New Software Evaluation: OriginPro

OIT Software Licensing is evaluating the current and prospective usage of OriginPro.

Origin is a software application with tools for data analysis, publication-quality graphing, and programming.

OriginPro offers all of the features of Origin plus extended analysis tools for peak fitting, surface fitting, statistics, signal processing, and image handling.

A site license for OriginPro has been requested through our new software evaluation request form (http://oit.duke.edu/comp-print/software/request/it_request.php) for central funding/distribution, and we put together a wiki with some information on the software and some of the purchase options.

If your department currently uses this software or if you are interested in using this software or have considered purchasing this before, we invite you to visit the wiki and comment on it.  The information that we collect in this manner will help us determine whether or not central funding and distribution would be beneficial to the Duke community.

Wiki: https://wiki.duke.edu/display/OITSLP/OriginPro

Summary of wiki:

An unlimited site license for this is a perpetual license with a low annual maintenance cost.  The amount spent by Duke over the last 20 years is more than this license would cost over the next 20, making it both a cost-saving and value adding purchase.  If this tool does the same things that Prism does, it would be overwhelmingly beneficial to the research community at Duke.  It is possible that if departments and schools could come up with the initial purchase cost for this, OIT could fund the annual maintenance.  It is already fairly widely used across campus.