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Flexera Announces AdminStudio Suite 2014

By Casey Houser, Contributing Writer

IT departments in many advanced businesses have long used application readiness procedures for preparing and testing enterprise applications before they are placed into use by employees companywide. They have standardized procedures that work for a range of traditional applications, but those procedures may not always work well with mobile applications because of the transient nature of mobile devices.

To help companies update their standardization procedures for use with applications that will exist in mobile environments, Flexera has created AdminStudio Suite 2014. The official product announcement says Flexera's new product can help "enterprises eliminate much of the risk and inefficiency around preparing mobile applications for deployment via centralized Application Readiness best practice processes and automation."

AdminStudio can help admins ensure that their applications work within their specific organizations' environments. Furthermore, it can sync with the Apple (News - Alert) App Store and Google Play to prepare their applications for interaction with those public stores. Admins can also extract metadata from property files and app stores to allow their apps to better work with the AirWatch Mobile Device Management and Microsoft (News - Alert) System Center 2012 Configuration Manager software packages.

Additionally, AdminStudio helps admins future-proof their products by preparing their apps for operating system updates. For instance, they can use AdminStudio to complete compatibility testing with iPads, iPhones, and Android (News - Alert) smartphones to make sure their apps work across all desired platforms, and they can work with system previews such as the iOS8 Developer Preview to better create products that will work both now and in the future.

Lastly, AdminStudio is also able to prepare businesses for possible security risks by displaying the actions applications can take and listing those actions which it deems potentially harmful. It looks into the property files and APIs of each app and determines the features of each device and operating system it can access. If any apps have the potential to access sensitive corporate data, admins will be the first to know so they can patch any holes and hopefully prevent hackers from accessing that data through their apps following release.