Visual Introduction to STATISTICA

Efficient User Interface, Quick Templates for Novices

• Uncluttered Quick tabs contain only the crucial options.
• Advanced tabs keep all of the more specialized options hidden but easily accessible.
• User Interface can be further simplified/customized for novices or for routine tasks.
• STATISTICA Projects enable you to save the current state of your analysis and later retrieve it exactly where you left off (including all previously open windows, dialogs, etc.)

Make "Your Own STATISTICA" - Put a Simple Face on Advanced Functionality

• Quickly create shortcuts to any part of the program using automation options - simply record an operation (macro) and assign it to a toolbar button.
• Customize all menus and toolbars in seconds (by dragging options with the mouse) to include only the commands you use frequently.
• Tailor anything and everything to fit your needs, "paint" your own dialogs by dragging controls with the mouse or use HTML to build user interfaces.

Unmatched Quality of Presentation and Analytic Graphs

• Take full advantage of the leading-edge graphics technologies fully integrated with all analytic procedures, including editing and drawing in zoom mode.
• "Slice and dice" data with cutting-edge tools such as the "Interactive 3D Explorer" for precise brushing or zooming of complex multivariate datasets; select subsets of data by "slicing" 3D space (with the mouse).
• Enjoy advanced functionality such as hierarchical graph style libraries and direct support for compound multimedia objects.

Full Web-Enablement Analytics: WebSTATISTICA

• Automatically publish perfectly formatted HTML reports for viewing on your company-wide Intranet or on the Web (even without the optional WebSTATISTICA).
• Run STATISTICA interactively and manage projects "across the hall or across continents" from any computer connected to the Web (using the optional WebSTATISTICA Server).
• WebSTATISTICA Server applications seamlessly integrated with the desktop STATISTICA also add functionality for offloading time-consuming tasks to the servers and developing highly customized Web applications.

Manage Output More Efficiently

• Organize all of your documents (e.g., all STATISTICA Graphs and Spreadsheets, as well as Excel, Word, or HTML reports) in a binder-style format with convenient powerful workbook functionality of unlimited capacity.
• Output results, including spreadsheets and graphs, directly to MS Word; access data directly from MS Excel.
• Use an efficient tree view to organize, review, and make changes to all spreadsheets, graphs, reports, and macros directly from the STATISTICA Workbook.
• Automatically create perfectly formatted reports, PDF files, and RTF files and customize them by dragging objects with the mouse.
• Deposit output documents directly to the (optional) seamlessly integrated Document Management System.

Virtually No System Limits

• Create text values, variable names, labels, etc., with no length limit.
• Analyze an unlimited number of variables and cases.
• Perform multiple analyses on the same or different datasets at the same time in one or multiple STATISTICA applications.
• Easily format text in cells or ranges of cells with a convenient Format Manager.
• Take full advantage of the flexible multimedia table technology.
• Process terabytes of data using STATISTICA’s powerful speed optimizations.

Built-in Visual Basic, HTML Support, and .NET Compatibility Fully Programmable System - Automate Virtually All Analyses

• Use the power of the only data analysis application that offers a complete, industry standard (like Excel) interface to all functions and procedures; more than 13,000 functions.

• Record STATISTICA Visual Basic macros (logs) automatically and use them in future analyses to save time and effort.
• Easily automate routine or time-intensive tasks.
• Access all features from the object model.
• Develop extensive custom applications in the built-in Visual Basic professional development environment with support for .NET syntax, a powerful debugger, function browser, etc.
• Integrate with an HTML-based UI or a multitude of other applications such as Excel, C++, Java, etc.

Powerful Querying, Rapid Data Access, and ETL

• Access data from virtually anywhere with powerful and intuitive query tools that facilitate processing of extremely large datasets.
• Conveniently import or export SAS (both binary and portable formats), and native (binary) JMP, Minitab, and SPSS files, providing easy migration from these legacy programs.
• Conveniently save queries for repeated analyses.
• Rapidly access and process data from remote databases without creating local copies (data never leave the secure database) with optional In-Place Database Processing (IDP), an advanced database access technology developed at StatSoft. IDP supports high-performance, direct interface between external data sets residing on remote servers and the analytic functionality of STATISTICA products making it ideal for large data mining and exploratory data analysis tasks. An integrated ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) package is also available.