InstallAnywhere Reviews & Product Details

The best thing about InstallAnywhere (IA) is that this is the single tool which can be use to create installers for multiple operating systems. There are various tools available in the market for installer creation, which either support a single operating system or lack robustness and easy to use. IA had lots of features which can be used directly to fulfill your installer requirements. Advanced functionality can be implemented in Java which is again a robust programming language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing specific in IA which I don't like in InstallAnywhere. Any Application Packaging Engineer will able to use InstallAnywhere tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is best for the smaller products/projects (IDE eclipse installation, third-party tools) the development can be done quickly.

The merge module part of it is easy for the deployment of the binaries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For the complex project which has different flows and based on one flow dynamically it difficult to use the existing panels in the InstallAnywhere. We need to write the custom panels, rules, actions, and the development cycle will take a good amount of time as we need to write the business and custom code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. The ease of use.

2. Support for multiple operating systems.

3. Flexibility to add an external script.

4. Pre-defined templates to help you design your installation process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There was nothing much to dislike when I used it. Evaluated the tool with multiple other options and found it best for our requirement of creating cross-platform installers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Multi-platform installer development.

Integration of Java code/Custom code in the tool.

Easy tool to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Function to Upgrade the install from one version to another. The tool doesn't have this feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked the user interface, which is very easy to use. I also like the integrations InstallAnywhere allows, which gives users the ability to use different scripting and programming language to perform a task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike but windows installers can be improved; just like shell scripting is very easy to use in Linux installers, bat scripting is very hard for windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Likes the custom coding , validations to cater to needs

Prompt and quick responses from support even sometimes with patches Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Feels sometime bulky, if minimized , sometimes will not be restored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Friendly UI, Easy task management, Adding prereq as per custom requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bundling JVM along with Installer bit trick, but can be simplified Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

cloud-ready, multi-tier virtual appliances to deploy multi-platform applications automatically to Amazon EC2

the above is the best features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creating installers for Mac is a bit difficult for the novice user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Documentation

2. Online Community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because of java it consumes lot of system memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use , less maintenance activities involved and easy to build and lot of customisation opportunities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now nothig but sometimes it takes time to build an exe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.