1. Application Packaging Products and
Solutions
Application Packaging Self-Service
Smart Update
PACE Suite
AA part of Nordic IT group EVRY
part of the Nordic IT group EVRY

2. Infopulse at a Glance
Infopulse is a leading Norwegian owned provider of Information Technology
and BPO services in Eastern Europe.
Main Services
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Software Engineering and Testing
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Application Packaging and Virtualization
IT and Network Operations
Business Process Outsourcing
Founded
1991
1000+
employees
30 Mio €
revenues
ISO
certified
9001, 14001
CMMI 4
Zhytomyr
10% FTE
Vinnytsia
2.6% FTE
Chernigiv
0.6% FTE
Kyiv
81.5% FTE
Member
of European
Business
Association
(EBA)
Lugansk
5.3% FTE
Deutscher
Wirtschafts
-club
(DWK)
With our proven high technical competence and reliable secure services,
we bring innovation to life for our clients globally
to the benefit of our employees and society.

3. Experience in Application Packaging
Largest Application Packaging Delivery Center in Europe
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Packaging since 2006
100+ packaging engineers
3 delivery sites in Ukraine
2 delivery partners in Europe
Over 35,000 installations delivered
Over 30 satisfied clients in Europe and Scandinavia
Pool of
100+
Application
Packaging
Engineers
7 Years
Experience
35,000
Delivered
Packages
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4. Application Packaging Story
From resource pool to solution provider
2005
2007
• 5 FTEs
2010
• 64 FTEs
• 25 customers
• MSI Generator
• 37 FTEs
• 6 customers
• 20 automation
scripts
2012
• 108 FTEs
• 50 customers
• PACE Launch at
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2008
• 56 FTEs
• 18 customers
• 60 automation scripts
and hand-made tools
2013
• Application Packaging
Self-Service
• Smart Update
• Application Informer
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5. Challenges of Application Packaging
Efforts
• From 8 to 40 man/hours spent per package
• 60% routine operations
Utilization
• Application Packaging workload is very volatile
• Vary from 20% overload to 50% underload
• 5 packages on Friday afternoon!
Application Updates
• Popular applications are released 10-20 times per
year
• High cost of keeping applications up to date being
deployed to thousands PC
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6. Application Packaging & Virtualization Solutions
Application Packaging Self-Service - Create application packages anytime from anywhere.
Innovative cloud solution that provides:
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Smart application packaging
Automated testing
Automated documenting
Smart Update - Keep applications up to date. 100+ the most often used applications are:
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Monitored for new versions
Packaged and virtualized
Tested on Windows 7 and Windows 8
Ready for deployment via Microsoft SCCM 2012
PACE – Speed up your application packaging. PACE enables clients to accelerate and simplify the
application packaging process and reduce cost. Available as a comprehensive suite, or sold
separately as:
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MSI Generator
MSI Editor
App-V Generator
Docu Generator
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7. Smart Update
PACE
Application Packaging
Self-Service
APS
Make 10 application packages in 30 minutes!
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8. Application Packaging Self-Service
Web based cloud for application packaging & testing automation
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9. Application Packaging Self-Service
Smartly automate routine
Man/hours
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Creative work:
customization,
engineering,
troubleshooting,
scripting
Automated routine
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85%
75%
50%
35%
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Basic
Easy
Medium
Complex
We save up to 35%
of Complex
packaging time!
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10. Application Packaging Self-Service
With APS Usage
Manual Packaging
Power of Batch processing
Package 1
Package 2
Package 3
Max 2-3 packages per day
8 h Working time
Package 1
Package 2
Package 3
Package 4
Package 5
Package ..
Package N
10+ packages per day
8 h Working time
Automated
by APS
Standard Operations
Pkg. customization,
engineering
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11. Application Packaging Self-Service
Flexibility in selection source package installation approach
Source
package
• Install Automatically at source
uploading to FTP
• Configure installation options and
install automatically
• Install and Configure Application
Manually through Remote
Desktop
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12. Application Packaging Self-Service
Many formats automatically created for one uploaded source package
without additional efforts!
MSI Package
MSI Transform (MST)
App-V Package
Source
package
MSI Generator
Project
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13. Application Packaging Self-Service
Packaging environment is always with you
Public Cloud
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No spending for
infrastructure or tools
High scalability
Quick ramp up time
Private Cloud
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• The highest performance
• 100% control of infrastructure
• SCCM Integration
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14. Application Packaging Self-Service
Benefits
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Flexibility - use the APS service from anywhere through our web interface
Costs - reduce application packaging efforts up to 30% by producing or
preparing packages at the same time and without additional costs of
packaging infrastructure
Scalability - handle the uncertain workload smarter
Example Calculation
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Before
With APS
Average packaging time, h/pkg
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Packaging Engineer rate EUR/hr
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
70%
85%
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Packaging Engineer work time utilization
Packaging worklad, pkg/month
APS Per package price
Packaging Cost, Annual
Cost Saving, Annual
€ 274,286
€ 19.00
€ 152,576
€ 121,709
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15. APS
PACE
Smart Update
Smart
Update
Keep applications up to date
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16. Smart Update
Keep application packages updated
100+ the most often used applications are:
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Monitored for new versions
Packaged according best practices, controlled desktop environment demands
Tested on Windows 7 and Windows 8
Available for download
Ready for deployment via Microsoft SCCM 2012 or other deployment systems
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17. Smart Update
Benefits for Subscriber
• Notification about new package versions (Daily/Weekly)
• Different technologies - MSI, App-V 4.6, App-V 5.0, Unattended packages
• Individualization possible - Package customization/branding script can be
developed in addition
Example Calculation
Assumptions
Often used applications
Application updates per year, average
Packaging Engineer rate EUR/h
Cost calculation
Packaging Efforts (*), hr/pkg
30
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€ 20.00
Today
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Smart Update Package Price
Smart Update
per package
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Cost Saving, Annual
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€ 39.00
Smart Update Subscription
Packaging Cost, Annual
Smart Update
subscription
€ 3,599
€ 38,400
€ 7,080
€ 5,999
€ 31,320
€ 32,401
(*) Package customization time
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18. Smart Update
APS
PACE
PACE Suite
MSI Generator
MSI Editor
App-V Generator
Docu Generator
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19. PACE Suite
Accelerate and simplify application packaging
Discovery
Documenting
Packaging
We have implemented dreams of
packaging engineers
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Automated routine work
No ‘garbage’, no ICE errors
Unique features in snapshotting and package editing
Automated documentation creation
100% portability, not requiring an installation
Editing &
Fixing
Testing

20. Why PACE
We have implemented dreams of packaging engineers
 Performance
 Automated routine work
 Don’t repeat packaging for different
output formats
 Quality
 Portability
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 Usability
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 Less ‘garbage’ in captured resources
 Less ICE errors in MSI
 Innovations
User interface is specially designed to
reduce user actions to get ready to use
package
 Expertise
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PACE development team have
application packaging background and
experience in the past.
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Application packaging problems are
very well known for us - we implement
really “hot features”
 Unique features in snapshotting and
package editing
 Automated documentation creation
PACE products are 100% portable and
don’t require installation.
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21. MSI Generator
Use unique features for speed up your packaging
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Portability
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Vendor MSI detection
 High quality MSI
 Separate snapshots creation and
comparison
 Creation of different package
formats form single project file
 Intuitive interface
 Detection of hard-codes and
application settings
 Multiple customer profiles
 Permissions change detection
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22. MSI Editor
More unique features. Better experience. Less time for MSI editing.
 Portability
 Advanced Undo/Redo
 Intelli-sense MSI editing
 MSIs comparison
 MSI Table filtering
 Intuitive interface
 Easy Automation and Extensions
 On-the-fly MSI validation
 Registry and Files adding/updating
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23. App-V Generator
100% of Control in App-V Sequencing and Editing
 Portability
 OSD scripts library
 Advanced OSD options
 Directly edit App-V package
 Detection of hard-codes and
application settings
 Import/Export any resources
 Intuitive interface
 Use MSI Generator project
 Snapshot-based package creation
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24. Docu Generator
Fastest way to create “How-to” documents
 Portability
 Makes screen snapshots
automatically
 Annotations adding
 Preview, copying, removing
screenshots
 Html and Word documents creation
 Html and Word templates support
 Advanced info recording
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User action, mouse position, application
info, content of edited fields in forms
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25. PACE Suite
Benefits for Customer
Routine operations automation
Decision making flexibility
Time saving MSI and App-V packages editor
100 % of control in App-V sequencing and editing thanks to unique features
Complete portability
Assumptions
Example Calculation
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Packaging workload for one engineer, apps/yr
Packaging team, FTEs
Packaging Engineer rate EUR/h
Cost calculation
Packaging Efforts, hr/pkg
Packaging SW Price + 1 Year Maintenance
Packaging Cost, Annual
Cost Saving, Annual
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€ 20.00
Before
After
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€ 5,000
€ 879.00
€ 210,000
€ 128,790
€ 81,210
(*) one of popular software packaging product’s pricing
for IT Service providers
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26. PACE and Application Packaging Self-Service
The latest news
Releases
PACE 2.8
• August 2013
• Automated Testing
• Smart Update
Web sites
• September 2013
• speedpackaging.com
• infopulsepackaging.com
PACE 3.0
• December 2013
• App-V 5.0
• SCCM 2012 integration
• Application Informer
Events
Gold Sponsor of
Packaging Event in Utrecht (NL)
DevOps Summit Amsterdam:
Implementing DevOps

27. Contact us!
Phone:
+38 044 457-88-56
Email:
info@infopulse.com.ua
f facebook.com/Infopulse
t twitter.com/Infopulse_ua
Address:
03056,
24, Polyova Str.,
Kyiv, Ukraine
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28. Thank you for attention!
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