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StatSoft, Inc. receives 2008 Best of Tulsa Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 29, 2008) – StatSoft, Inc. has been selected for the 2008 Best of Tulsa Award in the Computer Services category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) . The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.
Comprehensive support for the popular R language in all (Web)STATISTICA products and solutions
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Web)
STATISTICA now includes new features to enable users to embed R functionality into their custom programs, (
Web)
STATISTICA Enterprise analysis configurations, to run R scripts directly in the
STATISTICA desktop environment, or to offload such scripts to the
WebSTATISTICA server for server-side processing.
There are various ways to integrate with R,
- Accessing R COM interfaces for low-level interaction
- Running R programs directly from STATISTICA, and retrieving results to STATISTICA reports, workbooks and graphs
- Using STATISTICA datasets in the R environment and retrieving tabular results from R programs into STATISTICA spreadsheets
- Calling R from STATISTICA Visual Basic (SVB), to create STATISTICA functionality that leverages R libraries
- Running R from STATISTICA Enterprise (creating reusable R-based analysis configurations/templates, to deliver the power of R to users not familiar with R)
- Creating and running R-based STATISTICA Data Miner nodes, to integrate specialized R routines into STATISTICA Data Miner,
- Running R from WebSTATISTICA Server (using any of the available methods described above), to create powerful, secure, multi-processor R servers with load balancing, batch-job capabilities (scheduling), etc.
For more information
R Language
StatSoft Sponsors Summer School on Computational Biology in Czech Republic
TULSA, OK (May 29, 2008) - StatSoft sponsored Masaryk University Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses' 4th Annual International
Summer School on Computational Biology.
STATISTICA User Forum
TULSA, OK (May 29, 2008) - StatSoft is pleased to announce that a
user forum for
STATISTICA is now open to the public.
The Forum is established as service to the
STATISTICA user community worldwide, to facilitate the exchange of ideas, applications, and solutions related to the
STATISTICA line of software.
The Forum can be accessed by anyone. However, in order to protect it from spam, registration is necessary to post messages on the Forum. The Registration page is accessible from any Forum page via the “Register” link found in the upper-right corner, or
click here.
StatSoft hopes that this will be a useful forum for our users around the world and look forward to this exchange with our user community.
STATISTICA is Vista Ready!
TULSA, OK (May 15, 2008) -
STATISTICA 8 MR2 has met the requirements of a “Vista Ready!” application and has been placed on Microsoft’s list of
Vista applications. StatSoft is a Gold Partner of Microsoft and all our applications maintain high standards of compatibility with the Microsoft system standards.
Dr. Tom Hill Presents Paper at Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development
TULSA, OK (May 2, 2008) -Dr. Thomas Hill, StatSoft's Vice President for Analytic Solutions, was invited to present a paper on the most recent work by StatSoft Power Solution consultants to optimize furnace performance for low emissions at the Alliant Edgewater Generating Station.
StatSoft Power Solutions has developed effective approaches to leverage historical performance data for boiler optimization. This work is rapidly gaining broad recognition for providing cost-effective tools to optimize the increasingly complex processes required to ensure the safe and clean generation of electricity.
The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate brings together seven major countries - Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States. This group collectively accounts for more than half of the world's economy, population, and energy use. The partners are cooperating at the governmental and private sector levels in an effort to address increased energy needs and the associated issues of air pollution, energy security, and climate change.
Positive Response to STATISTICA Data Miner Recipes Webcast
Tulsa, OK (April 24, 2008) - StatSoft held a web cast featuring an Overview of
STATISTICA Data Miner Recipes. This solution takes data mining to the next level with a wizard guided approach following recipes based on best known practices to build prediction models and practical solutions and leverages the most cutting edge data mining algorithms available. An archive of this
webcast is available.
StatSoft, Claim Analytics and Society of Actuaries to hold predictive modeling seminar
TULSA, OK (Mar. 27, 2008) -In cooperation with Claim Analytics (
www.claimanalytics.com) and the Society of Actuaries (
www.soa.org), StatSoft will hold a seminar focusing on predictive modeling for actuaries, Introduction to Predictive Modeling: Techniques and Applications for Insurance Actuaries to be held November 10-11, at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare, Chicago IL. This course is well suited for actuaries who will actually be working with or building predictive models. No experience with predictive modeling is required to attend.
The course will begin with a review of leading techniques including Neural Networks, General Linear Models, CART and others and provide attendees with a solid grasp of how predictive modeling can be applied in real world insurance.
More
information will be available soon at both the Claim Analytics Society of Actuaries web sites.
Enthusiastic Response to Data Miner Recipes from an Expert
TULSA, OK (March 25, 2008) - Dr. Bob Nisbet, a recognized expert on data mining and the author of many important publications in this area, has recently performed a quick test of
STATISTICA Data Miner with built-in Data Miner Recipes. Dr. Nisbet stated that he “liked the way the new Recipes interface leads the user through common data mining tasks” and he particularly liked the redundancy check. The evaluation copy that Dr. Nisbet was provided did not include documentation, which led to an unintended “test of intuitiveness” of that new UI – Dr. Nisbet was still able to use the Recipes facility. Moreover, using the default parameters in
STATISTICA Data Miner, KXEN (version 3.3.3) and SPSS Clementine Neural Net (Version 11.0), he found that the automated function of
STATISTICA Data Miner Recipes was as automatic (or nearly so) as these others tools and yet provided superior performance.
Dr. Nisbet’s sample data set was a telecommunication data set with 10,000 rows and the tests were conducted using out-of-the-box parameters and configurations for all three software packages. Overall performance was measured on the basis of Global Accuracy as measured by (True-Positives + True-Negatives)/N.
UCB Deploys STATISTICA Enterprise
TULSA, OK (Feb. 21, 2008) - UCB (www.ucb-group.com) has deployed the
STATISTICA Enterprise platform as a statistical software system in its Belgian manufacturing site of Braine. UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium and operations in more than 40 countries.
STATISTICA Enterprise is integrated with UCB's data repositories including its laboratory information management system (LIMS). The integration to the data repositories streamlines access to data for analysts and scientists, making it easier and quicker to derive insights and make decisions. The
STATISTICA Enterprise system is used for a variety of applications including scientists performing ad hoc analyses through to standard reporting.
"The adoption at UCB is another example of StatSoft's growing focus on customers and applications in the life sciences market", says Robert Eames, Product Manager for Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Solutions for StatSoft.
StatSoft Partners with Claim Analytics
TULSA, OK (Feb. 18, 2008) - In partnership with Claim Analytics (
www.claimanalytics.com), StatSoft will be holding a seminar on Predictive Modeling for actuaries (co-sponsored by the Society of Actuaries) focusing on the applications of Data Mining for life and health insurance. This seminar will provide hands-on experience with identifying and quantifying patterns in data and develop predictive models to enable actuarial decisions regarding life and health insurance products. The seminar will be held in Chicago, November 10-11, 2008
StatSoft Co-Sponsors Southwest Power Conference
TULSA, OK (Feb. 13, 2008) - StatSoft is pleased to announce its co-sponsorship of the 2008 Southwest Power Conference in Arlington, TX. The focus of this year's conference is: Optimization - Methods to improve efficiency and availability in power plants. The Southwest Power Conference is a regional association of electrical power plant employees. Most of the attendees will be Plant Managers, Plant Engineers, Operation Managers, I&E Technicians, Chemists, and Maintenance Managers. They will come mainly from power plants throughout Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arizona.
StatSoft Awarded Microsoft Gold Partnership
TULSA, OK (Feb. 10, 2008) - Once again, StatSoft has extended its Gold Partnership with Microsoft. This extension reflects StatSoft's commitment to continue the development of products that offer comprehensive support of (as well as extension of) Microsoft operating system platforms and technologies. "One of important general features of the entire StatSoft product line is their seamless integration with the existing computer infrastructures of its clients and StatSoft's partnership with Microsoft helps us achieve that goal." Says Win Noren, the Director of Global Operations at StatSoft.
Presentation at PRB Coal Users' Group at Electric Power
TULSA, OK (Jan. 11, 2008) - Dr. Thomas Hill, VP Analytic Solutions at StatSoft will be presenting a paper at the 2008 Power River Basin Coal Users' Group at Electric Power 2008 in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Hill will present the paper, Successful Robust Optimization Strategies Based on Historical Data for Existing Coal Burning Furnace Technologies (Beyond DOE, CFD, and Statistical Modeling), along with Douglas Shuit, Process Performance Engineer, Alliant Energy.
This presentation will illustrate the approach and specific methodologies in various case studies involving cyclone and wall-fired furnaces to (1) lower emissions (NOx, CO) and (2) improve the consistency (robustness, availability) of operations over a wide range of coal flows, loads, fuel qualities, etc., thus leading to less downtime (greater reliability of generation capacity), lower operational costs, and improved safety. These methods, which can be applied to virtually any boiler technology and plants with various degrees of instrumentation, and typically without requiring modifications to the control system, will also be contrasted with traditional analytic approaches such as DOE (design of experiments), CFD (computational fluid dynamics), as well as neural-networks and neural-networks based closed loop control and "optimization": None of these methods can address complex systems with large numbers of parameters, are often costly to implement (e.g., closed loop control), and are not suitable to achieve robust optimization of multiple performance goals (low NOx, CO, LOI, etc.) with existing instrumentation and control systems.
StatSoft Announces the Release of STATISTICA ETL
TULSA, OK (Jan. 8, 2008) -
STATISTICA ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) provides options to simplify and facilitate access to, aggregation, and alignment of data from multiple databases, when some of the databases contain process data (such as from PI or similar databases), while others contain "static" data (e.g., from Oracle or MS SQL Server). Provides for ad-hoc querying and aligning of data, for subsequent analyses such as ad-hoc charting etc. of data describing a specific time interval.
2007
StatSoft Industrial Quality Control User Conference - Mannheim, Germany
TULSA, OK (Dec. 12, 2007) - Users of various industrial business fields are presenting their projects with
STATISTICA at the StatSoft Industrial Quality Control User Conference in Mannheim, Germany. Nine presentations are scheduled from industries such as Semiconductor, Steel, Pharmaceutical, Optics, and Chemistry. The Keynote speaker, Dr. Peter Busse, Chief Technology Officer at DONCASTERS Precision Castings-Bochum GmbH, will speak on the construction of an integrated SPC model for a medium-sized precision casting company. Other presentations will focus on GxP in the pharmaceutical and other regulated industries.
StatSoft Announces the Release of Data Miner Recipes
TULSA, OK (Dec. 6, 2007) -
STATISTICA Data Miner now includes Data Miner Recipes, a quick and easy way to run projects with one click using a wizard-like user interface. Data Miner Recipes will guide users step-by-step through the data mining process to connect to data, modify/prepare data, perform computations, review results, and save/deploy the results.
A general trend in data mining is the increasing emphasis on solutions based on simple analytic processes, rather than the creation of ever-more sophisticated general analytic tools. "The
STATISTICA Data Miner Recipe approach offers truly a breakthrough in area of data mining applications. It provides an extremely intuitive and efficient graphical interface which not only cuts down the time necessary perform routine, predictive data mining tasks but also enables those with limited data mining experience to execute a "recipe-like" step-by-step analytic process." According to Dr. Thomas Hill, VP Analytic Solutions at StatSoft With these intuitive dialogs, users can perform various data mining tasks such as regression, classification, and clustering. Other recipes can be built quickly as custom solutions. Completed recipes can be saved and deployed as project files to score new data.
StatSoft Power Solutions working with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and EPRI's Cyclone Interest Group (CIG) to demonstrate the effectiveness of historical data driven methods for achieving robust cyclone performance
TULSA, OK (Nov. .29 2007) - StatSoft Power Solutions (www.StatSoftPower.com) has been awarded a contract from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI's Cyclone Interest Group) for a project to demonstrate the effectiveness of (historical) data driven and data mining methods for achieving stable flame temperatures. While cyclone furnaces have not been commissioned for many years, numerous operators in the United States continue to improve on the operation of this versatile boiler design, to achieve consistent low-emissions. In collaboration with EPRI and Alliant Energy, StatSoft Power Solutions is using StatSoft's patent-pending methods for leveraging existing historical data to identify operational recommendations (operational parameter ranges) to achieve robust performance -- i.e., stable optimal flame temperatures in this case.
The results of this demonstration project are available from EPRI, and are scheduled for publication in the first quarter of 2008.
Establishment of Fully Owned Subsidiary, StatSoft Power Solutions, Inc.
TULSA, OK (Oct. 31, 2007) - StatSoft (www.statsoft.com) is pleased to announce the establishment of a fully owned subsidiary, StatSoft Power Solutions, Inc. (www.StatSoftPower.com).
StatSoft Power Solutions provides consulting and solution packages designed for utility companies, for optimizing power plant performance and reliability (availability of capacity), and for reducing harmful emissions. Based on over 20 years of experience in applying advanced data driven data mining optimization technologies for process optimization in various industries, these solutions enable power plants to improve their operations by using their existing control systems and equipment, and leveraging existing historical data.
By applying advanced knowledge discovery algorithms, and patent-pending specialized methods for achieving optimized robust performance, this technology will enable operators to achieve lower emissions (e.g., lower NOx, CO), greater efficiency, and greater reliability (e.g., by stabilizing critical performance parameters, such as furnace gas exit temperature, etc.) These patented and/or patent-pending proven methods are applicable to furnaces of various designs, and in particular to fossil-fuel power plants, and technologies ranging from older cyclone-, t-fired, or wall-fired to atmospheric pressure fluidized-bed boilers, and newer coal gasification furnaces.
STATISTICA Data Miner User Conference - Hamburg, Germany
TULSA, OK (Oct. 6, 2007) - Business and IT leaders from cutting-edge companies will be presenting their projects using
STATISTICA Data Miner at the StatSoft Data Miner User Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Eight presentations are scheduled on topics such as Cancer Diagnostics with STATISTICA, Selecting Customers and Evaluating Results in Direct Marketing, the Influence of Hidden Factors on Product Quality, Deploying Statistical Methods for Classification of Steel Varieties, the Optimization of Call-in Television Shows, and a lecture providing an overview and insights into data preparation of the evaluation of results from data mining projects.
StatSoft Announces the Release of the Monitoring and Alerting Server
TULSA, OK (Aug. 20, 2007) - The Monitoring and Alerting Server (MAS) augments the
STATISTICA Enterprise/QC to provide users with a means to centralize and automate the monitoring of many process and product parameters. The ongoing monitoring is an automated and efficient method for a) monitoring many critical parameters simultaneously, and b) providing status "snapshots" from the results of these monitoring activities to personnel based on their responsibilities.
StatSoft Announces the Release of STATISTICA Automated Neural Networks
TULSA, OK (Aug.8, 2007) - StatSoft announces the release of the next generation of naural networks applications -
STATISTICA Automated Neural Networks designed to tackle with ease even the most demanding the real issues in Neural Computing. Despite its power and sophistication, the application is designed to allow even less experienced analysts to perform advanced neural network analyses.
Using neural networks involves more than simply feeding data to a neural network.
STATISTICA Automated Neural Networks (SANN) has the functionality to assist you through the critical design stages, including not only state-of-the-art Neural Network Architectures and Training Algorithms, but also innovative new approaches to network architecture design by using specific and meaningful error functions that allow the interpretation of the output results. Moreover, software developers and those users who experiment with customized applications will appreciate the fact that once your prototyping experiments are completed using
STATISTICA Automated Neural Networks' simple and intuitive user interface, neural networks analyses can be incorporated in custom applications by using either the
STATISTICA library of COM functions that fully expose all functionality of the program or by using the C/C++ code generated by the program to aid in the deployment of fully trained networks.
StatSoft Announces the Release of STATISTICA Enterprise Compliance Edition
TULSA, OK (June. 15, 2007) - Robert Eames, Product Manager for Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Solutions for StatSoft announces the release of the
STATISTICA Enterprise Compliance Edition. This product "adds to our capabilities to deliver GxP solutions using the
STATISTICA platform and make them easier to validate" stated Eames.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing organizations rely on
STATISTICA as an integral analytics platform for drug discovery, development and quality control. StatSoft has been providing analytic solutions to the Pharmaceutical industry for over 10 years, with long term relationships with organizations spanning that entire time. Currently five out of the world's 10 largest pharmaceutical companies rely on
STATISTICA products for mission critical applications.
STATISTICA solutions are also used for a wide variety of validated applications. StatSoft's software development methodology and the wide range of testing performed on
STATISTICA products are well-documented and have passed numerous audits to test their compliance with the standards established by FDA. Moreover, StatSoft provides a full suite of validation services to complement its products. StatSoft products have been audited and evaluated for Part 11 compliance. The entire suite of
STATISTICA products are integrated with a robust, scalable Document Management System that is Part 11-compliant,
STATISTICA is the multi-user, server-based analytics platform to empower scientists with analytical tools that are easy to use, relevant, and integrated with their data sources.
StatSoft Announces the Release of the STATISTICA PI Connector
TULSA, OK (June 1, 2007) - The
STATISTICA PI Connector - designed with the contributions from OSIsoft (a StatSoft's technology partner) is an optional
STATISTICA add-on component that allows for direct integration to data stored in the PI data historian. The
STATISTICA PI Connector utilizes the PI user access control and security model, allows for interactive browsing of tags, and takes advantages of dedicated PI functionality for interpolation and snapshot data.
STATISTICA integrated with the PI system is being used for streamlined and automated analyses for applications such as Process Analytical Technology (PAT) in FDA-regulated industries, Advanced Process Control (APC) systems in Chemical and Petrochemical industries, and advisory systems for process optimization and compliance in the Energy Utility industry.
StatSoft Announces STATISTICA Enterprise, version 8
TULSA, OK (May 28, 2007) - A new version of
STATISTICA Enterprise has been released which offers dozens of new features that further enhance the selection of tools for collaborative work and the management of group projects (including comprehensive support for workgroups with different levels of access privileges, auto-updating and sharing scripts of analyses, queries, reports, etc.)
StatSoft is a technology leader in the fast growing area of integrated, enterprise-wide data analysis solutions organized around centralized data warehouses. These powerful, state-of-the-art software solutions can either be installed as stand-alone systems (e.g., to monitor and control manufacturing processes of practically unlimited complexity), or seamlessly integrated as a component of enterprise computing environments.
STATISTICA Enterprise, version 8 sports a new, further optimized, user interface, new types of permissions for greater flexibility in controlling access to the system, greater flexibility in licensing configuration, plus new utilities to copy configurations from one location to another which allows the administrator to duplicate analysis configuration of one plant at a new plant for easier roll out of the system.
Adoption of STATISTICA by Major Chinese Universities
TULSA, OK (April 19, 2007) - StatSoft is pleased to announce that
STATISTICA was recently adopted as the standard statistical package used in graduate and undergraduate training by three top universities offering degrees in statistics as their standard statistical/data analysis software in April 2007.
- Capital University of Financial and Economics-College of Statistics
- Central University of Financial and Economics-College of Statistics
- Ren-Min University-College of Statistics
Dr. Paul Lewicki, president and CEO of StatSoft, Inc. was invited to attended the adoption ceremonies (held at Ren-Min University for all three schools) and gave a presentation on the "Role of Advanced Analytics in the Global Progress of Civilization."
(PDF)StatSoft Announces Adoption of STATISTICA by Major Chinese Universities
StatSoft Announces Version 8 of STATISTICA
TULSA, OK (March 31, 2007) - StatSoft today released
STATISTICA version 8, a major evolution to the already award-winning data analysis product. Based on the foundations that have already earned
STATISTICA more awards than any other data analysis product in the industry, StatSoft has further enhanced
STATISTICA with technologies and usability features that allow it to break new barriers in data analysis, data mining, and QC applications.
STATISTICA 8 offers hundreds of new features and enhancements. Many of these are industry firsts. Some of the major new features (driven by the true object-oriented architecture of version 8), include:
- Microsoft Office integration allows Excel documents to be opened within STATISTICA directly. Word documents can be used directly as the output report type; graphs can be placed in STATISTICA documents or external documents such as Word and PowerPoint simply by dragging.
- Enhanced system level functionality includes a projects feature that contains a file that will keep a "frozen" state of the current work session and associated open windows. This allows the user to resume the respective analysis where it was last saved. o New report options enable users to: save STATISTICA Enterprise reports as HTML as well as specifying spreadsheets within reports to be saved in HTML tables when the STATISTICA report is saved as HTML.
- New extended facilities for data preparation including enhanced data filtering, cleaning and outlier handling
- New graphs and graph enhancements include: bag plot, bi plot, wafer maps, overlaid contour plots, overlaid probability plots and scatterplot with error bars.
- By Group interface has been significantly improved by adding a By Groups tab to most analysis specifications dialogues.
- The Workbook multi-item display allows for editing of displayed objects. Workbooks can also be saved as HTML.
- Countless other enhancements - are conveniently accessible in optional tabs and controls to be activated only when needed.
Record of Recognition Continues
TULSA, OK (Feb. 22, 2007) - With the recently published comparative study by in a Diplomarbeit (an equivalent of the US Masters Thesis) defended in February 2007 at the Department of Economics and Applied Informatics at the University of Bielefeld (Germany),
STATISTICA continues with its unprecedented record of having received the highest rating in EVERY comparative review.
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