Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite

Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite

Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite
Whitepaper
October 16, 2006














Indigo Rose Software Corporation 123 Bannatyne Avenue, Suite 200 Winnipeg, MB Canada, R3B 0R3 Phone: (204) 946-0263 Fax: (204) 942-3421
http://www.indigorose.com sales@indigorose.com


Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite
Contents

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................. 3
WHAT IS SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT? ........................................................................................... 3
ONE SUITE, FOUR PRODUCTS ......................................................................................................... 3
AUTOPLAY MEDIA STUDIO.................................................................................................................... 3 SETUP FACTORY ................................................................................................................................... 4 TRUEUPDATE........................................................................................................................................ 4 VISUAL PATCH...................................................................................................................................... 5
DEPLOYMENT WORKFLOW ............................................................................................................ 6
INITIAL DEPLOYMENT ........................................................................................................................... 6 ONGOING MAINTENANCE ...................................................................................................................... 8
DEPLOYMENT SUITE BENEFITS ..................................................................................................... 9
COMMON QUESTIONS..................................................................................................................... 10
SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................................... 11
ABOUT INDIGO ROSE CORPORATION......................................................................................... 12



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Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite
Introduction
The Indigo Rose Software Deployment Suite is a collection of four related Indigo Rose products: AutoPlay Media Studio, Setup Factory, Visual Patch and TrueUpdate. Together, these four products form a complete software deployment toolkit.
What is Software Deployment?
Software deployment is the ongoing process of getting software onto end-user's systems and keeping that software up to date. It starts during the software design process and then continues with installation, patch management/delivery and distribution.
One Suite, Four Products
Here is a description of the individual products that make up the software deployment suite.
AutoPlay Media Studio
AutoPlay Media Studio is used to create interactive multimedia autorun menus for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs. The autorun menus can launch setup programs, open document files, jump to Web sites, show training and promotional videos, open product documentation and much more. In fact, AutoPlay Media Studio is so flexible and powerful that many developers take it far beyond autorun menus and create full multimedia applications with it.
Inputs: Graphics, buttons, music, setup programs, electronic documents, Flash files, videos, and any other kind of electronic media that you want to re-distribute or incorporate into an autorun menu.
Outputs: Autorun.exe file that can automatically start up when the CD or DVD is inserted; burns CD/DVD automatically; creates complete, self-contained Windows applications.
Product Web Site: http://www.autoplaystudio.com


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Setup Factory
Setup Factory is used to create setup programs. The self-contained setup execut... [download for more]