Software Distribution Premium Edition is a powerful new feature of IBM Director that enables you to easily create and distribute software packages to the systems on your network, saving travel and labor costs. The standard software distribution included with IBM Director enables you to distribute IBM provided software packages. Premium Edition is an optional priced feature for IBM Director V4.1 that enables you to both build and distribute your own software packages for Windows and Linux environments. Additionally, its format is consistent with Tivoli, allowing easy growth to more advanced capabilities. Integrated with IBM Director for consistent, single point of management; Intelligent wizards that simplify and streamline the building of a software distribution package. Users can build software distribution packages from applications that use Microsoft Windows Installer, InstallShield and Linux RPM; Custom Package Editor for customers who want the flexibility to build and distribute their own applications; Convenient remote, drag and drop distribution of software to individual systems or groups of systems. Ability to schedule a specific time and date to distribute the software, giving you control to minimize network traffic during peak usage; Choice of both streaming and redirection methods of distributing software. Streaming copies the software package to the target system. Redirection uses distribution servers on the network to alleviate bottlenecks when distributing large software packages. It also features support for non-IBM hardware, protecting your existing IT investment.