StatSoft Announces the Addition of Two New Six Sigma Training Courses

StatSoft, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of two new Six Sigma training courses to its comprehensive array of course offerings.

The courses, "Six Sigma Statistics - Basic" and "Six Sigma Statistics - Expert," have been designed to provide participants with an overview of the Six Sigma statistical tools. Participants will come away with a working knowledge of the Six Sigma capabilities of STATISTICA and be able to put the various methods into action at their organization.

Both courses focus primarily on the application of statistics within the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology. Participants attend "Basic Training" for three days, while "Expert Training" runs for a full week (five days). $400 per day includes in-depth classroom training, detailed take-home course materials, and personal instruction.

For more details about these new courses or to register, click here or email training@statsoft.com.

StatSoft offers both introductory and advanced training courses, such as Design of Experiments and Statistical Process Control, and Six Sigma Green and Brown Belt courses in major cities in the United States and overseas. On-site training and custom application development are also available.

StatSoft Polska Selected as a "Best and Biggest" Training Company

In 5 categories of trainings included in the report: Law, Management, Accounting/bookkeeping, Quality, and Information Technology, StatSoft Polska was selected as one of the "best and biggest" in 3 categories: (1) Management training (19 companies awarded), (2) Quality training (only 5 companies awarded), (3) IT training (only 4 companies awarded).

StatSoft Polska offers a wide variety of training course topics, including Sales Forecasting, Data Mining and Business Intelligence, Quality Improvement, Marketing and Market Research, and Medicine. In addition, courses designed for both basic and advanced users of specific statistical/data analysis techniques and instructional courses based on STATISTICA, STATISTICA Visual Basic, and STATISTICA Neural Networks are offered.

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Faster and More Accurate Data Analysis at John Deere with STATISTICA - A Rave Review Published in DM Review Magazine

In the article, Ahmed discussed the variety of reasons why at John Deere "the decision to select STATISTICA was unanimous." According to Ahmed, "The versatility and flexibility of the product were the main reasons for selecting STATISTICA. It can be used for a variety of different forms of statistical analysis. Excellent service support and broad-based statistical analysis capability were the major advantages that this product had over others we considered."

Summarizing what he considers to be the main strengths of STATISTICA, Ahmed offered, "STATISTICA works well with our CMM systems." However, "the interactive ability of the software is its main strength. The different ways that data analysis can be performed and its ease of use with easy-to-read output are also some of the main strengths of STATISTICA. The ability to work with Microsoft Excel is also a plus."

Ahmed also applauded StatSoft for its excellent and prompt technical support saying, "Quick email responses and solutions to problems I've faced have been the best part of working with the vendor."

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Praise-filled Review of STATISTICA 6 Published in November/December 2001 issue of Scientific Computing World

In general of STATISTICA 6 Grant says, "Down in the works, among the actual processes that a statistical package is there to perform, there are too many small enhancements, evolutions and developments to detail."

Here are some direct quotes from the article that give you an idea of Grants thoughts on STATISTICA 6 features:

On Customization -
"Further evolution of the customisation potential is another welcome feature - STATISTICA has always been highly configurable to suit the user and environment; this quality has now been extended considerably. Option defaults are extensive, and most interface artefacts can now be created, moved, modified or removed in a rapid, efficient, highly intuitive manner. Menu customisation is mesmerically addictive, so easily can objects be moved from one place to another as if playing with children’s building blocks."
"The ability to provide each user (or each group of users) with a version of the analytic tools best suited to their needs, extraneous distractions hidden or removed, is invaluable. Productivity is further enhanced if the user can adopt mnemonics and layouts that mimic other regularly-used software - and this, too, is now easier than ever."

On Graphics -
"Control, throughout, is effortless and precise."
"Staying with the visual, STATISTICA’s already impressive graphics technology has been further developed. There are now a hierarchical style system and intelligent format painting, which (once I was used to them) greatly cut the time and fiddle involved in tuning final output, as do new options in output design."

On VB -
"A variety of professional problems that I encountered during this period were solved quickly, efficiently and glossily with VB-automated STATISTICA, with or without other application interactions. These ranged from data repair macros, and mimic routines for the expert mentioned above, to online data polling and direct data logging, to a sudden need for HTML reports updated on a minute-by-minute basis."

On System Limits -
"STATISTICA as a whole has been overhauled to allow what seems to be more or less unlimited external data access power. Internal limits have also been removed - or, at least, I think they have. StatSoft makes use of the word ‘practically’ more than once in these contexts, which leaves the ambiguous possibility that limits still lurk out there somewhere. Whatever boundaries may remain, however, I haven’t found them - despite a determined attempt, using access to a terabyte store, which tied up my 1GHz/1024Mb machine for more than 36 hours but eventually completed."

On Web functionality -
"Most software products are evolving to survive in this new environment; and STATISTICA is now very strong in the Internet or Intranet capability department."

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ALSTOM Power Elblag Sp. z o.o. Optimizes Production Processes with STATISTICA Enterprise-wide SPC System (SEWSS)

Jerzy Slawinski, ALSTOM Power's quality manager, speaks highly of SEWSS in the article, "The SEWSS system is not just a package that runs on the computer on the desk of an analyst. It is an integrated solution which links production, data acquisition, database and analytical parts."

"About 30 operators and engineers" and "a wide group of managers use the system" for data collection, data management, and statistical analysis. The entire process was described in the article:
"SEWSS continuously retrieves data: first, components and raw materials characteristics are measured (this additionally controls reliability of the suppliers), then characteristics of moulding sand (tensile strength and permeability), furnace charge, fire-clay moulders, melted metal composition and pouring process are monitored, parameters of heat treatment recorded, casting quality is measured (repair welding factor), dimensional compatibility checked. Each cast generates several hundred records of data. The factory produces over 400 tons of casts each month. Measurement data are retrieved by the system automatically or sent to the system by operators with measurement devices or keyboard data entry. SEWSS stores measurement data in an external database (in this case it is an Oracle database) and runs on a network server."

Slawinski says, "The global market in our sector is very competitive. Turbine castings dropped in prices by 50% in the last 5 years. In this situation, quality is not a negotiable option, we talk only about costs and time to delivery. Producers who will not manage to change in time will not stay in this market." The comprehensive analytical tools, flexible alarm notification, interactive query facilities, and many other innovative features in SEWSS help ALSTOM Power meet these essential quality standards.

STATISTICA among the Most Popular Statistical Software Products for Fifth Straight Year

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Control - 16th International Trade Fair for Quality Assurance
Sinsheim, Germany
April 9 - 12, 2002

XXXIVémes journées de statistique
à Bruxelles/Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
May 13-17, 2002

ASQ's Annual Quality Congress
Denver, Colorado, USA - Colorado Convention Center
May 20-22, 2002
Booth 715

StatSoft offers both introductory and advanced training courses in major cities in the United States and overseas. StatSoft's training classes offer: