.
This holds true for some formats of software virtualization (e.g. SVS) as well. This way, a packaged application could run on a German PC whilst it got packaged for a British one (“Package-once-use-many”-method).
Your individual packaging needs are covered by Raynet for different operating systems, e.g. MS-Windows, Linux, Unix, OS/2, Apple MacIntosh, etc. Raynet packages in these formats:
- Microsoft Windows Installer Package (MSI)
- Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS)
- Microsoft SoftGrid (APP-V)
- VMware ThinApp (earlier Thinstall)
- Linux RPM Packages
- Debian Linux deb und dpkg Packages
- Apple MacOS package (pkg) und metapackage mpkg)
» Process
» Software Virtualisation
» Onsite - Offsite
» Packaging Factory
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