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Am I eligible to purchase software for personal use at a discount?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions, Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software on May 7, 2012
Tufts University has a contract with Kivuto to distribute software covered under Employee purchase programs via their web store at http://tufts.onthehub.com. Eligibility: Full-Time Faculty, Staff and Students Software is available from many vendors, including: Microsoft, Adobe, Parallels, National Instruments, Minitab, IBM, JMP, Systat, iGrafx, SigmaFlow, Quark, Trend Micro, Thomson Reuters, Inspiration, Columbia University, Student Backup, StatSoft, and [...]
Can I get assistance with my personally owned computer?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Desktop Support, Frequently Asked Questions, Service Catalog on April 30, 2012
For Faculty, Staff, and Students at the Medical school, you can receive assistance with your personal computer by bringing it to the HHSL-ITS Service Desk on the 5th floor of the Hirsh Health Sciences Library in the Sackler Building at 145 Harrison Avenue. For more information, please visit their Computer Help Page.
How do I access Peoplesoft Financial Reports from off-campus?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Desktop Computing & Printing, Desktop Support, Frequently Asked Questions, Service Catalog on April 17, 2012
This is a common question we receive from Department Managers or department accountants who need access to Peoplesoft Financials from 0ff-campus. To access Peoplesoft Financials from off-campus, you will first need to connect to Tufts using the Tufts VPN. Once connected with the vpn, open up Internet Explorer from a Windows computer and navigate [...]
How do I securely destroy digital media that contains sensitive information?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions, Security, Sensitive Information, Service Catalog on March 10, 2012
Tufts University has an agreement with Cintas, a Document Management company that offers mobile media shredding services. If you have sensitive information that you would like to destroy on digital media such as floppy disks, zip disk, CDs, DVDs, or Hard Disks, please contact the Office of Information Technology. Cintas offers secure shredding onsite shredding [...]
IBM SPSS Statistics
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Service Catalog, Software on April 8, 2011
SPSS is an industry-standard statistical processing package that is used at Tufts University. The package offers extensive statistical graphics and data mining capabilities. Alternatives to SPSS include SAS, STATA, and R. Tufts has entered into a site licensing agreement with SPSS that covers the three most widely used modules of the SPSS software family. Base – [...]