Case Study: MFS Investment Management achieves 25% faster application packaging and reliable SMS deployment with Flexera AdminStudio

How MFS Cut Packaging Time by 25%, and Maximizes the ROI on Microsoft SMS

MFS Investment Management, a global asset manager founded in 1924 with more than 2,500 employees and 15 offices, faced the challenge of managing 600+ applications across 3,300+ desktops. Their Boston IT team needed to convert legacy setups into standardized, company‑customized MSI packages under tight deadlines with only two packagers, and required seamless integration with Microsoft SMS for deployment.

MFS chose AdminStudio for its fast, accurate repackaging, robust MSI editing and unmatched SMS / SMS Web Console integration, plus formal training for packagers. The result: packaging time fell by 25%, SMS-driven rollouts became centralized and more reliable, QA workload shifted to packagers (reducing QA costs and headcount), and the small team now handles global packaging requests with lower support costs and more consistent deployments.

MFS Investment Management

Gordon Forrest

AVP of Information Technology, MFS Investment Management