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Use Microsoft Company Portal to install approved Windows software on SIUC-owned computers. Note: These instructions do not apply to computers owned by SIU School of Medicine.

Install Software

Open Company Portal:
1. Type Apps: Company Portal in the Windows Search bar.
2. Click the Company Portal app.
Browse Software:
1. Click the Apps tab.
2. Select a Sort by option like Name ascending or Newest.
Search Software:
1. Enter a software name (like Adobe Acrobat) or a publisher name (like Adobe) in the search bar.
2. Press the Enter key.
Install Software:
1. Select a software tile.
2. Click the Install button.
Re-install/Upgrade Software:
If another version of the software is (or was) already installed:
1. Click the Uninstall button.
2. Wait for the uninstall to complete.
3. Click the Reinstall button.
Open Software:
Upon successful installation:
1. Type the software name (like Adobe Acrobat) in the Windows Search bar.
2. Click the software app.

Software Library

7-Zip
Igor Pavlov
“7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.”

Instructions:
Install 7-Zip
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe
“Adobe Acrobat Pro is a PDF solution with advanced tools for editing, converting, protecting, and signing documents.”

Instructions:
1. Install Adobe Acrobat
2. Sign into Adobe Acrobat (Activate Acrobat Pro)
Adobe Captivate (Purchase Required)
Adobe
“Adobe Captivate is an easy-to-use, new generation pathbreaking eLearning software, designed for speed, creativity and scale.”

Instructions:
1. Buy Adobe Captivate
2. Install Adobe Captivate
3. Sign into Adobe Captivate
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe
“Adobe Creative Cloud helps you bring your creative projects to life in photography, graphic design, video editing, UX design, drawing and painting, social media, and more.”

Instructions:
1. Install Adobe Creative Cloud
2. Sign into Adobe Creative Cloud
Amazon Corretto 21
Amazon
“Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK).”

Instructions:
Install Amazon Corretto 21
Anaconda Distribution
Anaconda
“Anaconda Distribution is a Python/R data science distribution.”

Instructions:
Install Anaconda Distribution
ArcGIS CityEngine
Esri
“ArcGIS CityEngine is a procedural 3D city generator for creating and iterating on urban environments and scenarios using either synthetic or real-world geographic information system (GIS) data. “

Instructions:
1. Install ArcGIS CityEngine
2. Sign into ArcGIS CityEngine
ArcGIS Drone2Map (Academic Use)
Esri
“ArcGIS Drone2Map is the desktop app for your drone mapping needs. Use any modern drone to capture high-resolution imagery where and when you need it. Immediately after the flight in the field, process images on your laptop and perform drone analytics on your natural-color, thermal infrared, or multispectral datasets.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install ArcGIS Drone2Map (Academic Use)
2. Sign into ArcGIS Drone2Map
ArcGIS Drone2Map (Non-Academic Use)
Esri
“ArcGIS Drone2Map is the desktop app for your drone mapping needs. Use any modern drone to capture high-resolution imagery where and when you need it. Immediately after the flight in the field, process images on your laptop and perform drone analytics on your natural-color, thermal infrared, or multispectral datasets.”

This software is licensed for non-academic use:
* Academic Administration
* Administrative Use
* Auxiliary Use
* Institutional Research

Instructions:
1. Install ArcGIS Drone2Map (Non-Academic Use)
2. Sign into ArcGIS Drone2Map
ArcGIS for AutoCAD
Esri
“ArcGIS for AutoCAD is the Esri plug-in application to Autodesk AutoCAD that allows you to create and edit ArcGIS data using AutoCAD and to discover and use maps and data provided through ArcGIS web services.”

Instructions:
* Install ArcGIS for AutoCAD
ArcGIS Pro (Academic Use)
Esri
“ArcGIS Pro is desktop geographic information system (GIS) software for advanced mapping, analytics, and data management.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install ArcGIS Pro (Academic Use)
2. Sign into ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Pro (Non-Academic Use)
Esri
“ArcGIS Pro is desktop geographic information system (GIS) software for advanced mapping, analytics, and data management.”

This software is licensed for non-academic use:
* Academic Administration
* Administrative Use
* Auxiliary Use
* Institutional Research

Instructions:
1. Install ArcGIS Pro (Non-Academic Use)
2. Sign into ArcGIS Pro
Audacity
Audacity Team
“Audacity is the world’s most popular free software for recording and editing audio.”

Instructions:
Install Audacity
Autodesk 3ds Max (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“3D modeling, animation, and rendering software for games and design visualization.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk 3ds Max (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk Access
Autodesk
“Autodesk Access simplifies the update experience. Quickly and easily install updates for your desktop products from the app.”

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk Access
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk AutoCAD (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“Software for 2D and 3D CAD. Subscription includes AutoCAD, specialized toolsets, and apps.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk AutoCAD (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk Civil 3D (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“Civil engineering design and construction documentation.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk Civil 3D (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk Fusion (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“Cloud-based product design software for manufacturing, 3D modeling, electronics, simulation, and data management.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk Fusion (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk Inventor Pro (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“Powerful product design and engineering tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, visualization and documentation.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk Inventor Pro (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk Maya (Academic Use):
Autodesk
“3D animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software for film, games, and TV.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk Maya (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk MotionBuilder (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“3D character animation software.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk MotionBuilder (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk Mudbox (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“Digital painting and sculpting software.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk Mudbox (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk ReCap Pro (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“Reality capture and 3D scanning software and services.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk ReCap Pro (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Autodesk Revit (Academic Use)
Autodesk
“Plan, design, construct, and manage buildings with powerful tools for Building Information Modeling.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install Autodesk Revit (Academic Use)
2. Sign up for Autodesk educational access
Blender
Blender Foundation
“Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game asset creation.”

Instructions:
Install Blender
Cyberduck
iterate
“Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.”

Instructions:
Install Cyberduck
Distance
University of St Andrews
“The Distance project provides free software for the design and analysis of distance sampling surveys of wildlife populations.”

Instructions:
Install Distance
EndNote
Clarivate Analytics
“A reference manager to help you better discover, organize, manage, cite, write, and share.”

Instructions:
Install EndNote
Entrust Certificate Agent
Entrust Corporation
“This thin agent allows organizations to use a single digital identity seamlessly to add security capabilities beyond authentication to applications such as email or file encryption on either Windows or Apple MacOS.”

Instructions:
Install Entrust Certificate Agent
Epic Games Launcher
Epic Games
“A downloadable app that supports purchasing, downloading and playing games developed with Unreal Engine, and is available across a wide range of platforms. The launcher also gives you access to professional game-development tools, free training videos and courses, and many other resources.”

Instructions:
Install Epic Games Launcher
ERDAS IMAGINE (Purchase Required)
Hexagon
“Save time and money, leverage existing data investments and improve image analysis capabilities with ERDAS IMAGINE. Available in four product tiers, it provides true value, consolidating remote sensing, photogrammetry, LiDAR analysis, basic vector analysis and radar processing in a single product.”

Instructions:
1. Buy ERDAS IMAGINE
2. Install ERDAS IMAGINE
FileZilla
Tim Kosse
“FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.”

Instructions:
Install FileZilla
Firefox
Mozilla
“Firefox is the fast, lightweight, privacy-focused browser that works across all your devices.”

Instructions:
Install Firefox
Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR)
Mozilla
“Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) is an official version of Firefox developed for large organizations like universities and businesses…. Firefox ESR does not come with the latest features, but it has the latest security and stability fixes.”

Instructions:
Install Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR)
GIMP
GIMP Team
“GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.”

Instructions:
Install GIMP
Git
Git Development Community
“Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git users and novices alike.”

Instructions:
Install Git
GitHub CLI
GitHub
“GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal.”

Instructions:
Install GitHub CLI
GitHub Desktop
GitHub
“Whether you’re new to Git or a seasoned user, GitHub Desktop simplifies your development workflow.”

Instructions:
Install GitHub Desktop
Golden (Purchase Required)
Benthic Software
“Golden is a query tool for Oracle databases. It includes advanced query abilities, data editing, and powerful import and export abilities.”

Instructions:
1. Buy Golden
2. Install Golden 8 OR Install Golden 7
Google Chrome
Google
“Chrome is the official web browser from Google, built to be fast, secure, and customizable.”

Instructions:
Install Google Chrome
Google Earth Pro
Google
“Google Earth Pro on desktop is available for users with advanced feature needs. Import and export GIS data, and go back in time with historical imagery.”

Instructions:
Install Google Earth Pro
GraphPad Prism (Purchase Required)
GraphPad Software
“Prism is a purpose-built analysis and graphing solution for scientific research, with an extensive library of analyses and one-click regression.”

Instructions:
1. Buy GraphPad Prism
2. Install GraphPad Prism
HandBrake
HandBrake Team
“HandBrake is a open-source tool, built by volunteers, for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.”

Instructions:
Install HandBrake
iClicker Cloud
Macmillan Learning
“iClicker is more than a polling platform. It’s a tool for student engagement that helps you guide and assess learning.”

Instructions:
Install iClicker Cloud
Inkscape
Inkscape
“Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and macOS. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting.”

Instructions:
Install Inkscape
IntelliJ IDEA
JetBrains
“IntelliJ IDEA is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for professional development in Java and Kotlin.”

Instructions:
Install IntelliJ IDEA
IrfanView
Irfan Skiljan
“IrfanView is a fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows… It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.”

Instructions:
Install IrfanView
JabRef
JabRef
“JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform citation and reference management tool.”

Instructions:
Install JabRef
JAGS
JAGS
“JAGS is Just Another Gibbs Sampler. It is a program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation not wholly unlike BUGS.”

Instructions:
Install JAGS
jamovi
jamovi Project
“jamovi is a free and open statistics package, which is easy to use, and designed to be familiar to users of SPSS.”

Instructions:
Install jamovi
JASP
Universiteit van Amsterdam
“JASP is a cross-platform software that allows you to conduct statistical analyses in seconds, and without having to learn programming or risking a programming mistake. It aims to be a complete statistical package for both Bayesian and Frequentist statistical methods, that is easy to use and familiar to users of SPSS.”

Instructions:
Install JASP
Java for Administrative Information Systems (AIS)
Oracle
Java Plug-in software is required to access the Administrative Information Systems (AIS) applications. After installation, enable Java content for browser and web start applications.

Instructions:
1. Install Java for Administrative Information Systems (AIS)
2. Configure Java Web Start
JMP Student Edition (Academic Use)
JMP Statistical Discovery LLC
“Predictive analytics software for scientists and engineers. JMP Student Edition includes all features available in JMP and JMP Pro.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install JMP Student Edition (Academic Use)
2. Sign into JMP Student Edition
Julia
Julia Language
“Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing.”

Instructions:
Install Julia
Krita
Krita Foundation
“Krita is a sketching and painting program designed for digital artists.”

Instructions:
Install Krita
MarcEdit
Terry Reese
“MarcEdit presently includes a very rich feature set targeted at making metadata translation and editing easier for both the beginner and advanced users.”

Instructions:
Install MarcEdit
Mathematica (Academic Use)
Wolfram Research
“For over three decades, Mathematica has defined the state of the art in technical computing—and provided the principal computation environment for millions of innovators, educators, students and others around the world.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Request Mathematica
2. Install Mathematica
3. Activate Mathematica
MATLAB (Academic Use)
MathWorks
“MATLAB is a programming and numeric computing platform for engineering and scientific applications like data analysis, signal and image processing, control systems, wireless communications, and robotics. MATLAB is also the foundation for Simulink, a block diagram environment for simulating complex multi-domain systems.”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
1. Install MATLAB
2. Sign In/Activate MATLAB
Mendeley Desktop
Mendeley
“The free all-in-one reference manager. Mendeley helps you stay organized, do more in less time, and bring ease to your research workflow.”

Instructions:
Install Mendeley Desktop
Mendeley Reference Manager
Mendeley
“The free all-in-one reference manager. Mendeley helps you stay organized, do more in less time, and bring ease to your research workflow.”

Instructions:
Install Mendeley Reference Manager
MGLTools (Academic Use)
The Scripps Research Institute
“visualization and analysis of molecular structures”

This software is licensed for non-commercial academic use:
* Academic Research
* Teaching and Learning

Instructions:
Install MGLTools
Microsoft 365 Apps (Office 365)
Microsoft
“Office is now Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 is your powerful cloud-based productivity platform that includes apps such as Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneDrive, as well as intelligent cloud services and advanced security.”

Instructions:
1. Install Microsoft 365 Apps (Microsoft Office)
2. Sign into Microsoft 365 Apps (Microsoft Office)
Microsoft MPI
Microsoft
“Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI) is a Microsoft implementation of the Message Passing Interface standard for developing and running parallel applications on the Windows platform.”

Instructions:
Install Microsoft MPI
Microsoft Project Pro for Office 365 (Purchase Required)
Microsoft
“Task and Project Management: Manage all your work in a single, intelligent planning solution to stay on track and achieve more.”

Instructions:
1. Buy Microsoft Project Pro for Office 365
2. Install Microsoft Project Pro for Office 365
3. Sign into Microsoft 365 Apps (Microsoft Office)
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft
“Video Conferencing, Meetings, Calling: Microsoft Teams is the ultimate messaging app for your organization—a workspace for real-time collaboration and communication, meetings, file and app sharing, and even the occasional emoji!”

Instructions:
Install Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Visio Pro for Office 365 (Purchase Required)
Microsoft
“Diagramming and Flowcharts: Transform the way you use and visualize data to bring your best ideas to life.”

Instructions:
1. Buy Microsoft Visio Pro for Office 365
2. Install Microsoft Visio Pro for Office 365
3. Sign into Microsoft 365 Apps (Microsoft Office)
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft
“Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a free, powerful, lightweight code editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. Based on open source, it is highly customizable with over 25,000 extensions, for every developer and every programming language.”

Instructions:
Install Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft Visual Studio Community (Academic Use)
Microsoft
“A fully-featured, extensible, free IDE for creating modern applications for Android, iOS, Windows, as well as web applications and cloud services.”

Instructions:
Install Microsoft Visual Studio Community
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional (Purchase Required)
Microsoft
“Professional developer tools and services for individual developers or small teams.”

Instructions:
Install Microsoft Visual Studio Professional

Troubleshoot Company Portal

Check Free Disk Space
  • Verify the C: drive has at least 10 GB of free disk space.
  • If prompted during installation, free up additional disk space.
Check Windows Version
  • Verify the Windows version is supported:
    • Windows 11, Version 21H2 or newer
    • Windows 10, Version 22H2 only
Close Blocking Applications
  • If prompted during installation, close any open applications that are blocking installation.
Install Company Portal

If the Company Portal app is not installed:

  1. Copy and paste this link to your web browser:
    ms-windows-store://pdp/?ProductId=9wzdncrfj3pz
  2. In the Microsoft Store app, click the Get or Install button.
  3. Upon installation, click the Open button.
Restart Computer
  1. Restart the computer to clear pending restarts and sign out disconnected users.
  2. Sign in the computer again and return to Company Portal to retry the installation.
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