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Know the effect of patches before you deploy them. Patch Impact Manager™ from InstallShield provides systems administrators with a solution for full patch impact analysis, simplifying pre-deployment testing and increasing reliability during patch rollouts. Patch Impact Manager identifies the specific applications that will be affected at runtime, through full pre-deployment conflict and runtime dependency analyses between patches and operating environments.

Deploying patches without understanding their contents or the impact they will have on your operating environment can be costly. A single incompatible patch can crash mission-critical applications and destabilize workstations across your entire organization.

Patch Impact Manager helps make your patch testing process much more efficient. With Patch Impact Manager, you can easily obtain the Windows operating system and Microsoft application patches you need and thoroughly test the impact they will have on your environment, ensuring your organization’s systems are always reliable and secure.

Completes Your Enterprise’s Patch Management Strategy
Adding Patch Impact Manager's exclusive testing functionality to that of your current patch management solution completes your patch strategy and ensures incompatible patches never get the chance to crash your desktops. Organizations using patch management solutions such as Shavlik™ HFNetCHkPro, PatchLink™ or BigFix® Patch Manager can fill a crucial gap in their patching strategy by using Patch Impact Manager to focus testing efforts on specific problem applications and operating system images.

Patch Impact Analysis - Understand the full impact patches will have on your entire environment.

Deploying Windows OS patches is critical to maintaining the stability and security of your desktops’ operating system. But when those patches replace OS files used by your applications at runtime, those applications can malfunction or shut down.

Patch Impact Manager analyzes the full impact of patches on the runtime file dependencies of your enterprise’s applications. Patch Impact Manager compares the system files used by your applications at runtime with the files being replaced by a patch, and overlaps are identified and presented for review.

Patch Impact Manager also enables you to run pre-deployment tests on patches to ensure they never conflict with your enterprise’s systems. Patch Impact Manager automatically detects potential conflicts between the patch you wish to deploy and the applications and operating systems of every machine it targets. You always know before deployment if file and registry conflicts exist, enabling you to reduce "DLL Hell" and other conflict issues and maintain your environment’s stability.

With Patch Impact Manager, you always know which applications will be impacted by patches, resulting in more intelligent, efficient patch testing and distribution and a more stable environment.

Full Patch Impact Analysis Features:

• Dependency Analysis - Patch Impact Manager analyzes the full impact of patches on all your applications’ runtime dependencies. Patch Impact Manager compares the system files used by your applications at runtime with the files being replaced by a patch, and overlaps are identified and presented for review
• Simultaneous Multi-Patch Analysis - Patch Impact Manager helps you save time by analyzing multiple patches at once. Just select all the patches you wish to test and run the analysis
• Customize Your Analyses - To help you test patches against specific target systems in your enterprise, Patch Impact Manager makes it easy for you to specify any captured OS snapshot or collection of applications to include in your analyses
• Impact Reporting - Patch Impact Manager automatically records and catalogs every impact analysis you run, enabling you or other authorized members of your team to view the impact reports at any time

Patch Preview - See the complete contents of any Microsoft patch before you deploy.

Full Visibility
Want to know what’s inside a patch before you deploy it? Patch Impact Manager gives you full visibility into the contents of the patches you acquire, displaying all the files and registry entries in a simple interface. You can see the complete contents of any Microsoft patch without sifting through complex documentation, making your testing efforts more focused and efficient.
In addition, direct links to Microsoft Bulletins and KB articles are available for each patch, making it easy to review all the key information posted to the Internet.

Patch Content Preview Features:

• Patch Contents - Patch Impact Manager gives you full visibility into the contents of the patches you acquire, displaying all the files and registry entries in a simple interface
• Patch Descriptions - Not sure if you need a particular patch? Access detailed descriptions about the contents and purpose of each patch to help you decide whether or not to import it
• Access Microsoft Bulletins and KB Articles - All the patches contain links to any relevant Microsoft Security Bulletins and Knowledge Base articles, providing an even deeper level of detail

Patch Discovery - List every Microsoft patch and easily download those you need.

Easy Access to Patches
Patch Impact Manager finds and lists all Microsoft patches for Windows operating systems, other Microsoft platform technologies (e.g., Internet Explorer and MDAC), and Microsoft applications. With Patch Impact Manager, you can easily obtain Microsoft patches as soon as they become available, enabling you to keep your software infrastructure up to date and reducing the risk of security breaches and outages.
Organizations already using a patch management solution to acquire patches can either perform this task through Patch Impact Manager or continue doing so with their current solution.

Patch Discovery Features:

• Patch Listing - Patch Impact Manager finds and lists all Microsoft patches for Windows operating systems, other Microsoft platform technologies, and Microsoft applications. Over 800 are available today
• Filtering and Sorting - To help you more effectively manage Microsoft’s extensive list of patches, Patch Impact Manager provides multiple filtering and sorting options, including viewing all patches associated with a specific application and service pack
• Patch Source Configuration - Patch Impact Manager enables you to redefine the path to the Microsoft patch information. This option supports processes that involve downloading the Microsoft patch information to the local network
• Patch Data Updates - Check for updates to the Microsoft patch list at any time. Optionally configure Patch Impact Manager to find and download new patch data every time the application is opened

Support

The Maintenance Plan includes:

• All available paid upgrades to your product, guaranteed for twelve months from purchase date
• All issues addressed by senior support engineers
• Priority involvement in Beta Programs
• Unlimited Web-based requests using mySupport
• Unlimited telephone support requests
• Priority queuing through dedicated channels