If your work computer stores sensitive data and Information Technology has removed software installation access on it, you will need to follow these procedures when you require new software.
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Software
Consult this list regularly for the most up-to-date softwares available to students, staff and professors.
Request software for computers with sensitive data
List of available software
Name | Functionality | Technical support | Cost |
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Adobe Acrobat Pro (Faculty) | Create and edit PDF files | From vendor | Buy now |
Adobe Acrobat Pro (Staff) | Create and edit PDF files | From vendor | Buy now |
Antidote (Faculty and staff) | Bilingual writing tool | From vendor | Buy now |
AnyConnect (Faculty and staff) | VPN | Service Desk | Free Download |
ARC GIS (Students) | Mapping software and data | From vendor | Buy now |
ARC GIS (Faculty and staff) | Mapping software and data | From vendor | Buy now |
ChemDraw (Students, faculty and staff) | Chemical structures creator | From vendor | Free download |
Deep Freeze (Staff) | Protect computer settings and configurations | From vendor | Buy now |
LiquidFiles (Students, faculty and staff) | For emails with large attachments or an encryption requirement. | Service Desk | Free Go to LiquidFiles. Enter your uoAccess ID and password. |
Maple (Faculty) | Mathematics and modeling tool | From vendor | Buy now |
Maple (Staff) | Mathematics and modeling tool | From vendor | Buy now |
Mathematica (Faculty) | Computations application | From vendor | Buy now |
Mathematica (Staff) | Computations application | From vendor | Buy now |
Matlab & Matlab Toolbox (Faculty) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
Matlab & Matlab Toolbox (Staff) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
MS Calendar (Faculty and staff) | uOttawa statutory holiday in MS Calendar Note for Mac users: To import the file to Outlook, two-finger click (or control and click on the file) and select Outlook under the Open sub-menu. | Service Desk | Free Download for Windows Download for Mac |
Microsoft Defender (Faculty and staff) | Anti-virus (For University-owned computers) | Service Desk | Free Contact your IT representative or Service Desk |
Microsoft Office (Students) | Office Suite | Service Desk | Free Login to MS Office 365 |
Microsoft Office (Faculty and staff) | Office Suite | Service Desk | Free Consult our MS Office 365 website |
Microsoft Office (Former staff and clinicians) | Office Suite | Service Desk | MS Office for personal use |
Microsoft OneDrive (Students, faculty and staff) | Office Suite | From vendor | Free Download |
Microsoft Power BI Pro (Students, faculty and staff) | Business intelligence Details about Power BI | From vendor | Free Download |
Microsoft Project Pro (Faculty) | Project management | Service Desk | Buy now |
Microsoft Project Pro (Staff) | Project management | Service Desk | Buy now |
Microsoft Teams (Students, faculty and staff) | Office Suite | Service Desk | Free Download |
Microsoft Visio Professional (Faculty) | Diagramming Tool | From vendor | Buy now |
Microsoft Visio Professional (Staff) | Diagramming Tool | From vendor | Buy now |
Microsoft Visual Studio (Faculty) | Application Development Tools | From vendor | Buy now |
Microsoft Visual Studio (Staff) | Application Development Tools | From vendor | Buy now |
NI LabVIEW (Faculty) | Systems graphical programming environment | From vendor | Buy now |
NI LabVIEW (Staff) | Systems graphical programming environment | From vendor | Buy now |
NVivo (Students, faculty and staff) | Qualitative data analysis software package | From vendor | Free Download |
Telnet/SSH (Students, faculty and staff) | Putty Windows – style installer | From vendor | Free Download |
SAS (Faculty) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
SAS (Staff) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
SAS (Students) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
Sophos (Students, faculty and staff) | Anti-virus for personal use only | From vendor | Free Download |
SPSS (Faculty) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
SPSS (Staff) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
SPSS (Students) | Statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
Stata (Students) | Data analysis and statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
Stata (Faculty and staff) | Data analysis and statistical software | From vendor | Buy now |
SurveyMonkey (Students, faculty and staff) | Survey Tool | From vendor | Free Login information |