Authorised Software
At Colart we look to provide all the essential tools and capabilities to perform your job effectively choosing the best balance of capability vs cost when selecting the software packages we make available to the organisation.
Listed below are the software packages we have authorised for use on Colart machines. You may request for these to be installed through the service desk. You must not install software directly yourself.
If there is a piece of software you require that is outside of the authorised list, you may still request it through the service desk who wil perform checks to ensure it's function is not covered by an existing authorised piece of software, validate that the software is secure and coordinate with you to organise its purchase and installation.
Microsoft Outlook
Email and calendar application
Powerpoint
Our primary means of presenting information within the business
Excel
Everyones favourite spreadsheet
Word
WordPressor. Generally we've moved to powerpoint for most information, but word documents still have their place.
Notes
The place to store any notes you wish to take
Teams
A team collaboration tool that lets you text chat, voice/video call, have online meetings and share/collaborate with your colleagues.
Google Chrome
Our webbrowser of choice
Microsoft Whiteboard
Microsoft Whiteboard provides a blank canvas that teams can jointly contribute towards adding images, post-it notes and annotations. It is ideal for brainstorming and innovation meetings allowing you to capture the views from across a team.
OneDrive
OneDrive is where we store all of our business files
Peazip
Peazip is a piece of utility software which allows you to bundle multiple files into a single archive file and optionally add encrpytion to protect the contents. A kind of digital suitcase and padlock.
We have a range of design software available to different cohorts within the business. The everyday users category should cover most peoples needs but for the more ambitious around us we have adopted the Affinity suite which provide an equivilent to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
We also provide Adobe Creative Cloud on a very limited basis and only to our core design teams.
For everyday users
GIMP
Photo and image editing software. Great for resizing, cropping, designing marketing banners, social media and webpage assets and general tuning of pictures
Shotcut
Video editing software, ideal for all basic video editing needs.
Inkscape
Basic vector graphics editor. Great for designing icons, logos and illustrations
Publisher
Desktop publishing tool for laying out print documents
For the more advanced
Affinity Photo
A photo/image editing package equivilent to Adobe Photoshop
Affinity Designer
A vector design application equivilent to Adobe Illustrator
Affinity Publisher
Desktop publishing software equivilent to Adobe InDesign
For design teams only
Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Create Cloud is only available to our core design teams due to their need for the to work with industry standard software. For all other users the above options provide almost all of the capability for a tiny fraction of the cost.
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Planner is our standard tool for managing simple projects using a Kanban board. It is ideal for small teams and projects and is part of our standard Office 365 suite of software
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is used by our project management teams to plan waterfall projects.
Monday.com
Monday.com is a tool that allows teams to build and organise tasks. It is primarily used within the technology and brand teams.
Adobe Acrobat
PDF viewer with some basic editing and signing capabilities
Able2Extract Pro
More advanced PDF tool that allows you to edit PDFs and export them to different file formats such as Word
Adobe Acrobat Pro
The industry standard PDF editing tool. Similar in capabilities to Able2Extract but a more expensive and so only available where a specific use case requires it.
OBS - Open Broadcast Software
Live video production software useful for both streaming events and recording video.
Audacity
Audio editing software
PowerBI
Data visualisation and analysis tool that integrates with the Colart data warehouse.