Packaging software and reliably deploying it is more complex than ever. Consumerization of IT and bring your own device (BYOD) are just some of the trends that are creating new challenges. The boundaries between work and personal life are blurring, and users are demanding consistent self-service access to corporate services from wherever they are, on multiple device types, including desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

In response, IT organizations are launching strategic initiatives to meet goals related to:

• Desktop transformation
• Windows desktop and server migrations
• Application virtualization
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
• Mobile application management (MAM)
• Self-service software requests

With so many initiatives in place, preparing and deploying applications in a reliable, consistent manner is complex, whether deployment is part of an operating system migration, application virtualization project, mobility initiative or every day application requests. Doing so in a cost-effective way is at the heart of driving application usage and greater productivity.

Key Phases to Full Lifecycle Application Packaging and Application Readiness

Flexera's Application Readiness solutions offer substantial value to your enterprise. You can enhance their value by incorporating them into end-to-end management of the enterprise application lifecyle that encompass application packaging, delivery through an enterprise app store and software licensing optimization. With tight integration across these areas, you can streamline and automate the effort involved in keeping applications in a state of readiness for deployment into increasingly complex environments, making applications easily and immediately available to employees, and effectively managing software licenses to ensure continuous license compliance while optimizing software usage and minimizing spend.

Flexera products uniquely manage software usage strategically across the entire enterprise software lifecycle and have long been a de facto industry standard in application readiness and application packaging—core components of a strategic approach to Application Usage Management. More than 10,000 enterprise, government and educational institutions rely on our solutions to reliably and rapidly package more than one million applications.

See how the global leader in application readiness and application packaging can help you facilitate enterprise-wide deployments that minimize IT costs and increase application usability. To read more about this complete end-to-end solution, read our Six Steps to Continuous Application Readiness white paper.