SAS, the leader in business analytics, today released the latest version of its JMP statistical discovery software, unveiling a groundbreaking new way to explore and visualise data.
Users of JMP 8 get instantaneous visual feedback as they use the new Graph Builder to explore data and construct graphs. They can also design and analyse choice studies to find out which product features consumers value most; use new platforms that provide immediate, visual representation of product reliability; and experience even better integration with SAS products.
“Exploring and learning from data should be an interactive process - a process you drive and steer - and JMP 8 lets you do that better than ever,” says Goran Dragosavac, national product manager, Analytical Intelligence at SAS Institute.
With JMP 8, organisations can:
Build graphs on the fly: Using the new Graph Builder, statisticians and business analysts can construct and modify graphs interactively, or make a new graph with just a few clicks and drags of a mouse. This new feature provides instant results as users drag variables onto a graph. Visualisations consist of small multiples with elements such as scatterplots, bar charts, trend lines and histograms.
Design and analyse choice studies: The Choice platform in JMP 8 lets users design surveys that ask respondents to choose among sets of prospective product features. This new feature enables companies to tailor their products and services to the needs of specific market segments.
Make products that last: New reliability platforms in JMP 8 add powerful new capabilities. Engineers can examine the distributional properties of lifetime events with the new Life Distribution platform. They can discover failure causes in a system and understand the effects of repair with the new Competing Causes platform. And they can use Fit Life by X to analyse the effect of an acceleration factor - such as temperature, pressure or humidity - on the lifetime of products and parts.
Integrate with SAS: Using JMP and SAS together is even easier with JMP 8, which can connect to both SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2. A new SAS toolbar offers faster access to SAS features. Users can browse data from a local SAS connection using the familiar JMP interface. And SAS statistical graphics now flow seamlessly into JMP, making SAS analyses better than ever.
Leverage other new capabilities: JMP now handles multiple currency types in a single data table as well as international character sets with ease. The new Mixture Profiler visualises and explores mixture experiment models, where three or more factors in an experiment are components in a mixture, such as a prescription drug. The powerful and appealing Bubble Plot and Profiler can be exported as Adobe Flash animations for use in Web pages and presentations. Trail Lines are now available in the Bubble Plot to connect bubble trails for enhanced visualisation of change over time.
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“I've used JMP for a while and am pleased that the significant enhancements in JMP 8 now let me do most of my job with JMP,” Danny L Kugler, LightScribe Reliability Engineer at Hewlett-Packard.
“JMP 8's ability to export models as interactive Profiler graphics that can be distributed and easily accessed in any Flash-enabled Web browser provides an easy, powerful and superior solution to presenting complex statistical models in a simple and useful manner,” says Leighton Spadone, R&D Associate at Goodyear.
“Graph Builder is a wonderful addition to JMP. It builds graphs interactively with incredible flexibility, providing the user with a plethora of ways to visualise multivariate data. Users will love it! My colleagues and I are very pleased to see the addition of choice designs, which will support voice of the customer studies. We are also excited that JMP 8 can export Bubble Plots and Prediction Profiler graphs as Flash files, allowing non-JMP users to experience the interactive aspects of these graphs,” says Marie Gaudard, Professor Emerita of Statistics at the University of New Hampshire, and Six Sigma and Data Mining Consultant and Trainer at The North Haven Group.
“Topographical analysis is high on our list, and JMP 8 handles large data sets and allows manipulation, visualisation and calculation of complex surfaces,” said Paul Dwyer, Principal Engineer at Honeywell International.
“JMP 8 has exciting new reliability tools for fitting distributions, analysing accelerated life test data and dealing with multiple failure modes,” William Q Meeker, Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University.
How to try JMP 8
Download a fully functional, 30-day trial version of JMP 8 for free at http://www.jmp.com/jmpdemos.html
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