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INFORMS Statistical Software survey

Software used by OR professionals.

Product	Vendor	Year First Version was Released	Software Description	Targeted Market
AcaStat	AcaStat Software	1999	Inexpensive statistical analysis tool	researchers, academics, students, analysts
Analytic Solver Platform	Frontline Systems Inc.	2013	Integrated predictive and prescriptive analytics for Excel: Data mining, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization	Excel users in industry seeking a comprehensive analytics tool; MBA students learning business analytics
Autobox 6.0	Automatic Forecasting Systems, Inc.	1976	Automatic Modeling, Adapts to level shifts, pulses, seasonal pulses, trends, lead/lags of causals(price, holidays)	Forecasting, Data Cleansing, Promotion Response, Early Warning Systems
IBM SPSS Statistics	IBM	1968	IBM SPSS Statistics is an integrated family of products the entire analytical process, from planning to analysis to reporting	Used by thousands of commercial, government & academic organizations to solve a range of business and research problems.
iData	MJC2		Trending & forecasting software for demand planning	Most industry sectors
JMP 10	SAS Institute	1989	JMP, the original statistical discovery software from SAS, links dynamic data visualization with robust statistics, in memory and on the desktop.	Scientists, social scientists, engineers (especially quality and reliability engineers), market research analysts and other data explorers.
Minitab 16 Statistical Software	Minitab Inc	1972	Minitab is the leading provider of software for Lean Six Sigma, quality improvement and statistics education worldwide.	Quality, Lean Six Sigma, DOE, Reliability, Engineering, Students
Optimal Scientist Software Package	Transpower Corpoation	1993	Design and analysis of optimal experiments and general purpose graph program	business, industry, academia
Oracle Crystal Ball Suite	Oracle America Inc.	1988	Oracle Crystal Ball is an MS Excel-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization	Risk analysts, time-series forecasters, simulation optimization specialists and students
P-STATÂ (R)	P-STAT, Inc	1964	P-STAT combines statistical analysis, data & file management, report-writing and TURF Analysis capabilities.	Cross-Industry including manufacturing, pharma, education, market research, survey analysis, brand research
QMS - Quantitative Methods Software	QuantMethods	1990	Decision sciences optimaztion software	Educational
SAS	SAS	1976	SAS provides tools for statistics, data mining, text analytics, forecasting, econometrics, optimization and simulation.	Cross-Industry
Smoothie	Demand Works	2003	Desktop or server solutions for forecasting, demand, and supply management.	Mid-sized and large manufacturers and distributors
Stat::Fit	Geer Mountain Software Corporation	1995	Statistically fits to your data the most useful analytical distribution and exports into specific forms for simulation.	Simulation and modeling, risk assessment, reliability, quality, engineering and financial management.
Unistat Statistical Package for Windows	Unistat Ltd		UNISTAT is a comprehensive statistical package that can also work as add-in for Excel.	UNISTAT is a general purpose statistics tool.
Vanguard Business Analytics Suite	Vanguard Software	1995	Designed for professional modelers, merges Decision Analysis, Forecasting, Monte Carlo Simulation, Statistics, & Optimization	Any
XLMiner	Frontline Systems Inc.	2003	Powerful data mining and forecasting add-in for Excel, supports textbook Data Mining for Business Intelligence	Excel users in industry and MBA students who are learning and building first data mining applications