AI Tools: Resourcesadutta
Bentley University supports responsible experimentation with Generative AI tools, but there are important considerations to keep in mind, including information security, compliance, copyright, and academic integrity.
| Name | Description | Available to | Access Instructions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat Professional | Program for reading, editing, and creating PDF files. More... | Faculty | Available in the ATC only. Just stop by and use one of our front desk computers. |
| Alteryx | Alteryx is a business intelligence platform for data analysts that offers data mining and predictive analytics. It allows users to blend data from disparate sources, including Microsoft Excel, Hadoop, and Salesforce, with built-in drag-and-drop features to prepare raw data for analytics. More... | Faculty/Students | Available remotely on apps.bentley.edu. |
| AMOS | AMOS is a powerful structural equations modeling software. More... | Faculty | Contact the ATC for an individual license. |
| Financial Trading System | A web-based software package that allows to simulate markets using pre-designed cases, teaching modules and other supporting material. With this system, students have the opportunity to manage their own real-time position, act as market traders and apply trading theories. More... | Faculty/Students | Available in the TR or remotely |
| IDEA | Data analysis software focused on Accounting and Finance problem sets. More... | Faculty/Students | Available in the LEAF or can be downloaded on individual computers. |
| iMotions | Core software with galvanic skin response (GSR) module. More... | Faculty/Students (Class projects only) | Please contact ATC for more information. |
| JMP | JMP is an easy-to-use, standalone statistics and graphics software from SAS Institute. It dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand, and visualize data. JMP also includes advanced analytic techniques for data mining and predictive modeling. More... | Faculty/Students | |
| MATLAB | MATLAB is a powerful tool for mathematical and technical computations developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. More... | Faculty | Contact the ATC for an individual license. |
| Meltwater Explorer (Sysomos) | Meltwater Explorer (Sysomos) provides access and tools to analyze data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, News, Forums and Blogs. More... | Faculty | Web access provided by the ATC on demand |
| NVivo | NVivo is a software for qualitative research and textual analysis. With excellent visuals, flexibility, and user-friendliness, NVivo is superb for organizing and analyzing text based data, such as interview transcripts. More... | Faculty/Students (Class projects only) | Contact the ATC for an individual license. |
| Palisade Statistical Suite | Extends the forecasting capability of spreadsheet models created in MS Excel and provides the information needed to make risk management decisions. The program can create projected sales figures, expense data or other finnacial statements items based on historical data. More... | Faculty/Students | Available in the TR or remotely |
| ProSeries | ProSeries is a tax-preparation software package designed for professional tax preparers. More... | Faculty/Students | Available in LEAF |
| Python | Python is an open source (free) interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Python's simple, easy to learn syntax emphasizes readability and therefore reduces the cost of program maintenance. Python is used by our researchers for data science and webscraping projects. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions |
| Qualtrics | Qualtrics is an online survey platform for building and distributing surveys, collecting data and analyzing the results. Qualtrics has an easy to use interface and includes powerful features that allow for building complex surveys. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions |
| R | R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. It is used in research for data science and webscraping project as well as econometrics. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions |
| R Studio | RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions |
| Reallusion | Software for creating avatars (virtual human characters). More... | Faculty/Students (Class projects only) | Please contact ATC for more information. |
| SAS | SAS is a statistical software suite for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, and predictive analytics. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions |
| Smart Draw | SmartDraw is a diagram tool used to make flowcharts, organization charts, mind maps, project charts, and other business visuals. More... | Facluty/Students | Available in the LEAF or remotely /cloud version |
| SPSS | SPSS is a program for statistical analysis in social science. Easy to use point-and-click interface makes conducting statistical analysis easy. No programming skills required. More... | Faculty/Students | Access Instructions |
| STATA-SE | Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package. Stata's capabilities include data management, statistical analysis, graphics, simulations, regression, and custom programming. More... | Faculty/Students | Students: Available remotely Faculty: Contact the ATC for an individual license or access remotely. |
| Tableau | Tableau is a powerful interactive easy to use data visualization software that helps transforming raw data into the easily understandable visual representation. Charts and tables in Tableau can be organized into dashboards and worksheets with minimum programming requirements. More... | Faculty/Students | |
| Vizard | Virtual reality software. More... | Faculty/Students (Class projects only) | Please contact ATC for more information. |