Software for employees and students

Zentrum für Informations- und Medientechnologien (IMT) provides central software offerings for the University of Paderborn. This page gives an overview of the products offered. If products are not listed, please ask (e-mail to imt@upb.de). Many individual products can be obtained by the IMT from suppliers at conditions for research and teaching.

Currently, we have many requests for apps and cloud services, especially from US providers. As a rule, the IMT cannot procure these, since many of these services involve the processing of personal data in the USA, which requires complex regulations/contracts, if at all possible.

There are various licensing and cost allocation models for software, ranging from centrally financed university-wide licenses, campus licenses that are allocated to areas, framework agreements through which individual products can be purchased at a discount, to individual licenses that can be purchased or rented.

The persons entitled to use the software (employees, employees in research and teaching, lecturers, students, ...) and the license conditions (use only for research and teaching, use only on business computers, number of possible installations, personal licenses, device licenses, ...) also differ depending on the software product, as do the supported operating systems.

On the following pages you will find the conditions under which you can use the respective software and information on whether and what costs may be incurred by you or your department.