Software Store Blog

The Software Store expects the following products to be released during August and September 2012: •Microsoft Windows 8 •Microsoft Windows Server 2012 •Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 •Thomson Reuters Endnote X6 •IBM SPSS 21 •Matlab R2012b Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 should become available during the second half of August.

The Software Store has upgraded Vanderbilt’s SPSS site license from Statistics Standard to Statistics Premium per request by SPSS users. Statistics Premium offers more advanced and comprehensive analytical capabilities. Statistics Standard includes SPSS Statistics Base, SPSS Advanced Statistics and SPSS Regression.

Apple has released OS X Mountain Lion. You can buy Mountain Lion now through the Vanderbilt Software Store under the Departments/More Software tab for $11.49. If you purchase through the Software Store (i.e. through Apple Volume Licensing), you can only install the OS on Vanderbilt owned Macs. Before you upgrade, make sure your Mac can run Mountain Lion and that it is running the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.8) or Lion (10.7.x).

The Vanderbilt community is eligible to save up to 10% on Hewlett Packard consumer products through the Hewlett Packard Academy Program. Vanderbilt students, instructors, faculty, administration, alumni, former students, and parents of students can participate in this program. Annual limits apply to discounted purchases.

Vanderbilt departments, students and employees can save up to 85% off the retail price for Adobe Creative Suite 6 through the Vanderbilt Software Store. Students and employees can buy personal use copies for home computers under the Students/Adobe SLP and Faculty/Staff/Adobe SLP tabs respectively: •Adobe CS6 Design & Web Premium: $374.60 •Adobe CS6 Design Standard: $218.60 •Adobe CS6 Master Collection: $634.60 •Adobe CS6 Production Premium: $367.60 •Adobe CS6 Dreamweaver: $135.60 •Adobe CS6 Flash Professional: $157.60 •Adobe

The Vanderbilt Software Store (http://vanderbilt.onthehub.com) will be unavailable on Tuesday, June 5th, from 6 a.m. until approximately 7:30 a.m. E-academy, the company that hosts the Software Store, will display a message indicating that the site is temporarily unavailable to the end user while it performs maintenance on the ELMS platform (i.e. the platform used for the storefront).

Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) deployment and technical resources include: •Deployment Webinar Recording: http://seminars.adobeconnect.com/p5cusn6zish/ •CS 6 Deployment Guide: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/creativesuite/pdfs/AdobeApplicationManagerEnterpriseEditionDeploymentGuide_v3_0.pdf •Technical Resources:

Parallels has agreed to remove its order quantity restriction for Vanderbilt employees. This means employees can place bulk orders for departments through the Vanderbilt Software Store under the Faculty/Staff – Parallels tab. Parallels still enforces an order quantity restriction for students.

Microsoft’s new System Center 2012 is available through the Vanderbilt Software Store as part of Vanderbilt’s Microsoft Campus Agreement. Products include: •System Center 2012 Client Management Suite •System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Client Management License •System Center 2012 Datacenter •System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection •System Center 2012 Standard For additional information, see http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/default.aspx.

Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2012 is available through the Vanderbilt Software Store through our Microsoft Campus Agreement.