Find out more about the DIRECT DLM Features, or see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) below.
Improve your customer's experience.
Provide your valued customers the user experience they deserve with an easy-to-use, secure, fast, and fully customizable download manager. Add the DIRECT DLM dynamic delivery platform’s scale and power to your existing software download center or website with just a few lines of code. When your customers request content, the DIRECT DLM API returns a download manager client customized to fulfill that specific customer request.
Simple, secure, and success is guaranteed.
Control the delivery of your software catalog and simplify the download process ensuring a great experience for your customers.
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If your business depends on software downloads, the DIRECT DLM dynamic delivery platform is the solution you need.
Create an on-demand, secure delivery relationship with your customers.
With over 15 years of development experience and billions of downloads worldwide, the DIRECT DLM dynamic delivery platform has the features you need to get the most out of your software download center.
- Supports Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems
- Easy download center integration with a single API
- Supports multi-gigabyte files and giant software catalogs
- On-demand and complete packaging instantly configured for an end-use at runtime
- End-to-End security supported by CDN token authentication, HTTPS delivery, and AES data encryption
- Download monitoring gives visibility to “beyond the edge” download processes
- No-touch integration with your existing CDN (or use ours)
- Eliminates end-user frustrations with automatic error recovery
- Intuitive, user-friendly interface with pause/resume functionality
- A rich suite of analytics tools with the flexibility to export into your existing BI solution
- Recognized as safe by over 60 anti-virus protection providers
- Get up and running fast
- 99.9% uptime guarantee
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The DIRECT DLM is simple, intuitive, and transparent.
Escape the limits of Internet browsers.
Gain unprecedented control over your software deployment.
The browser developers couldn’t care any less about your software deployments. Relying on an Internet browser to securely deliver your high-value software is simply using the wrong tool for the job and is probably leaving money on the table.
The DIRECT DLM gets the browser out of the way by creating a direct channel between you and your customer, giving you unprecedented control over your software deployments beyond the firewall.
The DIRECT DLM crushes all major browsers in security, performance, and UX.
Developed from the ground up specifically to address the complexities of deploying software to systems with constraints beyond your control, the DIRECT DLM is fault-tolerant, and secure, with end-to-end analytics and a simple API that will make implementation a snap.
Secure your downloads without sacrificing user experience.
Give your customers the user-friendly download experience they deserve. Tailor the download experience using a developer-friendly API, and intuitive user controls.
When your customer requests a file, or series of files, from your website, DIRECT DLM returns a dynamically configured, secure download manager client specifically suited for their request.
Make software downloads easy.
Large software catalog? No problem!
No matter how large your software catalog is, we can handle it!
No matter how extensive your software catalog is, the DIRECT DLM API makes it easy to dynamically and securely deliver the files to your customer, while providing a user experience they’ll love. DIRECT DLM is a cloud-based platform, purpose-built to automate the deployment of any digital content while leveraging the global reach and scale of content delivery networks (CDNs).
Large file size? We've got you covered!
No matter how large the file size is, the DIRECT DLM will handle it with ease.
Nothing can be more frustrating to a customer than almost finishing the download of a large file, and something goes wrong. When you rely on a browser to handle your downloads, this scenario is all too familiar.
Only the DIRECT DLM will provide your customers with the stability they need to download large files reliably and securely quickly.
- Need to pause the download and resume at a later time? You can do that.
- Lost internet connection? No problem, the download will pick up where it left off as soon as the connection is restored.
- Accidentally close the browser? No problem. The DIRECT DLM works outside of the browser as a stand-alone-executable.
Features
The DIRECT DLM is a full-featured deployment solution. Check out some of the available features below, and contact us to set up a free evaluation.
- Intelligent File Transfer
- Data Security
- Client Workflow Options
- Continuous Delivery / DevOps
- Deployment Analytics
- Client User Interface
- Integrations
Download Manager User Controls: Intuitive user controls allow for pause/resume or cancel a download, file save-to location, and real-time performance on throughput and write speed.
Guaranteed Data Integrity: Every byte is validated using a secure hash algorithm to ensure it exactly matches data in the master repository.
Automatic Error Recovery: Internet errors from HTTPs, DNS, faulty routers, or dropped packets are automatically remediated without end-user interruption.
High-performance Multi-threaded Downloads: Multiple simultaneous HTTP and I/O threads parallelize download and write operations to minimize the download time.
Data Compression: Data is compressed on ingest and decompressed on the fly during the download to achieve data transfer savings of 5-40% and reduce download times to target systems.
CDN Optimized Data Format: Files and packages are transformed into a file format optimized for the fastest delivery via CDN, and to eliminate CDN propagation errors.
CDN Token Authentication: Protect content on the CDN from unauthorized access by securing content URLs.
HTTPS Data Delivery: Deliver data securely over HTTPS with a global CDN.
Geo-IP Blocking: Restrict access to URLs from specific geo locations by IP address.
AES Data Encryption: Secure your application content with AES encryption on your premises using your own encryption keys.
Custom EULA: Option to require acceptance of your EULA prior to an application download or update.
Installer Functions: Check and download pre-requisites, create shortcuts and icons, read and create registry settings, and more…
Auto-Launch Applications: Set the client to launch your application upon completion automatically.
Build System Integration: Pre-configured deployment scripts are provided for easy integration with your build system.
Automate via RESTful API: Automate deployments and dynamically create DLMs based on user requested files with our simple API.
Manage Deployments Across Environments: Easily promote releases across Development, QA, Stage and Live environments.
Funnel Reporting: View deployment data as an acquisition funnel shoeing completion and abandonment rates and wee where users are dropping out of the funnel.
LiveOps Monitoring: Live operation data shows the health of ongoing deployments.
Data Export: Send data to Mixpanel, Keen, AWS Firehose, or S3 for import into other BI solutions.
Branded UI: White label UI template uses your branding.
Localization: Localize client UI messaging into any language.
eCommerce: Integrate with shopping cart checkout for dynamic payload insertion.
Entitlement: Entitle client end-users to specific releases and/or environments.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some of the frequently asked questions regarding the DIRECT DLM. If you have any additional questions not covered below, please contact us.