LabStats has saved large universities hundreds of hours of staff time with our extensive library of applications that are tracked by default.
For busy IT managers, all you need to do is install the client and let it run. Through working with thousands of universities around the world, we’ve dialed into about 80% of the software applications that most schools have in common, and we track them by default. This also covers version changes for the most common applications.
Whatever you decide to monitor during initial set up, you can edit the list of applications at any time. We recommend erring on the side of tracking “too many” applications initially, and then tapering down the amount of apps you’re tracking over time to best fit your needs.
The Software Inventory is the process that the LabStats client uses to identify what software is installed on a station. While we do have a catalogue of commonly utilized apps, Software Inventory will detect many more that are not part of the catalogue and add them to the LabStats Portal to be tracked. This makes it very easy for customers to find and track a particular program without having to set up and define things like tracking patterns on their own.
The Software Inventory will run every 24 hours, as long as the station is powered on and checked-in to LabStats during that time. It will check in the following locations for installed software:
Public Start Menu
Public Desktop
Public AppData
How to Check Software Inventory
If an application isn’t in the standard Application Manager list because it isn’t part of our pre-populated catalog, it is nearly always picked up by the Software Inventory process. To run Software Inventory, navigate to the Applications Manager. Click on the Show Software Inventory button.
LabStats Monitors Over 200 Applications by Default
LabStats automatically monitors the most common software applications that colleges and universities around the world offer to students. Following is a list of what LabStats monitors automatically:
Tracked Applications
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Notepad++
Notepad
Adobe Reader
iTunes
SPSS Statistics
Windows Media Player
PuTTY
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Flash
Adobe Fireworks
Safari
Preview
iPhoto
GIMP
Inkscape
Final Cut Pro
iCal
Audacity
paint.net
EndNote
DVD Player
VLC Media Player
WinDVD
Finale
Skype
Inspiration
Eclipse
Visual Studio
NetBeans
MATLAB
Mathematica
Autodesk AutoCAD
Google Docs Word Processor
Google Docs Spreadsheet
Google Docs Presentation
Gmail
Facebook
Twitter
Office 365 Outlook
Yahoo Mail
Google Plus
YouTube
Yahoo
Google
Bing
Amazon
eBay
Pinterest
Instagram
Craigslist
CNN
Reddit
Netflix
Vimeo
Office 365 Word
Office 365 Excel
Office 365 PowerPoint
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Edge
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Animate
Adobe Audition
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Character Animator
Adobe Digital Editions
Adobe Fuse
Adobe InCopy
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe Muse
Adobe Prelude
Adobe Premiere Elements
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Scout
Android Studio
ANSYS
ArcCatalog
ArcGIS
ArcGlobe
ARCHICAD
ArcMap
ArcScene
Arduino
Arena
Atom
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk Inventor
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk Mudbox
Autodesk Revit
Avid Media Composer
Blackboard
Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve
Blender
BlueJ
Books
Brackets
Calculator
Camtasia Studio
Canvas
Chem3D
ChemDraw
Cinema 4D
Cn3D
Code::Blocks
Compressor
COMSOL Multiphysics
Corel PaintShop Pro
Cyberduck
DrRacket
EES
FaceTime
Fetch
FileZilla
Fox News
GarageBand
GeoDa
Geogebra
Google Earth
HandBrake
HEC-RAS
Hulu
ImageJ
iMovie
JAWS
jEdit
JMP
Keynote
Khan Academy
Kurzweil 3000
LabVIEW
LinkedIn
Logger Pro
Logic Pro X
Lynda
Mail
Maple
Mathcad
Mathcad Prime
MathType
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Lync
Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Visio
MiKTeX
Minitab
Moodle
Motion
MuseScore
Numbers
NVivo
Opera
Pages
Pluralsight
Praat
Pro Tools
Processing
PyCharm
PyMOL
Python
QGIS
QtSpim
QuickTime Player
R
RealPlayer
Rhinoceros
RStudio
SAP2000
Sibelius
SketchUp
Slack
Slack for Desktop
SolidWorks
Spartan Student
Spotify
Stata
Tableau
TeamViewer
TextEdit
TextWrangler
TeXworks
Turning Point
Unity
VirtualBox
Wall Street Journal
WebMD
Wikipedia
Windows Movie Maker
WinSCP
Wireshark
WolframAlpha
WordPad
Xcode
Zotero
Office 365 OneNote
SQL Server Management Studio
Adding applications to track is quick and easy.
Unlike other monitoring programs, you don’t need to take the time to go down to the executables to mark and group each additional application you’d like to monitor.
If an application has not been picked up by the Software Inventory, you may need to add it manually. To do this, simply navigate to Applications Manager, then click Define Desktop App or Define a Web App.
