Office of Information Services

Hardware & Software

Information Services will assist SOM faculty and staff with the identification of hardware that will meet your needs. The software we currently support and the preferred vendors are listed below. Several hardware vendors provide discounts for faculty, staff, and student personal purchase. See the Vendor Specials page for the latest specials. The Microsoft and Mac software listed below is also available for faculty, staff, and student personal purchase at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) reference desk.

Application software supported by SOM Information Services

Operating systems:*
- MS XP PRO & VISTA Enterprise
Office suites:
- MS Office 2003 & 2007
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Visio)
E-mail:
-Outlook & Outlook Web Access
Web:
- Database development in SQL Server or Oracle
- Content Management System for web page development
- Web application development using .net framework
Browsers:
- Internet Explorer 7 & Later
- Mozilla Firefox 3 & Later
- Safari
Other:
- Adobe Acrobat 7 & Later
- Oracle 10 & Later (selected products)
- Symantec/Norton Anti-virus 10 & Later
- COEUS-VPN access for remote connectivity - Java for Coeus
 
*Windows 98 machines are not allowed on the network. Windows 98 is allowed only on desktops that connect directly to non-networked lab equipment.
 

Hardware supported by SOM Information Services

PCs, Laptops & Servers:
- Dell
- Toshiba
- HP
- Apple*
PDA:
- Blackberry
- Palm
- iPhone
Printers:
- Hewlett-Packard
- Lexmark
Scanners:
- Hewlett-Packard (selected models)
- Canon (selected models)

 

*The UMB Campus has a Mac User Group (MUG).  Please click here for more information.

Last Revision: September 28, 2009

 

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