The Provisioning Engine
How one approved order becomes a working license across vendors that share almost nothing: Adobe by API, Microsoft by directory, Canva by its admin API, research software by files and keys.
New Read the story →The Separation Engine
How we decide who loses a license when they leave, make sure it happens at the vendor, and never cut off the emeritus professor or the rehire a bad feed gets wrong.
New Read the story →The SDL Engine
How we automate Adobe Shared Device Licensing end to end, a model Adobe gives you no API for, from discovering a lab machine to retiring it.
Read the story →The Self-Healing Engine Room
How the platform reads its own logs, fixes the failures that are safe to fix on its own, and tells a human, in plain language, about the ones that are not.
New Read the story →The Recharge Engine
How a year of usage becomes a recharge you can defend line by line, computed once from one source of truth and reconciled to the penny against the signed purchase order.
New Read the story →The Fiscal Engine
How every license stays tied to a valid campus account and its current fiscal officer, refreshed every night from the university's own chart of accounts.
New Read the story →The Canva Engine
How we manage Canva at university scale: seats added and removed through Canva's admin API, a Watchlist that emails people on the team without an order, and a gentle exit for former students.
New Read the story →The Fleet
How abstract server and processor-core licenses become a concrete, reconciled inventory of real machines, each one resolved on the network and paired with its standby.
New Read the story →More innovations
The email intake system, the Adobe console mirror, and more, written up as we go.
Coming soonThe Open Order modal
Everything you can do with a pending request: approve, disapprove, reassign, delegate to a backup, add notes and attachments, delete, re-provision, plus every child window.
Operators Open reference →The Closed Order modal
Everything on a finalized license: revoke and un-revoke, transfer, rebill a charge to the right account, issue a refund credit, with a "money actions at a glance" table.
Operators Open reference →More modal guides
The New Order modal, transfers deep-dive, SDL review & devices, and the Armory tools each get their own reference, one at a time.
Coming soonGetting started with SAS
Install and activate SAS on Windows, for both the Teaching & Research and Administrative licenses.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Mathematica
Activate and start using Wolfram Mathematica once your license is provisioned.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with ArcGIS Pro
Set up your UCI ArcGIS account, download ArcGIS Pro from the portal, and sign in to activate.
End users Open how-to →Keep your StoryMap light (students)
ArcGIS Online storage habits for students: stay under the 2 GB target. Includes a printable PDF.
Students Open how-to →Getting started with Adobe Creative Cloud
Install the Creative Cloud apps and activate them by signing in with your UCI account.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Adobe Acrobat Pro
Install Acrobat Pro and activate it with your UCI account. Managed and personal machines.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Adobe Express
Sign in with your UCI account to unlock Express Premium in your browser, plus optional apps.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Canva
Sign in with your UCI account to use Canva with your UCI team seat. Web and desktop app.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with LabVIEW
Install LabVIEW with NI Package Manager and activate it under UC Irvine's campus license.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Nothing to install. Copilot is added to your UCI Microsoft 365 account and appears in your apps.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Microsoft Project
Install Project from your Microsoft 365 account once your license is assigned.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Microsoft Visio
Install Visio from your Microsoft 365 account once your license is assigned.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with Visual Studio
Install Visual Studio and sign in with your UCI account to pick up your Enterprise or Professional subscription.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with SPSS
Install IBM SPSS Statistics and activate it with your authorization code.
End users Open how-to →Getting started with MNova
Install Mnova, find your Host ID, and get your license authorized by the NMR administrators.
End users Open how-to →