What led you to look for a new way of working? I was spending too many hours trying to ensure that our researchers had access to the software they needed to work effi- ciently. A floating software license is fine for a small group, but we had a separate floating license for each department, which was not optimal. We wanted to capitalize on the economies of scale that come with centralization. Why campus-wide access to MATLAB? For individual departments, a Total Academic Headcount (TAH) license enables researchers to use MATLAB for free because it becomes part of the col- lege’s operating budget. For the college as a whole, a TAH license not only increases researcher productivity, it also reduces the overhead of managing licenses in multiple environments. With more than 2000

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