How to Purchase Software

• Microsoft Products
• Apple Software
• Academic Software through ERIS  (GraphPad Prism, MATLAB, Stata, SAS, BioRender & NVivo)
• Adobe Software
• All other software

Microsoft Products

1. Mass General Brigham Standard Workstations:
   
   • Office 2016 Pro is the official standard.
   • To request software, please open a ticket with the Service Desk: https://partnershealthcare.service-now.com/phsess/open_ticket.do
   • Office will be provisioned electronically.
2. Non-Standard Windows (PC's without the Mass General Brigham screensaver*):
   
   • Office 2016 is now available.
   • To request software, please open a ticket with the Service Desk: https://partnershealthcare.service-now.com/phsess/open_ticket.do
   • Office will be provisioned electronically. The Service Desk will provide the user with instructions to download directly from Microsoft's website.
3. Macintosh Users: 
   
   • Office 2016 for Mac OS X available. This requires an Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.5.8 and up.
   • Mac users need to register with PEAS (http://rc.partners.org/peas_enrollment) to obtain Office. 
     
     • Step-by-step instructions on How to Enroll in PEAS.
   • Office will be provisioned electronically through a Self Service application that is enabled when the user enrolls in PEAS.
     
     • Step-by-step instructions on  HOWTO: Install Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac   HOWTO: Activate Office and setup Outlook 2016 for Mac

Please Note:  The agreement allows each user to install Microsoft Office on up to 5 computers used for business-related purposes. 

*To learn more about what is a "standard" vs "non-standard" computer, please read this Knowledgebase article

Academic software through ERIS

• Enterprise Research Infrastructure & Services (ERIS) provides a growing list of desktop and server software from vendors that is tailored to a researcher’s unique computing needs.
• BioRender, ChemDraw, Endnote, FlowJo, GraphPad Prism, JMP, MATLAB, NVivo, SAS, Stata and SPSS are the current licenses available.  
• As a service to the community, software requests are gathered from researchers and processed in bulk orders at academic pricing. The "group buy" affords a lower price per license. Researchers reimburse the core for the cost of the software.
• Visit the Research Computing Core Facility Academic Software Licenses Webpage for details, RC Services to order, and contact rcc@partners.org with questions.

Adobe Software

• Please see INFO: How to Purchase Adobe Software

All other software

1. You can also request software title quotes from Mass General Brigham's software vendor, Insight: MGB@insight.com.
2. Once you get the quote .pdf, place the order in eBuy and attach the quote .pdf.