Infragistics relies on InstallAnywhere to install its Java products reliably across multiple platforms. InstallAnywhere allows Infragistics to use a single solution to deploy its products on different operating systems. It provides an intuitive interface that simplifies the installation process. Customers benefit from trouble-free installations that maintain a consistent experience regardless of platform.
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Infragistics Success with InstallAnywhere Multi-Platform Deployment
1. Success Story:
Infragistics
“The benefit for our customers is simple: trouble-free
installations that leverage the power of Java to
provide the consistent look and feel that Infragistics’
customers have come to expect across all platforms.”
Tim Hitchings
Customer Profile: Infragistics is an established leader in providing Senior Product Manager
Infragistics
components and professional services for the accomplished developer.
Challenge: Infragistics needed a better way to install their products reliably
on Windows and UNIX platforms.
Benefits: InstallAnywhere enables Infragistics to use one standardized
solution for all Java platforms.
of the most popular Java platforms, and in the past, they didn’t have the feature
InstallAnywhere’s multi-platform deployment set or the out-of-the-box functionality of
and updating solutions are a natural choice InstallAnywhere.”
for us. InstallAnywhere enables us to use one
standardized solution for all Java platforms.” Award-winning Ease of Use for Faster
Infragistics, an established leader in Time-to-Market
providing components and professional Creates One Single Powerful Installer InstallAnywhere’s Six-step Project Wizard
services for the accomplished developer, InstallAnywhere creates a single project enables developers to build a simple installer
relies on InstallAnywhere to install and file for all platforms, significantly reducing in less than five minutes. This intuitive
configure its JSuite, PowerChart Server developer time and effort creating separate design tool also sets the classpath and finds
Edition and LeadServer products to customers platform-specific project files. Its intuitive the main class for your Java application
worldwide. Infragistics enables professional design environment reduces the engineering automatically. Its Advanced Designer
developers to build superior applications required by taking care of much of the delivers the power and flexibility to control
while reducing the costs and time work needed to construct a fully functional every aspect of installer functionality.
associated with development. installer. All installer functionality is logically “InstallAnywhere has thought through all
organized and intuitively presented, of the details of building an installer in
Formed by the merger of Sheridan Software taking the guesswork out installer design. today’s complex computing environments,
and ProtoView™ Development, Infragisitics “InstallAnywhere’s intuitive interface makes allowing me to compile once and install
has been providing component software it easy to see what happens in what order. anywhere. I don’t have to sweat the small
since the early 1990s. The two companies With InstallAnywhere, we can program on stuff, because InstallAnywhere has already
combined have been awarded nearly 200 a development machine, then transfer the done it for me.” Hitchings also appreciates
industry awards. installer to a build environment, without any InstallAnywhere’s unmatched capability to
file translation hassles or incompatibilities,” customize background images, billboards,
Java-based Solution Provides Broad added Hitchings. installation labels, and panel images.
Platform Support “InstallAnywhere lets me create installers that
Infagistics has a diverse customer base Built-in Functionality Means More Power reflect Infragistics’ messaging and artwork,
and its Java products run on a multitude for the Developer ensuring that our customer’s experience
of platforms. “InstallAnywhere’s multi- Built-in functionality such as the ability to begins the moment that they
platform installer technology is a natural modify text files, modify registry entries, click “install.”
fit with our Java-based products, JSuite, manage services, execute custom code, and
PowerChart SE, and LeadServer,” said to create branded panels and billboards
Tim Hitchings, Infragistics Senior Product were also important to Hitchings. “I’ve
Manager. “Our customers work on a variety used other multi-platform deployment tools >> Continue