Products Under Review - Office of Software Licensing

This webpage lists software products under review for possible multi-user license agreements. OSL updates this page regularly to keep users informed of progress toward obtaining multi-user licenses.

Users who wish to express interest in any of the listed products, or who wish to suggest products to be added to the list for consideration need to complete this Product Request survey.

There are mutliple stages a product must progress through before it becomes a campus-wide agreement. It can take months to complete as there is much research data to collect to justify an agreement purchase by OSL.

Stages

Stage 1: Initial interest - Requests are received via the Product Request survey.
Stage 2: Intermediate interest - Multiple requests from a variety of organizations & disciplines.
Stage 3: Product research - Determine if product meets the requirements.
Stage 4: Priority - Investigation, includes report of organizations that have purchased the product with the quantity of licenses and the agreement expiration date.
Stage 5: Negotiating - Negotiate with vendor, consolidate licenses, and determine pricing.