Analytics plays an increasingly important role in helping your organization achieve its objectives. The IBM SPSS Statistics family delivers the core capabilities needed for end-to-end analytics. To ensure that the most advanced techniques are available to a broader group of analysts and business users, we have made enhancements to the features and capabilities of IBM SPSS Statistics Base and its many specialized modules.

IBM SPSS Statistics 20 continues to increase accessibility to advanced analytics through improved tools, output, and ease-of-use features. This release focuses on increasing the analytic capabilities of the software through:

• Mapping, which adds a geographic dimension to analysis and reporting
• Improvements to existing procedures
• Enhancements that increase analysts' productivity

Highlights

• New mapping capabilities - add a geographic dimension to analysis
• Faster tabular outputs - allow viewing of results much faster
• Improved Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM) - can now be run with ordinal values
• Updates to IBM® SPSS® AMOS™ scripting, enabling greater customization of complex models
• Save large files within the sort procedure to save time and boost performance
• Compression of temporary files within the sort procedure to save space and improve performance