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Why Upgrade?
With each release, we’ve added a number of helpful features. Take a look at what you’re missing. Then, contact us to upgrade your existing SPSS Statistics software.
Added in Version 20
- Map visualization capabilities, including pre-built map templates and support for ESRI files in IBM SPSS Statistics Base
- Faster tables: Generate fully interactive and editable output tables up to five times faster
- Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) can be run with a wide variety of hierarchical data (including ordinal values) in IBM SPSS Advanced Statistics
- Run server jobs while disconnected from the network in IBM SPSS Statistics Server
- Temporary file compression during sort procedure with SPSS Statistics Server
- Non-graphical method to specify models in IBM SPSS Amos
Added in Version 19
- Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM)
- Improvements to crosstabs
- Automatic linear models, with improved model accuracy and stability with boosting and bagging
- Updates to IBM SPSS Direct Marketing, including smart output and improvements to control package testing
- UIs for scoring, allowing customers to more easily score new data with pre-built models
- Improvements to portal: Ability to run IBM SPSS Statistics in a portal, combined with IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services
- Ability to connect to Salesforce.com
- Extended IBM SPSS Exact Tests platform support to Mac and Linux
- Import/Export Microsoft® Excel® 2010 data
Added in Version 18
- All modules can run independently, IBM SPSS Statistics Base is no longer required
- Prepare data in a single step using automated data preparation feature
- New nonparametric tests in SPSS Statistics Base
- Post computed categories in IBM SPSS Custom Tables
- Ability to view significance tests in the main results table in SPSS Custom Tables
- Interactive model viewer on two-step cluster analysis and automated data preparation procedures
- Improved display of large pivot tables
- New product: IBM SPSS Statistics Developer and new modules: IBM SPSS Direct Marketing and IBM SPSS Bootstrapping
Added in Version 17
- Switch user interface language
- Mac OS X and Linux platforms can connect clients to IBM SPSS Statistics Server
- Support for graphic packages written in R
- Create user defined interfaces for existing procedures and user-defined procedures with custom dialog builder
- Call front-end Python® scripts or scripting APIs explicitly from within back-end Python programs
- Support for Predictive Enterprise View, a common data interface that can be defined once and used by all IBM SPSS analytic tools
- Read access to SPSS Statistics data files as an ODBC/JDBC data source, allowing these files to be read using SQL
- Codebook procedure to automatically describe the dataset
- Improved syntax editor with features to make it easier to create, test, and deploy syntax jobs
- Multiple imputation of missing data
- Nearest neighbor analysis
- Graphboard integration, enabling users of SPSS Statistics products to deploy new or customer graph templates created in IBM SPSS Visualization Designer
- Wrapping and shrinking of wide tables in Microsoft® Word and PowerPoint®
Added in Version 16*
- Resizable dialogs and drag-and-drop in dialogs
- Several multithreaded procedures for improved performance and scalability
- Unicode support
- Import/export Excel 2007 data
- Complex Samples Cox Regression
- Latent class analysis in IBM SPSS Amos
- Partial least squares regression
- Support for R algorithms
- Addition of Python as a “front-end” cross-platform scripting language
- New module: IBM SPSS Neural Networks
Added in Version 15*
- SPSS Adapter for SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services
- Updated PMML to include transformations
- Export to database wizard
- Custom attributes for user-defined meta data
- Optimal binning
- Subset variable views
- Generalized linear models
- Generalized estimating equations
- Ordinal regression to model ordinal outcomes in SPSS Statistics Base
- Complex samples ordinal regression
- Export output to PDF
*Upgrading from version 16 or earlier will require purchasing a new version of SPSS Statistics.


