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Makers of WinINSTALL(TM) Announce New Product Family to Provide Companies With Powerful Tools for Comprehensive Desktop Availability to Include PC Migration Functionality Editor's Summary: -- OnDemand Software today announced it will deliver the most comprehensive desktop availability solution available today - providing full distribution and restoration capabilities for operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , applications, settings, and data. -- With this product family, OnDemand becomes the first and only desktop availability solution vendor to provide a point-and-click interface that allows administrators to choose exactly what settings to migrate and restore, including locally saved user data. OnDemand Software, Inc., the long-time leader among software distribution and packaging vendors, today took a commanding lead in the total desktop availability solutions market when it announced that it had added the first easy-to-use and affordable corporate PC migration tool into its award-winning WinINSTALL product line. A product that has always had a significant impact on the corporate bottom line now reduces the total cost of managing corporate desktops even more! With the integration of PC migration into WinINSTALL, network administrators finally have one integrated product that can be used to distribute and manage operating systems, applications, settings, and data on an organization-wide scale - all from a point-and-click interface on a single console! With its new PC migration capabilities, WinINSTALL 8.0 will give administrators an unmatched combination of flexibility, power, and control - allowing them to specify which PCs or groups of PCs they want to migrate, what types of user and system settings should be migrated, and when and how the migration should be performed. And they will be able to do this from the same console where they manage and distribute operating systems, applications, and data. "Most PC migration products give you an 'all or nothing' approach to moving a user, machine, settings and data from one computer to another or from one operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. to another. OnDemand will introduce the PC Migration OnDemand product line that will allow the administrator to capture each individual setting," said Jack Palmer, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , OnDemand Software. "Now you can run one script to capture network settings, another for folder In a graphical user interface (GUI), a simulated file folder that holds data, applications and other folders. Folders were introduced on the Xerox Star, then popularized on the Macintosh and later adapted to Windows and Unix. In Unix and Linux, as well as DOS and Windows 3. settings, another for VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. settings, another for Windows settings See Win Properties and Win Control panels. , another for browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used settings and then other individual scripts for application settings and printer settings. Another key benefit is the ability to backup and restore all user data stored locally on the desktop. "The use of individual scripts that can move each part of a PC's identity gives administrators the ability to decide which settings they need to migrate and when. Administrators will simply select from a checklist which settings should be captured and restored, individually or collectively. What this means is that for the first time, PC migration can be done in a corporate environment of any size - and it can all be done 'on demand'. No other method for PC migration has ever been built that works so perfectly for corporate PC migrations," added Palmer. The new powerful complete OnDemand Software product family that provides total management of the corporate desktop includes the following product lines: PC Migration OnDemand product line PC Migration Administrator offers comprehensive PC migration and disaster recovery for desktops and laptops. The administrator tool is not meant for multiple PC migrations over the network, but rather for migrating from one PC to another PC in an ad-hoc situation. PC Migration Administrator is licensed on a per-administrator, 12-month unlimited usage basis. A PC Migration Administrator license must be purchased for each administrator who needs to perform migrations or system repairs, and each license purchased enables that administrator to perform unlimited migrations for a 12-month period. Corporate Desktop Migration OnDemand provides comprehensive computer migration and disaster recovery for desktop and mobile clients. Corporate Desktop Migration OnDemand offers centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management features, which allow administrators to fully manage desktop migration projects across the entire organization. Designed to provide robust, reliable user-state management for large-scale hardware refresh (1) To continuously charge a device that cannot hold its content. CRTs must be refreshed, because the phosphors hold their glow for only a few milliseconds. Dynamic RAM chips require refreshing to maintain their charged bit patterns. See vertical scan frequency and redraw. , Windows deployment, or disaster recovery projects, Corporate Desktop Migration OnDemand is a flexible and scalable solution that is easy to deploy, whether from the management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. or in a standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. mode. Software Distribution OnDemand product line WinINSTALL LE 2003 is the latest generation of the first MSI MSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (MicroSoft Installer) See Windows Installer. (2) (Medium Scale Integration) Between 100 and 3,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. packager built for Windows 2000 and the only FREE MSI packaging product available in the world today. As a sturdy, dependable "light" version of the full WinINSTALL product, WinINSTALL LE 2003 is the perfect introduction to the power and ease-of-use provided by the full WinINSTALL product. WinINSTALL MSI Packager is the enhanced version of WinINSTALL LE 2003. You can create patches, transforms, and merge modules A merge module is a special kind of Windows Installer database that contains the components needed to install a discrete software bundle. A merge module cannot be installed alone, but must be merged into a standard Windows Installer installation during the creation of the , and you can edit MSI files in their native format on the WinINSTALL console. There is no messy mess·y adj. mess·i·er, mess·i·est 1. Disorderly and dirty: a messy bedroom. 2. Exhibiting or demonstrating carelessness: messy reasoning. , time-consuming conversion from other file formats and, most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , no scripting is required. WinINSTALL MSI Packager is the only MSI packaging tool that lets you organize Windows Installer Microsoft's installation system for Windows. The installer, which is available in Visual Studio and other stand-alone programs, compresses the application into .MSI "package" files, and the MSIEXEC.EXE program in the Windows PC performs the installation. Transform files (. packages on an administrator-oriented console with easy-to-use point-and-click editing. WinINSTALL 8.0, winner of seventeen industry awards, is used by over 10,000 companies worldwide - including over 80% of Fortune 500 companies - and currently supports millions of corporate desktops. Unique among its competitors, WinINSTALL lets administrators manage every aspect of client change workflow from a single console - building software packages and patches, installing them with multiple methods, and managing the success or failure of those installations. WinINSTALL is integrated with leading network management platforms, such as MS SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. , CA Unicenter, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Tivoli, although those network management products are not required. Desktop Availability OnDemand Suite Desktop Availability Suite OnDemand will be introduced with the release of WinINSTALL version 8.0. The PC migration functionality will be completely integrated with WinINSTALL's award-winning software distribution system to form a new and exciting product that will be called the Desktop Availability OnDemand Suite. This product will feature fully integrated PC migration and data migration capabilities, comprehensive inventory capabilities that allow you to discover and manage all of your hardware and software assets, a wide array of new package-related functionalities such as conflict assessment and MSI validation and correction, a full range of software distribution methods for efficiently installing and maintaining software on the desktop, automatic base-lining, multi-cast replication, and results reporting. This suite will offer companies both large and small a desktop availability solution of unparalleled power, flexibility, control, and ease-of-use - and at such affordable prices that it will take the competition's breath away. The D.A.S (Desktop Availability Suite) will be available Q3, 2003. "The Desktop Availability Suite OnDemand delivers on OnDemand's promise of an integrated suite of products that simplifies the management of the corporate desktop," said Mel Raff, Chairman, OnDemand Software. "IT managers can deploy clients, distribute software, create detailed inventory reports regarding hardware and software and obtain detailed reports - all without ever visiting a single desktop, thus reducing the cost of helpdesk support. All of these functions can now be accomplished via a single console." Analyst Perspective A recent Gartner report maintains that by taking advantage of new deployment and migration tools and technologies, a typical organization with 2,500 PCs could reduce the cost of new PC setup and installation by as much as $103,000 or 55 percent per year. Pricing and Availability PC Migration OnDemand and Software Distribution OnDemand products are available today. Pricing is per node, with the exception of PC Migration Administrator, which is $1000.00 for unlimited use. The Desktop Availability Suite OnDemand will be available at the end of the third quarter. For complete information on the functionality of each of the separate solutions or to find an OnDemand partner near you, call 239-495-0541. About OnDemand Software OnDemand is a pioneer and a leading provider of software distribution solutions, for small, medium and enterprise IT environments. OnDemand's WinINSTALL product family, winner of 17 industry awards, is used to institute and maintain desktop standards, automating the installation of operating systems, content and application load sets to networked and remote PCs. OnDemand customers - small, medium and enterprise IT environments - report a substantial return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) and a reduction in the total Cost of Ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ). OnDemand is committed to continuing the WinINSTALL product family's leadership role in the software distribution and change management market. Over 10,000 companies worldwide, supporting millions of desktops use the WinINSTALL product. For more information on OnDemand or for a FREE 30-day evaluation, please see http://www.ondemandsoftware.com or call Paul Pieske at 866/495-0541. |
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