- Created by James L Coombes, last modified on Jan 09, 2023
Below is a list of all applications that are specifically used by students at the McCombs School of Business.
A majority of the applications are software that is a freely available for students to install on their own laptops or home desktops. The applications are either freely available to anyone on the Internet or are specifically made available to students by the University or the McCombs School of Business.
The University course catalog requires students in business school courses to have a personal laptop capable of running current versions of general business software, such as Microsoft Office. Applications that are used during classes or exams held in the Mod Lab are installed there.
The Reliant Productivity Center (RPC) also has computers installed in 51 of its individual study cubicles. Much of this course software is installed on those computers.
For a non-tabular list of all software with details please see the Software Details page.
Lynda.com
As a UT student you have free access to professional online training videos from Lynda.com. Where Lynda has specific training videos on course software used at the McCombs School of Business you can find a link to those videos in the software details for that application (note: If you click on a link to a Lynda video you will need to click "Log in" at the top right hand corner of the Lynda page, and type www.utexas.edu in the "Log in through your organization or school" section). You can learn more about free training from Lynda.com at Lynda at McCombs
Attention Mac Users
Not all software available for students to install on their own notebooks is available in a Mac version. Mac users can still run this software on their own computers by using a Windows virtual machine. For more information, please visit Installing VMware for Intel Macs
 | Software is available for student computers running Windows operating system |
 | Software (or equivalent) is available for student computers running Macintosh operating system |
 | Software must be purchased to be installed on student owned computers (available at reduced prices to current students) |
 | Training courses available through Lynda.com (free to currently enrolled students) |
| Application | Student Notebooks | MOD Lab | NRG | PhD Lab | Training | Required By Course or Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
7-Zip 7-Zip is a free utility for extracting files from a compressed archive. Mac users should use StuffitExpander instead. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
ACL Desktop Edition ACL Desktop is a data analysis application used in auditing.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACC 358C, ACC 380K.4 | |
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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | MIS 325, MIS 333K, MIS 373 (needed only if connecting to class database servers from off-campus) | ||||
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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Yes | Yes | MIS 373 | |||
Cloudera QuickStart VM This VM contains a single-node Apache Hadoop cluster including Cloudera Manager, example data, queries, and scripts. click here to go to the software page for this application. | Yes | MIS 373 | ||||
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | | MIS 373 | |
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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 373 | |
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Git Git is a version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 373 | |
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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 373 | ||
Oracle Java Development Kit
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | MSBA Program | |
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | |||||
MathWorks Matlab Matlab is a computational environment and programming language used in analysis of large data sets.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | | FIN 372, RM 376, MIS 381 N, MSBA Program | |
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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | |
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. Source: Microsoft Office can be run online withing Office 365 or installed onto your computer from there. For more information please visit https://office365.austin.utexas.edu/. Employees should contact MSB Computer Services Cost: Free through Office 365 (https://office365.austin.utexas.edu/) click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | | MIS 301, MIS 301H | |
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | |
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | MIS 325 |
Microsoft SQL Server Express Management Studio
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | MIS 333K |
Microsoft Visual Studio Pro
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | MIS 304, MIS 333K |
Oracle 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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | MSBA Program | ||||
Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Brief description. . .
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | |
Oracle SQL Developer 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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 325 | |
Palisade Decision Tools for Excel 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. It is a commercial product from Palisade Corporation. The McCombs School of Business has negotiated a number of licenses for student use. You will need to install Microsoft Office (free Office 365 subscription) first if you are installing Decision Tools on your computer - https://office365.austin.utexas.edu/ click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Putty Telnet
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 373 | |
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | STA 309, MSBA Program |
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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | | STA 309, MIS 373, MSBA Program |
SAP GUI
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACC 380K.13 | ||
SAS SAS is software. . .
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | East Only | Yes | Yes | STA 371, MSBA Program | |
Simio
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | OM 337.2, OM 386 | ||
Stata Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package
click here to go to the software page for this application. | ||||||
Tableau Tableau Public is an open source data visualization application. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | | MSBA Program | |||
Team Mate | Yes | Yes | ||||
TortiseSVN TortoiseSVN is a Windows Subversion client used to check in and check out software code from an Apache Subversion based software code repository. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | |||||
VMWare Player/Fusion VMWare Player is software that will allow you to run virtual machines in your won computer.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | MIS 373 | |||
Weka Weka is an open source Java based collection of machine learning algorithms for solving data mining problems. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | MSBA Program | ||||
Wolfram CDF Player Wolfram CDF Player allows you to view documents in the interactive Computable Document Format (CDF).
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | |||||
XL Miner for Excel
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 301H, MIS 382 |
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