For Academic Institutions

Easily manage and distribute all your licensed software.

Scalable Solutions for Your University, College, Consortium, School or School District

Our solutions minimize both the administrative and technical work associated with software license management and distribution, making it easier for your community to take advantage of academic software licensing programs. With a hosted WebStore, we enable you to distribute licenses and digital goods to verified users using Kivuto's Electronic License Management System (ELMS). Our all-in-one platform includes verification, account management, e-commerce, secure distribution, reporting and more in a cloud-based environment. Avoid the high costs of purchasing and issuing physical media or maintaining servers by providing 24/7 access to your community through an online WebStore branded to your organization.

Best of all, we have low or no cost solutions for managing all off your software licensing and distribution needs.

Key Benefits

  • Online access to low academic pricing of software providing real value to students, faculty and staff
  • Reduced administrative costs via our seamless, cloud-based Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) system
  • Support for cost recovery and other financial settlement needs
  • Powerful real-time reporting and transaction tracking
  • Branded WebStore with intuitive, customer friendly interface

Personal Purchasing

Leverage the low prices of your volume license agreements to provide your community with software using ELMS Direct. ELMS Direct provides institutions and software resellers a hands-free, zero administration solution to offer volume-licensed software at a fraction of its retail price. Provide students, faculty and staff with their own personal use and work-at-home copies of popular software titles at savings of up to 90% off retail price. Learn more.

Site License Distribution

Fully manage license distribution on-site with ELMS Express. ELMS Express is a site-license management system for academic institutions that delivers software for free, or for a charge, directly to your community. ELMS Express drastically reduces the administrative burden involved in managing site licenses, allowing your institution to easily recover costs and manage your software and license life-cycle. Learn more.

ELMS for DreamSpark

We offer our ELMS (electronic License Management System) at no additional cost to academic departments enrolled in the DreamSpark Program. ELMS is a web-based platform that streamlines all tasks associated with the program including distribution of licenses, automated reporting and auditing trails to ensure you consistently meet the requirements of the program. Learn more.

ESD For Microsoft Academic Programs

Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) partners and their customers can use our platform to digitally deliver popular software titles like Microsoft Office & Windows directly to eligible students, staff and faculty through certain Microsoft Academic Volume License programs, including Microsoft Student Select, Student Option & Work at Home. Learn more.

Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions

Thanks to a new level of partnership between Microsoft and Kivuto Solutions Inc., Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) Student Option customers are entitled to a flexible, no-cost solution for managing and distributing software to qualifying students. Learn more.

ESD For Adobe Student and Teacher Licensing in EMEA

Adobe reseller partners and their customers can use Kivuto Solutions Inc. to digitally deliver popular software titles like Adobe Creative Suite & Acrobat directly to eligible students, staff and faculty through the Adobe Student and Teacher Licensing Program for Higher Education. Learn More