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Product summary
InstallShield Professional is a commercial development and IT utility for building installers and packaging applications for new and evolving platforms. It simplifies creating deployment bundles so teams can prepare software for multiple environments with minimal custom scripting.
Adoption and footprint
- More than 100,000 developers worldwide rely on InstallShield Professional to produce professional installation packages.
- The product has been distributed on roughly 500 million servers and personal computers.
Supported targets and integration
- Windows desktop environments (most supported releases), including integration directly from Microsoft Visual Studio.
- Cloud platforms and hybrid deployments, suitable for packaging server-side and web applications for cloud hosting.
- Traditional server installations and enterprise back-end targets.
Package types and virtualization options
- Support for UWP and WSA packages to address modern Windows application models.
- Classic MSI and EXE installers for conventional desktop and enterprise deployments.
Deployment experience and customization
InstallShield provides templates and wizard-driven flows to assemble multi-tier bundles so you can present server and web components as a single cloud-ready package. Its visual UI editor lets you craft installer interfaces that reflect a company’s branding and product identity.
Updates and maintenance model
The vendor regularly issues patches and updates and ensures the installer mechanism applies the most current fixes during installation, helping keep deployments up to date without additional manual steps.
Free alternative
If you need a no-cost option, consider InstallForge as a recommended free installer-creation tool.
Technical
- Windows
- Free Trial
