Best method for keeping clients updated

I have five seats for Creative Cloud, therefore five workstations that need updates installed on a regular basis.
In common with most corporates (I imagine) we don't allow end-users to have Admin access, so IT have to do this for them.
It can take quite some time - up to a couple of hours per workstation if it's been neglected for a month or two.
IT don't have the time for this, and the end-users can't spare their machines for it.
I can't believe there isn't some automated method that does not require the user to have Admin rights.
What's the right way to be doing this?
Thanks in advance.

Update - I discovered the Packager and the Remote Update Manager.
Job done.

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