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Chapter 1
About Software Manager
Packages in Software Manager
Software Manager Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Software Manager
Product Documentation
Software Manager provides the interface for working with packages in the Software
Manager database, which contains information about all the software packages used by
your organization. Storing all your package information in a central location lets you
better manage packages during their lifecycle stages-from integration, testing, and
deployment through retirement.
Use Software Manager to import and organize packages and their resource information
in the Software Manager database, to obtain information about packages and their
resources, to set the status of packages, and to prepare a package or group of packages
for deployment. Corporate developers can use Software Manager as a centralized point
for managing all resources used by applications that they develop.
Software Manager is a tool in the Professional Edition of Wise Package Studio.
If you have an installation of Wise Installation Studio that is connected to a Wise
Software Repository, Software Manager is also available as a tool in Windows Installer
About the Wise Software Repository
Features that are specific to Wise Package Studio are not available when you access
In Software Manager, a package consists of any combination of the following:
Meta data. This is the is minimum amount of information that constitutes a package.
The resources associated with each package's installation.
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