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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.

About StatSoft, Inc.

StatSoft, Inc. (www.statsoft.com), founded in 1984, is one of the largest producers of enterprise and desktop software for Data Analysis, Data Mining, Quality Control/Six Sigma, and Web-based Analytics. Its products are used worldwide at most major universities, corporations, and government agencies and are supported with training and consulting services by a worldwide network of StatSoft offices in 24 countries on all continents.