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    IBM SPSS Statistics

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics". Companion products in the same family are used for survey authoring and deployment (IBM SPSS Data Collection), data mining (IBM SPSS Modeler), text analytics, and collaboration and deployment (batch and automated scoring services).

    $105

    per month per user

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM SPSS StatisticsSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
    Base
    USD 3,830
    one-time fee per user
    Standard
    USD 8,440
    one-time fee per user
    Professional
    USD 16,900
    one-time fee per user
    Premium
    USD 25,200
    one-time fee per user
    Monthly subscription
    USD 105
    per month per user
    Annual subscription
    USD 1,188.00
    per year per user
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    IBM SPSS StatisticsSnowflake
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Compared to Stata, python and MPlus, SPSS is more user friendly especially for beginners. It displays data and output in easily readable formats and makes statistics fun and easy. However, Stata, python and MPlus are more ideal for complex statistical methods like structural …
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    Easier to build ensembles and also in forecasting than with Python. De trending and deseasonalizing data are far easier.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    User Ratings
    IBM SPSS StatisticsSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (116 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
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    Usability
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    Availability
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    6.4
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    8.7
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    Configurability
    5.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM SPSS StatisticsSnowflake
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    IBM
    IBM SPSS Statistics is well suited for pretty much any data analytic scenario. It can handle extremely complex and large-scale datasets with ease. It especially shines if you have to do any kind of analyses that involve significance testing. Being able to do any number of significance tests (i.e., t-tests, chi-square, ANOVAs, etc.) right inside the tool is very valuable. The only scenario I would say it is less appropriate is if you need to work on a very small dataset and answer very simple questions, like frequencies or averages. In those cases, something like Excel could probably do the job just as easily.
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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • 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.
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Cost is becoming prohibitive.
    • Availability of procedures in the base package seems to be dwindling.
    • The copy-and-paste function from output to Excel is not as easy as it once was (now I have to do a "paste special").
    • Text and date handling are terrible.
    • Need to include AI-based NLP for survey verbatims and other text-based fields. This is becoming increasingly important in the CX world, yet SPSS seems to be ignoring it.
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    Both
    money and time are essential for success in terms of return on investment for any kind of research based project work. Using a Likert-scale questionnaire is very easy for data entry and analysis
    using IBM SPSS. With the help of IBM SPSS, I found very fast and reliable data
    entry and data analysis for my research. Output from SPSS is very easy to
    interpret for data analysis and findings
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    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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    Usability
    IBM
    Probably because I have been using it for so long that I have used all of the modules, or at least almost all of the modules, and the way SPSS works is second nature to me, like fish to swimming.
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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    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
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    Performance
    IBM
    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.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    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
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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    If you have made it this far, you should have a very good idea of how SPSS stacks up the competition (data processing and analytics tools). Even the free ones, such as r Studio or Stata, are leaps and bounds ahead of SPSS. IBM is resting on a reputation developed nearly 30 years ago and has shown no desire to improve.
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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    I am neutral because I have not had to look into scalability since I am using as a student.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • I found SPSS easier to use than SAS as it's more intuitive to me.
    • The learning curve to use SPSS is less compared to SAS.
    • I used SAS, to a much lesser extent than SPSS. However, it seems that SAS may be more suitable for users who understand programming. With SPSS, users can perform many statistical tests without the need to know programming.
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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM SPSS Statistics Screenshots

    Screenshot of SPSS Statistics Forecasting. This enables users to build time-series forecasts regardless of their skill level.Screenshot of SPSS Statistics Regression. These predict categorical outcomes and apply nonlinear regression procedures.Screenshot of IBM SPSS Statistics Neural Networks. These can discover complex relationships and improve predictive models.Screenshot of IBM SPSS Statistics Curated Help. These can interpret correlation output.Screenshot of IBM SPSS Statistics AI Output Assistant interprets statistical output in easy to consume language

    Snowflake Screenshots

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