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Likelihood to Recommend
Anaconda
Anaconda is great for academic and private organizations that cannot afford more expensive Python/R package managers. Also, it is more appropriate for intermediate to advanced Python users--Anaconda can be somewhat frustrating for beginners, as it takes some practice to get comfortable with the workflow. I find it particularly useful for working in teams, because if everyone uses the same package manager, it is easier to troubleshoot issues and makes for reproducible research. For wealthier organizations, a premium package management system (with tech support) would be ideal. Anaconda is also great for people working independently on code development.
Ph.D student
University of VermontHigher Education, 5001-10,000 employees
IBM SPSS
SPSS is most suited for most researchers, although for power size and other uses will require further purchases or use of other programs to account for the limitations that SPSS might have. It can handle heavy data and there should not be any limitations for multiple variables. It may not be suited for those looking for a more robust and programmable option. Also, for those on a budget, other sources like R-Statistics might be better suited.
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Psychwest, Clinical & Forensic Psychology, Inc.Mental Health Care, 11-50 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Platform Connectivity
Anaconda
6.7
IBM SPSS
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Connect to Multiple Data Sources
Anaconda
9.0
IBM SPSS
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Extend Existing Data Sources
Anaconda
8.0
IBM SPSS
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Automatic Data Format Detection
Anaconda
3.0
IBM SPSS
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Data Exploration
Anaconda
7.7
IBM SPSS
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Visualization
Anaconda
8.0
IBM SPSS
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Interactive Data Analysis
Anaconda
7.3
IBM SPSS
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Data Preparation
Anaconda
7.4
IBM SPSS
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Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment
Anaconda
8.0
IBM SPSS
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Data Transformations
Anaconda
8.7
IBM SPSS
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Data Encryption
Anaconda
6.0
IBM SPSS
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Built-in Processors
Anaconda
7.0
IBM SPSS
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Platform Data Modeling
Anaconda
7.9
IBM SPSS
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Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools
Anaconda
9.0
IBM SPSS
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Automated Machine Learning
Anaconda
6.5
IBM SPSS
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Single platform for multiple model development
Anaconda
8.3
IBM SPSS
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Self-Service Model Delivery
Anaconda
7.7
IBM SPSS
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Model Deployment
Anaconda
7.0
IBM SPSS
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Flexible Model Publishing Options
Anaconda
7.4
IBM SPSS
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Security, Governance, and Cost Controls
Anaconda
6.7
IBM SPSS
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Pros
Anaconda
- Clear install story. There are a lot of ways to install python. There's only one way to install anaconda. This makes teaching and standardizing much easier.
- Batteries included. It's easy to install things in python, but anaconda ships with most of what you need out of the box. This helps with standardization and reproducibility.
- Good integrations with Jupyter and other visual tools. Jupyter is really convenient when learning various python packages. Anaconda makes these tools easy to launch and to use.
Academic Services Manager
The University of KansasHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
IBM SPSS
- SPSS has been around for quite a while and has amassed a large suite of functionality. One of its longest-running features is the ability to automate SPSS via scripting, AKA "syntax." There is a very large community of practice on the internet who can help newbies to quickly scale up their automation abilities with SPSS. And SPSS allows users to save syntax scripting directly from GUI wizards and configuration windows, which can be a real life-saver if one is not an experienced coder.
- Many statistics package users are doing scientific research with an eye to publish reproducible results. SPSS allows you to save datasets and syntax scripting in a common format, facilitating attempts by peer reviewers and other researchers to quickly and easily attempt to reproduce your results. It's very portable!
- SPSS has both legacy and modern visualization suites baked into the base software, giving users an easily mountable learning curve when it comes to outputting charts and graphs. It's very easy to start with a canned look and feel of an exported chart, and then you can tweak a saved copy to change just about everything, from colors, legends, and axis scaling, to orientation, labels, and grid lines. And when you've got a chart or graph set up the way you like, you can export it as an image file, or create a template syntax to apply to new visualizations going forward.
- SPSS makes it easy for even beginner-level users to create statistical coding fields to support multidimensional analysis, ensuring that you never need to destructively modify your dataset.
- In closing, SPSS's long and successful tenure ensures that just about any question a new user may have about it can be answered with a modicum of Google-fu. There are even several fully-fledged tutorial websites out there for newbie perusal.
Technical Project Manager
California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
Cons
Anaconda
- Although some other users mentioned the installation is "simple", we did encounter some challenge in a highly controlled environment (due to security reasons).
- Jupyter Notebook is extremely slow when the client/server side of the network's speed/bandwidth is not balanced.
- Bootstrapping Anaconda takes too long, sometimes I even started doubting it would respond any more.
- If there are extra python packages you need but are not by default installed by Anaconda, then some efforts will be required to figure out how to put them in the right place.

Verified User
Strategist in Information Technology
Package/Freight Delivery Company, 10,001+ employeesIBM SPSS
- SPSS has for a long time touted it's "new and improved" graphing capabilities, and while they are that, they still have flexibility issues (or I just haven't found how to correctly use the software). For instance, why are data labels in a bar chart restricted to appearing only within the bar itself? Sure, you can have them at the bottom, middle, or near the top of the bar, but why not, say, just above the bar?
- When dealing with qualitative data, say comments from survey respondents, occasionally we run into characters likely typed by the respondent, which SPSS doesn't know how to handle, so it converts it to a space. It took me a while to figure out that it wasn't a space at all, and was wondering why my Syntax wasn't working (still assuming it was a space). It would help if SPSS could convert unknown characters to something more obvious.
- Biggest headache using SPSS is dealing with the IBM hierarchy when needing customer support or even upgrading to the new version (which comes out annually). In order to upgrade to v26 in April 2019, I eventually found out I needed not just an Authorization Code, nor a Full License Code, but also a Lock Code and spent way too many hours attempting to straighten this out with IBM customer support. I handle purchasing the upgrades too, and that task is not straightforward either. I miss the SPSS support before they were acquired by IBM.
Senior Director Member Insights
American Academy of NeurologyNon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Anaconda
Anaconda 7.0
Based on 1 answer
It's really good at data processing, but needs to grow more in publishing in a way that a non-programmer can interact with. It also introduces confusion for programmers that are familiar with normal Python processes which are slightly different in Anaconda such as virtualenvs.
Academic Services Manager
The University of KansasHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 9.4
Based on 15 answers
It's super easy to use for newbies and super powerful for power users! It does EVERYTHING you are usually asked to do analytically. Their Help Desk is PHENOMENAL. And I find the upgrade and renewal price to be a good deal.
Market Research Principal
HussmannSupermarkets, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Anaconda
Anaconda 8.0
Based on 1 answer
It's really good at installing and getting started. It's less usable and configurable after that. If you stay in the ecosystem, and don't know how to Python any other way - it works really well.
Academic Services Manager
The University of KansasHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 6.7
Based on 9 answers
SPSS is beginner friendly and user-friendly for beginner analysts and simple statistical tests. It's "click and go" interface does take some learning, but overall this is much easier than other programs I have used and seen. Compared to SAS software, SPSS takes a great deal less familiarizing and it not a matter of learning a coding language like SAS and RStudio.
Project Manager
The University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and HumanitiesHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees
Reliability and Availability
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 6.0
Based on 1 answer
SPSS can tend to crash when I am trying to do a lot of data. This can slow me down when I need to do a lot of data

Verified User
Director in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employeesPerformance
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 6.0
Based on 1 answer
SPSS does the job, but it can be slow. I do have to plan a lot of time to get through a huge amount of data.

Verified User
Director in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employeesSupport
Anaconda
Anaconda 8.0
Based on 1 answer
Prompt response.

Verified User
Contributor in Engineering
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employeesIBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 5.3
Based on 5 answers
I have not contacted IBM SPSS for support myself. However, our IT staff has for trying to get SPSS Text Analytics Module to work. The issue was never resolved, but I'm not sure if it was on the IT's end or on SPSS's end

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Research Company, 11-50 employeesImplementation
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 5.4
Based on 4 answers
Have a plan for managing the yearly upgrade cycle. Most users work in the desktop version, so there needs to be a mechanism for either pushing out new versions of the software or a key manager to deal with updated licensing keys. If you have a lot of users this needs to be planned for in advance.
Senior Director, Management Analysis
Arizona State UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
Anaconda
ANACONDA VS Alteryx Analytics: Even though I find Alteryx to be an excellent tool for managing extremely massive data, Anaconda is much better and easy for analytics.Anaconda VS. MicroStrategy Analytics: Compared with Anaconda, MicroStrategy Analytics is very difficult to use and counter-intuitiveAnaconda VS. Power BI For Office 365: One of the main advantages of BI for Office 364 is its capacity to data connectivity. However, it's very hard to edit data connections, once BI for Office is deployed in other platforms
Senior Cognitive Solutions Consultant
Cognitiva IBM Watson Strategic PartnerComputer Software, 51-200 employees
IBM SPSS
Other software that I can compare to SPSS include R, Excel and SAS. Overall, SPSS is easier to get familiar with and more user friendly which is why I can see it as more appropriate for taught courses. The computational capabilities are not similar to R, but on the other hand it is simpler to use. Excel is much more time consuming in any scenario deriving from the very basics of statistical analysis.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employeesScalability
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 5.0
Based on 1 answer
I am neutral because I have not had to look into scalability since I am using as a student.

Verified User
Director in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
Anaconda
- We can get any new employee set-up on Python for Machine learning in minutes, without any assistance from IT. That's real $ savings.
- We started to experiment with Machine Learning a lot more, which leads to creating new projects which can have a tremendous impact on the business.

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Computer Games Company, 51-200 employeesIBM SPSS
- IBM SPSS has allowed me to quickly analyze data for research.
- IBM SPSS has allowed me to complete analyses in order to submit research findings to conferences and complete manuscripts.
- IBM SPSS has enabled me to meet research objectives set out in grant proposals.
Project Coordinator
Tigereye ConsultingResearch, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
Anaconda
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
IBM SPSS
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No