This page contains links to Brown University licensed software and sources for commonly used applications. By selecting the product title, you will be linked to instructions on how to obtain the software. All Brown University licensed software products will require that you authenticate with your Brown username and password prior to permitting access to the software.

Several products are controlled by the KeyServer. You must have KeyAccess installed and be connected to the Brown University campus KeyServer to install and run these products.

Although not controlled by KeyServer, any product title having this "license managed" notation is controlled by a network license manager. You must be connected to the Brown network to use license managed software.

Windows Software   (click on column heading to sort)
Product (click item for instructions)	Released	Description	Restrictions	Type
7-Zip	see vendor	Archiving utility for zipping and unzipping files.  7-Zip	Free	Compression
Access	2011.02.14	Database software. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
Acrobat Pro 9.5.4	2013.03.12	Create, edit, view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	PDF
Acrobat Pro 10.1.6	2013.03.12	Create, edit, view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	PDF
Acrobat Force Reader Tool	2004.09.29	Makes Adobe Acrobat reader the default application for opening PDF files.  Brown University	All Brown users	PDF
Acrobat Reader	see vendor	View and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Adobe	Free	PDF
Adobe CS 5.5 Design Premium	2012.05.15	Adobe's suite of applications for design and publication. Applications include Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Publication
ArcGIS 10	2011.10.25	Suite of Geographic Information System software products.  ESRI	All Brown users, on campus only	GIS
ChemBioDraw Ultra	see vendor	Chemical structural drawing application.  CambridgeSoft	All Brown users	Visualization
Contribute CS5	2011.02.07	Adobe's web content manager and web editing application.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Web tool
Dreamweaver	2012.02.01	WYSIWYG web authoring software. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Web tool
EndNote X5	2011.09.19	Bibliography software.  Thomson Reuters	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Bibliographic
Excel	2011.02.14	Spreadsheet software. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
Excel Viewer	2008.05.08	A tool to view Microsoft Excel spreadsheets created in Excel 97 or later.  Microsoft	Free	Office ViewerMSCA
FileMaker Pro	2009.08.05	Database development and management application.  FileMaker Inc.	All Brown users	Database
FileMaker Pro 10v3 Advanced	2009.08.05	Database development and management application with tools for advanced development and customization.  FileMaker Inc.	All Brown users	Database
Firefox	see vendor	Web browser.  Mozilla Foundation	Free	Web browser
Fireworks	2012.02.01	Fireworks is a graphic image development tool that is part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN, educational use only	Graphics
Flash	2012.02.01	Flash is a multimedia development tool. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Web tool
Flash Player	see vendor	Browser plugin for playing flash content.  Adobe	Free	Media player
Forefront Endpoint Protection	2011.12.07	Malware detection and eradication tool.  Microsoft	Brown faculty and staff	AntiVirus
Foxit Reader	see vendor	View and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Foxit Software	Free	PDF
Identity Finder	see vendor	Detects and secures sensitive data on your computer.  Identity Finder, LLC	Brown faculty and staff	Security
Illustrator	2012.02.01	For creation of vector graphics. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Graphics
InDesign	2012.02.01	Page layout and publication software. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Publication
InstallShield Update	see vendor	Performs an InstallShield update and repairs errors with some installers.  InstallShield	Free	Install
Internet Explorer 8 Block/Unblock Tool	2009.04.20	Enables or disables Windows Updates from automatically installing Internet Explorer version 8.  Brown University	All Brown users	Security
iTunes	see vendor	Music management and player.  Apple	Free	Media player
Java Client	see vendor	To run web applications and applets that use Java technology.  Sun Microsystems	Free	Web plug-in
Kaleidagraph 4.0	2008.01.03	Data analysis, graphing and plotting software.  Synergy Software	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Visualization
KEDIT 1.6	2008.04.22	Text editor.  Mansfield Software Group	All Brown users	Text editor
KeyAccess 7.0.1.3	2013.03.12	For accessing software managed by KeyServer.  Sassafras Software	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Software access
Logger Pro 3.7	2009.09.15	Data collection tool for science and math education.  Vernier	All Brown users	Computational
Maple 16	2012.06.27	Mathematical problem solving software.  Maplesoft	All Brown users, on campus	Computational
Mathematica 8	2012.03.14	System for symbolic algebra and numerical computation.  Wolfram Research, Inc.	Faculty, Staff, clusters, home use	Computational
MatLab	2010.11.09	Mathematical computation, analysis, visualization, and algorithm development.  The MathWorks	All Brown users, on campus/VPN, home use	Computational
Microsoft Developer Tools	see vendor	Tools for web, database, and Windows development including Visual C++ and SQL Server features.  Microsoft	Free	Developer toolsMSCA
Microsoft Security Essentials	2011.09.01	AntiVirus client for Windows XP and later.  Microsoft	All Brown users	AntiVirus
NAG ASLI Software Suite	2011.02.08	NAG math programming libraries.  NAG	All Brown users, on campus only	Programming
NVivo 10	2012.11.02	Qualitative data analysis software.  QSR International	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Computational
Office	2011.02.14	Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications that includes Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Word.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
Office Compatibility Pack	2006.11.29	Allows users of Office 2003 to open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office 2007.  Microsoft	Free	Office Add-in MSAll
OpenOffice	see vendor	Sun Microsystem's suite of open source office productivity applications.  Sun Microsystems	Free	Office suite
Opera	see vendor	Opera Web browser.  Opera Software	Free	Web browser
Outlook	2011.02.14	Email client. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
PCTeX 6	2009.07.28	A TeX and LaTeX system for professional typesetting of technical documents.  Personal TeX, Inc.	All Brown users	Publication
Photoshop	2012.02.01	Image editing software. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Graphics
PowerPoint	2011.02.14	Presentation software. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
PowerPoint 2007 Viewer	2007.05.01	A tool to view PowerPoint presentations created in PowerPoint 97 or later.  Microsoft	Free	Office ViewerMSCA
PuTTY SSH client	see vendor	Secure terminal connection using SSH (Secure SHell).  Simon Tatham	Free	SSH
QuickTime player	see vendor	Multimedia player.  Apple	Free	Media player
RealPlayer	see vendor	Multimedia player.  Real	Free	Media player
Remedy ARS Client 7.5	2010.10.28	Action Request System trouble tracking and reporting client.  BMC Software	All Brown users	Help Desk
Respondus 4.0.5	2012.08.27	Exam creation tool.  Respondus, Inc.	Brown Faculty and Staff	Education
SAS 9.3.4	2012.09.11	Data and statistical analysis.  SAS	All Brown users	Computational
SecureW2	2012.07.17	EAP-TTLS wireless access client for Windows XP/7.  SecureW2	All Brown users	Connectivity
Shockwave player	see vendor	Browser plugin for playing shockwave content.  Adobe	Free	Media player
Sibelius 7.0	2013.02.18	Music notation and composition software.  Sibelius	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Music
Sigmaplot 12	2013.02.18	Data analysis and visualization.  Systat	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Visualization
S-Plus 8	2007.09.13	Data and statistical analysis.  Tibco	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Computational
SPSS 20	2012.03.21	Data and statistical analysis.  SPSS	Faculty, Staff, clusters, on campus only	Computational
Spybot Search & Destroy	see vendor	Spyware removal tool.  PepiMK Software	Free	Security
Stata SE 12.0	2012.07.10	Data analysis, plotting and 3-D visualization.  StataCorp	All Brown users, on campus/VPN Educational use only	Computational
Tecplot 2012	2012.05.30	Data analysis, plotting and 3-D visualization.  Tecplot, Inc.	All Brown users	Visualization
Virtual PC	see vendor	Makes multiple Windows operating systems available on one computer.  Microsoft	All Brown users	Virtualization
Virtual Private Network (VPN) Client	2011.08.17	Permits Brown University off-campus and wireless users secure access to Brown network services.  F5	All Brown users	Connectivity
Visual Studio Pro 2008	2008.04.09	Suite of Microsoft developer applications including Visual C, Visual C++, Visual J and Visual Basic. Microsoft	Brown faculty and staff (MSCA)	Programming MSCA
Windows Defender	see vendor	Protects Windows computers against pop-ups and security threats. Included with Vista.  Microsoft	Free	Security
WinSCP	see vendor	Secure file transfer using SSH (Secure SHell).  Martin Prikryl	Free	SSH
Word	2011.02.14	Word processing software. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
Word Viewer	2008.05.08	A tool to view Microsoft Word documents created in Word 2000 or later.  Microsoft	Free	Office ViewerMSCA
ZipGenius	see vendor	Archiving utility for zipping and unzipping files.  ZipGenius	Free	Compression

User guide

Clicking on a tab containing computing platform (Macintosh, Windows, UNIX) will load the software selections for the clicked platform. Clicking on a column heading will sort the table based on the clicked column.

Table Headings

• Product - the name of the product. Clicking on a product name within the table will bring you to a page providing instructions on how to obtain and install the product.
• Released - this is the date the product was released or last updated by CIS.
• Description - brief description of the product. The name of the product's author/vendor follows the description in small print.
• Restrictions - a summary of user and usage restrictions on the product.
  Products that are restricted to "on campus/VPN" require you to be connected either on campus or through Brown's VPN.
  Items labeled (EES) are restricted to Brown University paid Faculty and Staff.
• Type - a best fit categorization of the function of the product.