Free or Discounted Software
UMass Chan Information Technology helps faculty, students, and staff obtain free and low-cost software.
Software licensing rules are an important consideration:
- Restrictions may apply for ForHealth Consulting employees
- Software licensed by UMass Chan can only be installed on UMass Chan computers.
- Software licensed by UMMHC can only be installed on UMMHC computers.
If you are looking for a solution you don't see below, have questions or need to find out more information about software listed below, please email the UMass Chan Help Desk at umwhelpdesk@umassmed.edu or for area-specific needs please contact:
ForHealth Consulting: michael.lamson@umassmed.edu
Academics: abhi.yalamanchili@umassmed.edu
Research: Byron.Deane@umassmed.edu
Administration: scott.dziewietin@umassmed.edu
Software |
Description |
Savings |
Eligible |
ArcGIS for Windows |
Full-featured geographic information system (GIS) software |
Free | Faculty, Staff |
DocuSign |
The ability to complete contracts, approvals, and other agreements in minutes rather than days |
Free | Faculty, Staff, Students |
Dropbox |
File hosting service |
Free | Faculty in the research ecosystem |
Endnote |
A bibliographic management tool |
Free |
Faculty, Staff, Students |
Optimizely |
Content management system for websites |
Free |
Faculty, Staff, Students |
FileMaker Pro |
Create custom apps tailored to your specific needs; Macs only. |
Discounted |
Faculty, Staff |
Google Analytics |
web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic |
Free |
Faculty, Staff, Students |
GraphPad Prism |
Scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting, understandable statistics, and data organization |
Discounted |
Faculty, Students |
Kronos |
Time-keeping and workforce management solutions |
Discounted |
Staff |
LabArchives |
LabArchives® is a secure and intuitive cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) application enabling researchers to easily create, store, share and manage their research data. Far more than an “ELN”, LabArchives provides a flexible, extensible platform that can be easily customized to match your lab's workflow providing benefits to Principal Investigators, lab managers & staff, post-doctoral fellows and grad students. LabArchives supports collaboration and is a safe and secure environment to store all your important research notes, protocols, methodology, and data. |
Free |
Faculty, Staff, Students with a valid UMMS Chan email. |
MacVector and Stata |
Commercial sequence analysis application; obtain and manipulate data. Explore. Visualize. Model. Make inferences |
Discounted |
Faculty |
MatLab |
Multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language |
Discounted |
Faculty, Staff |
Mcafee |
Anti-virus software |
Free |
Faculty, Staff, Students |
Microsoft Office 365 |
Microsoft Office 365 communication suite |
Free |
Faculty, Staff (non-ForHealth Consulting), Students |
PowerBI |
Business analytics service by Microsoft |
Discounted |
Faculty, Staff, Students |
PyMol |
User-sponsored molecular visualization system on an open-source foundation |
Free |
Faculty |
Qualtrics |
A versatile, easy to use, and robust survey tool |
Free |
Faculty, Staff, Students |
Salesforce |
Cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform |
Discounted |
Faculty, Staff |
SAP Business Objects |
single, centralized platform for reporting and visualization |
Free |
Faculty, Staff, Students |
SAS |
Analytics software |
Free |
Faculty, Students, Staff |
Schrodinger Suite | World-class molecular modeling, drug design, and materials science software | Discounted | Faculty |
SharePoint Online (Modern Experience) | Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork | Free | Faculty, Staff, Students |
SiteImprove | provides insights to help you address issues impacting your site’s accessibility, SEO, content quality, brand compliance, data security | Free | Faculty, Staff, Students |
Software package used for interactive, or batched, statistical analysis | Discounted | Faculty, Staff, Students | |