You can do a simple test by using the evaluation versions of Wise and Installshield : Installshield does not reduce effort time to develop MSI's. Having had little experience working with Installshield on previous projects, I'm not in a position to either support or contest this statement. I have been told that this effort would be significantly reduced to 1 day, if Installshield Admin Studio is the primary development tool used for packaging / repackaging. Case in point, on previous projects (1000+ apps) we have found that 'on average' it takes 5 days to create, test and QA a repackaged MSI or create, test, QA a MST. On the same topic, I have been informed that using Installshield (versus Wise) will reduce the effort (time) to develop MSIs.

Thank you all for the informative feedback, this provides the background information that I needed. My question, is there any fact behind this business case, or is someone trying to pull the wool over our eyes? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Now, I find this hard to believe, as I know there are a number of companies that have used Wise exclusively for packaging/repackaging, without having to by both products because of code developed to prevent the other company from running properly against an MSI created by the other company.Īs such, the OPS team have sold the manager that they need both products to accomplish the packaging / repackaging effort at this agency.

For example, if I want to repackage an MSI originally developed in Installshield using Wise Package Studio, Installshield has purposely developed code in the MSI to prevent Wise from seamlessly running i.e. More specifically, each company has purposely developed code to ensure that the other product does not fully function properly. I was informed today that there are built-in incompatibilities between Wise Package Studio and Installshield AdminStudio.

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