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Discover how the National Instruments approach to graphical system design can change your business.
National Instruments is a technology pioneer and industry leader, delivering today’s most advanced technologies for test, control, and design. Engineers and scientists in hundreds of industries use flexible, high-performance NI products to create reliable,user-defined systems. With graphical programming software and modular, open hardware, NI has redefined how engineers work throughout the entire product design cycle, resulting in reduced time to market and lower development costs.

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Training/Certification and Pricing Training and Certification Academic and OEM Discounts, GSA Pricing 47 48

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Measurement and AutomationSoftware Overview
For more than 20 years, National Instruments has pioneered measurement and automation software for virtual instrumentation. The NI vision of virtual instrumentation is advancing into graphical system design, giving you a single development platform to rapidly design, prototype, and deploy your systems. Today, NI delivers application development environments (ADEs), analysis and testmanagement software, and device and instrument drivers to meet your test, control, and design needs.

NI offers system management software such as NI TestStand for test management and DIAdem for offline data analysis and presentation. For graphical, interactive, and text-based programming solutions, use ADEs such as NI LabVIEW, LabWindows™/CVI, and Measurement Studio for Microsoft Visual Studio.NI provides hardware drivers, flexible high-level APIs, and a configuration manager.

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NI Software Services and Support
National Instruments software services programs complete and complement the NI software product offering so you can increase your development productivity and achieve long-term success.Reduce development time and maintenance costs for your applications Keep your software products up-to-date with the latest features and capabilities Maximize your ability to develop efficient, powerful applications using your available resources

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Additional Services
Software Maintenance and Support
Provides automatic upgrades, maintenance releases, on-demandtraining, and technical support via phone and e-mail.

Training and Certification
Offers the fastest, most effective way to increase application development productivity with NI software and hardware.

Volume License Program
Simplifies your software license management and provides NI software at a discounted rate.

NI Developer Suite
NI Developer Suite offers substantial savings and providesregular quarterly software updates with the latest versions of your application software. The modular NI Developer Suite is configurable for your application needs.
Offers up to 72 percent savings on software Provides regular updates to keep your software current Reduces development downtime with technical support

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Related Products
NI Developer Suite with Automated TestOption
Adds NI TestStand for test execution management, sequencing, data collection, and report generation and adds NI Switch Executive for intelligent switch routing and management.

NI Developer Suite with Real-Time Deployment Option
Adds the LabVIEW Real-Time Module and Real-Time Execution Trace Toolkit to deploy LabVIEW code to dedicated real-time hardware.

NI Developer Suite with...