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Last updated: Aug 17, 2016
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    7-Zip — 7-Zip is a free utility for extracting files from a compressed archive. Mac users should use StuffitExpander instead.
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    ACL Desktop Edition — ACL Desktop is a data analysis application used in auditing.
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    Adobe Flash Player — Adobe® Flash® Player is a lightweight browser plug-in and rich Internet application runtime that delivers consistent and engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video playback, and exciting gameplay.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, NRG
    • Source: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
    • Cost: Free
    • Platform: Windows, Mac
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    Adobe Reader — Adobe® Reader® software is the free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents.

    It's the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia.
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    Adobe Shockwave Player — Adobe Shockwave Player gives access to some of the best content the Web has to offer - including dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications. Shockwave Player displays Web content that has been created using Adobe Director.
    • Where Available:  Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, RPC
    • Source: http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/otherversions/
    • Cost: Free
    • Platform: Windows, Mac
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    Apple Quicktime — A powerful multimedia technology with a built-in media player, QuickTime lets you view Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media in a wide range of file formats. And it lets you enjoy them in remarkably high quality.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, RPC
    • Source: http://support.apple.com/downloads/#quicktime
    • Cost: Free
    • Platform: Windows, Mac
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    Cisco Anyconnect — Cisco AnyConnect is a Virtual Private Network program that lets you establish a secure, remote network connection to the University network from off campus. It is used to connect to many systems that are accessible only to campus networks and to users connecting in using the VPN.
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    Cisco Packet Tracer — Cisco Packet Tracer is a network simulator that can be utilized in training for Cisco certification exams by allowing students to create networks to experience troubleshooting without having to buy real Cisco routers or switches.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab
    • Course: MIS 373
    • Platform: Windows
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    Cloudera QuickStart VM — This VM contains a single-node Apache Hadoop cluster including Cloudera Manager, example data, queries, and scripts.
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    Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers — Eclipse is an OpenSource Integrated Development Environment (IDE) available for both Windows and MacOs. It may be used to program in many programming languages but is used to program in Java in certain business school courses.
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    Enthought Python Canopy Express — Enthought Python Canopy Express is a particular distribution of the Python programming language. The full version costs money, but MIS 373 uses the free "express" version of this software.
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    FileZilla — FileZilla is a cross-platform FTP application that supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS). Support for SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) is NOT implemented in FileZilla Server.
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    Git — Git is a version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
    • Where Available:  Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, RPC
    • Source: http://git-scm.com/downloads
    • Cost: Free
    • Course: MIS 373
    • Platform: Windows, Mac
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    IDEA — IDEA® is a powerful and user-friendly data analysis tool designed to help auditors, accountants and other finance professionals perform data analysis quickly to help improve audits and identify control breakdowns.  IDEA allows you to analyze 100% of your data, guarantees data integrity and provides easy analysis with over 100 audit-relevant tasks.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, NRG
    • Course: MIS 373
    • Platform: Windows
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    Matlab — Matlab is a computational environment and programming language used in analysis of large data sets.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Student Computer, RPC
    • Source: http://www.campuscomputer.com (search for Matlab in the product search box); employees should contact MSB Computer Services
    • Cost: $99 for students; free for employees
    • Courses: MIS 381N, FIN 372, MS Business Analytics courses
    • Platform: Windows, Mac
    • Online Training: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=matlab
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    Microsoft Office Pro (Access) — Access is a part of the Microsoft Office suite and is an easy-to-use tool for quickly creating browser-based database applications. Your data is automatically stored in a SQL database and can be easily shared with colleagues. NOTE: Available for Windows only.
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    Microsoft Office Pro (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) — Microsoft Office Pro is a suite of desktop applications including word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software compatible with Windows and Mac used by over a billion people worldwide.
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    Microsoft Office Project Pro — Project Management software to keep track of events and to create network charts and Gantt charts. NOTE: Available for Windows only.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, RPC
    • Source: Imagine (see installation help link)
    • Cost: Free
    • Platform: Windows 
    • Installation Help: Please see Using Imagine and VMAP wiki page for information about how to download and install this software through this program.
    • Online Training: www.mccombs.utexas.edu/lynda
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    Microsoft Office Visio Premium — Microsoft Office Visio is a diagramming and vector graphics application used to create professional diagrams to simplify complex information with shapes, collaboration tools, and data-linked diagrams. NOTE: Available for Windows only.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, NRG
    • Source: MS Imagine (see installation help link)
    • Cost: Free
    • Course: MIS325
    • Platform: Windows
    • Online Training: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=Visio
    • Installation Help: Please see Using Microsoft Imagine and VMAP wiki page for information about how to download and install this software through this program.
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    Microsoft SQL Server Express Management Studio —
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    Microsoft Visual Studio Pro —
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, NRG
    • Source: Imagine (see installation help link)
    • Cost: Free
    • Course: MIS 304, MIS 333K
    • Platform: Windows
    • Online Training: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=Visual+Studio
    • Installation Help: Please see Using Imagine and VMAP wiki page for information about how to download and install this software through this program.
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    Oracle Java Development Kit —
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    Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) — Brief description. . .
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    Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) — Brief description. . .
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    Oracle SQL Database Server — Oracle software distributed online is free to use for development, testing, research, and educational purposes. All of your student work involving Oracle products qualifies for license free usage. Oracle Database Server is the server component and is only required in the MS-IROM program.
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    Oracle SQL Server Client — The Oracle SQL Developer is the developer client software used to connect an existing Oracle database server. IROM undergraduates in certain courses just need this component. A class server is provided for these students to use. Graduate students in the MS-IROM program will also need to install their own Oracle SQL Server.
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    Oracle Virtual Box — Virtual Box is a free virtual computer hosting software that runs under Windows and Macintosh OS. It allows you to run on your PC or Mac virtual computers that run their own Windows, Linux or (in some illegal cases) Macintosh operating systems.

    For information about using ready made VMs with VirtualBox please visit Installing OVA files using VirtualBox.
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    Palisade Decision Tools (@Risk) — Decision Tools is a set of Microsoft Excel add-ins for risk and decision analysis. It includes @Risk, StatTools, PrecisionTree, TopRank and other Excel add-ins. 

    The McCombs School of Business has licensed the software from Palisade for students to use, free of charge. You will need to first have Microsoft Office (which you can install through UT Austin for free) if you are installing DecisionTools. To do that, go to office365.austin.utexas.edu and select "Office 365 Portal". Once signed in, click "Install and more" and "Install Microsoft 365 Apps". 

    Once the app is installed, you will see the tools (for example, RISK) appear as desktop shortcuts. Please run the apps you need from these shortcuts. They will open Excel themselves with the add-ins loaded in. (You will not be able to open them directly from Excel). 


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    Download to your computer: 
    You can download DecisionTools to any Windows computer. If you have a Mac, you can install a Windows virtual machine (Instructions: VMWare Installation Instructions for Macs).

    1. First, visit https://utexas.box.com/v/dtsinstaller (you will be prompted to login with your EID). Download the file.
    2. You may get a warning that the file cannot be downloaded. Your browser should have an option to keep the file. 
      On Edge, click the three dots and "Keep". Click "Show more", and "Keep Anyway".
       

    3. Once you've downloaded the installer, you can run the installer. You may again get a warning. Click "More info" and then "Run anyway".
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    Putty Telnet —
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    R — R is an open source programming language designed for statistical computing. It is freely available from The Comprehensive R Archive Network. RStudio is a free Integrated Development Environment that provides a more graphical interface for writing R programs. RStudio includes R. If you choose to use RStudio or the course you are taking requires it, then you do not need to separately download R itself.
    • Where Available: PhD Server, Student Computer, RPC
    • Source: http://cran.us.r-project.org
    • Cost: Free
    • Course: MS Business Analytics courses
    • Platform: Windows, Mac
    • Online Training: An interactive tutorial on basic to advanced R features is available within R itself. It is called Statistics With Interactive R Learning (SWIRL). More information about installing and using this feature can be found at http://swirlstats.com/students.html
    • Installation Help: Information about installing and using R can be found at http://cran.rstudio.com/manuals.html
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    RStudio — R is an open source programming language designed for statistical computing. It is freely available from The Comprehensive R Archive Network. RStudio is a free Integrated Development Environment that provides a more graphical interface for writing R programs. RStudio includes R. If you choose to use RStudio or the course you are taking requires it, then you do not need to separately download R itself.
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    SAP GUI —
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, NRG
    • Course: ACC 380K.13
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    SAS Foundation with Enterprise Miner and Text Miner — SAS is software. . .
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    Simio —
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    Stata — Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package
    • Where Available: PhD Servers
      • Stata is also one of the applications available on the Stat Apps terminal server maintained by the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. For more information about this server please visit https://stat.utexas.edu/training/stat-apps-server.
    • Source: http://www.stata.com
    • Cost: Stata is not available for purchase through normal software channels at the university. It is purchased by the business school directly from StataCorp for specific research purposes only. 
    • Courses: Stata is not specifically used in courses, but is used by PhD students for some research projects
    • Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux
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    Tableau — Tableau Public is an open source data visualization application.
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    Team Mate —
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab
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    Tortise SVN — TortoiseSVN is a Windows Subversion client used to check in and check out software code from an Apache Subversion based software code repository.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Student Computer
    • Source:www.tortoisesvn.net 
    • Cost: Free
    • Course: MIS 373, MS Business Analytics courses
    • Platform: Windows, Mac
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    UT Print — UTPrint is a printing service operated by the University for all faculty, staff and students. To use the service, you install free printer software that sends your prints jobs into a queue whenever you print from your computer. To receive your printed copy, simply walk up to any UTPrint kiosk on campus, swipe your ID card and select the job in your queue that you want to print. Your queued job will then print out at that printer. You incur no charges until you actually print your queued job. Print charges are debited from your BevoBucks account. Please see  https://ut.service-now.com/utss/catalogoverview.do?sysparam_citems_id=b9d65c7c4ff9d200f6897bcd0210c77c for more information.
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    VMWare Player and Fusion — VMWare Player is software that will allow you to run virtual machines in your won computer.
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Student Computer
    • Source: VMWare Academic Program (see installation help link)
    • Cost:  Free through VMAP; $70 through the Campus Computer Store.
    • Course: MIS 373
    • Platform: Windows (for Player), Mac (for Fusion)
    • Mac Equivalent: VMWare Fusion
    • Installation Help: Please see Using Imagine and VMAP wiki page for information about how to download and install this software through this program.
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    Weka — Weka is an open source Java based collection of machine learning algorithms for solving data mining problems.
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    Wireless Encryption Installers for 802.1x — This software allows you to access the "restricted.utexas.edu", wireless network which forces network encryption, instead of the open "guest.utexas.edu" network, which does not require encryption. Encrypting wireless traffic is not required for any particular course, but it is a recommended by the Information Security Office. University Employee's are required to use wireless encryption. For students it is optional.
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    Wolfram CDF Player — Wolfram CDF Player allows you to view documents in the interactive Computable Document Format (CDF).
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    XL Miner for Excel —
    • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, NRG, Student Computer
    • Source: http://www.solver.com/student (certain courses only)
    • Course: MIS 301H, MIS 382 

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