Chocolatey for Business
Automate your entire Windows Software Lifecycle
Automate software install, upgrade, and removal.
Accelerate rollout and simplify software management.
Reduce time spent on software management by 90%.
There are a lot of different installer formats and multiple approaches to deploying Windows software. Deploying software without package management on Windows can be complicated and time-consuming.
Chocolatey simplifies this through simple, repeatable, and automated approach, by using a universal packaging format for managing all Windows software. Regardless if installers are; native, zips, scripts, binaries or in-house developed - Chocolatey treats them as all 1st class citizens.
Write once, deploy anywhere, with anything, and then simply track & manage.
System engineers can spend hours deploying & configuring Windows software manually. Traditional tools are just not built for modern automation and a DevOps approach. Gaining insights and consistency across your environment is not always easy.
Chocolatey for Business (C4B) has helped hundreds of system admins save time, reduce downtime, and accelerate deployments.
Chocolatey for Business (C4B) is Complete Software Management. Built on our popular open source offering.
Focused on three value-added areas; improved security, enhanced productivity features, and enabling more visibility. All backed with dedicated support, services, & roadmap
- Closely aligned to organizational use cases - rapid deployment & highly scalable
- More visual interfaces (GUIs) & smoother user experience
- Special advanced functionality i.e Package Creation, Package Internalizer, Package Audit, Package Synchronizer, Self-Service Installer
- Easy migration path from open source
- Deep integration with leading technologies
Real-time Insights with Chocolatey Central Management
- Full package visibility
- Installed software packages
- Status reporting
- Deployments
Accelerate Deployments & Reduce the Effort
- Automate your Windows Package Management Workflow
- Build and deploy packages in seconds
- Automate updates and integrate with DevOps tools
- Build a private repository of packages
- Quick Deployment Environment (QDE) simplifies set-up with ready to go virtual appliance
Improve Security & Controls
- Offline & secure
- Identify out of date packages fast
- Package audit & detailed reporting
- Integrate with virus scanning & malware protection tools
Integrates with Everything
- Tight provider based integration with all configuration management tools
- Integration with leading repositories, patch management, and software monitoring solutions
Self-Service & Enhanced User Experience
- Simple approach to ensuring software is deployed to users with no 'admin rights' or in highly regulated & locked down environments
- User-friendly, consistent, reliable approach without the need manual intervention
- Central management and control aligned to organizational policies
Businesses Trust Chocolatey Software
Many organizations face the ongoing challenge of deploying and supporting various versions of software. Chocolatey allows organizations to automate and simplify the management of their complex Windows environments. Our customers have experienced a massive reduction in effort, improved speed of deployment, high reliability, and comprehensive reporting.
Ryan de Temple
Client Platform Manager at Yelp
We wanted to make sure our user experience was seamless. We wanted to provide a service, software, configuration- without user intervention, without restarts... Chocolatey allowed our engineers to build the products, to build the pipeline and deliver just that.
Mike Lombardi
Software Engineer at Puppet
The single biggest thing I love about Chocolatey has to be the ease of use and reusablility. That has made all the difference for me. I don't have to remember 37 different ways to interact with my software... just the one- and that's it!
Generate Software Deployment Packages in Seconds
- Creating packages manually is time-consuming, error-prone, and inconsistent
- Package Builder automatically creates high-quality packages from an installer/zip in seconds
- Determining silent arguments based on installer type, with complete customization
- Supports exe, msi, 7z, zip, msu, and msp files
Convert Community Packages to 100% Offline & Reliable Use
- Chocolatey community offers over 7,500 packages; however, those packages require external sources for software binaries from vendor servers at runtime
- Take advantage of thousands of existing packages without reliance on the Internet
- Package Internalizer downloads an existing package and all remote resources, and recompiles package to use those resources internally
- Offers the ability for you to host packages on private internal repositories
Real-Time Insights
- Getting a real-time snapshot of packages and deployments is not always easy
- With CCM you can bring software visibility to the organizational level
- Quickly see all software packages across the organization and see what needs attention immediately
- Generate reporting from views in PDF and Excel format
- Deployments enable teams to securely manage endpoints w/PowerShell scripts and states of Chocolatey packages directly. The CCM web interface helps with easy set-up, management, and reporting on deployments to endpoints.
Empower Your User Base While Maintaining Security Policies
- Ensuring software is deployed and updated to users with no ‘admin rights’, or in highly regulated locked-down environments, is a challenge
- C4B provides organizations the power to easily offer their users an interface to install and upgrade software
- Offering a user-friendly, consistent, reliable approach without the need for manual intervention
- C4B installation is completely locked down so non-administrators cannot make changes to configurations. Attempted abuses can be logged and audited.
- Ability to customize with company logo
Improve Accuracy & Simplify Software Management
- Gaining visibility beyond just the software ‘installed’ in Programs & Features can be very difficult
- C4B easily brings all software in Programs and Features under Chocolatey management
- Package Synchronizer ensures accurate inventory and enables easier management of complex Windows systems
- Auto-synchronization allows you to uninstall directly from Programs and Features, as it detects when changes have occurred outside of Chocolatey (ie Programs & Features), and updates the Chocolatey package inventory accordingly
- Track versions of zip archives & your own internal software that is not traditionally visible in system installation
- Sync command brings all software on a system under Chocolatey management, allowing you to manage upgrades more consistently
- Show all packages (even those without native installations) in Programs and Features, allowing you to capitalize on existing legacy inventory reporting systems
Inventory - Comprehensive Software Audit
- Gain insights on what was installed, by whom, and when
- Easily identify Out-of-Date Software
- Identify package upgrades to target on next scheduled maintenance window
Automatically Optimize Your Deployments
- Package Reducer helps to ensure the space that Chocolatey uses on a system stays minimal
- Automatic self clean-up after package installation
- Substantial package size reduction to enable to reduce footprint on endpoints
Small
100 - 499 Machines
$17
/license per year
Medium
500+ Machines
$16.60
/license per year
Enterprise 2000+ Machines
Education & Non-Profits - Special pricing options