Cargill Technology Center
Schneider Hall Room 204

The Cargill Technology Center is unique—no other business school in the UW System has the center’s hardware and software capabilities for facilitating group processes. The conference-style room features 42 workstations equipped with IBM computers with flat panel monitors.

Business students use the center for a variety of classroom activities and functions, to include business case analysis, survey design, new business idea generation, business planning, and systems development.

Lab Software

• AC Nielsen, software for category management using real product data
• Adobe Creative Suite 3, an integrated design environment used to create and publish content for print and the web
• Arena, simulation modeling software
• Catalyst, a manufacturing productivity software package for small manufacturers that includes planning, scheduling, and inventory control capabilities
• CPA TestPrep, self-study software to help prepare for the CPA exam
• Great Plains Dynamics, provides functionality for financial management, project management, supply chain management, analytics, human resources and payroll, manufacturing, and e-commerce
• IDEA, data analysis software used to satisfy financial statement auditing objectives, as well as serve as a tool for account reconciliations, basic data mining, fraud investigations, operational/internal auditing, file transfers, and preparation of management reports
• Microsoft Office 2007, Professional Edition
• Oracle Client and Developer Tools, a business-class database management system
• QuickBooks, integrated accounting package for small businesses
• SPSS, software used to solve business and research problems using statistics
• Visual Paradigm, a cross-platform visual UML modeling and CASE tool
• Visual Studio.NET, an object-oriented application development environment, software used to visually design Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases and create reusable data access queries