Venkat Ram Donga

Venkat Ram Donga leads Product Management for Flexera's Installation Solutions - InstallShield and InstallAnywhere. With over 13 years of experience in various Flexera products, specializing in InstallShield, Venkat is responsible for optimizing the desktop and server application deployment processes for software vendors.

Recent Posts by Venkat Ram Donga

Apple’s Application Notarization for macOS

If you are a software vendor developing apps for Apple’s macOS, you may be well versed with the processes involved with distributing to App Store. However, if you are among those who don’t want to publish your apps to the store and prefer a sideloading approach, by this time, you most likely realize, well, it’s not very easy. You can’t blame Apple for this. Apple prefers integrity of apps running on macOS over ease of deployment…

June 25, 2020 Venkat Ram Donga

InstallShield 2020 Release Offers Fast and Reliable Installs for Windows® Apps

Let’s face it. Everything we do in business focuses on delivering the most complete customer experience possible. For software companies competing in today’s business environment, that’s being challenged. They are under pressure to do more with less while accelerating time to market. Solutions that cater to their ability to meet customer needs and do it faster than their competitors are surely at the top of the “must have” list. Today is a good d…

May 13, 2020 Venkat Ram Donga

MSIX Values: The Basics of MSIX

Introduction We are pleased to announce a series of MSIX articles where you can find short and crisp information about MSIX as a deployment type and why you should care. Some articles will illustrate examples and take a deep dive into the technology. Recap MSIX was announced during Microsoft Build 2018 conference as the next generation deployment package. Ever since, there has been a lot of buzz on this format. After trying various formats over y…

March 11, 2020 Venkat Ram Donga

Announcing InstallShield 2019 R3

We are excited to share that InstallShield 2019 R3 is now available! This installment’s new features help you integrate InstallShield in your DevOps processes more easily, and also provides many improvements for MSIX conversions. Below is the summary of the new capabilities added in this release. Simplified Builds Within Docker Integrate InstallShield into your DevOps process with added support to build projects within Docker containers. …

December 27, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga

New Features Now Available in InstallAnywhere 2020

We are pleased to announce that InstallAnywhere 2020 is now available. Let’s take a sneak peak on what’s new. Support for macOS app notarization Apple is going to make application notarization mandatory for 3rd party apps starting January 2020 (click here for more details). This is going to affect Mac versions 10.14.5 and above including the latest macOS Catalina. With the latest release of InstallAnywhere, you can add app notarization support to…

October 10, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga

MSIX – Package Support Framework in InstallShield

In our continued support for MSIX, we have reached yet another milestone. InstallShield 2019 adds a new feature to support Package Support Framework for traditional Win32 apps to run seamlessly in MSIX container environment. What is Package Support Framework? Package Support Framework is a toolkit from Microsoft targeted at fixing up traditional Win32 apps that have limitations running in the modern MSIX container. For more details, you can read …

August 27, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga