Minitab Statistical Software Desktop License

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Visualizeanalyze and harness the power of your data to find insights and make better decisions from anywhere. This license includes the ability to access Minitab from both your desktop and our web app.

Designed as a solution to level up your analytical capabilities, the predictive analytics module provides additional access to advanced predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms. Includes Automated Machine Learning capabilities and our proprietary, best-in-class decision tree-based algorithms, Random Forests and TreeNet Gradient Boosting.

Designed as a solution for healthcare professionals, this option provides additional access to direct prompts, statistical guidance, and support pages in healthcare-friendly terminology purpose-built with healthcare professionals in mind.

Designed as a solution for supply chain professionals, this option provides additional access to direct prompts, statistical guidance, and support pages in supply chain-friendly terminology purpose-built with supply chain professionals in mind.

Designed as a solution for customer contact center professionals, this option provides additional access to direct prompts, statistical guidance, and support pages in terminology purpose-built with customer contact center professionals in mind.

Designed as a solution to accelerate assessing your measurement system variance, bias and stability, this option provides additional access to direct prompts, statistical guidance, and support pages purpose-built for quality and continuous improvement professionals.

This option provides additional access to direct prompts to help you quickly estimate your required sample size before collecting data to determine whether the analysis you want to use will have enough power.

Designed as a solution for insurance industry professionals, this option provides direct prompts to common insurance industry challenges like improving key performance indicators (KPIs) like Time to Settle a Claim, Revenue per Policy Holder and Claims Ratios without worrying about which analysis to use.

Access targeted assistance in designing experiments, estimating reliability and survival, describing data and comprehending relationships, tailored specifically for research and development professionals. Written in language relevant to your field, this module enables you to streamline your processes and make more informed decisions.

Designed as a solution for IT professionals, this option provides additional access to direct prompts, statistical guidance, and support pages in industry-friendly terminology purposefully tailored for IT professionals.

Siena Heights University students, faculty, and staff can utilize Minitab, software used for data analysis and statistics, on or off-campus starting this year. With our annual renewal of the software, Minitab now offers a web version and a downloadable Windows desktop version of their software free to all members of the SHU community. To access your Minitab account, visit this link or look for an email from Minitab sent earlier this year.

Minitab now supports accessing the statistical program through a new web app made available to SHU. The web application has many of the same features you may be familiar with and now includes direct OneDrive support, allowing for quick saving and loading from your Siena Heights University cloud storage. If you utilize a MacOS device or Linux-based machine, you will need to use the web application. Minitab discontinued support for all non-Windows platforms in early 2021.

To access the web app, visit app.minitab.com and enter your full SHU email address. You will not be able to use social media logins on this page. Once you enter your email address and click Next, you will need to sign in through Office.com if you are not logged in already. After signing in successfully, access to the web application and account settings will be given.

Minitab currently maintains a Windows desktop application of Minitab. Starting in 2021, the MacOS version was deprecated, leaving only the Windows app and web-based app available to use. This application is free to download for all SHU students, staff, and faculty, and can be found after signing in to the Minitab website with your SHU credentials. Minitab only supports 64-bit versions of Windows, and suggests 32-bit platforms utilize the web application instead.

Minitab provides a comparison chart between the web application and the Windows desktop application. Once all features of the Desktop application are integrated to the web version, Minitab will discontinue any downloadable form of their software, opting instead to be fully web-based.

Minitab is a statistical software tool designed for easy interactive use and for analyzing research data. This software is available for download for faculty,staff and students for use on personally owned Windows devices.

Note: Minitab has discontinued the Mac desktop client for Minitab and all versions of Minitab Express. Legacy versions of Minitab Express are still available for download on the Minitab portal but they are not covered under St. Thomas' license agreement.

Many classes at Miami require the use of statistical software programs like SPSS, Stata, JMP, SAS, and R. With the exception of R, none of these tools are free to download onto a personal computer. As a result, Miami students should use these tools through the virtual PC. The steps for connecting to the virtual PC are provided below. Note that using the virtual PC does not require a virtual private network (VPN) connection.

For statistics student that only need R and RStudio, it is easier to install this software on a local machine. They are both free to use and installing them locally means avoiding reliance on the desktop connection.

Software is distributed via several channels (see the individual software listings below for specific information on each), but in most cases you will need to place an order through the IT Service Desk to obtain the software. If your department would like additional details about our software contracts, visit the Software and Cloud Services page on the Office of Business and Finance website.

Complete the Site Licensed Software Request Form, including choosing an item from the available software options. In some cases, you may be required to agree to terms and conditions for the selected product.

Note: Access to download software from the IT Service Desk is restricted to current Ohio State faculty, staff and students. The right to distribution of site-licensed software is limited to the OCIO. Individuals are strictly prohibited from loaning such software or making a copy for anyone else.

Registered Site License Software Coordinators can request certain additional software products for departmental distribution. An SLS Coordinator is authorized through their department chair or unit director to partner with OCIO to distribute site licensed software to end users within their department or unit. They must be a regular faculty or staff employee.

All Ohio State students, faculty and staff have access to Adobe Express. Faculty and staff also have access to Acrobat Pro. Departments can purchase discounted licenses for the entire suite of Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps.

The Office of the Chief Information Officer has an agreement with Adobe to provide Adobe Express, Adobe Acrobat Pro and discounted licenses for the Acrobat Creative Cloud product on all Ohio State campuses. Adobe Express and Acrobat Pro are available to all faculty, staff and GRA/GTAs across all campuses. The Adobe Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) permits units to purchase Creative Cloud licenses they need for faculty, staff, GRA/GTAs and students at a heavily discounted rate. Once purchased, Creative Cloud can have up to two activations per user at a given time and may be used on Ohio State-owned machines, or on home machines for university business.

ArcGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) product from Environmental Systems Research Institute. ArcGIS offers advanced modeling, mapping and analysis capabilities for the desktop. ArcGIS runs on Windows platforms. For information regarding setup for renewal of an existing license, see go.osu.edu/esri.

Ohio State purchases Autodesk licenses at the government rate, which is approximately 90% the cost of a commercial license. Licenses only need to be purchased if users plan to edit drawings. For viewing only, Autodesk TrueView can be installed at no cost through OCIO Self Service (instructions above). If editing of DWG (AutoCAD) or RVT (Revit) files is needed, purchase an Autodesk AEC Collection license. Autocad only licenses are also available. All Autodesk license are named user licenses, and can only be used by the person assigned to the license.

BadCopy Pro is a data recovery tool for floppy disk, CD-ROM, CD-R/W, digital media and other storage media, including hard drives. It can recover corrupted or lost data from damaged, unreadable or defective disks. Available to faculty and staff for on-campus machines only. No home use is allowed. This tool is for use for university business only. When you are no longer affiliated with Ohio State you must return the software to your department or to OCIO.

OSUnet VPN service is designed as a solution for faculty, staff and students to provide remote usage to the OSUnet network that is authenticated and secure. It is for university-related business only and must be left with your department and removed from your home computer when you leave Ohio State.

JMP is an interactive software tool designed for statistical visualization and exploratory data analysis that may be used for classroom instruction, academic research and course work only. Home use is allowed for a holder of the license on campus.

JMP Genomics is an optional package that combines interactive JMP graphics and SAS Analytics, allowing researchers to see and explore genomic data from every angle, understand it and share analysis with colleagues. JMP Genomics is available only to faculty and staff for classroom instruction, academic research and course work only. It can be used on campus and at home for no change (Ohio State Pediatrics has provided a cost share for this license). JMP Genomics is a very large program (approx. 11.2GB in size). Check the file size after downloading to ensure you have received the entire program. JMP Genomics Version 10 is the only version of this software available at this time.

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