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What is InstallAware?

InstallAware Software, founded in 2003, is the leading Cloud Infrastructure Company with its laser sharp focus on bullet-proof enterprise software deployment. InstallAware has been recognized by multiple awards coming from Microsoft, SDTimes "Leader of the Software Development Industry", Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice, ComponentSource, WindowsITPro, among other recognition. InstallAware X12 is available in a complimentary edition for all Visual Studio users and paid editions with prices starting at $329. For a fully functional 30 day trial and more information, visit www.installaware.com.

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InstallAware Software, founded in 2003, is the leading Cloud Infrastructure Company with its laser sharp focus on bullet-proof enterprise software deployment. InstallAware has been recognized by multiple awards coming from Microsoft, SDTimes "Leader of the Software Development Industry", Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice, ComponentSource, WindowsITPro, among other recognition. InstallAware X12 is available in a complimentary edition for all Visual Studio users and paid editions with prices starting at $329. For a fully functional 30 day trial and more information, visit www.installaware.com.


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Year Founded
2003
HQ Location
San Francisco, California
LinkedIn® Page
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3 employees on LinkedIn®

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Simon K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Installer Ever, Vital Discovery for Agile DevOps"
Very effective and easy to use - indispensable component of our agile DevOps toolkit. Virtually no learning curve. First setup builder that compile...
George & Caroline B.
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George & Caroline B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Outstanding support"
I sell a very complex package of statistical software written for Excel. The installation file consists of a variety of files, Excel add-ins and a...
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InstallAware Demo - InstallAware IDE Visual Editor
The design views interpret and display your underlying installation code in a manner that is very intuitive and easy to understand. When you make changes to your setup in a visual designer, it always updates the underlying code. Likewise, when you are using the MSIcode view and make changes to yo...
InstallAware Demo - InstallAware IDE Code Editor
The InstallAware IDE features an exceptionally easy to use, transitional user interface. Jump-start your setup work using the project templates and wizards. Then, use the Design views to make refinements to your setup as necessary. Finally, if you really need to customize things, switch to the MS...
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What do you like best about InstallAware?

Very effective and easy to use - indispensable component of our agile DevOps toolkit. Virtually no learning curve. First setup builder that compiled packages which successfully installed on a hardened client environment that no other installer could handle (we went through six others, each before their own intrinsic problems, before finally discovering InstallAware). Blows literally all other vendors out of the water. It is hard to understand how other setup kits can remain in business with such poor technology in comparison to InstallAware. Even their licensing is so much cleaner - there's no license server to install or configure, everything just works. It's as if this is the Apple of all MSI tools! Save yourself a good load of grief and go with InstallAware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InstallAware?

We may run into trouble some point down the road, but hasn't happened thus far in almost a decade (8 years of use). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InstallAware:

Go with the Studio edition, it has served us well over the years.

Be sure to get at least 2 years of maintenance with support for the best value when ordering.

If you extend your maintenance before allowing it to lapse, they will give you unbelievable discounts.

Never shy away from upgrading, as I have yet to see an InstallAware upgrade to break a setup project! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InstallAware solving and how is that benefiting you?

Installers were always a pain point for us and frustrated our customers, resulting in lost sales, and even existing clients.

We couldn't come up with a successful web delivery/e-commerce strategy before discovering the flexibility of InstallAware.

We lost two integration engineers due to other installation platforms which were, in hindsight, defective by design.

We had to build tens of installation packages to support all our product combinations - the maintenance of which was a growing nightmare.

We even had to fly out engineers to client sites on occasion, at our expense, to get packages built with other brands to work.

Every new Windows version release was a nightmare, requiring major retesting and re-engineering.

The worst was our first installer of choice actually opened us up to liability due to unsolicited changes it made on client Desktops, which compromised their security and created an attack surface that was exploited.

It was inconceivable to us that these problems were not inherent to the Windows platform before learning about InstallAware.

Now we maintain just a single package that runs successfully on all known Windows versions, as well as all Windows architectures (arm, 64bit, 32bit).

This has cut our integration costs dramatically, and it is also telling that we haven't had turnover in our integration department since our upgrade to InstallAware!

To date (8 years and counting), no setup of ours has every been broken by a Windows update - or created any attack surface on any client network and/or PC.

InstallAware is at the heart of our ecommerce strategy, with instant fulfillment at installation time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

George & Caroline B.
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What do you like best about InstallAware?

I sell a very complex package of statistical software written for Excel. The installation file consists of a variety of files, Excel add-ins and advanced help files. In addition, the 32-bit version of the software differs from the 64-bit version in terms of the number and type of files. Configuring the installation was too complicated for me to do, but InstallAware support executed it flawlessly. In addition, they recently combined the 32-bit and 64-bit installation files into a single installation file. It was a brilliant execution of a complex task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InstallAware?

Nothing. The installation program is complex, but it needs to be to handle problems such as mine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InstallAware:

Definitely consider it, especially for the top-flight support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InstallAware solving and how is that benefiting you?

I needed installation files that could function across various Excel platforms and in different countries. InstallAware delivered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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