University IT

Microsoft

Microsoft software products include the Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, the Azure cloud computing platform, and CoPilot.

VMWare

VMware is a software company that specializes in cloud computing and virtualization. VMware’s products and services allow users to create virtual computers, called virtual machines (VMs), on a physical computer. Each VM can run its own operating system and behave like an independent computer.

TechSmith SnagIt

TechSmith Snagit is a screen capture and recording software for Windows and macOS that allows users to create visual content such as how-to guides, tutorials, and videos.

TechSmith Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia is a screen recording and video editing software that allows users to capture and edit videos for various purposes.

Simulia Abaqus

SIMULIA Abaqus is a finite element analysis (FEA) software that helps engineers simulate complex problems in a variety of industries. Abaqus is used for research, development, and manufacturing, and can model a wide range of materials and geometries, including:
Metals
Rubber and polymers
Reinforced concrete
Glass and ceramics
Crushable or resilient foam
Geotechnical materials like soil and rock

PTC Creo/Pro Engineer

Creo is the 3D CAD solution that helps you accelerate product innovation to build better products faster. Easy to learn, Creo uses a model-based approach to seamlessly take you from the earliest phases of product design to manufacturing, and beyond. Creo combines powerful, proven functionality with new technologies, including generative design, real-time simulation, advanced manufacturing, IIoT, and augmented reality.

PTC Mathcad

PTC Mathcad Prime allows you to solve, analyze, document, and share your engineering calculations. You need a comprehensive yet intuitive application that performs accurate calculations, enables traceability, protects intellectual property, and allows you to show your work.

Document your calculations in an engineering notebook with natural mathematical notation and units intelligence. Show your work using rich formatting options alongside plots, text, and images in a single, professionally formatted document.

Choose PTC Mathcad Prime because spreadsheets just can’t compete. Mathcad visually represents math in an intuitive way, making it easy to define, understand, and manipulate engineering calculations with the whiteboard-like user interface.

Parallels Desktop for Mac (Academic)

Parallels allows users to run Windows side by side with macOS on a Macintosh device. This can be used to run Windows applications, such as Excel and accounting software, as well as classic Windows games.

Mplus

Mplus is a statistical modeling program that provides researchers with a flexible tool to analyze their data. Mplus offers researchers a wide choice of models, estimators, and algorithms in a program that has an easy-to-use interface and graphical displays of data and analysis results. Mplus allows the analysis of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, single-level and multilevel data, data that come from different populations with either observed or unobserved heterogeneity, and data that contain missing values. Analyses can be carried out for observed variables that are continuous, censored, binary, ordered categorical (ordinal), unordered categorical (nominal), counts, or combinations of these variable types. In addition, Mplus has extensive capabilities for Monte Carlo simulation studies, where data can be generated and analyzed according to any of the models included in the program.

The Mplus modeling framework draws on the unifying theme of latent variables. The generality of the Mplus modeling framework comes from the unique use of both continuous and categorical latent variables. Continuous latent variables are used to represent factors corresponding to unobserved constructs, random effects corresponding to individual differences in development, random effects corresponding to variation in coefficients across groups in hierarchical data, frailties corresponding to unobserved heterogeneity in survival time, liabilities corresponding to genetic susceptibility to disease, and latent response variable values corresponding to missing data. Categorical latent variables are used to represent latent classes corresponding to homogeneous groups of individuals, latent trajectory classes corresponding to types of development in unobserved populations, mixture components corresponding to finite mixtures of unobserved populations, and latent response variable categories corresponding to missing data

MathType

Professional. MathType is an online equation editor that provides perfect quality math formulas. No matter which environment you are using it in, your documents will always look professional and of a high quality.

Crystal Reports

SAP Crystal Reports is a business intelligence (BI) tool that helps users create, design, and deliver business reports and invoices. It can analyze data from multiple sources and deliver reports in a variety of formats.

Corel Draw

Corel is a software company that develops creative and design products, including:

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite:
A vector illustration, layout, and photo editing tool for Mac and Windows
Corel Painter:
A realistic painting software that lets you create your own brushes, textures, and palettes
PaintShop Pro:
A photo editing tool for enhancing, correcting, and editing photos
VideoStudio:
A video editing software
WordPerfect:
An office suite
Corel Vector:
A web-based vector graphics tool that can be accessed from any browser
Corel Photo-Paint:
A bitmap-image editor with a customizable user interface.

Bluebeam

Bluebeam is a software that helps construction, engineering, and architecture teams collaborate on projects and manage documents. All plans include access to Bluebeam Revu for Windows desktop and Bluebeam Cloud on web and mobile. You can mix and match plans for users with different needs.

Avid

Avid is a company that develops software and hardware for creating audio and video content, including:

Avid Media Composer
A video editing software that’s used by professionals in the film, television, and broadcast industries. It’s known for its advanced tools for managing large amounts of footage and working collaboratively.
Pro Tools
A music production software that includes tools for recording, editing, mixing, and creating music. It’s considered an industry standard.
Avid Link
A free social community app that allows artists to connect and collaborate with each other.
Sibelius
A music notation software that’s used by composers, arrangers, and educators. It includes a Worksheet Creator and Classroom Control features.

AutoDesk (AutoCAD)

Autodesk is a software company that provides 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software for a variety of industries.

Articulate 360 Teams

Articulate 360 Teams allow you to Create anything you can imagine. Storyline 360’s features let you build complex interactions easily—no coding required. Combine layers, states, triggers, hotspots, 360° images, and more to create richly customized, immersive experiences that capture—and keep—learners’ attention.

Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Education

The Pro Apps Bundle is a collection of five industry-leading apps from Apple that deliver powerful creative tools for video editors and musicians.

Pro Apps Bundle for Education: (includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage, Logic Pro)

The Pro Apps Bundle is a collection of five industry-leading apps from Apple that deliver powerful creative tools for video editors and musicians.

AhaSlides

AhaSlides is a platform to help you make interactive presentations. You can use polls, word clouds, open-ended slides and other types of slides to create a presentation that your audience can interact with live, using their phones.

Affinity

Affinity is designed for creative professionals and enthusiasts. It’s also used by educators to help students learn creative software and digital literacy skills

Adobe Acrobat Sign

Adobe Acrobat Sign* allows you to quickly and securely make every agreement and approval digital, from almost anywhere in the world, on practically any device. It’s simple to use and implement, so even complex workflows can be quickly automated, keeping your business moving forward, faster. 

• Easily upload and send documents for electronic signature. 

• Quickly access and sign documents that require signature. 

• Readily check a document’s status, send reminders, view audit trails, and securely store online. 

• Create templates using existing forms to help streamline the sending process. 

• Oversee document workflow by identifying and managing recipients and routing. 

• Make forms available online, allowing for self-service and ease of accessibility. 

Adobe Acrobat Sign is the only University of Rochester approved 21 CFR Part 11 and HIPAA compliant signing option.

Adobe Acrobat Sign is available for clinical research teams at the University of Rochester. Senders can upload documents to an electronic agreement, add fields for signature and date, and send the agreement to a specified recipient via email.

Adobe

Adobe specializes in software for the creation and publication of a wide range of content, including graphics, photography, illustration, animation, multimedia/video, motion pictures, and print.

Adobe Acrobat Pro can be licensed through a subscription or by purchasing a perpetual license.  All other Adobe products are licensed through subscription only.

BioRender

BioRender is a web-based app to help create scientific figures up to 50X faster than traditional tools

BioRender combines a library of over 50,000 scientifically accurate, expert-validated life science icons and templates with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality. Create professional-quality figures in minutes – no drawing skills required!

With BioRender, you can:

• Create figures for all your visual needs like your publications, posters, and presentations
• Pair figures with data collected from your experiments
• Communicate your research at the next level

E-Prime

E-Prime provides an easy-to-use environment for computerized experiment design, data collection, and analysis.

New with E-Prime 3.0

Smartsheet Enterprise Plan

Smartsheet allows users to collaborate, manage, and report on work in real time, automate workflows, and deploy new processes at scale.

Minitab

Minitab can visualize, analyze and harness the power of your data to solve your toughest challenges. Minitab has the market’s most trusted statistical tools to get the most out of your data, discover trends, predict patterns, uncover hidden relationships between variables, visualize data interactions and identify important factors to answer even the most challenging of questions.
Enjoy new levels of productivity and collaboration with Minitab accessible through both your desktop and on the cloud with our web app. With the power of statistics and data analysis on your side and accessible from anywhere, the possibilities are truly endless.

MestReNova (MNova)

Mnova is a multivendor software suite designed for combined NMR, LC/GC/MS and Electronic & Vibrational Spectroscopic techniques. The new version Mnova 14 is a major release incorporating many new features in most plugins. We have integrated three new products Mnova ElViS, BioHOS and StereoFitter and fixed several bugs.

Tableau Creator

Tableau helps people see and understand data. Visual analytics platform is transforming the way people use data to solve problems. With Tableau Creator, discover insights faster by combining a powerful suite of products for visual data prep, best-in-class analytics, and secure collaboration to support your end-to-end analytical workflow.

SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS is a 3D CAD Design and analysis software, and a solid modeler that utilizes a parametric feature based approach to create models and assemblies.

GraphPad Prism

GraphPad Prism combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization. While it won’t replace a heavy-duty statistics program, Prism lets you easily perform basic statistical tests commonly used by laboratory and clinical researchers. Prism offers t tests, nonparametric comparisons, one-, two- and three-way ANOVA, analysis of contingency tables, and survival analysis. Analysis choices are presented in clear language that avoids unnecessary statistical jargon.

Mathematica

Mathematica is a software package that is ideal for communicating scientific ideas, whether visualization of a concept in an introductory level course or creating a simulation of a new idea related to research. Mathematica is commonly used in mathematical sciences, physical sciences, business and finance, life sciences, engineering, and computer science.

• Faculty, staff, and students are eligible to use products on campus or personal machines
• Agreement supports use of products in instruction and academic research
• Licensing is renewed annually and is available only to active students, faculty, and staff

SAS

The SAS System is an integrated suite of software for enterprise-wide information delivery. Applications include executive information systems; data entry, retrieval, and management; report writing and graphics; statistical and mathematical analysis; business planning, forecasting, and decision support; operations research and project management; statistical quality improvement; computer performance evaluation; and applications development.

SAS is available to enrolled students, instructional faculty and researchers engaged in original academic research work on both university and personally-owned computers (home use) are allowed to use the license.

Institutional research and other administrative uses related to the operation or improvement of a university or at an associated healthcare institution including patient care and sponsored research are not included within the scope of the license.

SPSS / AMOS

SPSS Statistics is a statistical and data management package for analysts and researchers, providing a broad range of capabilities for the entire analytical process, including powerful statistics; data access, preparation, and management tools; high-quality tabular and graphical output, and a variety of reporting methods. University licenses include:

STATA

Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides the tools needed for data analysis, data management, and graphics. Stat/Transfer converts data between different spreadsheet and statistical programs, including Stata, Excel, JMP, Matlab, Minitab, SPSS, and SAS.

MATLAB

MATLAB is an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language. MATLAB is used in a variety of application areas including signal and image processing, control system design, finance, engineering, and medical research.

Amira Software

Amira Software is a powerful, comprehensive, and versatile 2D–5D solution for visualizing, analyzing and understanding life science and biomedical research data from many image modalities, including Optical and Electron Microscopy, CT, MRI and other imaging techniques. With incredible speed and flexibility, Amira Software supports advanced 2D–5D bioimaging workflows in research areas ranging from structural and cellular biology to tissue imaging, neuroscience, preclinical imaging and bioengineering. From any 3D image data, including time series and multi-channel, Amira Software delivers a comprehensive range of data visualization, processing and analysis capabilities. Amira Software allows life science and biomedical researchers to gain invaluable insights into their data, at different scales and from any modality.

ChemDraw

This chemical drawing program features chemical warnings, graphical file formats, structure perspective tool, floating periodic table and character map, LabArt, multi-page docs, stereochemistry, atom numbering, structure and style templates, a large choice of bonds and arrows, full color drawing, MS Office integration, improved graphic display and image, customizable arrow tools, color-faded shapes, and terminal carbon labeling.

IMSL, PV-Wave

The IMSL Fortran, C/C++ and C# Numerical Libraries provide pre-written mathematical and statistical algorithms that can be imbedded into Fortran, C/C++, C# for .NET, and Java applications. JMSL for Java applications combines integrated charting with IMSL Library algorithms. PV-WAVE is an array-oriented programming language used to build and deploy visual data analysis applications. TS-WAVE is for advanced time series analysis, and JWAVE’s multiple graphical and visualization techniques allows for web-based visual data analysis across platforms.

LabVIEW

LabVIEW is used for test, measurement, and control. LabVIEW allows development of intuitive block diagrams for I/O, analysis, and presentation needs. LabVIEW performs many functions from data acquisition to advanced embedded software development. The University’s LabVIEW license may be used for both teaching and academic research.

ArcGIS

ArcGIS is a powerful desktop and server tool for mapping and analysis through the application of geographic knowledge. ArcGIS can perform spatial analysis while combining independent tabular data layers with maps, imagery and 3D geographic features. ArcGIS will be available on the CIRC platform for intensive research applications. ArcGIS also comes with web apps and device apps to share your work with others in across the University. These apps run on smartphones, tablets, web browsers, and desktops, and support a range of tasks and workflows. Under this license, all standard Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) modules are included.

EndNote

EndNote organizes references, images, PDFs, and other files in your personal EndNote database. It also imports citations from online databases that you have searched and creates and formats bibliographies automatically.

Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching

Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a Microsoft program that supports technical education by providing access to Microsoft software for learning, teaching and research purposes. University of Rochester students and faculty can download some Microsoft tools and applications through the website at no cost, including Visual Studio Professional, Windows servers, and SQL servers.

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning company that helps anyone learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve their personal and professional goals.

Qualtrics

The Qualtrics XM is a user-friendly, feature rich, web-based survey tool similar to Survey Monkey, which allows users to build, distribute, and analyze online surveys, collaborate in real-time, and export data in multiple formats. Qualtrics Research Suite should only be used for work related to your University of Rochester employment and/or academic projects related to your UR Research or pursuit of a degree.

University of Rochester Qualtrics license features:

• Unlimited:
  • Responses
  • Questions per project
  • Survey projects per user
• Survey’s can contain customized:
  • Branding
  • Branching
  • Skip
  • Display logic, etc.
• Embedded data
• All questions except file upload & signature
• Email, QR code, and social media distributions
• Auto thank yous and reminders
• Export options:
  • File formats:
    • CVS
    • TSV
  • SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences)
  • Tableau
  • Google Drive
• Basic reports / graphs
• Collaboration with other users

Microsoft Office

Faculty, staff, and students can download the latest version of Microsoft 365 (Formerly Microsoft Office) free of charge as part of the Microsoft Campus Agreement. You can install Microsoft 365 on up to five computers or devices, either University owned or personally owned. The package includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Access (PC only) for Windows and Mac.

Oracle Database (Departmental use only)

The University agreement provides access to the Oracle Enterprise Edition which includes:

• Database Management Packs:
  • Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
  • Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack
  • Oracle Diagnostics Pack
  • Oracle Tuning Pack
  • Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite Plus
• Java Engine
• Workflow Engine
• HTML DB
• Intermedia and Oracle Text
• Advanced Queuing and Replication
• Rolling Updates
• Incremental Backup and Recovery
• Standby Database and Recovery Manager
• Flashback Database
• Oracle Dataguard (for Disaster Recovery)
• Virtual Private Database (for Security)
• Fine Grained Auditing (for Security)
• Parallel Query/DML (for Performance)
• Data Compression (for Performance)
• Bitmap Indices and Parallel Bitmap-Star query
• Connection Manager and Pooling
• Automatica Storage Manager (ASM)
• Visual Information and Retrieval
• Drivers (ODBC, MPI, OLE, OCI)
• Transportable Tablespaces (including cross platform)
• Oracle Enterprise Manager and Grid Control (Web-based Management Console)

JMP

JMP dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand and visualize data. Includes a comprehensive set of statistical tools, experimental designs, and statistical quality control functions.

JMP is available to enrolled students, instructional faculty and researchers engaged in original academic research work on both university and personally-owned computers (home use) are allowed to use the license. Institutional research and other administrative uses related to the operation or improvement of a university or at an associated healthcare institution including patient care and sponsored research are not included within the scope of the license.