SUSE Studio offers features and components that ease the transformation from software to service

• Gain fast and flexible deployment for your applicationsSUSE Studio™ lets you rapidly scale up or down as needed. Assemble, build and maintain complete portable application stacks in minutes and deploy wherever you want. More ›
• Build virtual applications at the push of a buttonVirtual applications built with SUSE Studio seamlessly integrate into industry virtualization platforms and standards like VMware, Xen, KVM, and OVF. More ›
• Build portable and cloud-ready applicationsSUSE Studio is the fastest and easiest way for you to create, test, configure and showcase cloud-optimized application stacks. SUSE Studio allows you to create software application images or appliances in several formats, making it easy to deploy them on physical hardware, in virtualized environments, or to cloud environments. You can even deploy from SUSE Studio to Amazon EC2 with one click. More ›
• Build mainframe workloadsSUSE Studio provides a new and simple method to create, maintain and deploy System z images or workloads for z/VM environments within minutes. Furthermore, SUSE Studio allows you to track and reapply any changes automatically in a reproducible way, which provides the control required for mainframe environments. The integrated lifecycle management functionality reduces the complexity of updating and maintaining your System z application images. More ›
• Manage with WebYaSTWondering how you'll be able to manage your deployed software applications? WebYaST, a component of SUSE Studio, is the answer. It is a web-based configuration management tool that lets you keep an eye on things. It provides easy-to-use visibility into the configuration, health and performance of any virtual, software or hardware application image or appliance based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. Build your application image or appliance with SUSE Studio and integrate setup, configuration and health monitoring with WebYaST. More ›
• Update with SUSE Lifecycle Management ServerMaintaining deployed software systems is more challenging than ever before, but software application images or appliances offer a new opportunity for efficient and cost-effective software application deployment. SUSE Lifecycle Management Server, a component of SUSE Studio, gives you a single platform to manage entitlements and deliver unified updates to your deployed software applications. More ›
• Simplify and streamline your virtual application imageTired of the "one size fits all" operating system? Then you need SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS (Just Enough Operating System), a slimmed down configuration of SUSE Linux Enterprise that provides only the functionality that you need, and nothing else. More ›
• Publish with SUSE GallerySUSE Gallery is an integrated component of SUSE Studio which allows you to publish, share, exchange, collaborate on, and promote software appliances. SUSE Gallery acts as a central repository for application images or appliances. In this repository, end users can browse for applications that are already available, giving them access to a wide range of ready-to-use functionality. SUSE Gallery is one of the marketing benefits of the SUSE Appliance Program, and offers a free, web-based venue for you to publish your applications and expand your marketing reach. Experience SUSE Gallery
• Get support for KIWIAs part of SUSE Studio, award-winning support is extended to cover the open source project KIWI. KIWI is an open source command line tool that builds software images from a description file. It is the core image creation engine integrated into SUSE Studio. Available as a separate download, KIWI enables you to build SUSE Linux Enterprise-based application images or appliances rapidly. KIWI is provided free to the community. Through our support, we offer patches and updates, as well as technical support assistance for using KIWI as part of the SUSE Studio. Download KIWI now
• Reduce development costs and accelerate time to marketSUSE Studio streamlines the configuration, maintenance and management of software applications into a few simple mouse clicks, helping you tap into new markets quickly. More ›