Introduction
The University of Wyoming is able to secure volume pricing on Adobe licenses through the Adobe’s Open Options Contractual Licensing Program (“CLP”) and Adobe subscriptions through the Adobe Value Incentive Plan (VIP). UW departments are eligible to purchase Adobe licenses, subscriptions, and media for UW owned computers. Adobe products purchased through the UW IT Adobe programs are the property of UW. Licenses and subscriptions can be transferred to different users within a department. The licenses or subscriptions remain with the department that purchased them, not the user for which they were purchased. Personal purchases are not available nor allowed through this program.
Adobe Products
Subscriptions
A subscription has a yearly fee and customers can access the software as long as they pay the yearly fee. The benefit of subscriptions is that customers always have the most recent version and Adobe has more flexibility to make quicker improvements.
Subscriptions come in one of two formats; device subscriptions, that are meant to be used by multiple users on one computer, such as a lab computer; or, name-user subscriptions, that can only be used by one user but include cloud storage and can be installed on a second computer. Below is a comparison of the two options:
All UW subscriptions will be renewed in June every year. Prices are prorated every month so customers are only paying for the portion of the year that remains before renewal. Current prorated prices are available by clicking the Order button. Prices are subject to change so please contact itsoftw@uwyo.edu for current estimates of renewal pricing.
Licenses
Licenses, also known as perpetual licenses, are purchased once, no yearly fee like subscriptions, and are version specific. For example, when a new version of Adobe Acrobat is available, a customer would need to purchase a whole new license. Adobe now only sells licenses to a very limited number of products, including Acrobat. Please click the Order button for a complete list of software titles and prices.
Training
Information Technology offers classes on certain Adobe products – Acrobat, Photoshop, and InDesign. Please see IT's Computer Training pages for a complete description of IT’s Computer Training Opportunities at UW. It is highly recommended that customers enroll in computer training courses. IT consultants can help with the installation of Adobe products, and are not able to provide functional support or advise customers on how to use Adobe products.
Available to
This is available to faculty, staff, and students to install on a UW owned computer.
Note: The license for Adobe will have to be held in a benefited employees name.
Procedure
To view product availability and pricing and to place an order, click the order button and then go to Adobe under Categories. Select the the products you want to purchase, view the cart, this is where you can change the licensed username if you are ordering on behalf of another, and click the the Pay Now button during the check-out process. Once your order has been placed, it will go through our IT billing process for authorization.
Once IT has authorization, you will be sent instructions on installing the software.
Cost
Pricing is subject to change. Please click the Purchase Software button to see a list of current prices.