Many software companies offer special licensing agreements to higher education institutions as incentives for them to purchase and use their software products. In many cases, ITS purchases campus-wide or volume licenses for software products that are popular at Syracuse University and then redistributes them to departments and individuals for use on their university-owned computers. Because ITS provides software to the SU community of users, we acquire licenses in volume purchase arrangements and are thus able to obtain large discounts on per copy academic pricing. As a service to the campus community, ITS frequently purchases more licenses than we actually need and resells the extra licenses to individuals and departments for their use, passing along to the users a substantial cost saving when compared to retail pricing.
The purpose of this web page is to provide information about the various contracts currently in place and to enable users to order licenses through a series of web-based forms. If you are looking for a specific product not mentioned here, or have other questions, then please e-mail the ITS Business Office at ITSOFFICE@syr.edu
Current Licenses
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The University participates in Adobe's Contractual License Program (CLP). The CLP is a two year membership agreement that provides discounts on volume purchases of Adobe products.
Category: Utilities, graphics
AMOS is a popular (Windows) program from SPSS for Structural Equation Modeling. Amos provides you with powerful and easy-to-use structural equation modeling (SEM) software. Create more realistic models than if you used standard multivariate statistics or multiple regression models alone.
Category: Structural Equation Modeling
ArcInfo/ArcGIS from ESRI is the leading family of products for Geographical Information Systems (GIS). SU has a site license for ESRI products, managed by the Geographic and Statistical Information Center (G-SIC) located in E.S. Bird Library.
Key products available are ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) and ArcInfo Workstation. Platform support includes Windows, Unix, and Linux.
Category: Geographical GIS
AutoCAD is a CAD (Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting) software application for 2D and 3D design and drafting. The University has a site license agreement for all AutoCAD products for Windows only.
Category: Design & Drafting
Ghost is a disk cloning program product sold by Symantec. ITS has a limited number of volume discounted licenses for Symantec Ghost Solution Suite.
Category: Backup and recovery utility
Maple, from Maplesoft, is a sophisticated general purpose computer algebra system, designed to solve mathematical problems symbolically as well as numerically and produce high-quality two and three dimensional graphics and animations.
Category: Mathematical & Engineering
MATLAB stands for "MATrix LABoratory" and is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages.
Category: Mathematical
Software licenses, maintenance (called Software Assurance), media and documentation are available for a wide range of Microsoft applications, systems, and server products.
Category: Business
Minitab from Minitab Inc. is a project-oriented, integrated interactive statistical and graphical analysis package that provides tools for data analysis, quality management, and graphics.
Category: Statistical
NVivo, created and sold by QSR International, is a leading (Windows) software package for qualitative analysis. It has been designed for qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.
Category: Qualitative Analysis
SAS System from SAS Institute, is a sophisticated suite of analytic software components with extensive statistical, graphical, data management, and application development facilities.
Category: Statistical
SPSS Statistics from IBM is a popular statistical package for Windows and Macintosh workstations, highly regarded for both teaching and research. It is a modular, tightly integrated, full-featured product family for the full analytical process: planning, data collection, data access and management, analysis, reporting and deployment.
Category: Statistical
Stata from StatCorp LP is an extensible, integrated interactive statistical package that provides tools for data analysis, data management, and graphics.
Category: Statistical
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