Wise Package Studio: Value

The Value of Wise Package Studio

We understand that application and patch deployment is one of the most significant challenges your IT organization faces. The complexities, volume and urgency surrounding deployments are growing. As a result, chances are you are now responsible for preparing and deploying more software than ever, with increasing requirements for customization and team efficiency.

To ensure swift, successful deployment, smart organizations are turning to Wise Package Studio and the considerable return on investment it offers. What are the potential benefits of using Wise Package Studio to prepare your applications for deployment?

According to one study* conducted by Enterprise Management Associates, organizations implementing Wise Package Studio experienced:

Return on their investment within a single month through reduced IT resource and time savings
Reduction in Windows Installer (.MSI) migration time up to 60%
Substantially shorter packaging times:
- Capture time reduced 50-75%
- Customization time reduced 50-66%
- Validation time reduced 50%
Dramatic reductions in conflict resolution and testing times, in some cases from weeks to days
Lower failure rates
Lower help desk call rates

Example Organization 1

Major Financial Services Company
Total target desktops: 32,000
Average number of applications deployed per month: 10
Average number of targets per deployment: 2,000

Chief pre-deployment benefit: Reduced conflict resolution effort from approximately 40 man-hours per application deployed to approximately 1 man-hour per application deployed.
Chief post-deployment benefit: Reduced average deployment failure rate by 7 percent—a savings of more than $2 million per year in service desk and maintenance time.

Total ROI (ratio of benefit to cost in one year): 23:1

Measuring the Returns of Software Packaging

Read EMA's white paper, Measuring the Returns of Software Packaging to learn more about how organizations like yours saved substantial time and resources with Wise Package Studio.

Get a personalized ROI analysis of how Wise Package Studio can help your organization.

Wise Package Studio provides more than impressive return on investment. From its inception, Wise Package Studio has provided unprecedented value to system administrators who need a comprehensive, technologically advanced solution.

More Reliable Applications

Exclusive quality assurance technology and processes ensure your applications are reliable. Applications are properly repackaged, customized, checked for conflicts, validated and tested in the production environment prior to deployment. This means applications prepared with Wise Package Studio are less likely to fail, which translates into lower IT support costs through all phases of the application lifecycle. Ultimately, the end-user experience is better because there are fewer application problems. End users are more productive, and have greater customer satisfaction with IT.

Faster Deployments

Unsuccessful and time-consuming software deployments are very costly to an organization. With Wise Package Studio, your application packaging efforts can be reduced up to 50%. Wise Package Studio is loaded with project management and automation features that streamline your processes, improving project speed. Our comprehensive capture technology ensures you don't waste time tracking down missing files. With Wise Package Studio, the likelihood of a speedy, high-quality, successful rollout increases dramatically. End users get the applications they need faster, and IT has more time to devote to strategic projects.

Support for Corporate Standardization

Corporate standardization involves two areas: standardizing the way applications are prepared for deployment, and standardizing the application configuration itself. Wise Package Studio supports both of these activities through built-in processes, project management, user-defined validation and conflict management, and extensive editing capabilities. When you standardize the way your team deploys applications, you will have consistent, reproducible, reliable results. And when you standardize the way each application is configured, you can resolve any problems that do occur faster, reducing IT support costs and increasing productivity.

Manage Applications and Related Data

To truly manage the application deployment process, you need more than repackaging tools. Wise Package Studio includes application management tools that allow you to collect and share data about all of your applications, your standard operating environment and related components, throughout the application lifecycle, and across geographically dispersed packaging teams. Gaining control of your application data means fewer problems with deployment because you reduce the chances of errors, such as distributing packages that aren't finished or changing finished production packages.

The Value of Patch Testing

The value of Wise Package Studio also applies to preparing patches for deployment. Patches are an increasingly important part of software lifecycle management. Analyzing and testing patches is as critical as testing applications, and Wise Package Studio provides automated and efficient processes that allow you to quickly analyze and test patches before and after deployment. With proper patch preparation and testing, you avoid the critical, expensive problems untested patches can introduce in your production environment. You'll reduce downtime, adhere to quality assurance processes, speed deployment and minimize impact on end users.

Learn more about patch preparation and testing.