Available Software
Brandeis students, faculty and staff can obtain a range of academic and business systems software for free or at a significant discount. Available brands include Adobe, Microsoft, Zoom, ATLAS.ti, FileMaker and more. For more information including all software availability, access and product support, 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 |