FY20 SPSS add-on licenses available

by Michelle Saport  |   

For the FY20 SPSS license renewal, we are now able to purchase additional add-on licenses to our license set. Departments in the past have requested this, and we are happy to offer this opportunity to purchase additional license sets for Missing Values, Custom Tables, and AMOS.

The license set that IT Services manages are perpetual licenses. These are licenses that were purchased outright in the past, and are now maintained with an annual software subscription and support (S&S) renewal. The rates departments pay each year for these add-ons is for the total cost of the S&S for the license set.

Another type of license IBM offers is a term license, which is an annual license renewed each year. Unlike the perpetual license, the term license is not owned outright, and the software is only usable during the term of the license.

For FY20 Departments can opt-in to the IT site license set by either:
  1. Purchasing the full add-on license outright. In future years, the S&S cost are distributed to your departments with the usual process. Costs to purchase the full add-on licenses are:
    1. $652/license for Missing Values
    2. $652/license for Custom Tables
    3. $784/license for AMOS
  2. Merge existing perpetual license into the IT site license set. Departments would then pay for only the S&S cost. This option is for departments who already own a perpetual license, and are current on S&S updates.

Please note that term licenses are not eligible to be added to the IT site license set.

There are a couple of benefits of having licenses grouped into the IT site license. First, if a department determines that it does not need the add-on any longer, and opts not to renew, IT can continue to maintain the license's S&S and make it available to other departments at the shared S&S renewal rate. This provides overall savings to the university.

Second, by grouping our licenses together and applying our site license education discount, we get rates that are more competitive on licenses for S&S renewal.

Software Initial Purchase License Cost Approx. S&S Cost Approx. IT Site License S&S
AMOS $784 $156 $50
Custom Tables $652 $130 $40
Missing Values $652 $130 $46
If you would like to opt-in for these add-on licenses, please email Andrea Miller directly at almiller3@alaska.edu by Friday, June 21, with the following information:
  • Department
  • Add-on type (AMOS, Custom Tables, Missing Values)
  • Quantity
  • How you will be opting-in:
    • Purchasing the license, OR
    • Transferring existing licenses Note: If you are transferring existing perpetual licenses, we will need your site-number. If you do not have this, please let me know and we can work with IBM to find it.
  • Fund/org number

One last item: we currently have two available licenses for the Custom Tables add-on. These two licenses are available to departments for the S&S rate, on a first-come, first-served basis. Once they are reserved for FY20, additional licenses can be purchased as listed above.

More information about the IT Services SPSS licensing program can be found on the Knowledge Base.

If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact Andrea Miller at almiller3@alaska.edu.

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