InstallAnywhere 2012

New Features

New in InstallAnywhere 2012

Extended platform support

Enable users to reliably install your application on the latest operating system versions, including:

• Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
• Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
• SUSE Linux 11.3, Ubuntu 12.04, Solaris 11 Sparc, HP-UX 11i, AIX 7.1, IBM i5/OS, Z/OS, RHEL 6 and Fedora 16.

Physical and virtual outputs (with Cloud Pack)

InstallAnywhere 2012 Cloud Pack allows you to create both physical and virtual outputs from a single InstallAnywhere project enabling you to take existing and new software products to virtual and cloud infrastructures. InstallAnywhere 2012 Cloud Pack can leverage existing InstallAnywhere projects to create enterprise-ready virtual appliances or Amazon machine images.

Create enterprise-ready virtual appliances (with Cloud Pack)

InstallAnywhere 2012 with Cloud Pack enables application producers to deploy multiplatform applications as enterprise-ready virtual appliances designed to work with VMware hypervisors (OVF 1.1 compliant) for easy provisioning within a customer's virtual machine infrastructure.

Application tagging

InstallAnywhere 2012 simplifies creating ISO 19770-2 compliant software tags as part of the installation development process.

Virtual machine templates (with Cloud Pack)

Ability to create virtual machine templates streamlines the process of moving multiple applications to the cloud and ensures configuration consistency.

Direct virtual appliance deployment (with Cloud Pack)

Deploy virtual appliances directly to VMware vSphere and Amazon EC2 hypervisors for testing and production deployment.

OVF 1.1 standard support (with Cloud Pack)

OVF 1.1 offers the widest flexibility and build quality for virtual machines and is used by VMware, guaranteeing compatibility with the most hypervisors.

Leverage Linux package repositories (with Cloud Pack)

Add additional application components and runtimes through either Web or Linux Package repositories.

Automate virtual appliance build process (with Cloud Pack)

Virtual appliances and virtual machine templates can be built using the InstallAnywhere Build engine or through Apache Ant tasks.

Benefits

One Project, Every Platform

InstallAnywhere lets you build a single project that can create installations that successfully install your software on all the platforms (and in the languages) you target. All you do is select the platforms you want, and InstallAnywhere does the rest.

You Don’t Have to Be an Expert on Every Platform

Platforms like Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux, i5/OS, Mac OS X, and Windows each have their own complex installation requirements. With InstallAnywhere, you don’t have to learn any of them. It handles all the requirements for you.

Get Products to Market Faster

InstallAnywhere includes automated tools and wizard-driven development that save you significant time, speeding you through the installation authoring process, so you can bring your software to market faster.

Provide a Favourable Installation Experience

Installation is your customers’ first impression of your product. Make it a great one with InstallAnywhere. You can use custom graphics, animation, and transparent images to create an installation experience that matches your software’s branding.

Reduce Support Costs

InstallAnywhere helps keep costs down during and after development. In addition to simplifying documentation and accelerating the QA process, InstallAnywhere reduces your support costs by helping eliminate end-user installation problems.

Multilingual Support for a Global Market

Software is a global business, and InstallAnywhere’s language support makes it easy for you to target customers around the world. InstallAnywhere lets you build one installation that can present text in over 30 languages, depending on the target system’s native language.

Editions

One Project, All Platforms - Standard + Enterprise
A single project can install your software on multiple platforms.

Extensive Platform Support - Standard + Enterprise
Install software on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and 2003, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux, Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Solaris, z/OS and more (please see the system requirements section for a complete listing).

Virtual and cloud capabilities - with InstallAnywhere Cloud Pack
Create both traditional on-premises installers and virtual appliances – all from a single InstallAnywhere project file. Give your customers the ability to install your products in their environment of choice. Easily create cloud-ready images and enterprise-ready virtual appliances that require no technical expertise by you or your customers to install. Cloud Pack requires InstallAnywhere 2012 Enterprise Edition.

Maintenance Mode - Standard + Enterprise
Enables users to add or remove product features or fix corrupted files.

Rollback Capabilities - Standard + Enterprise
Restore the system to its original state if the user cancels installation or there is a fatal error during installation.

Uninstallation Control - Enterprise Edition Only
Control uninstallation actions - add them, remove them or edit them.

Instance Control - Enterprise Edition Only
Limit the number of times that users can install your applications.

Build Configuration - Standard + Enterprise
Enables creation of multiple installation configurations within one InstallAnywhere project.

Powerful Project Wizard - Standard + Enterprise
Build a multi-platform installation in minutes, reducing development time.

Installers Run in Silent, Console, or GUI Modes - Enterprise Edition (Will run in GUI mode only on Standard edition)
Run installations in silent, console, or full graphical mode.

Localised Designer - Enterprise Edition Only
InstallAnywhere is available in English, French, German, and Japanese.

Localised Installations - Enterprise Edition (Limited feature within the Standard edition)
Pre-translated installation dialog panels make it easy to localize your installations in up to 31 languages. Automatically select an end user’s native language with your installation.

Handle Platform-Specific Details - Standard + Enterprise
InstallAnywhere offers a number of actions that allow you to perform platform-specific tasks.

Intelligent, Flexible, Component-Based Installations - Standard + Enterprise
Installations have built-in logic to detect what’s installed and react accordingly.

Dynamic Merge Modules - Enterprise Edition Only
Import panels and actions from a merge module into a master project as an action group.

Electronic Update Delivery - Standard + Enterprise
Deliver updates and messages to your products in the field by integrating FLEXnet Connect (sold separately) with your installations.

Service Layer Integration - Enterprise Edition Only
Easily add advanced functionality to your custom code actions.

Dynamic Build Targets - Enterprise Edition Only
Bundle multiple VM instances for each platform you target, making your installations more flexible.

Payload Optimisation - Standard + Enterprise
Detect source duplication at a file level and only bundle one copy of the source, reducing the footprint of your installations, cutting download time for end users, and lowering CD/DVD costs for larger installations.

Customised End-User Panels - Enterprise Edition Only
Tightly control the position, font, and colour settings for labels and fields in end-user installation panels.

APIs - Enterprise Edition Only
Have greater flexibility in designing installations with APIs that expose installer UI controls, build projects via a Java API, and improve runtime automation possibilities by retrieving detailed product information such as version, date installed, and product components from the product registry.

InstallAnywhere Collaboration - Enterprise Edition Only
With this plug-in for Eclipse, you can automatically capture and communicate installation requirements between application and installation developers.

Improved Accessibility - Standard + Enterprise
Create installations that are Section 508-compliant with support for screen readers, high contrast, and mnemonics.

Subscriptions

Maintenance Plans

Silver:

A silver maintenance plan includes:

• Automatic notification of, and access to, all product updates (free) and upgrades (chargeable for non-Maintenance-Plan-holders) for 12 months (with at least one chargeable upgrade guaranteed)
• A Maintenance Plan Card detailing all benefits and plan specifics
• 24 x 7 access to Knowledge Base
• 24 x 7 access to product Web Communities
• Sample Code, Sample Projects, and White Papers
• Technical Webinars / Online Product Demonstrations
• Unlimited Web-based requests using eService
• Unlimited telephone support requests.

Gold:

In addition to all the above, a gold maintenance plan includes:

• Access to priority support channels for quickest service
• Priority involvement in Beta Programmes.

System Req.

Authoring Environment

• 256 MB free
• Minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors)
• Minimum 1024 x 768 resolution
• Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Server 2012 (64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 with Java 1.6+, 10.7 with Java 1.6+
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6 (32-bit and 64-bit), SUSE Linux 9, 10 (32-bit), SUSE Linux 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1 (32-bit and 64-bit), Ubuntu 10.10, 11.10, 12.04 (32-bit and 64-bit), Fedora 14, 15, 16, Linux PPC 64-bit (build time only) only on JRE 1.6
• Solaris 9, 10, and 11 (SPARC).

Note: In InstallAnywhere 2012, the InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer is no longer supported on AIX and HP-UX platforms. However, the runtime support for these platforms still continues to exist.

Target Systems (Installer Environment)

• 64 MB free
• Minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors)
• Minimum 640 x 480 screen resolution
• Windows 8 (x86 and x64), Windows Server 2012 (x64), Windows 7 (x86 and x64), Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64), Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64), Windows Vista (x86 and x64), Windows XP (x86, x64, Itanium 2, and AMD-64), Windows Server 2003 (x86, x64, Itanium 2, and AMD-64), Windows 2000 and NT (x86).
• Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 (Lion)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86, x64, Itanium 2, and AMD-64), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (x86 and x64), SUSE Linux 9, 10, 11, 12.1 (x86 and x64), Linux on zSeries, Linux PPC (x64), Ubuntu 9.10, 10.10, 11.4, 11.10, and 12.04 (x86 and x64), Fedora 13, 14 and 15.
• Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC), Solaris 9, 10 (x86, SPARC and AMD-64)
• HP-UX 11i (Itanium 2 and PA-RISC)
• AIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 (Power/PowerPC)
• i5/OS (OS/400) on System i - V5R3 and V5R4 (Enterprise Edition only), z/OS
• FreeBSD
• Other Linux and Unix operating systems (POSIXcompliant shell required).

Supported Java Virtual Machines

• Sun 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x
• IBM 1.5.x, 1.6.x, 1.7.x
• Apple 1.5.x, 1.6.x
• HP 1.5.x, 1.6.x
• Oracle: 1.7.x.