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What are Software Deployment Tools?
Software deployment tools, also known as software distribution tools, are software tools used to automate the process of installing, configuring, and updating software on multiple devices or servers. These tools can be used for both on-premises and cloud-based deployments. They typically support a range of operating systems and can handle various types of software, including web applications, databases, and system updates. Some deployment tools offer additional features such as rollbacks and integrations with other software development tools. The choice of which tool to use depends on the specific needs and preferences of the organization deploying the software. Compare and read user reviews of the best Software Deployment tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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ManageEngine Endpoint Central
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Endpoint Central is built to secure the digital workplace while also giving IT teams complete control over their enterprise endpoints. It delivers a security-first approach by combining advanced endpoint protection with comprehensive management, allowing IT teams to manage the entire endpoint lifecycle, all from a single console. With automated patching across Windows, Mac, Linux and 1,000+ third-party applications, it ensures vulnerabilities are mitigated before attackers can exploit them. Its next-gen antivirus (NGAV) feature, powered by AI-driven behavioural detection, provides 24/7 protection against ransomware, malware, and zero-day threats. Endpoint Central further strengthens enterprise defenses with a broad set of security capabilities, including vulnerability assessment and mitigation, peripheral device control, data loss prevention, application control, endpoint privilege management, encryption with FileVault and BitLocker, and browser security.Starting Price: $795.00/one-time -
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NinjaOne
NinjaOne
NinjaOne simplifies software deployment with centralized, automated distribution. IT teams can push applications to multiple devices simultaneously. Deployment can be scheduled during off-hours to minimize disruption. Pre- and post-installation scripts ensure correct configuration. Detailed logs confirm successful installations and flag failures. This reduces manual overhead for technicians. NinjaOne enables consistent software deployment at scale. -
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SmartDeploy
SmartDeploy
SmartDeploy is a leading provider of modern endpoint management solutions. With a flexible layered architecture, IT can achieve centralized, single-image management to support 50 - 50,000 endpoints. SmartDeploys award-winning technology combines the best of progressive solutions like SCCM, centralized solutions like VDI and legacy imaging solutions like Ghost, without the common drawbacks. More than 3,000 organizations trust SmartDeploy to deploy and manage their end user devices. With over 1500 ready-to-use driver packs from top manufacturers, SmartDeploy helps streamline your disk cloning for remote and in-house employees.Starting Price: $1020/50 machines -
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KACE by Quest
Quest Software
KACE® by Quest supports your unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy by helping you discover and track every device in your environment, automate administrative tasks, keep compliance requirements up-to-date and secure your network from a range of cyberthreats. Discover, manage and secure all your endpoints from one console as you co-manage your traditional and modern endpoints, including Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, and iOS and Android devices. KACE is a Unified Endpoint Management solution that offers a single point of control for managing IT systems across the entire organization, inside or outside your network. This comprehensive solution takes the stress out of keeping devices secure and compliant so you can do more.Starting Price: As low as $3/mo/device -
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Heimdal Patch & Asset Management
Heimdal®
Heimdal Patch & Asset Management is an automatic software updater and digital asset tracking solution that will automatically install updates based on your configured policies, without the need for manual input. As soon as 3rd party vendors release new patches, our technology silently deploys them to your endpoints, without the need for reboots or user interruption. In addition to this, Heimdal Patch & Asset Management allows your sysadmins to see any software assets in your inventory, alongside their version and number of installs. Users can also install software on their own, saving time and resources. Automating your patch management routine helps you save valuable time and resources. Heimdal Patch & Asset Management makes vulnerability and patch management cost-effective and time-efficient. -
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Continuous delivery of any application to any environment. IBM DevOps Deploy (formerly IBM UrbanCode Deploy) is an application-release solution that combines continuous delivery and deployment automation with robust visibility, traceability and auditing capabilities. Increase frequency of software delivery through automated, repeatable deployment processes across development, testing and production. Simplify the deployment of multichannel applications to all environments, whether on premises or in the cloud, with consistency and repeatability. Use a single centralized server to manage tens of thousands of endpoints to any number of clouds, data centers or mainframes. Make processes more robust and easier to design by using tested integrations with dozens of tools and technologies, including Jira, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Microsoft, ServiceNow and WebSphere.
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Applivery
Applivery
Applivery is a modern, cloud-based Unified Endpoint Management UEM / MDM platform that provides comprehensive control over Android, Apple, and Windows devices. It offers seamless integration with identity providers, enabling single sign-on (SSO) for enhanced security. The platform supports zero-touch deployment, allowing for efficient device provisioning without manual intervention. Applivery’s advanced analytics deliver insights into device performance and user experience, facilitating proactive management. Its user-friendly interface ensures quick setup and smooth integration across organizations of all sizes, aligning with the latest industry standards. Additionally, Applivery provides features designed to help organizations achieve and maintain compliance with security certifications and standards, such as ISO 27001, SOC2, CIS and more.Starting Price: €2/device -
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NXT1 LaunchIT
NXT1
NXT1 LaunchIT is the developer’s platform to build and operate secure SaaS, enabling instant availability by streamlining and automating every aspect of cloud infrastructure management required for SaaS delivery and sales – simply code and deploy. LaunchIT adheres to CISA’s Secure by Design guidelines and provides a direct path to FedRAMP compliance-readiness at a fraction of the traditional time and cost required, establishing new, impactful sales opportunities into state and federal government agencies. Built on Zero Trust principles, with integrated CI/CD management, multi-account and multi-region support, comprehensive performance management and observability, full ecommerce support, and GitHub integration, LaunchIT accelerates time to revenue for technology startups, legacy application migrations, enterprise expansions, systems integrations, and independent software development. Get started with a 15-day free trial.Starting Price: $55/month -
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On-premise device management (IT Systems Management) software that simplifies IT management processes for Windows, macOS, and Linux devices. Miradore Management Suite is specifically designed for managing diverse IT environments containing desktops, laptops, servers, and POS devices. In the Management Suite, the management processes for different hardware and software platforms have been seamlessly integrated as one, unified management solution that supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. When included in a customer’s processes, Miradore enables you to create automated workflows to send reports, fix problems, and build immediate value.Starting Price: €3/month
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Centurion Setup
Gammadyne Corporation
After putting a lot of effort into your software, it's time to distribute it. Don't spend weeks wrestling with a complicated installation builder when you are so close to being done. Centurion Setup is extremely easy to use, and you can have a professional installation program built in minutes. The installer is self-contained in a single compressed executable file, and runs on all versions of Windows. Centurion Setup is simple to learn, but also feature rich, with support for uninstallation, multiple languages, interface customization, license agreements, readme files, file associations, DOS batch operations, DLL installation, automated installations, device drivers, patches, expiration dates, shared files, registry data, password protection, and much more. With Centurion Setup you will hit the finish line running!Starting Price: $130 -
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InstallShield
Revenera
Create native MSIX packages, build clean installs, and build installations in the cloud with InstallShield from Revenera. Consistent and reliable installs. Every time. With InstallShield, you’ll adapt to industry changes quickly, get to market faster and deliver an engaging customer experience. Revenera InstallShield (formerly Flexera InstallShield) is the fastest easiest way to build Windows installers and MSIX packages and create installations directly within Microsoft Visual Studio. Configure install conditions to specifically target Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. Install files to native ARM locations on Windows 10 running on ARM machines. Easily move your build infrastructure to the cloud by connecting to Revenera’s Cloud License Server. Build one-click installers that are more modern than ever and refreshingly simple. Configure pre-requisites to install third-party packages from Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager.Starting Price: $4,498 per 3 years -
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Advanced Installer
Advanced Installer
Advanced Installer is a Windows installer authoring tool for installing, updating, and configuring your products safely, securely, and reliably. Businesses around the globe, large and small, save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars by taking advantage of the expert knowledge built into Advanced Installer. User-friendly, completely GUI driven, with no scripts to learn, no databases to edit, and no XML to write. Save time to market. Develop with wizards, import existing IDE projects, and integrate them into automated build tools and source control systems. Hundreds of powerful features are ready to use with just a few mouse clicks. Tons of functionality is configurable for your installers. Fewer incidents due to improper installers. Enjoy reliable installers crafted with great attention to detail. Included updater, launcher, bootstrapper, trialware, serial validation, dialog editor, additional languages, and countless others.Starting Price: $499 one-time payment -
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EMCO Remote Installer
EMCO Software
This remote deployment solution allows you to perform unattended software installation and uninstallation on remote Windows PCs quickly and easily. You can use it to install and uninstall EXE setups and MSI/MSP packages remotely on selected Windows PCs connected to a local network. Also, you can retrieve data on installed software from remote PCs, get aggregated software inventory reports, and keep track of software changes. EMCO Remote Installer is an easy-to-use network application designed for centralized software management and audit across a LAN. It offers a simple and effective approach to remote software distribution and can be used instead of SCCM and other complicated deployment tools. The program allows you to audit software installed on remote PCs across your network and deploy software automatically on remote PCs. The program deploys software in parallel on remote PCs, so you can deploy within a few minutes across the entire network.Starting Price: $399 one-time payment -
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EMCO MSI Package Builder
EMCO Software
Discover EMCO MSI Package Builder, the premier tool for streamlined repackaging of any installation file into MSI and MSIX. Master every packaging task with a tool that handles EXE to MSI repackaging creates MSI and MSIX packages, and customizes and prepares installations for automated deployment. Whether it's a compact installation or a complex software suite, EMCO MSI Package Builder effortlessly handles the repackaging of any Windows application. Tackle complex installs with ease, including those deploying services and drivers. Say goodbye to guesswork and errors. EMCO MSI Package Builder simplifies the repackaging journey. Just pick your original installation and choose the output format you need. The tool takes over from there, meticulously capturing all installation changes to build your ideal package. Equipped with industry-leading live monitoring technology and a robust kernel-mode driver, EMCO MSI Package Builder tracks system changes as they happen during repackaging.Starting Price: $899 one-time payment -
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RayPack Studio
Raynet
The IT department of any company today faces many changes, including migration to Windows 11, ever-shortening release cycles, virtualization, cloud computing, bring-your-own-device efforts, and many more. IT managers need to develop strategies not only to address these new issues but also to reduce costs and increase efficiency in all aspects of daily work, while also expanding the service provided to end customers. RayPack Studio covers all work steps, from conflict and compatibility checks of your software applications and packages to evaluation, packaging, and virtualization, subsequent quality control, and clear workflow management. Without scripts and with a user-friendly interface, all functions can be executed with a mouse click. The perfectly matched software products allow you an efficient and uniform pass-through. Next to classic technologies, you benefit at any time from modern functions for software packaging.Starting Price: Free -
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Northflank
Northflank
The self-service developer platform for your apps, databases, and jobs. Start with one workload, and scale to hundreds on compute or GPUs. Accelerate every step from push to production with highly configurable self-service workflows, pipelines, templates, and GitOps. Securely deploy preview, staging, and production environments with observability tooling, backups, restores, and rollbacks included. Northflank seamlessly integrates with your preferred tooling and can accommodate any tech stack. Whether you deploy on Northflank’s secure infrastructure or on your own cloud account, you get the same exceptional developer experience, and total control over your data residency, deployment regions, security, and cloud expenses. Northflank leverages Kubernetes as an operating system to give you the best of cloud-native, without the overhead. Deploy to Northflank’s cloud for maximum simplicity, or connect your GKE, EKS, AKS, or bare-metal to deliver a managed platform experience in minutes.Starting Price: $6 per month -
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Microsoft System Center
Microsoft
Stay in control of your IT—across your environment and platforms—with System Center. Simplify the deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualized software-defined datacenter, while increasing agility and performance. Diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure, workload, or application issues to maintain reliability and high performance. Deploy and manage your software-defined datacenter with a comprehensive solution for networking, storage, compute, and security. -
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HCL BigFix
HCL Software
"HCL BigFix: Secure Resilient Operations, Powered by AI HCL BigFix is the platform for unified endpoint and infrastructure management, purpose-built to deliver on the Digital+ promise of reducing cost, risk, and complexity. Proven at enterprise scale, BigFix secures and manages 155M+ endpoints across nearly 100 operating systems. It leverages AI-driven automation to deliver continuous compliance and real-time vulnerability remediation with one of the industry’s best first-pass patch success rates (>98%). This is enhanced by AEX, our agentic AI platform, which transforms the digital employee experience through proactive, self-healing support. HCL BigFix is the single solution to secure any endpoint, in any cloud, across any industry. " -
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AdminStudio
Flexera
Give your teams faster and broader application deployment capabilities. Automatically download, test, wrap/repackage and publish thousands of third-party installers with no manual interaction. Determine deployment options quickly to take advantage of supported vendor installers. Increase quality by identifying and mitigating application issues prior to deployment. Ensure consistency by using a single, repeatable process to build, customize and test the delivery of applications. Reduce operational risks frequently caused by compatibility issues and application conflicts. Easily integrate into your existing package request flows with a documented REST API or by leveraging our PowerShell cmdlets. Know where to focus testing efforts by understanding Java dependencies and where applications may share files. Create App Attach image files from MSIX packages to make Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) management easier. -
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JFrog
JFrog
Fully automated DevOps platform for distributing trusted software releases from code to production. Onboard DevOps projects with users, resources and permissions for faster deployment frequency. Fearlessly update with proactive identification of open source vulnerabilities and license compliance violations. Achieve zero downtime across your DevOps pipeline with High Availability and active/active clustering for your enterprise. Control your DevOps environment with out-of-the-box native and ecosystem integrations. Enterprise ready with choice of on-prem, cloud, multi-cloud or hybrid deployments that scale as you grow. Ensure speed, reliability and security of IoT software updates and device management at scale. Create new DevOps projects in minutes and easily onboard team members, resources and storage quotas to get coding faster.Starting Price: $98 per month -
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ManageEngine OS Deployer
ManageEngine
ManageEngine OS Deployer is a software program that enables you to deploy operating systems anywhere across the globe. It also functions as a comprehensive hard drive cloning software. It allows you to create a single golden image of the OS and deploy it to desktops and servers from a central location. You can customize the image for deployment according to the organization's department and user roles. This software helps you save time and effort by seamlessly migrating user profiles. It provides reliable and convenient driver management to collect and distribute drivers automatically. You can perform live disk imaging where you can image a machine when it's live and functioning in the network and can also perform offline imaging if needed. You can also deploy OS to multiple machines independent of vendor make or model.Starting Price: $6/Year/Single Workstation -
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Kuberns
Kuberns
Kuberns is an AI-powered PaaS solution that simplifies cloud deployment and DevOps management. By automating workflows and optimizing cloud resources, Kuberns helps businesses reduce costs, improve efficiency, and scale effortlessly. Our intelligent platform eliminates infrastructure complexities, making cloud management smoother and more affordable. Designed for startups and enterprises alike, Kuberns empowers teams to focus on innovation while we handle the heavy lifting of deployment and cloud optimization.Starting Price: $60/month -
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Revolte
Revolte
Revolte is a NoOps, unified developer-first cloud platform that streamlines deployment, automates operations, and secures infrastructure—eliminating the need for deep DevOps expertise while reducing operational costs. Designed to provide a seamless, fully managed experience, Revolte takes full ownership of the underlying infrastructure, ensuring developers can focus solely on building without the complexities of cloud management. Unlike traditional multi-cloud platforms, Revolte operates on dedicated bare-metal infrastructure , delivering high performance, predictable costs, and a cloud-like experience without virtualization overhead. With AI-powered PR automation, one-click deployments, a simple CLI to reduce tool sprawl, and integrated Zero Trust security.Starting Price: $65/month -
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Syxsense Secure
Syxsense
Syxsense Secure is world’s first IT management and security solution that combines vulnerability scanning, patch management, and EDR capabilities in a single cloud console. With insight into the health of every endpoint across your network, you get the peace of mind that comes from predicting, preventing, and eliminating threats in real time. Make exposed risk and attack vectors a thing of the past. -
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Liquit
Liquit
There are many virtualization tools and platforms. Each has their pros and their cons. We enable you to plug into every option so you can have the best of all worlds. Combine local, legacy and cloud apps, combine VDI, TS, and HTML5 virtualization platforms. We aggregate and centrally deliver to your end-users. Publish our smart application icon to your client and Liquit determines the best way to deliver the app upon context of where your end-user is, what device they are using and what rights you have assigned. Your end-users can use any device, and combine their personal apps side by side with work apps. Single sign on for a combination of local, DaaS, SaaS applications. An uninterrupted, consistent end-user experience regardless of what changes may be made on the backend. Migration from one platform to another made easy! We radically simplify your administrative environment. -
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Adaptiva OneSite Anywhere
Adaptiva
Adaptiva OneSite Anywhere enables IT admins to exert total visibility and control over all endpoints, regardless of where they are – at home, at work, or at a coffee shop. With most employees working remotely, content delivery – getting patches, updates, and operating systems to endpoints quickly and without creating issues with production traffic, bandwidth degradation, and software delivery success rates – is even more difficult, especially over VPN. OneSite Anywhere helps you securely manage endpoints at unprecedented speed and scale whether they are on premise, connected remotely over VPN, or on the Internet without a VPN connection. OneSite Anywhere combines the world’s most advanced software distribution engine with a new, revolutionary cloud architecture to seamlessly extend the boundaries of the enterprise network to cover the entire internet. -
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AWS CodeDeploy
Amazon
AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and your on-premises servers. AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications. You can use AWS CodeDeploy to automate software deployments, eliminating the need for error-prone manual operations. The service scales to match your deployment needs. AWS CodeDeploy is platform and language agnostic, works with any application, and provides the same experience whether you’re deploying to Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, or AWS Lambda. You can easily reuse your existing setup code. CodeDeploy can also integrate with your existing software release process or continuous delivery toolchain (e.g., AWS CodePipeline, GitHub, Jenkins). -
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Digital.ai App Management
Digital.ai
Enterprise mobile app management (MAM) enables IT to balance the unique needs of IT and remote users. Connect with our MAM mobile BYOD security experts listen to an in-depth discussion on the mobile security landscape and view a product demonstration. Receive guidance on enterprise app store capabilities and the values of internal app-store testing. Easily manage and update any app, complete security management of sensitive app data down to the physical mobile device using MAM in tandem with existing MDM solutions. Distribute policy-enabled apps through existing app stores, and support the secure distribution and management of any app using MAM centralized policy management and App Store or Google Play. Developers can improve overall app quality, improve ‘time-to-market’ metrics, and continuously innovate on features by gathering user data and feedback. Securely manage and distribute apps to external employees or trusted internal employees. -
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Red Hat Satellite
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite is an infrastructure management product specifically designed to keep Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments and other Red Hat infrastructure running efficiently, with security, and compliant with various standards. Red Hat Satellite helps improve the reliability, availability, security, and compliance of your systems anywhere, across physical, virtual, multi-cloud, and even disconnected environments. Red Hat Satellite is a powerful infrastructure management solution that gives you an automated, standardized way to handle provisioning and patching. The combination of Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Insights provides a comprehensive management solution that automates common Red Hat Enterprise Linux tasks. Satellite enables you to execute remediation plans based on the findings of Red Hat Insights, reducing the amount of time and effort required to maintain your systems. Keep your systems security-focused, available, and compliant. -
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Paragon Deployment Manager
Paragon Software
Cost and time-effective centralized deployment to bare-metal, dissimilar hardware. Upgrade an entire computer park to the latest OS, add new clients while the deployment session is running, and schedule deployment for educational facilities. Deployment Manager is a professional tool for original equipment manufacturers and IT departments, helping to perform effective centralized deployment for a computer park of any size. All machines across the network are processed at the same time via multicasting and can be switched to uni- or constant-casting when more efficient. Remote or on-site, manual or fully automated, scheduled, cyclic client- or server-driven deployments. Prepare target machines for deployment by starting them up from custom bootable media or via the network. Specific client hardware adoption, e.g. storage and NIC drivers injection. The Paragon post-configuration scripting to create an optimal working environment for the end user.