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.

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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.