getPlus^®
Download-, Upload- and Installation Manager

Our getPlus^® Download-, Upload- and Installation Manager and igetPlus^® (for Mac OS) are sophisticated tools for an efficient distribution of digital goods.

Download transactions should always be user-friendly, short and secure. Due to its unique features, getPlus^® fulfills these requirements of a successful electronic distribution of digital goods.

Features

• getPlus^® is the smallest download- and upload manager in the market (footprint 9 - 60 kB only), allowing your customers to pause and seamlessly resume any download.
  
  
• getPlus^® is the most user-friendly technology in the market, providing a 1-click download experience without pre-installation.
  
  
• getPlus^® is the fastest download- and upload manager in the market, accelerating your downloads by multi-sourcing, path optimization and size optimization.
  
  
• getPlus^® is the most powerful download agent in the market, acting on your customers' machines on your behalf making possible various automated interactions (e.g. ability to pass parameters, read out information on client side, automated installation of your software, sign-off as proof of delivery after download is completed successfully).
  
  
• getPlus^® is the most secure technology in the market, communicating with the download server via HTTPS and automatically switching to any other protocol (e.g. HTTP, FTP) for the actual download.
  
  
• getPlus^® is available with various sophisticated functionalities, including download management, proxy authentication and automatic installation by standard as well as optional features like download basket, multi-sourcing, demand detection, integrity check, referral check, sign-off and market research.
  
  

  

Functionalities

• getPlus^® Executor^©. getPlus^® Executor^© is a sophisticated functionality to limit user interaction requests on Windows Vista to a minimum. Using this functionality, download files are automatically executed on end user side without additional Vista User Account Control (UAC) prompts.
  
  
• getPlus^® Updater^©. The updater functionality within getPlus^® enables you to keep your customers' installations of your software up-to-date. It acts on your customers' machines on your behalf detecting the demand on client side and providing your user with the appropriate file. Alternatively, it can be preset to check for available updates and patches on a scheduled basis. Either way, the updates will be downloaded and installed fully automatic.
  You can integrate this functionality into your software from scratch or use it with software that is already distributed in the market.
  
  
• getPlus^® Analyzer^©: The getPlus^® Analyzer^© functionality is a sophisticated tool to gain comprehensive information on your users and their download routines. The getPlus^® Analyzer^© collects data on your customers' machines and displays that information in detailed reports. The reports facilitate to obtain detailed information on your customers, to initiate targeted marketing campaigns, track their success and adjust your download portfolio to your customers' needs.
  
  
• getPlus^® Background Downloader^©. The get^® Background Downloader^© manages all downloads in the background, imperceptible to the user. As soon as the user starts any action that requires bandwidth capacity (e.g. browsing the web, receiving e-mails), all current downloads are throttled down in order to provide the user with full bandwidth. When the action is finished, the get^® Background Downloader^© ensures that the downloads make use of the full available bandwidth.
  
  
• getPlus^® Payer^©. get^® Payer^© is a secure and user-friendly solution to manage all required authorization and payment with your customers. The user registers and pays for your content only once and receives credit for a defined number of downloads. Since get^® Payer^© works as a powerful download manager, it communicates with your servers and ensures that the user trying to download your products is both registered and has enough credit left. Only if these two conditions are met, the user can access your products. get^® Payer^© is a small application (only 2kB) that functions as a download manager on client side. For your customers, the whole process is easy, fast and fully automatic.
  
  

Benefits

Your customer will benefit greatly from the many features getPlus^® offers.

Benefits of getPlus^® include:

• Best user experience. getPlus^® offers the best user experience in the market as the download process is fast, easy, secure and fully automatic for your customers. Just one click on the download button triggers the download of your product.
  
  
• Reduces drop-out rates.
  
  
• Easier distribution of your software. getPlus^® makes content available to anyone, e.g. to users with slow narrowband connections (56k modem or dial-up connections) who still make out the majority of internet users or users in corporate networks.
  
  
• Interacting possibilities. getPlus^® offers your company to act on your customers' machines making possible various interactions, e.g. determine completion and success of downloads.
  
  
• Automated Process. getPlus^® automates processing of download files after the download is completed while eliminating user errors at the same time.
  
  

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Implementation

We provide an easy-to-use and easy-to-integrate getPlus^® Creator^© Program. This tool is customized to your specifications and requirements. getPlus^® Creator^© Programs are available as GUI and command-line tools.

Your company can use the getPlus^® Creator^© Program to create your specific download- and upload manager as a browser plug-in and/or executable version. You can either create a getPlus^® for every product or one dynamic getPlus^® for your complete product suite. The resulting getPlus^® Download and Installation Manager comes in a user-friendly design matching your corporate design and installation dialogs. getPlus^® enables you to easily and fully automatically provide your customers with your products, regardless of Internet security restrictions.

 

For further information on getPlus^® please choose one of the following options:

• Have a look at the getPlus^® presentation
• Have a look at the getPlus^® benefit summary
• Have a look at the getPlus^® White Paper
• Have a look at the getPlus^® implementation
• Have a look at the combined use of getPlus^® and NOSSO^®  presentation
• Send us an e-mail to solutions@nosltd.com
  (optionally you can use our web mail form)