SPSS and SYSTAT Comparative Analysis Prepared by UTS July 30, 2010

 Original Problem Statement: What are the budget considerations to engage in an SPSS Site license to support faculty and staff?  Outcome: Based on a request from SBA to renew their licenses for SYSTAT, a comparable SPSS replacement tool, UTS reviewed site license costs for both products for potential cost savings to the university.

Review SPSS New Deal Site license Pricing and considerations for Oakland University Provide lower cost opportunities for faculty/staff options for analytical software products

 Currently licenses are purchased by department on an as needed basis. The portfolio contains both Perpetual licenses with annual maintenance renewal as well as annual lease licenses.

*Qty total doesn’t match # of licenses (96) because of licenses with modules only count as 1 license- not product instance.

Current SPSS Investment Year Initial investment in annual and perpetual licenses $46,873 Annual ongoing maintenance and annual lease licenses$21,639 SPSS Spend (approximate) since 2007 $90,000 Approximately $200,000 By 2015, with no growth and status quo on licenses practices, we will have invested Approximately $200,000 in SPSS Analytical software packages.

SPSS SYSTAT Product Comparison

SPSS New Deal Site License 2010

Summary SYSTAT 150 Perpetual Licenses IBM SPSS Statistics Base Named Perpetual Windows OS Qty150 Current SPSS Lease/Perpetual Maintenance FY11 $ 8,982 $ 21,865 $ 21,639 FY12 $ 3,582 $ 22,252 $ 21,639 FY13 $ 3,940 $ 22,788 $ 21,639 FY14 $ 4,334 $ 23,193 $ 21,639 FY15 $ 4,768 $ 23,606 $ 21,639 5 YR TCO $ 25,606 $ 113,705 $ 108,195 Cost Savings Opportunities SPSS Re-Cap: Year Initial investment in annual and perpetual licenses $46,873 Annual ongoing maintenance and annual lease licenses$21,639 SPSS Spend (approximate) since 2007 $90,000 Approximately $200,000 By 2015, with no growth and status quo on licenses practices, we will have invested Approximately $200,000 in SPSS Analytical software packages.

Pilot If we consider the current SPSS portfolio for test group, they have 5 annual lease licenses of PASW base with additional modules for Advanced, Regression and Tables. The annual lease license and maintenance fee is $7,359. Individual Perpetual licenses can be purchased if a site license is not agreed upon by the university. There is no on-going maintenance fees; departments pay for upgrade manuals as needed: Full Stand-alone Product with Manuals $599 Full Stand-alone Product ED $539 SYSTAT 13 with Exact Tests Product with Manuals $1399 SYSTAT 13 with Exact Tests Product over Electronic Download $1339 SYSTAT 13 - Upgrade (from v. 10 or higher) with Manuals $299 *Maintenance (no maintenance for single user licenses- upgrade fees for manuals when applicable $299 and $699) **One time investment is $6995 if exact Tests is required. ***5 Year savings of $29,800 with exact tests VendorLicense TypeAnnual Cost5 Year TCO SPSSAnnual Lease$7359$36,795 SYSTATPerpetual0*$ 2,995** SYSTAT Cost Savings$7,359 $33,800***

 The SYSTAT processor seems faster than v18 SPSS (but slower than v15 SPSS)  Both programs operate in very similar fashions, and have similar GUIs.  SYSTAT has a built in power analysis and various Monte Carlo simulators.  SYSTAT has more graphing options (maps, multivariate displays, etc.) ◦ However, it takes more time to make these graphs look professional.  There are a lot of similarities in the syntax between the two products. ◦ However, you cannot simply copy and paste SPSS syntax into SYSTAT, although, you can get close in some instances.  All of SYSTAT’s modules are immediately available: GLM, HLM, non-linear regression, survival analysis, MANOVA, multi- dimensional scaling, path analysis, time series, etc. ◦ Many of these procedures must be purchased as add-ons in SPSS ◦ SYSTAT does have path analysis/CFA/SEM, but it does not have the slick menu driven interface that AMOS has. SYSTAT cannot do multigroup CFA/path analysis  Obviously, the SYSTAT menu names are a bit different, but there is very little loss of functionality in SYSTAT. ◦ The GUI doesn’t look as nice, but it is just as functional.