Available Software
Brandeis students, faculty and staff can obtain a range of academic and business software for use in academics, research and administration. For more information including all software availability, access, installation support and support for Teaching and Research, please review the table below. For Students, a list of software available in specific labs across campus can be found on the ITS Public Computing Website.
| Software | Description | Availability | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Creative Cloud |
Academic & Administrative: Application Suite |
Faculty & Staff Student via Discount | |
|
AIMS Parking Management |
Administrative: University Parking Management Application | Department Level: Public Safety | Access by Public Safety Only |
| Airtable | Academic: cloud-based platform to create and share relational databases. | Department Level: Purchasable by Individual Departments | Contact ATAC for Purchasing Options Access/Support via Airtable.com |
|
AcrGIS (ESRI) |
Academic: Mapping & Analytical Software | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Articulate 360 | Academic & Administrative: Learning Design Tool | Department Level: Purchasable by Individual Departments | Support via Articulate 360 |
| Atlas.ti | Academic: Powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. | Students, Faculty, Staff |
Research & Teaching Support (Email) |
| Box | Infrastructure/Academic/Administrative: File Sharing | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Chemdraw | Academic: Chemistry Drawing Application | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Magister by Compilatio | Academic:Plagiarism Detection | Faculty & Staff | |
| Echo 360 Lecture Capture | Academic & Administrative: Lecture Capture Tool | Faculty & Staff | |
| eLabFTW | Academic: Electronic lab notebook. | Students, Faculty, Staff | Access via elabftw.net Support Only Available to Division of Science. |
| EndNote | Academic: Reference manager for formatting citations. | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Explorance Blue | Administrative: Course Evaluation Application | Provost's Office | For Access Contact provost@brandeis.edu Support |
| Filemaker | Administrative: University Application | Faculty & Staff | |
| GitHub | Infrastructure/Academic: Version Control Management Tool for IT Infrastructure | Paid Version: ITS Only Free Version: All Brandeis | |
| Gradescope | Academic: Assessment Tool | Faculty | More Information |
| GraphPad Prism | Academic: graphing and analysis for scientific data | Limited Licenses Available | Access & Support |
| Ivanti Pulse Secure (VPN) | Infrastructure: VPN Software | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Kaltura | Academic & Administrative: Media Hosting Platform | Faculty | |
| Kurzweil 3000 | Infrastructure: Accessibility Tool Suite | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Macmillan Achieve / Sapling | Academic: Macmillan Application Integrations for the Brandeis LMS | Moodle Only |
Support (Email) |
| Mathematica | Academic: Data Analysis Application | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| MATLAB | Academic: programming and numeric computing platform | Students, Faculty, Staff |
Research & Teaching Support (Email) |
| Microsoft 365 for Education | Infrastructure: Microsoft Application Suite | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| MNova | Academic: Analytical Chemistry Data processing Suite | Students, Faculty, Staff | Installation Instructions |
| MySQL | Infrastructure: Database Tool Support Subscription for ITS | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Overleaf | Academic: Online LaTex Editing and Collaboration Tool | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Parallels | Infrastructure: Tool for managing Desktop Vitalization | Department Level | |
| Qualtrics | Academic: Experience Management Software | Students, Faculty, Staff |
Research & Teaching Support (Email) |
| SAS | Academic: Statistical Analysis System | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Sketchfab | Academic: Online editor for 3d Modeling | Faculty & Students via Maker Lab | Research & Teaching Support (Email) |
| Slack | Department Level: Communications Tool | Department Level: Purchasable by Individual Departments | For Access and Support Contact Slack.com |
| Slate | Administrative: Departmental CRM System | Department Level | |
| Stata | Academic: Statistical Application | Students, Faculty, Staff |
Research & Teaching Support (Email) |
| Terra Dotta ISSS & Study Abroad Systems | Administrative: Assists in ISSS and Study Abroad Tasks | Department Level: Office of Study Abroad | Contact OSA |
| VMWare Fusion & Workstation | Infrastructure: Desktop Hypervisors for Server Systems | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Voicethread | Academic: Collaboration Tool | Faculty & Students | |
| Zoom | Academic & Administrative: Communications Tool | Students, Faculty, Staff | |
| Zoom Phone | Administrative: Communications Tool | Students, Faculty |