SPSS Statistics 17.0

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SPSS Statistics 17.0

• Marcus Hearne
• Manager, Product Marketing
• John Norton
• Systems Engineer

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Agenda

• An overview of SPSS Statistics today
• Whats new in SPSS Statistics 17.0
• Demo
• Recap

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The Leader in Predictive AnalyticsMore Customers
In More Industries

• SPSS has the most customers
• 250,000 customers
• Over 95 of the Fortune 1000
• In Every Industry
• 10 of the top 10 global commercial banks
• 8 of the top 10 telecommunication services
  companies
• 21 of the top 25 retailers worldwide
• 24 of the top 25 market research firms
• And Throughout the Public Sector
• All major national governments
• Every branch of the U.S. Military
• Every U.S. State Government
• 1 statistical software on university campuses

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Predict Behavior PreferencesSPSS Statistics
for Research, Analysis and reporting

• Increase analyst productivity
• The most comprehensive workbench
• Presentation ready output
• Grows with your needs
• Increase functionality with add on modules,
  scripting and programmability
• Scales to your requirements
• Flexible deployment options maximize resource
  utilization

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• Organizations Want More

• Ability to Handle More Data, Faster
• Get the Power of Statistical Analysis Into the
  Hands of Non-statisticians
• Managing, Securing and Deploying Statistical
  Assets
• More Tools for New Business Problems
• Open, Extendable and Customized

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SPSS Statistics 17.0 themes

• Improved research and reporting tools
• More accessible to non-statisticians, and more
  for statistical programmers
• Easier integration, deployment and management

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Improved Research and Reporting tools

• Improved Syntax Editor (SPSS Statistics Base)
• Create and execute clean syntax, saving time
• More control over output when exporting to
  Microsoft Office (SPSS Statistics Base)
• Control and automate formatting of export from
  SPSS Statistics, saving time

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Improved Research and Reporting tools

• Multiple Imputation of missing values (SPSS
  Missing Values)
• More accurately impute missing values in data to
  create more reliable results for better decision
  making
• Nearest Neighbor analysis (SPSS Statistics Base)
• For segmenting your dataset.
• See how you rate relative to your competition

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Improved Research and Reporting tools

• Codebook Procedure (SPSS Statistics Base)
• Create summaries of data quickly and easily,
  saving time
• Extended spell-check capabilities to include text
  strings (SPSS Statistics Base)
• Allow for spell checking of strings in the data,
  such as open ended answers to surveys

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Improved Research and Reporting tools

• iGRAPH Conversion Utility(SPSS Statistics Base)
• Existing users can convert iGraph jobs to new
  visualization syntax
• Improved Categorical Regression Predictions
  within CATREG (SPSS Categories)
• Median and lead functions to COMPUTE and lead to
  IF (SPSS Statistics Base)
• More control over rounding and truncation in
  COMPUTE (SPSS Statistics Base)
• Results for such a procedure can now be produced
  consistently across versions of SPSS Statistics

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More for beginners and for advanced users

• SPSS EZ RFM (New add-on)
• Business users (and beginners) can quickly create
  and record Recency, Frequency and Monetary (RFM)
  scores for their customers, allowing
  identification of high value prospects for future
  offers

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More for beginners and for advanced users

• Custom Dialog Builder(SPSS Statistics Base)
• Allow users to create their own user interfaces
  for existing native SPSS Statistics
  functionality, or for customized users-defined
  procedures created via the SPSS Statistics
  Programmability Extension

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More for beginners and for advanced users

• Graphboard (SPSS Statistics Base)
• Users can utilize visualization templates created
  by high end users with Viz Designer, leveraging
  their expertise and more clearly communicating
  results

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More for beginners and for advanced users

• Support for R graphics via programmability(SPSS
  Statistics Programmability Extension)
• Users can now integrate R charts into SPSS
  Statistics as new functionality via the SPSS
  Statistics Programmability Extension
• Updated Python, VB.Net and R plug-ins(SPSS
  Statistics Programmability Extension)
• All SPSS Statistics Programmabilty Extension
  plugins availble on SPSS Developer Central
  updated for SPSS Statistics 17.0
• JDBC/ODBC access to SPSS data file (SPSS
  Statistics Base)
• Allows for SQL manipulation of the SPSS data file

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Easier integration, deployment and management

• More multithreaded procedures (SPSS Statistics
  Base, SPSS Regression and SPSS Complex Samples)
• SORT, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Complex
  Samples Cox Regression
• Optimized multithreading (SPSS Statistics
  Server)
• Multithreaded algorithms are optimized in SPSS
  Statistics Server, limited to four thread in SPSS
  Statistics on the desktop. Ensures SPSS
  Statistics Server utilizes the optimal number of
  threads for performance increase, and not simply
  the maximum possible

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Easier integration, deployment and management

• SPSS Statistics Server Administration tool
  enhancements (SPSS Statistics Server)
• SPSS Statistics Server connections from SPSS
  Statistics for Mac OS X and SPSS Statistics for
  Linux(SPSS Statistics Server)
• Now users on SPSS Statistics for Mac OS X or
  Linux can connect to SPSS Statistics Server,
  removing an roadblock to SPSS Statistics Server
  adoption by some customers

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Easier integration, deployment and management

• Ability to Search the Predictive Enterprise
  Repository (SPSS Statistics Adapter)
• SPSS Statistics Adapter for Predictive Enterprise
  Services for Mac OS X and Linux versions of SPSS
  Statistics(SPSS Statistics Adapter)
• Native Predictive Enterprise View support (SPSS
  Statistics Adapter)

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Easier integration, deployment and management

• Python Front-End Scripting(SPSS Statistics Base)
• Performance improvements
• Improved compatibility with existing Basic
  scripts
• Python more completely replaces SAX basic. Users
  get access to a modern, cross platform,
  programming language for scripting in SPSS.
• SPSS Smartreader replaces SPSS SmartViewer
• Allows you to turn off the editing for a pivot
  only mode

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Easier integration, deployment and management

• Virtualization support
• server-only
• File in use message
• Desktop and server

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Demonstration
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In summary

• Improved research and reporting tools
• Access, prepare, analyze, report
• More for beginners and for advanced users
• Opening SPSS Statistics to new users
• Easier integration, deployment and management
• SPSS Statistics 17.0 integrates more seamlessly
  with other SPSS Inc. technology, and with
  customers existing and planned technology stacks

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Thank you

• Contacting sales
• sales_at_spss.com
• 800.543.2185
• SPSS Statistics 17.0 available for direct
  purchase and download from www.spss.com
• Online training available for new features
  available at www.spss.com
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