Feature

Benefits

Smart Update™

Smart Update enables the automatic grouping and management of computers based on their hardware, software, and network configuration without conducting a prior inventory scan. Define criteria for group membership in Configuration Groups and assign deployment tasks from one interface. Once Configuration Groups are set up, computers that join the network weeks or months later receive the necessary updates and patches without further administrator intervention.

Internet based Administration

Prism Deploy is engineered for today's dynamic computing environment. It delivers simple, secure internet-based administration of widely distributed environments and the mobile workforce. And you can use Prism Suite to manage your Windows systems from any location with an internet connection.

Distributed Locations

Enable any system with the Prism Client to serve as a local repository for deploying software or configuration packages therefore reducing bandwidth and improve operational efficiencies within a widely distributed network environment.

Organizational Groups

Group and manage computers based on organizational function, e.g. sales, marketing, and engineering.

Mobile Workforce Support:

A new proxy server enables computers to securely communicate with your Prism Server enabling complete management of mobile systems

Active Directory

Import Active Directory Organizational Units into the Prism Deploy Organizational Groups. The Prism Deploy console gives you more flexibility and better reporting than relying on Group Policy objects for software deployment.

Any Network

Prism Deploy works across any network, including the Internet.

Channels

Prism Deploy Channels make it easy to manage different types of users and multi-site organizations. Create unique deployment Tasks, control where users in various locations receive their software and more.

Server Management

Package and deploy server-based software to Windows servers, including those running Citrix MetaFrame or Windows Terminal Services.

Maximise your organization’s productivity. With supporting hardware,   Prism Deploy can wake or activate offline computers to deploy packages efficiently when bandwidth usage is low or during non-working hours

Keep your deployments going while making the most efficient use of network bandwidth and local disk space. Unlike other solutions, Prism Deploy incrementally delivers and installs deployment packages, so it can resume distributions where they were.

DEPLOYMENT CONSOLE

Deploy any software to any computer, anywhere in the world, across any network.

Feature

Benefits

Drag and Drop Software Deployment

Deploy software to individual computers or groups of computers using simple drag and drop. Since Prism Deploy does not rely on a complex queuing system, deployment occurs almost instantaneously.

Deploy Anything: a Package, Script or Command.

Push any administrative task you need, under any account you specify. Deploy a Prism Package that installs the entire Office suite, a Prism script that installs five applications in sequence, or a third party command that installs an operating system hot fix, security patch or Windows Installer file. Even launch a third party tool.

Schedule Deployment Tasks

Prism Task Scheduling lets you specify when deployment should occur - in a week, every Monday, at start up or after hours. The control is in your hands. New task scheduling options give you the ability to update tasks and to set recurring tasks. The new options make it easy to redistribute a task, to make any software package self-healing and to ensure every user has the right software.

View Deployment Reports

Detailed deployment reports provide immediate feedback on the status of deployment.

Uninstall Software

Deploy a task to uninstall a Prism file, or reverse a command; uninstalling software with Prism Deploy is just as easy as installing it.

EASY PACKAGE CREATION

Unlike most software deployment tools, Prism Deploy is amazingly easy to learn and use.

Feature

Benefits

Wizard Interface

Build deployment Packages in four easy steps. Follow the easy-to-use Expert by simply clicking "next".

Drag and Drop Editing

The Prism Editor makes it easy to view and edit a Prism deployment Package, using a familiar Windows Explorer-like interface. Drag and drop files in and out. No more wading through pages of software code.

Entire Suites of Applications

Build a deployment Package representing any software changes you need to deploy.

32 and 64 Bit Easy Package Creation:

Simply click "next" and Prism Deploy builds a Package for you. You don't have to write or edit complicated scripts.

Package Customization

The friendly Prism interface makes it easy to customize a single Package for a diverse environment.

Permissions Packaging:

Achieve better deployment reliability by graphically distributing security settings along with applications. Prism Deploy captures, packages and deploys applications that require changes to special registry and NTFS permissions for controlled, reliable, automated rollouts.

Build Windows Installer Files

Use the friendly Prism interface to build Windows Installer exe files for custom applications and other software not in that format.

Deploy Windows Installer Files with Prism Deploy

Use the Prism drag and drop deployment Console to assign a deployment task to install a Windows Installer file. When you deploy software with Prism Deploy, you receive reports on the deployment.

FINE CONTROL IN MIXED ENVIRONMENTS

Prism Deploy offers you full support for managing your diverse environment.

Feature

Benefits

Smart Variables

The Smart Variables feature lets you turn a hard-coded value in a deployment Package into a variable that resolves itself as you tell it: prompt a user, pull a unique setting from each user's environment or from another variable.

Installation Rules

Safeguard installations by creating your own Installation Rules to control how a deployment Package evaluates the hardware, software, and network configuration of an end-user environment before installing. The Prism wizards walk you through the process of creating rules that built right into a Prism Package.

Configuration-based Scripting

Receive total control over deployments by using the robust scripting language of Prism. Receive instant access to the hardware, software and network configuration of target computers.

Paths Utility

Change every embedded path statement within a Package in one easy step.

Requirements

Set disk space and operating system requirements that target computers must meet before a Package installs.

Reboot Options

Control how a Package reboots a computer, including letting a user decline a reboot or forcing one.

Prompts

Display custom prompts to users before, during, and after a Package runs - or display nothing at all.

Overwrite Properties

Define how a deployment Package treats files that are within a Package and also exist on target computers, evaluate based on version, time/date, etc. You can set properties on an entire Package and/or each file within a Package.

Delete Options

Define how a deployment Package deletes files that are within a Package and also exist on a target computer.

100% RELIABLE

Prism Deploy is reliable 100% of the time.

Feature

Benefits

Robust Package Creation

The mature and award-winning Prism packaging technology is tested and proven. The Prism package-creation process does a thorough job of capturing the changes needed to replicate them onto other systems.

Rollback

The unique Prism rollback feature puts a system back to its pre-deployment state. Overwritten DLLs and registry keys are restored.

Conflict Checker

The Prism Conflict Checker prevents errors before they occur by evaluating multiple deployment Packages against one another for conflicts in the system and program files and the registry.

Self-healing

Prism can check the health of an application at login, start up, or each time an application is launched. When Prism fixes software it only fixes what's broken, making the process fast and bandwidth-efficient.

You Control the Deployment

Prism Deploy makes no assumption about target environments, Instead, it puts the control in the administrator's hands to define how Prism should behave.

INTERNET/INTRANET DEPLOYMENTS

Prism Deploy was designed to manage all users across corporate networks, including those outside the firewall.

Feature

Benefits

Remote and Mobile Support

The non-intrusive deployment infrastructure of Prism is efficient for managing users inside and outside the corporate network, including roaming users and those at remote sites. A TCP/IP/Internet connection is all you need.

HTTP Support

Post Prism files at a web address for users not on the corporate network. The web support of Prism makes it easy for remote users to install, update, and repair their software without additional help from you.

Package Compression and Encryption

Prism deployment Packages are automatically encrypted and compressed 40-70%, making them efficient for moving across slower communication links.

Differential repair

When Prism Deploy fixes software, it only reinstalls missing or broken files or components making the process fast and bandwidth efficient.