StatSoft is the original developer of Statistica.

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acquired it in March 2014. Statistica is an analytics software portfolio that provides

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and desktop software for

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

data analysis Data analysis is the process of inspecting, Data cleansing, cleansing, Data transformation, transforming, and Data modeling, modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making. Da ...

data management Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource, it is the practice of managing an organization's data so it can be analyzed for decision making. Concept The concept of data management emerged alongsi ...

data visualization Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating Graphics, graphic or visual Representation (arts), representations of a large amount of complex quantitative and qualitative data and i ...

data mining Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and ...

, which is also called

predictive analytics Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of Statistics, statistical techniques from data mining, Predictive modelling, predictive modeling, and machine learning that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future or other ...

and

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History

StatSoft was established in 1984 as a partnership of a group of university professors and scientists. Its first products had menu-driven libraries of flexible statistical procedures and ran on microcomputer platforms such as

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, CP/M, Commodore International, Commodore and MS-DOS. With the release of Statistica 9 in May 2009, both 32-bit and 64-bit native versions became available. Its current product suite, Statistica 12, was released in May 2013. Statistica is used worldwide at major corporations, government agencies and universities. On March 24, 2014, StatSoft was acquired by

in an effort to bolster Dell's ‘big data’ offering. StatSoft's CEO at the time of the Dell acquisition was Paul Lewicki. On June 20, 2016, Dell sold

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Group (which included StatSoft) to

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Francisco Partners and Elliott Management. On May 15, 2017,

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sold Statistica to TIBCO Software.

Product lines

;Statistica Enterprise: allows connections to data repositories and interactive filtering of data, contains analysis and report templates, and allows for management of security and permissions. ;Web-based Applications: this system makes the functionality of any of the Statistica products available via a Web browser. ;Data Mining: a collection of data mining and machine learning algorithms that include:

support vector machine In machine learning, support vector machines (SVMs, also support vector networks) are supervised max-margin models with associated learning algorithms that analyze data for classification and regression analysis. Developed at AT&T Bell Laborato ...

s, EM and

k-means clustering ''k''-means clustering is a method of vector quantization, originally from signal processing, that aims to partition of a set, partition ''n'' observations into ''k'' clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster (statistics), cluste ...

, classification & regression trees,

generalized additive model In statistics, a generalized additive model (GAM) is a generalized linear model in which the linear response variable depends linearly on unknown smooth functions of some predictor variables, and interest focuses on inference about these smooth func ...

independent component analysis In signal processing, independent component analysis (ICA) is a computational method for separating a multivariate statistics, multivariate signal into additive subcomponents. This is done by assuming that at most one subcomponent is Gaussian and ...

, stochastic gradient boosted trees, ensembles of neural networks, automatic

feature selection In machine learning, feature selection is the process of selecting a subset of relevant Feature (machine learning), features (variables, predictors) for use in model construction. Feature selection techniques are used for several reasons: * sim ...

, MARSplines,

CHAID Chi-square automatic interaction detection (CHAID) is a decision tree technique based on adjusted significance testing (Bonferroni correction, Holm-Bonferroni testing). History CHAID is based on a formal extension of AID (Automatic Interaction De ...

trees, nearest neighbor methods, association rules, and

random forest Random forests or random decision forests is an ensemble learning method for statistical classification, classification, regression analysis, regression and other tasks that works by creating a multitude of decision tree learning, decision trees ...

s. ;Statistica Desktop: designed for deployment on a single workstation. Spreadsheets, configurations and macros are all stored on the User's local workstation as a stand-alone application. Includes general purpose statistical, graphical, and analytic data management procedures.

Services

StatSoft's

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groups provided a range of services to complement the Statistica software: software integration and customization services, the development of custom Web applications based on Statistica Enterprise Server technology, and the installation of a general-purpose Web Server system. StatSoft also offered deployment of data mining software designed to work with specific

data warehouse In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for Business intelligence, reporting and data analysis and is a core component of business intelligence. Data warehouses are central Re ...

s and solve particular ranges of problems. Additionally, statistical consulting services were available. StatSoft offered both introductory and advanced training courses in major cities in the United States and overseas. Technical Services provided software validation services as part of the deployment of Statistica applications. These services include requirement gathering and documentation, validation planning, installation qualification, operational qualification, and performance qualification. TIBCO still freely provides the StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook, now renamed to "Data Science Textbook".

Support for European countries in crisis

In October 2012 StatSoft announced that it would make its Statistica Enterprise Software available for free to companies in Greece, Portugal and Spain. This included StatSoft's Big Data Analytics Platform. StatSoft's stated aim was to help boost these country's productivity and competitiveness, and to facilitate their recovery. StatSoft CEO, Paul Lewicki, has written an open letter to the CEOs of US software companies urging them to join this “Free Enterprise Software for Struggling European Economies” initiative.

References

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