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Maple for All Platforms

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Maple combines a powerful math engine with an interface that makes it easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems. Learn more.

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Licensing

Maple is licensed for use by current MIT faculty, staff, and students only for educational and academic research on either MIT-owned or on personally-owned computers.
Note: Licenses are not available to Lincoln Lab under MIT's contract with Maplesoft.

Fetch

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Fetch is a Mac application used to transfer files across a network using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and/or SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol). Fetch allows you to drag-and-drop files and folders between two servers or a server and your Mac and ensures that edits of any kind of file are automatically saved back to the server. Learn more.

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Licensing

Fetch 5.8 is available for use on Macs by MIT faculty, staff, and students.

BrioQuery 6.6 for Windows

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BrioQuery is the query tool most often used at MIT to retrieve data from the Data Warehouse. It lets you store and run multiple queries in one file, access queries from different databases, create reports, and display and print data in tables. 

Note: If you are not currently using BrioQuery, IS&T recommends that you instead use Cognos. If you are currently using BrioQuery, you may keep using it. However, be aware that Oracle no longer supports this technology.

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Actual ODBC Driver for Oracle

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Actual Technologies ODBC drivers allows Mac OS X users connect to enterprise databases using common desktop applications such as Microsoft Excel and FileMaker Pro. 

Create pivot tables, charts, and graphs from an Excel database via Microsoft's built-in support for ODBC queries. ODBC drivers support the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), making it easy to configure a cloud-based Oracle database.

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