Increasing Productivity with MATLAB Access for Everyone, Anywhere: Q&A with Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“Our teams are here to do world-class research, and easy access to MATLAB enables them to be their most productive. The Campus-Wide License removed limitations for our researchers while reducing the administrative burden—exactly what we wanted to achieve.”

Challenge

Support world-class research while minimizing administrative costs

Solution

Provide campus-wide access to MATLAB with a Campus-Wide License

Results

  • Researcher productivity increased
  • Administrative and IT overhead reduced
  • Substantial ROI realized

With more than 2000 full-time faculty members, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York City, offers one of the largest medical education programs in the United States. Einstein is also a national leader in biomedical research. National Institutes of Health funds major research centers at Einstein in aging, intellectual development disorders, diabetes, cancer, clinical and translational research, liver disease, and AIDS.

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 efficiently. 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 Campus-Wide License enables researchers to use MATLAB for free because it becomes part of the college’s operating budget. For the college as a whole, a Campus-Wide License not only increases researcher productivity, it also reduces the overhead of managing licenses in multiple environments.

What results have you seen so far?

Students and researchers now have direct and free access to MATLAB and the toolboxes they need. They use prebuilt functions instead of spending weeks creating their own, and they get timely technical support straight from MathWorks instead of relying on our IT department. For me, the ROI is almost infinite because now I spend no time at all on license administration.

Acknowledgements

Albert Einstein College of Medicine provides campus-wide training through MATLAB Academic Online Training Suite. This portfolio of self-paced online courses covers a range of topics and is used to increase productivity, support multidisciplinary projects, and enhance student skills.