IBM SPSS Statistics, (formerly PASW Statistics 18) is a comprehensive, easy-to-use set of predictive analytic tools for business users, analysts and statistical programmers. For more than 40 years, organizations of all types have relied on IBM SPSS Statistics to increase revenue, outmaneuver competitors, conduct research and make better decisions. For example, IBM SPSS Statistics has helped organizations to: 

* Identify which customers are likely to respond to specific promotional offers 
* Boost profits and reduce costs by targeting only the most valuable customers 
* Forecast future trends to better plan organizational strategies, logistics, and manufacturing processes 
* Detect fraud and minimize business risk 
* Analyze either/or outcomes, such as patient survival rates or good/bad credit risks 
* Report results clearly and efficiently 
* Understand which characteristics consumers relate most closely to their brand 
* Identify groups, discover relationships between groups, and predict future events 

IBM SPSS Statistics offers a broad range of statistical and analytical capabilities that organizations require. Its an easy-to-use, comprehensive software solution that: 
* Addresses the entire analytical process from planning and data preparation to analysis, reporting and deployment 
* Provides tailored functionality and custom interfaces for different skill levels and functional responsibilities of business users, analysts and statisticians 
* Includes flexible deployment options from stand-alone desktop to enterprise-strength server versions 
* Provides faster performance and more accurate results, compared to non-statistical, spreadsheet-type software 
* Works with all common data types, external programming languages, operating systems and file types 
* Offers a broad range of specialized techniques to speed productivity and increase effectiveness 

What's New in IBM SPSS Statistics 19? 
With major performance enhancements, improved procedures, and even more ease-of-use features, IBM SPSS Statistics 19 speeds and simplifies your analytic tasks so you get more done in less time. 

* Generalized Linear Mixed Models - Create more accurate models for predicting non-linear outcomes in the Advanced Statistics module 
* Faster Performance - For compiled transformations in IBM SPSS Statistics Server and up to 200% performance gain for generating pivot tables in IBM SPSS Statistics Base 
* Statistics portal - Provide customized, Web-based analysis capabilities to colleagues and customers in IBM SPSS Statistics Server 
* Automatic Linear Models - Build powerful linear models in an easy, automated way in IBM SPSS Statistics Base and IBM SPSS Statistics Server 
* Syntax Editor - More than a dozen performance and ease-of-use enhancements for writing syntax in IBM SPSS Statistics Base and modules 
* Default Measurement Level - Automatically sets your measurement level during analysis in IBM SPSS Statistics Base and modules 
* Direct Marketing - Easier access to pre-built models, better ways to score data, and access to customer information in Salesforce.com from the IBM SPSS Direct Marketing module, IBM SPSS Statistics Base and other modules 
* IBM System z Support - Ability to operate server versions of IBM SPSS Statistics Base and modules on IBM's powerful mainframe servers