Announcing General Availability of SPSS Modeler 18.4, SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 8.4, and SPSS Analytic Server 3.4
The IBM SPSS Modeler team is pleased to announce that SPSS Modeler 18.4, SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 8.4, and SPSS Analytic Server 3.4 is generally available. These new versions within the SPSS Modeler suite of products bring new functionalities and the most requested enhancements like:
- New options for scheduling jobs. Within SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services, users can now specify job configurations down to the second and can specify a start and end time for jobs
- Ability to easily switch Python environments via the SPSS Modeler user interface
- Support of new databases. With more databases supported, users now have more options to take advantage of SPSS Modeler capabilities wherever their data resides
- Support for IBM Cloud Pak for Data template formats on Text Analytics. It is now easier for SPSS Modeler users to integrate their workload with IBM Cloud Pak for Data
- Support of new operating systems, tools, and connectors, allowing users to be able to use the most up-to-date software
The full list of new features and enhancements can be found in the What’s New section.
Overview of SPSS Modeler
SPSS Modeler is a robust data science software for professional analysts and data scientists. The software scales from supporting line-of-business predictive analysis to enterprise-scale implementation.
SPSS Modeler delivers a robust predictive analytics solution for a holistic approach to predictive analytics. It brings predictive intelligence to decisions made by individuals, groups, systems, and the enterprise by leveraging the cross-industry process for data mining (CRISP-DM) framework. SPSS Modeler helps drive a higher return on investment to data-driven decision-making by providing an intuitive and visual interface for data science, including data preparation, text analytics, building predictive models, and deploying the models in production.
To extend its depth and breadth of functionality, SPSS Modeler 18.4 is supported by the complementary products SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 8.4, providing automation, deployment, and a collaborative foundation for SPSS Modeler, and SPSS Analytic Server 3.4, helping leverage big data environments for SPSS Modeler.
What’s New?
SPSS Modeler 18.4
- Cloud Pak for Data template formats (json) are now supported in Text Analytics
- Ability to switch Python environments via the SPSS Modeler user interface
- New menu item is available for managing SPSS Modeler Server connections
- Enhanced password encryption
- Mac OS 12 is now supported
- Windows 11 is now supported
- Java 11 is now supported
- CPLEX 22.1 is now supported
- InstallAnywhere 2021 sp2 is now supported
- SPSS Data Access Pack 8.1.1 is now supported
- Netezza Performance Server 11.x is now supported
- Cognos Analytics Connector 11.1.7 is now supported
- Amazon S3 is now supported (for reading data, only)
- ClickHouse database version 22.3 is now supported
SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 8.4
- New options are available for scheduling jobs. Users can now specify job configurations down to the second and can specify a start and end time for jobs
- A new keystore migration tool is available to help user migrate Java Runtime Environment (JRE) keystore files
- A new installation option is available for deploying at a later time
- The installation process on IBM WebSphere Liberty has been refined and improved
- Windows 11 is now supported
- JBoss EAP 7.4 and WebSphere Liberty Profile 22.x are now supported
- JDK/JRE 11 is now supported on JBoss EAP 7.x and WebSphere Liberty Profile 22.x
SPSS Analytic Server 3.4
- Improvements to Impala performance for non-pushback functions
- Data can now be exported to Apache Hive-partitioned tables
- Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base 7.1.7 is now supported
- Red Hat 8.x is now supported
- Big SQL 7 is now supported
- R 4.0.x is now supported
- Java 11 is now supported
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