InstallShield 2012 Spring Premier Edition

The World’s Most Powerful Windows Installation-Authoring Solution – Period

The top-tier InstallShield Premier Edition is the world’s most powerful and flexible solution for Windows installations. Software companies serious about providing reliable, professional installations for their applications trust the InstallShield Premier Edition.

InstallShield Premier Edition gives you all the capabilities of our Professional Edition, plus tons of exclusive functionality, including:

  • Enhanced suite capabilities—Ability to import and reference PRQ files as Suite packages, dynamic links for Suite packages, advanced reporting and logging on Suite packages as well as a new UI for custom conditions.
  • Support complex requirements with minimal scripting or coding—With the InstallShield Suite/Advanced UI Project type, multiple products can be easily bundled together into a single, unified suite installation, eliminating the need to develop a custom launcher or bootstrapper application.
  • Provide an “app-store like” experience—End users only need to download a small file to quickly start the installation.
  • Support distributed, collaborative installation development—The InstallShield Collaboration add-on allows distributed product developers and technical writers to more efficiently create and manage their portion of the installation. Premier Edition includes 5 licenses of Developer Installation Manifest Editor.
  • Leverage the advances offered by 64-bit operating systems—The most comprehensive support for 64-bit installation development including 64-bit dependency scanning, setting permissions for files, folders and registry keys, and a prerequisite that installs the 64-bit version of the Microsoft VSTO 2010 Runtime.
  • Maintain a clean build system—Each license of InstallShield Premier Edition includes five free Standalone Build licenses.
  • Avoid common installation issues—Validators in the InstallShield Best Practices Validation Suite alert you if your installation violates any best practices guidelines.
  • Easily convert legacy installations into MSI packages—With InstallShield Repackager, you can easily create MSI packages.
  • Localize your installation—InstallShield’s multilingual support lets you create installations for 35 runtime languages from one installation project.
  • Quickly roll out new installations—With network repositories, it’s easy to build a repository of common elements that multiple installation authors can access and reuse in projects.
  • Create trial versions without modifying code—With the try-and-die type of trialware’s simple configuration changes, you can easily offer potential customers a fully functional. trial version of your product (After the predetermined trial limit has been reached on an end user’s machine, the trial version automatically expires).
  • Save time with the IIS Scanner—Only the Premier Edition allows you to import the IIS data from an existing Web site into your InstallShield project automatically using the IIS Scanner.

InstallShield Premier Edition is available as a node-locked or concurrent license. You can also optionally purchase the Virtualization Pack with the Premier Edition to support building Microsoft App-V virtual packages.

Download the trial version of InstallShield 2012 Spring Premier Edition with Virtualization pack.

Download the InstallShield 2012 Spring Edition datasheet