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SPSS Inc. Announces New Version of Premier Statistical and Data
Management Software
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Copyright SPSS, Inc. 2004
10/11/04
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more current announcements.
SPSS® 13.0 features enhancements for reporting, identification of
groups, data management and predictive analytics for survey research
CHICAGO, 09/14/04 — SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSS) today announced the
availability of SPSS® 13.0 for Windows® and SPSS Server® 13.0 for
Windows. The latest version of SPSS, developed based on direct customer
feedback, includes significantly enhanced reporting capabilities, new
add-on modules for group identification, more powerful data management
features and predictive analytics for survey research.
"The new version of SPSS for Windows is a major upgrade," said Bob
Muenchen, manager, Statistical Consulting Center, Office of Information
Technology at The University of Tennessee. "SPSS 13.0 includes an array
of features that people will use often in their daily work."
More than 250,000 organizations worldwide rely on SPSS for Windows for
survey research, database analysis and scientific reporting. SPSS 13.0
for Windows provides a broad range of capabilities for each step in the
analytical process, including planning, data access, data management and
preparation, analysis, reporting and deployment.
Enhanced Reporting Capabilities
Building on the improvements to the presentation graphics system
introduced in SPSS 12.0, the new version of SPSS for Windows offers
enhanced reporting capabilities. New chart types and chart display
features give users more options for presenting data. The SPSS Tables™
add-on module offers expanded category management capabilities,
delivering extensive control to users for displaying data. Additionally,
SPSS tables and charts can now be easily exported to Microsoft®
PowerPoint®, saving users time and improving the accuracy of reporting
data.
"SPSS 13.0’s data visualization capabilities are unparalleled," said
Brian Robertson, PhD, director of research, Market Decisions. "The new
chart types are great, and the paneled charts will provide our
organization with more options in helping our market research customers
visualize their data."
New Add-On Module Enables Users to Better Identify Groups
The new SPSS Classification Trees™ add-on module creates classification
and decision trees, which work directly within the SPSS environment to
help users identify groups, discover relationships between groups and
predict future events. Intuitive, visual trees enable users to present
results that more easily explain categorical results to non-technical
audiences.
"I am very excited about the new SPSS Classification Trees module," said
Daniel Robertson, PhD, research associate, College of Education and
Human Services at Utah State University. "It will be useful in analyzing
large population groupings and uncovering previously unknown
relationships within those groups."
More Powerful Data Management
The new data management features in SPSS 13.0 help users save time,
while increasing both the accuracy and reliability of their data. The
availability of long text strings ensures that users will preserve data
when working with open-ended question responses or when importing data
from software that permits long data strings.
"SPSS 13.0's support of longer text strings is a huge addition to the
software’s functionality," said Jay Goodwin, PhD, research psychologist,
U.S. Army Research Institute. "It opens up myriad possibilities for both
data cleaning and data management."
The new Data and Time Wizard makes it easier to import date and time
data from a variety of sources, while also simplifying a number of
common tasks associated with these variables. The enhanced Data Editor
includes new splitter controls - a spreadsheet-like system for entering
and displaying data - which allow users to quickly and easily analyze
large datasets.
A complete overview of the new data management features in SPSS 13.0 is
available at
http://www.spss.com/spss/data_mgmt.htm.
Predictive Analytics for Survey Research
By using SPSS Complex Samples™ to perform sophisticated analysis, users
can more accurately analyze and predict numerical and categorical
outcomes from complex samples. The latest version of this add-on module
includes Complex Samples General Linear Models (CSGLM), enabling users
to build linear regression, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of
covariance (ANCOVA) models for evaluating and predicting numerical
outcomes. The module also features Complex Samples Logistic Regression (CSLOGISTIC),
enabling users to analyze and calculate categorical outcomes.
"A large part of our analytical work involves studies with complex
sampling designs," said Market Decision’s Robertson. "SPSS Complex
Samples provides a framework for predicting outcomes while also taking
sample design into account. SPSS Complex Samples is an exceptional
module
that enables me to accurately predict outcomes by analyzing survey
data."
Minimum System Requirements
Client
* Operating system: Windows XP, 2000 or Me is preferred. Windows 98 is
also supported.
* Pentium®-class processor
* 128MB RAM, minimum
* 220MB hard disk space
* SVGA monitor
Server
* Hard disk space: 220MB for SPSS Server Base (software only)
* 512MB RAM, minimum
* Swap space size: two times RAM
* CD-ROM drive
* Operating system and processor:
o Windows® 2000/2003 Server
o Sun™ Solaris™-Solaris 2.8 or above
o IBM® AIX®-4.3.3 or above
o Linux®-Red Hat® Linux 8.0
About SPSS Server
SPSS 13.0 for Windows is available as both a stand-alone desktop
application and as an enterprise-class server solution. SPSS Server 13.0
for Windows is designed to be deployed on server-grade resources for
performing large data preparation and analysis tasks. SPSS Server
offers key scalability enhancements including unrestricted data file
sizes, secure remote access and the SPSS Batch Facility for scheduled,
batch processing of repetitive tasks. SPSS Server also allows multiple
connections from SPSS desktop clients, freeing up local computing
and network resources while also reducing temporary file space
requirements.
About SPSS Survey and Market Research Solutions
For more than 35 years, SPSS Inc. has helped commercial, academic and
government organizations maximize productivity and accuracy through
every phase in the research process, from ad hoc research projects to
high-volume, complex research programs.
SPSS Inc. offers a broad range of end-to-end survey and market research
tools, including survey design, authoring, sampling, data collection,
analysis and publishing. In addition to SPSS 13.0 and SPSS modules, SPSS
Inc. offers the Dimensions™ technology platform, a scaleable, integrated
application suite for multimode projects. Dimensions benefits
organizations whose backbone is the collection and analysis of survey
data. Surveyors can also use Dimensions tools through an SPSS online
hosting service.
For survey researchers interested in unlocking analytical value from
survey text responses, SPSS offers SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys™,
which combines automatic linguistic algorithms with user-controlled
techniques to quickly and reliably extract and classify key concepts
from
within verbatim responses.
For more information about SPSS Inc.’s survey and market research
offerings, visit
http://www.spss.com/vertical_markets/survmkt_research/.
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