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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 | ||||||||
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 | Coming Soon | 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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
Arena
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click here to go to the software page for this application. | Coming Soon | Yes | Yes | OM 337.2 | |||||||
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. | Win/Mac | MIS 373 | |||||||||
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. | Coming Soon | 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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | Coming Soon | 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. | Win/Mac Equivalent | 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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Coming Soon | Yes | Yes | MIS 373 | |||||||
Oracle Java Development Kit
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Win/Mac | Yes | Yes | MSBA Program | |||||||
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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | 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.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Windows Only | 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. | Windows Only | 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. | Windows Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 325 | ||||||
Microsoft SQL Server Express Management Studio | Windows Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | MIS 333K | ||||||
Microsoft Visual Studio Pro
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Win/Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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. | Win/Mac | MSBA Program | |||||||||
Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Brief description. . .
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Windows Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
Putty Telnet
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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. | Win/Mac | Yes | Yes | MIS 373 | |||||||
SAP GUI
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Coming Soon | Yes | Yes | ACC 380K.13 | |||||||
SAS SAS is software. . .
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Windows Only | 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 | ||||||||
Solver Pro for Excel
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click here to go to the software page for this application. | Windows Only | Coming Soon | Yes | ||||||||
Stata Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Yes | ||||||||||
Tableau Tableau Public is an open source data visualization application.
click here to go to the software page for this application. | Win/Mac | ||||||||||
Team Mate | Coming Soon | 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. | Win/Mac Equivalent | ||||||||||
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. | Win/Mac | 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. | Win/Mac | MSBA Program | |||||||||
WHF Stat for Excel | Yes | Yes | Yes | STA 309, STA 309H | |||||||
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. | Win/Mac | ||||||||||
XL Miner for Excel | Yes | Yes | MIS 301H, MIS 382 |
- 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
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