Managing CyberApps

Vendor Portal developers can create and manage multiple CyberApps.

There are generally 3 approaches to CyberApp management:

  1. An ISV with a single product creates a single CyberApp, and updates the CyberApp Descriptions and CyberApp Versions as their product evolves.

  2. An ISV with several products creates several CyberApp - one for each product - and updates the CyberApp Descriptions and CyberApp Versions as each product evolves.

  3. An ISV creates a new CyberApp for each release of their product(s).

Note

We recommend the first and second approach over the third, but the only limitation is that you can create a maximum of 20 CyberApps.

With multiple CyberApps, your organization can:

  • Offer independent variations of a single cloud service.

  • Make available multiple, independent cloud services.

  • Deploy a separate CyberApp for each new major release of a cloud service.

  • Offer industry- or market-specific functionality packs.

Note

Only developers can create and manage CyberApps.
For more information, see Vendor Portal.
Also, each CyberApp can have multiple CyberApp Descriptions and CyberApp Versions, which may or may not be deployed.
This allows for significant variations in a single CyberApp, with multiple deployments possible on production environments you select, for the Acronis partners and tenants that you can specify.
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CyberApp deployment steps

There are 4 steps to building and deploying a CyberApp in Vendor Portal:

  1. Create a CyberApp .
    Create a CyberApp.
  2. Create and manage the evolving promotional materials.
    CyberApp Descriptions, which are used to provide functionality, promotional and support details for the CyberApp.
    These can change over time, and you can have various Versions for each of the CyberApps, or a different set of information for each CyberApp Version, should you wish.
    CyberApp Descriptions are published in two places when a CyberApp is released to the Acronis Partner market: within the Acronis Cyber Protect console and the Application Catalog.
  3. Create and manage the CyberApp functionality.
    CyberApp Versions define the core functionality of the CyberApp: the extension points (such as alerts, widgets, reports, workloads, a new menu, protection plans, etc.), and how they are presented.
    You can add and manage CyberApp Versions as new functionality is developed.
  4. Test and deploy the CyberApp.
    Deploy the CyberApp in your test environment to ensure it works as expected within Acronis Cyber Portal.
    When ready, you can request Acronis to deploy the CyberApp to the production environment(s) of your choice, where Acronis partners can find and evaluate it.

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