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.