Products in the market that promise to facilitate application provisioning are increasing – even though no clear definition of application provisioning exists. IT managers must understand what application provisioning means to avoid buying inappropriate solutions from vendors.

What Is Application Provisioning?

Application provisioning is an infrastructure management solution that helps administrators create customized application configurations called packages. Administrators can use application provisioning to automate the deployment of these packages to heterogeneous platforms in the enterprise. This allows system administrators to optimize application performance for the different environments that exist in the enterprise...