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Developer Central Update: The CDB

January 16, 2010 by Jon Peck
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I have posted new versions of the SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES and SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT extension command dialog boxes to Developer Central.  Functionality is unchanged, but the dialogs have been redesigned. The dialog boxes for extension commands (among other things) are created with the Custom Dialog Builder (CDB).  The CDB, which... [read more]

NYT: SAS facing stiff competition

November 23, 2009 by David Smith
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In a front-page article in Sunday's business section, the New York Times takes a look at SAS and how it is increasingly facing competition from both proprietary and open-source alternatives. On the commercial side, more and more vendors are moving into the predictive analytics market eyeing SAS's enviable recurring subscription revenues... [read more]

Monitoring your brand: Sentiment analysis

August 27, 2009 by Michael Fauscette
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Earlier this year at SAP's Business Suite 7 launch I saw a demo of some text analytics capability developed by Business Objects for sentiment analysis used as a kind of an online sentiment monitor feeding into SAP CRM. Interesting concept and one that is increasingly compelling for businesses as more and more real time social content... [read more]

IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart...

July 31, 2009 by Jack Mason
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IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart Infrastructure | BNET Technology Blog My colleague Michael Hickins was right when he said that IBM’s acquisition of SPSS helped it get its hands on a rapidly growing market. But the real upside is not in depriving SAP of an area of business intelligence that it might have been smart in... [read more]

Analytics simplify data to amplify its value

July 31, 2009 by James Taylor
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Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Analytics simplify data to amplify its value.Syndicated from ebizQ With IBM’s announcement this week that it was acquiring SPSS I have been talking to a lot of folks about analytics. Analytics is one of those topics that is often on the edge of what IT people know so I... [read more]

Another Wave Of Vendor Consolidation?

July 28, 2009 by Steve Bennett
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We all woke up today to the news that IBM is to buy SPSS. IBM is acquiring analytics-software maker SPSS in an all-cash transaction at US$50 per share for a deal valued at about US$1.2 billion.With this news I think that it is worth taking a look at IBM's recent moves in... [read more]

IBM to acquire SPSS

July 28, 2009 by David Smith
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Many news outlets are reporting today that IBM has announced that it will acquire SPSS for 1.2 billion dollars in cash. That's $50 a share, a significant premium on the recent trading range of $30-$35. IBM clearly sees value in predictive analysis.IBM has a strong history in supporting open-source projects: they are a significant... [read more]

Another BI Vendor Acquired

July 28, 2009 by Doug Lautzenheiser
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The big software vendors continue to consolidate the BI market.Today, IBM announced plans to acquire statistical analysis software vendor SPSS for $1.2 billion in U.S. cash. IBM and SPSS had already been partners to integrate predictive analytics features into the Cognos BI product.We know that consolidations will continue, so let's... [read more]

The Output Translator

June 29, 2009 by Jon Peck
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Although SPSS translates the user interface and output to many languages, there is often a need for some output in other languages. The translator package provides tools for user-created translations. This package, which can be downloaded from SPSS Developer Central, provides code that can read a set of translation definition files and... [read more]

First Look - SPSS PASW Decision Management Solutions

May 1, 2009 by James Taylor
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SPSS Inc. likes to say they focus on helping customers capture all the information they need, predict outcomes and then, using their Decision Management products, act on these insights by embedding analytic results into business processes. Within this family, the PASW Decision Management tools add actions, business rules, to analytics... [read more]

Consuming Output for Further Processing

April 22, 2009 by Jon Peck
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A common need with SPSS Statistics is to produce some statistical results and then use them for further processing.  We sometimes call that “output as input”.  This is very straightforward if you can do it with AGGREGATE or procedures that produce results as SPSS datasets, but it is possible to do this for anything that SPSS... [read more]

PASW 13 :The preview

April 7, 2009 by AjayOhri
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Here are some previews of  PASW – the new suite of software by SPSS.  Auto ClusterThe Auto Cluster feature in PASW Modeler 13 creates, ranks, browses and visualizes models to identify which clusters offer the most effective cross-sell/up-sell opportunities, or reduce the propensity to churn.Automatic Data PreparationAutomatic Data... [read more]

SPSS launches PASW 13

April 6, 2009 by AjayOhri
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SPSS launches a new product.From the official PR release -PASW Modeler 13 (formerly Clementine) and PASW Text Analytics 13 (formerly Text Mining for Clementine) extend and automate the power of data mining and text analytics to the business user, while significantly enhancing the productivity, flexibility and performance of the expert... [read more]

First Look - SPSS Predictive Analytic Software 13

April 6, 2009 by James Taylor
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Today SPSS Inc. announced new product releases and new naming for its product families. Predictive Analytics Software (PASW) is the new umbrella and the four families are layered below this. The four families are Data Collection, Statistics, Modeling, and Deployment. This week’s enhancements are to the modeling family. In addition,... [read more]

Interview: Jon Peck SPSS

March 17, 2009 by AjayOhri
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I was in the middle of interviewing people as well as helping the good people in my new role as a community evangelist at Smart Data Collective when I got a LinkedIn Request to join the SDC group from Jon Peck.SPSS Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of predictive analytics software and solutions. Founded in 1968, today SPSS has more... [read more]

Modeling Visualization Macros

March 16, 2009 by AjayOhri
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I was creating some scoring models and decided to look for some macros.1) Here is a nice SAS Macro from Wensui’s blog at http://statcompute.spaces.live.com/blog/Its particularly useful for Modelling chaps, I have seen a version of this Macro sometime back which had curves also plotted but this one is quite nice too  2) I then... [read more]