The summary of that work can be found here. QuestionPro did well in the comparison and we have ended up using even more features that we tested. A committee tested each of 141 key features on all four products. Before choosing QuestionPro, we evaluated it and Qualtrics, SurveyGizmo, and SurveyMonkey.Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).Commercial licenses often cost between $500 and $15,000. The only exceptions to this rule are federal agencies whose only purpose is to fund scientific research, such as NSF, NIH, and DOE. not free and open source) for the benefit of outside organizations, even non-profits or any government agency, requires a commercial license. That means it is free as long as you are using it for internal teaching and research.
Much of the software described below is centrally funded at UT. You may get support from colleagues, Internet discussion lists, vendor web pages or support lines, or from our consultants.įinally, cost is an important factor. You should ensure that the package you choose has support available at the level of depth, cost, and timeliness to meet your needs.
When using a complex software package, sooner or later you will have questions about how to get the most out of it.
Booting a Mac or Linux system directly into Windows usually guarantees full compatibility.
On the Mac, both VMware Fusion and Parallels usually run Windows software well. Any computer you use can run the software we make available on our Windows Terminal Server and our UNIX systems. However, many of the packages are either not available on Mac and Linux computers, or are available with a limited feature set. Due to the wide popularity of Microsoft Windows, all of the packages above are available for it. When you have a research problem to solve, you will, of course, want to find the software best suited to the problem itself and to your computing resources.Ī very important consideration in choosing software is the type of computer you prefer. However, it does require learning a way of working that is generally considered harder than using a desktop computer. ISAAC is UT’s most powerful system with thousands of processors. You can learn the simple steps to use this system by reading How to Use This server is free for students, faculty, and staff on the UT Knoxville campus. You can open and save files on your local disk drive and print to your local printer. Actually, the software runs on a powerful server, and it only displays an image of it on your computer. Our system lets you run software as if it was installed on your own computer or on a computer in the labs. See a list of software, hardware, and locations in OIT computer labs. The OIT computer labs have an extensive selection of software available on PCs and Macs and are open to students, faculty, and staff for free. Faculty can also reserve labs for class use from that web page. Additionally, once you have left the university, you are no longer licensed to use this software and it must be removed from your computer.
Access to the OIT Software Download site will end on your ‘Left UT’ date in the UT Directory. See a comprehensive listing of software available for departmental purchase or download through OIT. If you own a computer, you may prefer running software on it.
There are four ways you can use research software at UT: Licensed on your computer, in the OIT Computer Labs running on a PC or Mac computer, from our Windows Terminal Server called (), and on the High Performance and Scientific Computing clusters. Maple*, AutoCAD*, Mathematica*, ChemDraw* MATLAB*, NVivo*, R*, SPSS Graphics*, SAS/Graph*ĪTLAS.ti*, Origin*, SAS/IML Studio, SigmaPlot*, Stata* Qualtrics, QuestionPro, ESRI Survey123 and ESRI Collector