Course Software - Software By Category

The following software is specifically used in particular IROM undergraduate courses.

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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.

  • Where Available: Mod Lab, Student Computer
  • Source: http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads/download-components/download-products.html?productID=F6mO278Rvo
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MIS 373
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
  • Installation Help: This VM requires virtualization software such as VMWare Player or Fusion. Please see VMWare Player and Fusion for information about obtaining this software.
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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.
  

  • Where Available: Mod Lab,Student Computer
  • Source:www.eclipse.org/downloads
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MIS 373
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
  • Online Training: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=Eclipse
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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.

  • Where Available: Mod Lab Student Computer, RPC
  • Source:www.enthought.com/products/epd.php
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MIS 373
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
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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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  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.

  • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, NRG

  • 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/)

  • Course: MIS 301, MIS 301H
  • Platform: Windows
  • Online Training: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=Microsoft+Access
    
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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 —

  • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, NRG
  • Source: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8961
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MIS 333K
  • Platform: Windows Only
  • Online Training: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=Microsoft+SQL+Server+Express
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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 (JDK) — Brief description. . .

  • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, PhD Server, Student Computer
  • Source:www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MS Business Analytics Courses
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
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  Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) — Brief description. . .

  • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, PhD Server, Student Computer, RPC
  • Source:https://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MIS 373, MS Business Analytics courses
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
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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.

  • Where Available: Mod Lab, Student Computer, NRG
  • Source:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/index.html
  • Cost: Free for academic and research use
  • Course: MIS 325, MS Business Analytics courses
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
  • Installation Help: Installing Java Development Kit and Oracle SQL Developer
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  Putty Telnet —

  • Where Available: Mod Lab, Phd Lab, Student Computer, RPC
  • Source: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MIS 373
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
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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.

  • Where Available: PhD Server, Student Computer, RPC
  • Source:http://www.rstudio.com
  • Cost: Free
  • Course: MS Business Analytics courses, MIS 373
  • Platform: Windows, Mac
  • Online Training: http://www.lynda.com/search?q=RStudio
    • An interactive tutorial on basic to advanced R features is also 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