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Is installing and updating software packages in your organization costing you valuable time, money, and resources?

Organizations often suffer financially as a result of poor software deployment techniques. Administrators as well as end-users are mutually responsible for each computer being loaded with various untested software.  Manual installation of applications leads to multiple unique application landscapes, which lowers help desk efficiency while increasing liability from improper software licensing management.   The various application environments minimize the help desk’s effectiveness in addressing each ticket that is submitted and decrease the amount of time available for responding to other serious support issues. 

Improper software license management leaves an organization’s network open for pirated and other counterfeit software, which in turn, exposes the organization to liability issues associated with software of this type.  In addition to increased help desk costs and increased liability from unlicensed software, organizations also suffer financially as a result of compatibility issues that would have been prevented with proper software testing. Application Packaging is a method and a process that creates a standardized landscape, which ensures compatibility through user acceptance testing before rolling out applications to desktops.  This standardized application landscape also lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) for each application by allowing for standard packaging processes and creating a predictable desktop environment.

Business Impact of Manual
Software Deployment

Hard Costs

Soft Costs

  • Increased time commitment and cost of installations
  • Remediation of compatibility issues between versions of applications
  • Increased employee downtime due to compatibility issues
  • Financial liabilities from improper software licensing
  • Employee productivity-loss
  • Inefficiency of help desk from multiple unique application infrastructures
  • License issues arising from manual installations of applications that aren’t tracked

 

Organizations previously suffering from poor packaging methodologies are realizing benefit from Ensynch’s best practice packaging process. One of the primary benefits from this standard packaging approach is the ability to reliably install and distribute software to multiple systems throughout an organizations environment, thus lowering the complexity of scale that support staff has to concentrate on solving issues quickly for end users 

Ensynch’s Application Request Portal is another way we are seen as a true partner in the deployment of software packages in organizations. Today’s complex computing environments largely utilize multiple deployment and packaging techniques to get software setup and installed on an end-users workstation.  Leveraging Ensynch’s best practice software packaging methods, a company can lower their total cost of application maintenance and free up their analysts to concentrate more on projects to improve overall IT efficiency. 

Organizations have also seen significant savings stemming from automated self-healing features associated with some software packaging techniques.  When Ensynch packages an application, we create a SOURCELIST for it that creates the ability to automatically reinstall any files that might have been accidentally deleted by users in the environment.  This leads to significant savings in help desk costs as well as increased productivity from users that don’t have to spend time waiting for a technician to reinstall the application.  

Business Impact of Automated
Software Deployment

Hard Benefits

Soft Benefits

  • Lower software deployment and update costs
  • Increased efficiency of help desk
  • Standard application landscape
  • Automated application healing
  • Increased profitability from operational efficiency
  • Improved company efficiency and productivity
  • Ability to create standard operating procedures
  • Appropriate license management

 

Ensynch is the trusted expert on Application Packaging for many of the nation’s top organizations.  We know and are able to implement the best practices that will allow you to maintain top efficiency when deploying new and updated software packages. 

Request more information about Application Packaging using MSI/Windows Installer as well as Custom Packaging techniques. 

features
User Acceptance Testing
Industry best practices in deploying new software
Validation of requirements, media, and installation configurations
Extensive research and reporting for installation issues
Standard application environment
Department/company-wide standard application landscape
benefits
Lower software deployment and update costs
Improved help desk efficiency
Standard application landscape
Automated application healing
Increased profitability
Appropriate software license management
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