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Overview

All OCHA staff have access to the OCHA Global Office (OCHA GO) suite of Microsoft 365 Products (Access, Excel, Onenote, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word, Skype for Business, and a 1TB storage on OneDrive for Business). Additionally each OCHA office can have a 1 TB shared drive to manage office data through Microsoft SharePoint called team site. However, an IM unit needs additional software to process, analyze and disseminate information. The list of tools normally used for an IMU can be found under the tools section in this toolbox

Procedure for Procurement of Hardware and Software

  • For general information please see this page on OCHANet (OCHA login required) https://ochanet.unocha.org/AS/Information_Technology_Services/Pages/OCHA-ICT-Standards.aspx for more detailed explanations 
  • To procure esri products (ArcGIS) please see the esri ArcGIS page in the toolbox
  • Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator Draw, Illustrator (info to be added)
  • Tableau: Tableau Public and Reader are free. Tableau Desktop and Server require a liscense. The HDX / Centre for Humanitarian Data team has obtained limited number of Tableau Desktop licenses from the Tableau Foundation.
  • PowerBI: PowerBI Free is available with OCHA GO.   The main difference between a Free or Pro user is centered around sharing and collaboration. Only Pro users can publish content to app workspaces, consume apps without Premium capacity, share dashboards and subscribe to dashboards and reports. Free users can now connect to all data sources through all connectivity options such as DirectQuery, live connection and the use of the data gateway.

Software Requirements

Based on discussions in the first meeting of the IM global functional team the following software was seen as necessary for all OCHA offices:

  • ArcGIS v10.5 Standard
    • ArcGIS Advanced one license only per office if needed
  • Adobe Suite
    • Acrobat Pro 
    • Illustrator
    • InDesign
    • Photoshop
  • Mail Chimp

Discussions are underway to determine the best approach to ensuring that all OCHA field offices have the necessary software at reasonable corporate rates.

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