ESRI - State contract
ArcGIS - Free use for professors and employees
SAGS-Thuringia has concluded a contract with the company ESRI, which includes the unlimited use of the software »ArcGIS Desktop« as rental licences within the universities of Thuringia incl. HomeUse right for all professors and employees. The contract is valid from 01.02.2012 and initially runs for 1 year.
From now on, employees of our university can use this powerful program for studying, teaching and research at work and at home.
Students who need the GIS software in the context of a project work, please contact susanne.ost[at]uni-weimar.de by email.
How do you get ArcGIS Desktop?
1. Complete the following employee user declaration for ArcGIS and send it to the SCC (Steubenstr. 6A).
2. After receipt of the user declaration, the loan CD for installing »ArcGIS Desktop« will be sent to the respective university address of the user by internal mail.
In addition, the user receives the installation instructions and the so-called provisioning file by e-mail.
Important: The provisioning file contains the licensing. It loses its validity after expiry of the contract. When the contract is extended, a new provisioning file is created and the licence can still be used after the file has been exchanged.