IBM SPSS Statistics vs. Posit

IBM SPSS Statistics

415 Reviews and Ratings

Posit

235 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM SPSS Statistics	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics". Companion products in the same family are used for survey authoring and deployment (IBM SPSS Data Collection), data mining (IBM SPSS Modeler), text analytics, and collaboration and deployment (batch and automated scoring services).	$99 per month per user
Posit	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Posit, formerly RStudio, is a modular data science platform, combining open source and commercial products.	N/A

Pricing

IBM SPSS Statistics

Posit

Base: USD 3,830
one-time fee per user
Standard: USD 8,440
one-time fee per user
Professional: USD 16,900
one-time fee per user
Premium: USD 25,200
one-time fee per user
Monthly subscription: USD 99
per month per user
Annual subscription: USD 1,188.00
per year per user

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Pricing Offerings
IBM SPSS Statistics	Posit
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	IBM SPSS Statistics	Posit
Considered Both Products	IBM Verified User Chose IBM SPSS Statistics For my own statistical analyses, I personally use R and MPlus. However, these tools have a steep learning curve and require dedicated time and a course on their own. In m yopinion, they are not useful for trying to quickly acclimate undergrads to the new world of stats and … Incentivized Helpful? dave jung internal it in Information Technology at FM (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose IBM SPSS Statistics We tend to shy away from open source where possible. with SPSS from our feeder university system for our co-op interns, this is a great transition and a low barrier to getting them working quickly. Incentivized Helpful? Kenton Woods Research Assistant in Research & Development at Arizona State University (Research, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM SPSS Statistics [IBM] SPSS is by far the best of the statistics software applications in terms of functionality and accessibility, but its biggest drawback is price. SPSS is prohibitively expensive in comparison to the other competing statistics applications such as R and SAS, making the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM SPSS Statistics I don't really know this. I messed with RStudio and several other programs as I started data evaluation, but since my school required SPSS that is all I ended up really using and working with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM SPSS Statistics Other software that I can compare to SPSS include R, Excel and SAS. Overall, SPSS is easier to get familiar with and more user friendly which is why I can see it as more appropriate for taught courses. The computational capabilities are not similar to R, but on the other hand … Incentivized Helpful? Shelby Bowden Graduate Research Assistant in Research & Development at Western Kentucky University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose IBM SPSS Statistics Overall, IBM SSPS outperforms competitors in almost every arena. It's ability to both perform statistical analysis and geospatial analysis is unrivaled. Additionally, it is superior in handling large or complex datasets over many of the other similar programs. The only program … Incentivized Helpful? Julie Ressalam, MPH Project Manager in Quality Assurance at The University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM SPSS Statistics I have also used RStudio and SAS previously. In fact, I'm currently using RStudio since our SPSS license has expired. SPSS lacks the capabilities of these other two programs and it is far less intuitive. Larger data sets can be analyzed with R and SAS, but using these programs … Incentivized Helpful?	Posit (formerly RStudio) Verified User Chose Posit The most similar products to RStudio that I have used include IBM SPSS and Tableau Prep. In my experience, SPSS is more intuitive and has less of a learning curve; I used it extensively in my undergraduate career in Statistics and Cognitive Science research. While RStudio has … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Posit SPSS is good for folks who are not as familiar with statistics, and for those who are older or more technologically-experienced and may be overwhelmed by Posit's products. It's also really great for teaching students and getting them exposed. However, because Posit is free, … Incentivized Helpful? Bobbi Woods Graduate Research Assistant in Research & Development at Arizona State University (Research, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Posit Personally, I would prefer SPSS over RStudio and SAS, but the cost for licenses for SPSS deters me from continuing to go with IBM's statistics software. RStudio has the advantage in that it is low cost and there are a lot of available resources on YouTube available for users … Incentivized Helpful? B. Mark Ewing Digital Corporate Technology Manager – R&D in Information Technology at Eastman Chemical Company (Chemicals, 10,001+ employees) Chose Posit In the space of data science tools, code is king. It enables use of standard version control systems like git, access to a wealth of expertise via StackOverflow and others, is commonly used in modern education programs, and more. Other solutions in this space are built on … Incentivized Helpful? Yoni Dvorkis Lead Data Scientist in Information Technology at Atrius Health (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Posit RStudio is preferable to SPSS and SAS mainly because it is much lower cost to use even having a server license that we pay for the SAS licenses we used to have are too expensive and ultimately we decided to move away from using SAS for our reporting and data modeling needs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Posit RStudio absolutely offers everything that SPSS does at zero cost. Yes, there is a bit of learning curve in terms of you needing to equip yourself with R language but that's a good thing as you learn and apply more complex statistical tools and techniques on your datasets. … Incentivized Helpful? Akshaya Bhardwaj Consultant in Information Technology at WNS Global Services (Outsourcing/Offshoring, 10,001+ employees) Chose Posit It has the same capabilities as the other mentioned tools. 1)It is freely available. 2)Generates good quality of results. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Posit RStudio has a huge repository of packages. There are over 10,000 packages in their central repository and this number is growing at a constant rate. These packages allow you to perform tasks that are not offered by any other statistical software unless you purchase their … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

IBM SPSS Statistics

Posit

Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Posit
Feature	IBM SPSS Statistics - Ratings	Posit 9.3 27 Ratings
Connect to Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	8.026 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources	00 Ratings	10.027 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection	00 Ratings	10.026 Ratings

Comparison of Data Exploration features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Posit
Feature	IBM SPSS Statistics - Ratings	Posit 9.0 27 Ratings
Visualization	00 Ratings	8.027 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis	00 Ratings	10.024 Ratings

Comparison of Data Preparation features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Posit
Feature	IBM SPSS Statistics - Ratings	Posit 10.0 26 Ratings
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment	00 Ratings	10.024 Ratings
Data Transformations	00 Ratings	10.026 Ratings

Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Posit
Feature	IBM SPSS Statistics - Ratings	Posit 10.0 22 Ratings
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools	00 Ratings	10.022 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development	00 Ratings	10.022 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery	00 Ratings	10.019 Ratings

Comparison of Model Deployment features of IBM SPSS Statistics and Posit
Feature	IBM SPSS Statistics - Ratings	Posit 9.9 18 Ratings
Flexible Model Publishing Options	00 Ratings	10.018 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls	00 Ratings	9.915 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM SPSS Statistics	Posit
Likelihood to Recommend	4.1 (91 ratings)	10.0 (123 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.6 (22 ratings)	9.7 (17 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (14 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	6.0 (1 ratings)	9.4 (3 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	6.4 (12 ratings)	8.9 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.7 (7 ratings)	9.3 (4 ratings)
Configurability	5.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	5.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)