IBM SPSS Statistics Initial Setup

AbakarAhmat - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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Md Masudul Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
Agricultural Finance and IT Researcher at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University

The initial setup was straightforward.

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Business Intelligence Analyst at University of Huddersfield

The initial setup was not hard. It's not hard to install the solution. By following the installation instructions, you can easily install it on your system. I would rate it an eight, where ten is the easiest. The whole deployment process took around 40 minutes. 

In my experience with SPSS, I have worked with both straightforward and complex setups. The complexity depends on the analysis you're conducting.

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EzzAbdelfattah - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Professor of Statistics at KAU

The tool's deployment is not hard. 

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AM
Senior Statistical Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The setup of the product was very simple. It doesn't take more than about 30 minutes. 

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Ali Bin Tahir - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Executive at NielsenIQ

The initial setup is easy. We download wizard installation through IBM’s website to conduct the process.

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AM
Senior Statistical Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was quite complex for organizations. For individuals or students, however, doing a small setup, it's not too difficult. 

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Laurence Moseley - PeerSpot reviewer
Professor of Health Services Research at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

For me, the initial setup was completely straightforward. I just downloaded it from the university website.

I was done in under two hours.

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EzzAbdelfattah - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Professor of Statistics at KAU

The initial setup is straightforward and doesn't take more than 20 minutes on average.

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EzzAbdelfattah - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Professor of Statistics at KAU

I believe that the initial setup is simple. The problem of SPSS Statistics, it is not to click the icon to do the installation. The problem of Statistics is to know which statistical analysis you have to use.  

Some people used to say that they know how to use SPSS Statistics, but they do not know which type of analysis to use. The manufacturer of the tool may want to do something to include training in the initial setup so that the users know more about the tool that they are using.  

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Patrick Scolyer-Gray - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at Pathbreaker Pty Ltd

SPSS is incredibly easy to set up.

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PD
Learning and Development Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial deployment is quite straightforward for SPSS.

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LM
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not set up the solution. I only need to log in to the universities servers page and download it from there.

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FR
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university with 201-500 employees

It's like Excel. You connect your input to it, and there you go. Dive in.

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PP
Assistant Director-Data Analytics at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is very straightforward. We didn't have any issues with the implementation.

I didn't actually deploy the solution, so I can't speak to how long it took. We use different tools as well that I work with. I can be deployed, but I'm not sure how long it would take an organization exactly.

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PA
Business Process Improvement at Modi Enterprises Private Limited

In comparison to Minitabs, the initial setup was more complex. The solution has a lot of options and we weren't sure which were the best to use, and that made the experience frustrating. In the end, the deployment took longer than Minitabs.

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AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
ECommerce Growth Analytics at Akinon

The initial setup was a little bit complex.

It took half of an evening to complete the setup and implementation, mainly waiting on support to help with issues.

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RK
Modeling Analyst, Advanced Analytics - Decision Management at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I don't know. I'm not the IT guy who set up the tools.

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NS
Database Consultant at a pharma/biotech company

The initial setup is pretty straightforward. Although I'm not an SPSS admin, per se, I was part of the SPSS installation. Basically what happens when you install any SPSS statistics package is a company involves both the admin guy and also the technical consultant who will be working on it so that they can work in tandem and make the installation perfect.

I was involved with the installation team, as well. It is pretty simple. It's not that complex. I think the versatility of IBM SPSS Statistics tool is very evident, it's good. You have the ability to fetch and analyze the different sets of data, whether it is a CSV from a separated value, or other data from the Oracle database, or other older database such as Dbase or redundant spreadsheets like Lotus 1,2,3 or Excel. You have everything. On that count, I gave IBM a nine out of 10. But there are drawbacks too, because IBM SPSS is not able to fetch the data from new databases like SAP HANA or SAP BW HANA. SAP HANA got introduced in 2011, but it became famous more in 2015.

The same is the case with BW HANA, the business warehouse for HANA, and any statistical tool which is not capable of fetching data from this volume, this database. SAP HANA is a numerary database. So any statistical tool which is not able to fetch data from these databases will not be able to sustain itself in the market for long. But yeah, there are some workarounds where people fetch the data from HANA into some of the data sets and transfer the same data set into SPSS to work through the indirect path. But SPSS has to pull up its socks to fetch data from heterogeneous environments, whether it be SAP, HANA or whether it is a MongoDB or anything, any RDBMS, or DBMS on this earth. That kind of flexibility should be there in SPSS.

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HR
CEO at Avina

In terms of initial setup, I don't have any problem opening it. It usually takes less than half an hour to deploy.

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CC
Business Owner at a analyst firm with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is not straightforward at all. It's quite complex. So much so that we don't handle the set up in-house. We need to contract out the work to make sure it is done correctly.

We were a new company when we originally implemented it two years ago. There wasn't any implementation strategy other than to get it up and running and start using it. I basically bought it from a supplier of SPSS. They deployed it on our behalf as we didn't have the capabilities to do so ourselves. There were issues with it even with help. Those didn't get resolved until a number of months down the line. It's now completely fine.

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YG
Advanced analytics at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The setup is pretty straightforward and I think that you can easily set up your own connection.

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SM
CEO & Owner at a tech services company

I didn't handle the initial setup, however, I don't think it's too complex. The team, as far as I know, didn't have any issues.

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RE
Consultant, Intelligent Process Automation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We don't deal with that. The IT guys install it on our computers, and we just run it. That's it.

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YH
Founder at pt. sma

The initial setup of the product is easy.  

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CB
Consultora asociada especialista en Ciencia at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The initial setup was very simple and took only a day or two.

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Lead Consultant at Caligo

The initial setup is straightforward.

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it_user164844 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Data Analytics

Setup was straightforward. My IT support helped me with the setup; it was quick.

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CM
Founder and General Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is easy to install. We use other tools to deploy the models and we exported the models to other languages, then implement them through the database solutions that our clients have. Most of our clients use either Oracle or SQL but none of them use an IBM solution. The most time-consuming part of the process is preparing the data for modeling.

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IBM SPSS Statistics
March 2024
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