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ChangeBASE Professional

Fast, Automated Application Readiness for Microsoft Windows and Office, Plus Virtualized Desktop and Application Environments

Quest ChangeBASE Professional enables you to easily address application compatibility issues so you can perform timely and complete migrations to Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 and virtualized desktop and application environments as well as reduce the time and risk of ongoing management. Rely on ChangeBASE Professional to assess application compatibility issues in minutes, then provide you with a wide range of reports - from high-level overviews for management reference, to technical details for engineers and other IT administrators to review. Issues can be resolved simply in just a few steps, and applications can also be automatically packaged ready for virtualization.

With ChangeBASE Professional, you can get most of your applications up and running quickly on Windows 7, Office 2010, and prepared for virtual deployment, with minimal manual effort. In addition, you can perform continual testing for Windows updates and patches to introduce changes quickly and easily. You will save hours or days on each migrated application or change, as well as avoid the costs of using highly skilled IT staff.

ChangeBASE Professional also helps you automate the testing of application compliance with your corporate standards.

  • Compatibility Assessment – Identify compatibility issues before deploying an application to the target environment for accurate and informed decisions on timeframes and costs. Automatically assess application suitability for target environments to prioritize applications for re-licensing, replacement, and testing. Include non-standard or legacy applications to test your entire inventory of applications for compatibility issues.
  • Microsoft Office Dependency Testing – Highlight potential issues for applications that will be integrated with Office 2007/2010. Identify dependencies on versions of Microsoft Office prior to 2007/2010 that may create issues and cause those applications to fail. Ensure application packages are compliant with Active Directory policies.
  • Auto-Fix for Compatibility Issues – Resolve application compatibility issues pre-deployment with minimal manual effort, to avoid repeated assessment cycles and to substantially accelerate application delivery. Reduce post-migration support issues for a faster, less costly and more thorough migration process than what is possible with competing solutions.
  • Ongoing Management – Take advantage of the latest Windows updates and patches through periodic automated re-evaluation of your application estate. Reduce security risks and speed deployment times by completing patch impact assessments within minutes. Introduce changes quickly, easily and reliably - with the highest degree of confidence.
  • Virtual Compatibility Assessment – Determine which applications you can virtualize within seconds and track for middleware dependencies, saving days of testing time.
  • Auto-Fix for Virtual Platforms – Evaluate applications for compatibility issues with target virtual platforms and repair them in just a few simple steps.
  • Automation of Corporate Packaging Standards – Test for issues related to in-house and packaging (MSI) standards and apply automated fixes to easily ensure compliance. Develop and customize QA checks and related remedies in order to achieve significant time and cost savings compared to manual checking.
  • Application Virtualization – Automatically virtualize your applications. Save time, avoid errors, and meet demand faster versus manual conversions.

Supported Platforms

  • Windows XP SP2 or later
  • Windows Vista SP2
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2003 (including R2)
  • Windows Server 2008 (including R2)

Recommended Minimum Server Hardware

  • Windows XP SP2 or later
  • Windows Vista SP2
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 2003 Server
  • Windows 2008 Server
  • 4GB RAM
  • 2.5 GHz dual core Processor
  • 32- or 64- bit server
  • 50GB Hard disk space

Prerequisites

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or later
  • Microsoft Log Parser 2.2
    Internet connectivity is highly recommended

Client/Server Installation

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Express, Standard or Enterprise)

SQL Server has the following prerequisites:

  • Microsoft XML 6.0
  • PowerShell
  • Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 or later
ChangeBASE Professional

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Fast Automated Application Readiness for Microsoft Windows & Office, plus Virtualized Desktop and Application Environments

ChangeBASE Professional provides application readiness by loading applications, assessing for application compatibility with your target operating systems and virtual environments, and fixing issues.
Applications can be bulk loaded: hundreds can be done in minutes. Each is assigned icons to indicate detailed information about the application including dependencies.
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Comprehensive Range of Application Compatibility Tests

ChangeBASE runs over 250,000 tests on your applications. Many of these have automated fixes available, represented by cogs in this screenshot. Tests cover a huge number of technical scenarios.
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Application Readiness Analysis

ChangeBASE's automated assessment shows you which applications are suitable for which of the target platforms and virtual technologies that you've chosen.
Each is shown with colour coded rankings for suitability. Applications with compatibility issues are identified as red or amber, and a green tick is applied to applications with no identified issues.
ChangeBASE provides deep detail into each individual issue and how to fix it.
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Automated Fixing of Compatibility Issues

Once you've found your application compatibility issues, ChangeBASE Professional can automatically resolve the vast majority of these issues. This substantially accelerates application delivery.
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On-going Management

Take the stress out of management by performing continual testing for Windows updates and patches, allowing you to introduce changes quickly and easily.
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Easy to Use Visual Reports

The HTML view provides both overviews and detailed reports showing the compatibility of a group of applications with your selected target platforms. These reports can be used either before fixes are applied, to build a business case, or after issues have been fixed, to document and communicate the results of the project.
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Application Virtualization

Automatically virtualize your applications.
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Automate Corporate Packaging Standards

Test for issues related to in-house and packaging (MSI) standards and automatically apply fixes to easily ensure compliance.
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