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The following are Chest-negotiated Software Agreements. Each agreement listed contains a brief summary, as well as a full description in the Overview. The listing also contains links through to the suppliers Website where applicable.
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| Agreement / Offer | Supplier | Start-date | End-date | Available to* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcView Image Analysis Provides a fast image display capability that supports rapid, interactive viewing and control of large image files. | ESRI | 01/07/2006 | 31/07/2009 | HE FE RC A IR |
| AVS Agreement Interactive visualisation software. | Advanced Visual Systems | 01/07/2007 | 30/06/2012 | HE FE RC IR |
| BakBone NetVault A comprehensive portfolio of multi platform backup and restore software products. | BakBone | 01/11/2005 | 31/10/2008 | HE FE RC IR |
| BI Query An enterprise-strength query and reporting application. | Hummingbird | 01/08/2006 | 31/07/2011 | HE FE RC A IR N |
| Cambridgesoft Agreement A chemistry software suite composed of ChemDraw, Chem3D, ChemFinder and more. | CambridgeSoft | 01/08/2004 | 31/07/2009 | HE RC FE A IR |
| Dragon Naturally Speaking & OmniPage Pro Speech recognition, dictation document conversion software. | Sonant Software | 01/08/2004 | 31/03/2009 | HE RC FE IR (some A) |
| Education Support Centre (ESC) Technical support for English language versions of software produced by Microsoft Ltd | ESC | 01/01/2006 | 31/12/2008 | HE FE RC IR A N |
| Endnote Bibliographic software | Thomson Scientific, Inc | 01/05/2001 | 31/12/2010 | HE FE RC A |
| Erdas Provides a fast image display capability that supports rapid, interactive viewing and control of large image files. | ESRI | 01/07/2006 | 31/07/2009 | HE FE RC A IR |
| ERDAS Imagine and Imagine Essentials Image processing software. | ESRI | 01/07/2006 | 31/07/2009 | HE FE RC A IR |
| ER-Mapper Image processing system with a suite of data integration and image enhancement tools. | Earth Resource Mapping | 01/08/2005 | 31/07/2008 | HE FE RC A IR N |
| ESRI Agreement Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software | ESRI | 01/03/2008 | 31/07/2011 | HE FE RC IR |
| Exceed PC X software suite for inter networking. | Hummingbird | 01/08/2006 | 31/07/2011 | HE FE RC A IR N |
| F Secure Anti-Virus Software | F-Secure | 18/09/2007 | 17/09/2010 | HE FE RC A IR |
| Hummingbird Software providing connectivity; for centralising information, application, and resource access and making information easier to find. | Hummingbird | 01/08/2006 | 31/07/2011 | HE FE RC A IR N |
| Image Analysis for ArcGIS An all-in-one solution for preparing GIS-ready imagery. | ESRI | 01/07/2006 | 31/07/2009 | HE FE RC A IR |
| Ingres Relational Database Management System. | Ingres | 01/01/2006 | 31/12/2008 | Sites previously licensed under Chest's CA/Ingres Agreement |
| Kaspersky Anti-Virus Anti-Virus Software | 01/06/2007 | 31/05/2012 | HE FE RC A IR | |
| Maestro Network File System (NFS) application products. | Hummingbird | 01/08/2006 | 31/07/2011 | HE FE RC A IR N |
Maplesoft Mathematical and Analytical software | Waterloo Maple Inc. | 01/06/2008 | 30/04/2011 | HE FE RC IR |
| Mathcad Software Mathematics software to calculate, graph and communicate technical ideas. | Adept Scientific | 01/10/2004 | 30/09/2009 | HE FE RC A IR |
| Microsoft Campus Agreement Chest Volume agreement for Microsoft products | Microsoft | 01/11/2007 | 31/10/2010 | HE FE (some A) |
| Microsoft Select 6.6 Chest Volume agreement for Microsoft products | 01/11/2007 | 31/10/2010 | HE FE (some A) | |
| MindGenius education 2005 The latest version of this sophisticated mind mapping program. | Gael Ltd | 01/08/2005 | 31/12/2008 | HE FE RC IR |
| Monotype Imaging Fonts Monotype Imaging's Classic and International Typeface Corporation collections. | Monotype Imaging Ltd | 23/07/2002 | 22/07/2007 | HE FE RC A IR N |
| NAG 2005 Agreement for NAG products including Serial Libraries, NAG High Performance Libraries, NAGware Compilers/Tools, IRIS Explorer, NAGWare Gateway Generator, Excel Add-ins, Maple NAG Connector, NAG Toolbox for MATLAB. | NAG | 01/08/2005 | 31/07/2010 | HE FE |
| NVivo and XSight QSR products - qualitative research software | QSR | 01/07/2007 | 30/06/2012 | HE FE RC A IR |
| OmniPage Pro An extremely powerful productivity tool. Quickly turn PDF files and stacks of paper into easily editable word processing and spreadsheet documents. | Sonant Software | 01/08/2004 | 31/03/2009 | HE RC FE IR (some A) |
| PatchLink Automated Patch Management Solution to protect networks. | PatchLink Corporation | 01/08/2005 | 31/07/2008 | HE FE RC IR |
| PCI Geomatics Remote sensing, photogrammetry, GIS & cartography software. | PCI | 23/09/2007 | 22/09/2010 | HE FE RC A IR N |
| PDF Converter Pro Create, convert and edit industry standard PDFs. | Nuance | 01/04/2007 | 31/03/2012 | HE FE RC IR A O |
| Platform LSF-HPC Manages and accelerates High Performance Computing mission-critical, parallel and serial batch workload. | Platform | 01/04/2006 | 31/03/2009 | HE FE RC IR |
| PowerPressed Compresses the size of Microsoft® Office® PowerPoint® presentations so that they are portable while still maintaining the PowerPoint file format and functionality. | Fortressgate (PowerPressed pages) | 01/05/2005 | 31/07/2008 | HE FE RC A IR |
| PTR Associates Classroom Training Agreement Training Courses held at the Premises of PTR Associates. | PTR Associates | 01/08/2004 | HE RC FE IR | |
| SAS Software 2008 Agreement Software for data access, management, statistical analysis, visualisation and reporting. | SAS | 01/08/2008 | 31/07/2011 | HE FE RC A IR |
| SASPAC91 Interrogation of 1991 Census data. | London Research Centre | HE FE RC IR | ||
| Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS A stereo feature collection tool designed to create and revise a comprehensive database of feature data stored in a geodatabase. | ESRI | 01/07/2006 | 31/07/2009 | HE FE RC A IR |
| Thomson Scientific, Inc Agreement Bibliographic management software programs. | Thomson Scientific, Inc | 01/05/2001 | 31/12/2010 | HE FE RC A |
| UNIRAS Application and graphics building package. | Advanced Visual Systems | 01/04/2008 | 31/03/2013 | HE FE RC A IR |
| ViewletBuilder Professional A tool for creating web-based content such as on-line courses, demos and tutorials. | Productivity4you Ltd | 01/07/2007 | 30/06/2009 | HE FE RC A IR IA |
*Availability Key:
| HE = Higher Education Inst. | RC = Research Council | FE = Further Education Inst. | A = Associate Site | IR = Ireland Site |
| NHS = National Health Service | LEA = LEA licence on behalf of its schools | SCH = Schools | D = Denmark | F = Finland |
| I = Italy | N = Netherlands via SURFdiensten | S = Sweden | O = Others | PL = Public Library |
| IA = IATUL | NO = Norway | IC = Iceland | IHB = Irish Health Board | |
| Chest: Agreement/Offer that has been negotiated by Chest. | Non-Chest: Agreement/Offer that the supplier (or reseller) has made. Chest is providing the information as a service to the community. | |||