Software

The Data Processing Centre provides users with individually usable software in the central software portal at special university conditions during their university membership. In the software portal, the products can be ordered and downloaded directly from the existing catalogue. The license terms for the respective products must be explicitly acknowledged. For most software products, the Data Processing Centre has concluded special framework agreements for free use through campus licenses.

There are framework agreements with several manufacturers:

-        Adobe: ETLA contract Acrobat Professional subscription agreement (campus license only for university PCs, e.g. PCs in pool rooms)

-        Citavi literature administration (campus license)

-        IBM: SPSS statistics software (campus license)

-        Maple (campus license)

-        MATLAB (campus license)

-        Microsoft with the following components:

• Microsoft Windows and Office (campus license for university PCs only)
• Office 365 (campus license), also for use on personal devices
• “Azure Dev Tools for Teaching”

-      Sophos Antivirus “Home Commercial Edition” (campus license)

-        Thomas Reuters: Endnote literature administration (campus license)

-        Tweedback (campus license)

For information about the individual software products, please refer to the respective product description in the software portal. Support is provided by the university’s IT ServiceDesk, unless otherwise specified in the product descriptions.