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LiveBits   Automatic Program Updates

A major concern for both companies and users is to make sure that software is up to date. It is a significant advantage for software developers to have users on the latest, most stable version of the program. This practice can also help ensure that your users are using product versions relevant to the operating system they are working on - so making the transition to new versions, such as Vista, as painless as possible for you and your users.

With LiveBits, you can:

  • Reduce costs of upgrading customers - put an end to manually mailing updates on CD.
  • Create a measureable decrease in support costs - send bugfixes to users before they encounter the problem.
  • Check licensing - ensure that updates only go to registered users.
  • Segment users by version number, operating system, product ID, or any other metric - send users the right update only, LiveBits does not bother customers unecessarily.
  • Allow enterprise installations to customize update and messaging policies.

Considerable market research suggests that a large percentage of support calls are directly related to users running older builds of the software. Early in a product’s release cycle, user-feedback will generate many bug fixes being implemented and packaged into updated versions. Now there is no need to wait for the customer to call you demanding resolution – with LiveBits, fix the potential problem in advance, by automatically downloading and installing updates. As a result, customer satisfaction will increase, and support costs will be reduced dramatically.

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