SPSS 17.0 will feature improved research and reporting tools, greater accessibility for business users combined with new functionality for statistical programmers, and easier enterprise integration, deployment and management.

SPSS 17.0 new features will include:

• Various new algorithms, plus improved speed and performance with additional multithreaded procedures.
• New multiple imputation procedure in SPSS Missing Values that helps you more easily compelte datasets for more reliable analysis
• Updated syntax editor that makes it easier to create, test and correct syntax
• Improved integration with Microsoft Office
• New SPSS EZ RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary value) module to help analysts identify top customers and clients
• Ability to integrate third-party applications, procedures, and graphics packages created in R (through plug-ins)
• Enhanced administrative tools to improve IT configuration of software.

Also to be released is a new SPSS EZ RFM module, designed to help marketers use recency, frequency, and monetary value analysis to find their most valuable customers.

San Francisco-based MarketTools announced today that their survey software product, zTelligence has been given a variety of new features designed to make the product easier to use including several new advanced capabilities. New features include interactive video tutorials, frequently asked questions, a regular live training sessions; new authoring features designed to make survey development go faster; and new reporting features that improve flexibility. (more…)

QSR International announced today the release of NVivo 8, their application for analyzing “very rich” text based information (which, incidentally, includes not just text but also videos, interview recordings, documents, and media clips). According to the web site, NVivo removes many of the manual tasks associated with qualitative analysis, such as classifying, sorting, and arranging information so you have more time to explore trends, build and test theories, and “ultimately arrive at answers to questions.” (more…)