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IBM SPSS Statistics is an integrated family of products that addresses the entire analytical process, from planning to data collection to analysis, reporting, and deployment. It has more than a dozen fully-integrated modules to choose from.
Licensing
SPSS is licensed for educational use on MIT-owned machines only.
Tecplot 360 is numerical simulation and CFD visualization software that combines vital engineering plotting with advanced data visualization.
Licensing
Maple combines a powerful math engine with an interface that makes it easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems. Learn more.
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 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.
Licensing
Fetch 5.8 is available for use on Macs by MIT faculty, staff, and students.
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 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.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux speeds application delivery across physical, virtual, and cloud environments using lightweight, portable containers. It provides the flexibility to quickly adapt to business demands on a stable foundation known for its mission-critical reliability and military-grade security.
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Please note: Requests for 2025 will be accepted through December 21, 2025. Loaner requests submitted after this date will not be reviewed or processed over the MIT special holiday closing.
The MIT Hardware Service Center is now open at its new location in 56-129. A partnership with ComputerCare, the center is available to all MIT students, faculty, and staff.
MIT provides integrated email and calendaring to community members via Exchange Online.
