Software Store Blog

Dell's Black Friday in July

VUMC employees have early access to Dell's Black Friday in July starting today.  Save up to $400 on laptops, desktops,and monitors.  The sale lasts through July 15.  Door buster deals start at 10 a.m. and include: July 3 $129.99 Inspiron 11 3000 ($199.99 value!) July 5 $499.99 Inspiron Desktop ($649.99 value!) Shop at www.dell.com/vumc.

MATLAB Anytime Anywhere

The VUMC Software Store offers a campus-wide license for MATLAB, Simulink, and companion products. The annual cost for the site license is spread equally across the departments that use the software.  VUMC IT will include the annual charge in its April 2019 billing. The site license includes:

Free cleaning and prepping tool for data analysis

Tableau Prep is a new tool for cleaning and preparing data for analysis.  Software Store customers who have an active Tableau Desktop subscription, or who are current on maintenance, may use Tableau Prep at no extra charge. See https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/prep/en-us/help.html#prep_get_started.html to view the Get Started with Tableau Prep online user manual.

Free Stata Webinars

StataCorp offers free, online webinars to Stata users. Current offerings include: November 28: Bayesian Analysis using Stata, Register December 12: Extended Regression Models using Stata, Register Sign up to receive alerts about future webinars at email alert.

Dell's December 14 Flash Sale

Dell is offering $129.99 laptops to VUMC employees for personal use during a 24 hour flash sale on Thursday, December 14. See us_cs_co_dir_fy18q4w6_em_FlashSale-MPP for details. Shop Online: www.Dell.com/VUMC.   

VUMC Software Store Scheduled Maintenance

Kivuto, the company that hosts the VUMC Software Store, is upgrading ELMS (the storefront platform) on December 12, 2017 beginning at 6:00 AM.  Kivuto expects to complete the maintenance within 3 hours.  During this time, Kivuto will place the store in “maintenance mode” and will display a message indicating the store is temporarily unavailable to customers.

Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule

The VUMC Software Store's customer service desk will be closed November 23 - November 24, 2017 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The online Software Store will be available throughout the holiday.