Software Standards

Licensed Products

Software
Software	Description
Microsoft Office Professional and Operating Systems	Detroit Mercy owns a fixed number of seats to cover all faculty and administrative user computers. The terms of this licensing agreement provide coverage for all Academic Computing Laboratories as well as a fixed number of clients for Microsoft Servers and Exchange Servers.
Inspire	The CIS and CS programs both own Inspire licenses that allow for students in CIS and CS classes to install various Microsoft products on personal (non-university owned) computers. Faculty members are required to submit class rosters to ITS at the start of the semester. Invitations are sent to students via email and all media may be downloaded from the Inspire site.
McAfee	Detroit Mercy owns a fixed number of licenses to cover all University owned computers. Detroit Mercy purchases a license for each student living in the McNichols campus residence halls.
SPSS	Detroit Mercy owns a 25 user site license for the McNichols campus.
Autodesk	Detroit Mercy makes available the Autodesk Suite of applications solely for academic purposes. Non-academic departments requiring Autodesk products must purchase a commercial license.
Nvivo	Detroit Mercy owns a six-seat site license.

For more information on University owned licenses please contact the AVP for IT.

Software by Vendor
Category	Product	Vendor
Productivity Suite - PC Based Computer	Microsoft Office	CDWG
Productivity Suite - Apple Based Computer	Microsoft Office	CDWG
Operating System - PC Based Computer	Microsoft Windows	CDWG
Operating System - Apple Based Computer	Macintosh OS	Apple
Virus Protection - PC Based Computers	McAfee Antivirus	CDW or SCW
Virus Protection - Apple Based Computers	McAfee Virex	CDW or SCW