InstallAnywhere Editions

InstallAnywhere 2013

InstallAnywhere is available in two different editions:

InstallAnywhere Premier Edition
InstallAnywhere Professional Edition

The Cloud Pack is optionally available with InstallAnywhere Premier Edition.

Following is a list of features that are available in the Premier edition of InstallAnywhere but not the Professional edition.

Virtual appliance support—With the Cloud Pack, which is available for purchase with InstallAnywhere Premier Edition, you can use your existing InstallAnywhere project to configure and build virtual appliances. InstallAnywhere Premier Edition with Cloud Pack enables you to build cloud-ready virtual appliances that you can deploy automatically as hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings on a public cloud, or enterprise-ready virtual appliances that your enterprise customers can host in their own virtual environments.

The Cloud Pack also includes the ability to create virtual machine templates that help you streamline the process of moving multiple applications to the cloud and to virtual environments.

Localized development environment (English or Japanese)—The Premier edition of the InstallAnywhere IDE is available in English or Japanese. The Professional edition of the IDE is available only in English.
Extensive run-time language support—The Premier edition includes default run-time strings in 31 supported languages. The Professional edition includes default run-time strings in 9 languages.

The Premier edition also enables you to include custom localized splash screens in your installations. In addition, this edition lets you add your own external resource bundles to your projects; external resource bundles are custom locale files (one per locale) that provide additional localized run-time strings or replace the default built-in run-time strings.

InstallAnywhere Collaboration—The Premier edition includes this Eclipse plug-in that is targeted toward engineering teams who want to foster collaboration, enable distributed installation development, and maximize efficiency in their organizations.
Ability to add custom GUI panels—The Premier and Professional editions let you incorporate various standard GUI panels in your installation and customize various aspects of their appearance. Only the Premier edition lets you design your own custom panels that guide end users through the selection or completion of various UI elements such as text boxes, check boxes, and lists.
Flexible user-interface modes for installations—The Premier edition provides the ability to define which UI mode or modes your installations support. Options are GUI mode (which displays the installation wizard to end users and requires interaction from end users), console mode (which displays a text-only interface, similar to that found in ANSI terminal applications), and silent mode (which provides an automated non-interactive installation mode). The Professional edition has support for only the GUI mode.
Ability to build pure 64-bit installers for 64-bit Windows-based systems—In the Premier edition, you can build pure 64-bit installers for Windows-based target systems. These installers can be run on 64-bit Windows-based systems that do not have 32-bit Windows-on-Windows (WOW64) functionality; this includes Windows Server Core, which supports disabling WOW64 support. These installers contain 64-bit self-extractors, LaunchAnywheres, and VM packs, as needed. They can install to 64-bit file and registry locations and install 64-bit Windows services as required.
Support for enabling maintenance mode—In the Premier edition, you can specify whether you want your installation to support maintenance mode, as well as which modes should be available. Maintenance mode lets end users add or remove features, uninstall the product, or repair the product. The Professional edition does not have support for maintenance mode.
Support for customizing the uninstaller—The Premier and Professional editions automatically create an uninstaller for a product. Only the Premier edition lets you customize the uninstaller by adding, modifying, reordering, or removing uninstall actions.
Instance management support—The Premier edition provides the ability to create installations that let end users install multiple instances of a product on the same machine.
Flexible build configuration management—With the Premier edition, you can use a single InstallAnywhere project to define different build configurations, each with different settings. Each build configuration can specify how you want to build an installation for a particular set of platforms, build distributions, JVMs, locales, and other settings. You can also define tags to bundle related sets of actions, panels, features, and components, and assign the tags to the appropriate items in your project. Then you can associate the tags with specific build configurations to include or exclude items from builds.
Project automation APIs—The Premier edition includes project automation APIs that lets you design, modify, build, and test an installation from an InstallAnywhere project via Java code.

The Premier edition also has support for service layer APIs that you can use to customize your installation beyond the standard actions and panels; they also enable you to add advanced functionality to your custom code actions. For example, you can use the service layer to modify files, query the system registry, and determine whether an end user has administrative privileges.

Server deployment support—The Premier edition enables you to configure settings for deploying software to application and database servers. With this edition, you can also assign WAR or EAR deployment actions to a J2EE container for application server hosts, and SQL instruction actions that run SQL scripts during the installation on database server hosts.
Support for defining and configuring groups of actions or panels—The Premier edition provides a way to logically group a set of actions or panels in various run-time sequences, and apply rules to all of the items in the group.
Project-wide search capability for variables and tags—Use the Premier edition to search for each instance of a particular variable or tag in any of the installation sequences.

For additional details about the features that are included in different editions, contact your InstallAnywhere sales representative or a reseller.