Acresso Software
Acresso’s AdminStudio and Workflow Manager products maximize IT productivity while reducing costs associated with the software packaging processes and reducing the complexity of deployment. Acresso’s AdminStudio combines powerful software packaging and virtualization technology with Web-based process management tools to significantly reduce your customers’ IT costs and increase software’s reliability. Acresso’s Workflow Manager enables enterprises to centralize and standardize software packaging processes, reducing costs and maximizing IT productivity. Acresso is the maker of InstallShield and the world expert on software installations. Unlike their competition, Acresso’s AdminStudio provides reliable Microsoft Installation (MSI) and virtual packages for error-free deployment with Citrix XenApp 4.5 (Platinum or Enterprise). Acresso products are ideal for any organization that manages software, especially for customers with OS migration projects.
Solutions Provided by Acresso Products:
AdminStudio - The way IT prepares reliable MSI and virtual software packages for deployment:
- Improves application reliability
- Cuts deployment costs with virtual applications
- Cuts packaging time by 70%, migrates applications to Windows Installer and Windows Vista and effectively manages the packaging process
Workflow Manager - Enterprise software packaging managed from start to finish:
- Reduces IT costs
- Implements IT Information Library best practices
- Maximizes IT productivity
- Ensures faster software rollouts and eliminates redundant software repackaging
Important Information for VARs:
Complementary Products
- Citrix XenApp 4.5 Platinum (or Enterprise)
- #1 initiative of Citrix – upgrade as many customers as possible to 4.5
- Help to move customers to Platinum or Enterprise
- To optimize Citrix Application Streaming, AdminStudio perfect add-on
Other “Attachables”
- Novell ZENworks (add-on value = application packaging)
- ScriptLogic (add-on value = application packaging)
- VMware (add-on value = application virtualization)
- WYSE (add-on value = application virtualization)
Vertical Markets:
- Automotive/Manufacturing
- Banking/Finance & Insurance
- Education
- Energy/Oil & Gas
- Government
- Healthcare
Product Fit:
The customer segments range from ISVs and content publishers, to public sector agencies and any sized enterprises.
Ideal VAR Characteristics:
- VARs working with customers who have multiple applications often times with OS migration projects in process or in the planning stage.
- Citrix authorized resellers.
Eval Units:
Evaluation software is available for download through the Acresso website.
AdminStudio:
www.macrovision.com/alt/as_eval.htm
Workflow Manager:
www.macrovision.com/alt/wfm_eval.htm
AdminStudio & Workflow Manager (Combined):
www.macrovision.com/alt/aswfm_eval.
Corporate Overview:
Acresso was founded 1983 and is the leading technology provider targeting customers who want to protect, enhance and/or deliver their content into the marketplace or throughout their organization. Their three areas of technology include entertainment, games and software; where Acresso is a global leader in all arenas with technology on over 500M desktops. Channel products today focus on application installation and management and their corporate priority is to aggressively grow and develop the channel. They have a fully channel-neutral compensation plan, paying commission to their direct sales teams based on all sales through their channel partners. This encourages collaboration and extends internal resources to their top partners, minimizing channel conflict between Acresso’s channel and their own sales force. Acresso is a publicly traded company - NASDAQ: MVSN.
Acresso Corporation provides a broad set of solutions that enable businesses to protect, enhance and distribute their digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Acresso is a market leader in content protection, software licensing and installation, and digital rights management (DRM) technologies. Acresso’s solution for the software industry enables software publishers, vendors and enterprises to maximize the value of their software. Acresso software solutions bridge the gap between pricing and packaging of software on the developers’ side and purchasing and managing that software on the enterprise side. Over 71,000 ISVs worldwide use Acresso’s InstallShield and InstallAnywhere solutions to protect their investments. More than 9,800 ISVs and enterprises have licensed FLEXnet technology. Nearly the top 100 software publishers use InstallShield.
Acresso holds approximately 265 issued or pending United States patents and more than 1,200 issued or pending international patents, and continues to increase its patent portfolio with new and innovative technologies in related fields.
Acresso is a Delaware corporation founded in 1983. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, U.S.A. with worldwide offices, Acresso is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol MVSN.