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Software Store Holiday Hours

Dec. 10, 2020—The Vanderbilt University Software Store help desk will be closed from Wednesday, December 21, 2022 through Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Regular support hours will resume on January 4.  Please note that any orders placed during this time that require additional fulfillment steps will be processed on January 4.

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Software Store Holiday Hours

Dec. 13, 2018—The Vanderbilt University Software Store help desk will be closed from Monday, December 24, 2018 through Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Regular support hours will resume on January 2.  Please note that any orders placed during this time that require additional fulfillment steps will be processed on January 2.

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MATLAB is Now Available Directly from MathWorks

Apr. 26, 2018—Vanderbilt University now offers the full suite of MATLAB, Simulink, and companion products at no additional cost.  All faculty, researchers, and students are eligible to download and install these products on their university computers as well as on their personally owned computers.   To access MATLAB:   Go to https://www.mathworks.com/academia/tah-portal/vanderbilt-university-299681.html  Click “Get Started Now” in the...

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Dell’s January 19th Flash Sale

Jan. 16, 2018—Vanderbilt students, faculty, and staff are eligible to save on personal purchases through Dell. January 19th, 2018:  20% Off Select configurations (5% more than the December Flash Sale!) 8 Hours only 8 am EST to 4 PM EST Find all offers by clicking Member Exclusive Deals under the banner at http://dell.com/dellu/vanderbiltu or call 1-888-243-9964 with Vanderbilt’s Member...

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Software Store Holiday Hours

Dec. 21, 2017—The Vanderbilt University Software Store help will be closed from Friday, December 22, 2017 through Monday, January 1, 2018. Regular support hours will resume on January 2.

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Software Store temporarily unavailable for departmental transactions beginning Dec. 11

Nov. 27, 2017—In preparation for go-live, the SkyVU team has published a timeline indicating dates when information no longer can be entered in the university’s current systems and when the new Oracle Cloud applications will open. In accordance with this timeline, Vanderbilt IT has determined that the final day to make any departmental purchases using cost centers in the...

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Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2017

Oct. 18, 2017—Oracle released its Critical Patch Update for October 2017 on October 17th. Review Oracle’s Security Fixing Policies and the Critical Patch Update Advisory to determine if you require a software update. The following schedule provides the next four dates for Oracle’s Critical Patch Update Service: January 16, 2018 April 17, 2018 July 17, 2018 October...

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Upcoming MATLAB Webinars

Sep. 13, 2017—Mathworks offers free, online MATLAB workshops to the academic community.  Upcoming sessions include: Date Title Session Time 19 Sep 2017 Teaching Rigid Body Dynamics – a combination of symbolic and numeric computing  8:00 AM 1:00 PM 21 Sep 2017 Model and Simulate Automotive Systems Using Powertrain Blockset  8:00 AM 1:00 PM 28 Sep 2017 5G...

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Dell Back to School Offer

Sep. 7, 2017—Vanderbilt students, faculty, and staff are eligible to save on personal purchases through Dell. Dell’s September promotions through 9/15 include: Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming $1099 after $150 Off Savings 7th gen Intel Core i7 Processor Windows 10 Home 16GB Memory 1TB HDD & 128 SSD 6″ Full HD Display 4GB Nividia GeForece GTX 1050Ti graphics...

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Dell August 2017 Specials

Aug. 10, 2017—Vanderbilt students, faculty, and staff are eligible to save on personal purchases through Dell. Dell’s August promotions include: Alienware 15 $1599.99 after $325 Savings 7th Gen Intel Core i7 Processor Windows 10 Home 8 GB Memory, 1 TB Hard Drive 15.6” UHD IGZO IPS Display 6GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics Card   Alienware Aurora...

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