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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 not easily installable by students due to technical or licensing reasons are made available through mCloud Apps. Applications that are used during classes or exams held in the Mod Lab are installed there.
For a non-tabular list of all software with details please see the Software Details page.
Application | | Student Computers | | mCloud | | Mod Lab | | PhD Lab | PhD Server | | Required By Course or Program |
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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. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Win/Mac Equivalent | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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ACL Desktop Edition ACL Desktop is a data analysis application used in auditing. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Windows Only | | Not Yet | | Yes | | Yes | | | ACC 358C, ACC 380K.4 |
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Adobe Flash Player | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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Adobe Reader | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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Adobe Shockwave Player | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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Apple Quicktime | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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Arena Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' No link could be created for 'MSBTech:Arena'. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | | | Not Yet | | Yes | | Yes | | | OM 337.2 |
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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. | | Win/Mac | | | | | | | | | MIS 373 |
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Cisco Packet Tracer | | | | Not Yet | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 373 |
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Cloudera QuickStart VM | | | | | | Yes | | | | | MIS 373 |
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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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 373 |
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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. | | Win/Mac | | Not Yet | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 373 |
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FileZilla | | Win/Mac Equivalent | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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GAMS | | | | Not Yet | | | | | | | |
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Git | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 373 |
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IDEA | | | | Not Yet | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 373 |
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Oracle Java Development Kit | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | MSBA Program |
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MathWorks 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
click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | | | | FIN 372, RM 376, MIS 381 N, MSBA Program |
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Microsoft Office Pro (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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Microsoft Office Pro (Access) | | Windows Only | | Yes | | Yes | | | | | MIS301, MIS301H |
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Microsoft Office Project Pro | | Windows Only | | Yes | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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Microsoft Office Visio Premium | | Windows Only | | Yes | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 325 |
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Microsoft SQL Server Express Management Studio | | Windows Only | | Yes | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 333K |
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Microsoft Visual Studio Pro | | Win/Mac | | Yes | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 333K |
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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. | | Win/Mac | | | | | | | | | MSBA Program |
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Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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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. | | Win/Mac | | Yes | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 325 |
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Palisade Decision Tools for Excel Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' No link could be created for 'MSBTech:Decision Tools'. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Windows Only | | Yes | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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Putty Telnet | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 373 |
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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
click here to go to the software page for this application.
| | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | Yes | | MSBA Program |
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Rstudio | | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 373 |
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SAP GUI | | | | Not Yet | | Yes | | Yes | | | ACC 380K.13 |
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SAS | | Windows Only | | | | East Only | | Yes | Yes | | STA 371, MSBA Program |
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Simio | | | | | | Yes | | | | | OM 337.2 |
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Solver Pro for Excel | | Windows Only | | Not Yet? | | Yes | | | | | |
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Stata | | | | | | | | | Yes | | |
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Stat-Transfer | | | | | | | | | Yes | | |
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Tableau Tableau Public is an open source data visualization application. click here to go to the software page for this application. | | Win/Mac | | | | | | | | | |
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Team Mate | | | | Not Yet | | Yes | | Yes | | | |
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TortiseSVN 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
click here to go to the software page for this application.
| | Win/Mac Equivalent | | | | | | | | | |
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VMWare Player/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.
click here to go to the software page for this application.
| | Win/Mac | | | | Yes | | | | | MIS 373 |
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Weka | | Win/Mac | | | | | | | | | MSBA Program |
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WHF Stat for Excel | | | | Yes | | Yes | | Yes | | | STA 309, STA 309H |
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Wolfram CDF Player | | Win/Mac | | | | | | | | | |
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XL Miner for Excel | | | | | | Yes | | Yes | | | MIS 301H, MIS 382 |
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- Win/Mac = software is available for both Windows and Mac
- Win/Mac Equivalent = specific software is available for Windows only but a Mac equivalent exists
- Win Only = software is available for Windows only; no Mac version exists