• STATISTICA Enterprise-wide System (SENS), a general-purpose enterprise edition of STATISTICA,
• STATISTICA Enterprise Wide SPC System (SEWSS -pronounce like "Dr. Seuss"), an SPC (Statistical Process Control) solution based on the SENS-technologies, designed for the quality control/improvement applications for production lines with medium to very large data processing, monitoring, and reporting requirements,
• Custom versions of SENS and SEWSS, and other solutions that may require custom development work or extensive custom implementation or deployment services.

Three general categories of these powerful solutions are described in the following sections.

SEWSS is...    ...the most powerful, flexible, customizable, and comprehensive enterprise SPC solution available on the market, see Competitive Advantages.    ...designed for different types of end-users, see        ...centrally managed for the entire enterprise, see Setting Up and Maintaining the System

STATISTICA Enterprise-Wide SPC System - The Only Enterprise-wide
SPC Solution of Its Kind:

• Knowledge-sharing for Users of All Levels of Responsibilities
• State-of-the-art connectivity options (Automated data collectors, gages (such as RS232 support), databases, data marts)
• Comprehensive Set of SPC Tools
• Easy-to-Use Interface
• Completely Customizable System

The SEWSS Data Warehouse. Stores all information about the manufacturing process in one location allowing for centralized management of both raw data and process characteristics; the SEWSS database schema has been optimally designed for collecting and querying data and can be implemented on any standard database.

Compatible and Linkable, Company-wide. Link SEWSS to any industry-standard enterprise-wide database management system using the latest OLE DB technologies including connections to legacy databases, databae management systems, and any ODBC-compliant databases.

Easy-to-Use and Comprehensive. Features user-friendly, practical organization for technicians without sacrificing comprehensive techniques used by supervisors and engineers.

Real-Time Operation, Alarm Notification. QC charts are automatically updated when new samples enter the database; automatic alarms (e.g., an e-mail or page sent to a supervisor, process stops) can be triggered when a user-defined event (e.g., out of control sample or runs-rule violation) occurs.

Efficient Data Mining, OLAP Tool. Functions as an on-line analytical processing tool capable of automatically or interactively performing and updating analyses of data following predefined scripts; reports can be automatically printed or saved in rich text format (read by virtually all word processors), and html format (for reviewing with a web browser).

True Groupware Functionality. Allows for collaborative work, including the sharing of data, queries, scripts of reports and analyses, as well as all forms of output.

Security, Access Privileges. Information available to individual end-users can be easily and centrally administered, so that the user has access only to particular aspects of data and operations.

StatSoft Data Analysis Tools (integrated into SEWSS or available as stand-alone products. SEWSS offers unmatched analytic, exploratory, and reporting power through its fully integrated access to all tools of STATISTICA (the most comprehensive data analysis, graphics, reporting, and application development system). Depending on the specific configuration, different components of the STATISTICA line of data analysis tools can be made available to different categories of SEWSS users. Many of those tools are also available in single-user versions as stand-alone products. These tools include the largest selection of DOE (Design of experiments), Industrial Process Analysis, Modeling, Exploratory, Data Mining and manyother Knowledge Discovery tools (including the most comprehensive implementations of such specialized methods as Neural Networks and Power Analysis available on the market).

Note that StatSoft also offers a product called STATISTICA Connectivity Kit (SCK) which is designed for isolated workstations or single-user types of applications. SCK consists of a subset of the features described here. For more information, see STATISTICA Connectivity Kit.

STATISTICA has received the highest rating in EVERY comparative review of statistics software in which it was featured, since its first release in 1993.

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Summary.   STATISTICA Enterprise-wide System (SENS) is a multi-user version of STATISTICA fully integrated with a powerful central data warehouse providing (a) an efficient general interface to enterprise-wide repositories of data, (b) a means for collaborative work (extensive groupware functionality), and (c) advanced, intelligent enterprise data broadcasting and proactive/automatic enterprise data analysis facilities. Put another way, SENS significantly enhances the functionality of STATISTICA by its built-in support for extensive groupware functionality organized around a flexible data warehouse. The SENS warehouse can be integrated with other enterprise data warehouses (e.g., ERP data repositories) and it offers facilities to automatically react to any (user-specified) changes in data. For example, it can react by automatically performing analytic and/or report distribution functions (optionally including such external operations as sending e-mail, faxes, calling pagers, etc.). The SENS warehouse is compatible with (and linkable to) any industry-standard enterprise-wide database management system (e.g., such as those use by ERP systems), facilitating users' direct access to enterprise databases and allowing them to share data, queries, scripts of reports and analyses, as well as all forms of output. Note that while some of the data broadcasting or automated data analysis functions of SENS may be offered by your existing ERP software, none of them come even close to the analytic breadth of SENS, and none of them can compare to SENS in terms of the ease of use. In SENS, many of those advanced analytic functions can be set up by individual desktop end-users and do not require involvement of system administrators.

SENS vs. standard network version of STATISTICA.  Note that standard network versions of application programs typically have no (or very limited) support for collaborative work of groups of users, and (with the exception of designated multi-user database management applications) they usually have no support for central, multi-user repositories of data. The main advantages of standard network versions of application programs are (a) the lower cost "per seat" compared to stand alone programs, (b) saving disk space (since only one copy of the application files resides on the network), and (c) the ease of patching or upgrading to new versions (only one copy needs to be reinstalled or patched). No file sharing or any other groupware/multi-user features are supported in such applications, and, for example, two users cannot work on the same file.

Unlike the regular network version of STATISTICA, SENS offers extensive groupware functionality by allowing multiple users to share (e.g., simultaneously read from and write to) files stored in a central location. Also, SENS users can share queries of any degree of complexity (e.g., OLAP queries) allowing them to retrieve specific subsets of data from central repositories and share scripts of analyses that can be centrally updated (e.g., predefined reports that are can be centrally adjusted by supervisors or designated analysts). The results of their work can be shared either in the local environments (by making them available to those other users of SENS who enjoy the respective access privileges) or the global cyberspace (e.g., by publishing STATISTICA HTML reports on the Internet/Intranet).

The SENS data warehouse.  SENS is organized around a central STATISTICA (SENS) data warehouse that can be installed on any of the industry standard database management systems (including all major scalable systems such as Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL Server, or IBM DB2; MS Access support for small enterprises is also available). The installation of the SENS warehouse can be done by setting up on a server a provided SENS warehouse template (schema) and it does not involve extensive knowledge about the specific database environment. SENS is available with predefined data warehouse templates for all industry standard databases (over 30 types and versions are supported), so the deployment of the system is relatively simple.

Links to non-SENS data.  As mentioned before, SENS serves as an efficient interface to the existing enterprise-wide data warehouses and it offers a means to establish links with enterprise data so that SENS users can access those data in a transparent manner (virtual views of specific subsets of data can be made available to specific groups of SENS users depending on their respective access privileges). This enterprise data interface function (making the enterprise data easily accessible) is one of the most important advantages of SENS. Depending on the existing data warehouses (and users' access privileges), SENS users can not only read, but also modify the warehouse data. (A comprehensive SENS security management system allows the administrators to assign specific access privileges to particular categories of users.)

OLAP.  Note also that this architecture allows SENS to function as an efficient, high-end OLAP (On-Line Analytic Processing) tool integrated with extensive data mining facilities available in STATISTICA. SENS is capable of automatically or interactively performing and updating analyses of enterprise data (following predefined scripts) that consolidate information from SENS and other enterprise data warehouses.

Automatic data monitoring and data analysis functions; analytic auto-responding; enterprise data broadcasting.  In today's rapidly changing business world, success depends more than ever on a business' ability to quickly respond to the changing conditions. The reliance on comprehensive insight into the available data and the ability to quickly respond either directly or by performing appropriate, predefined analyses (e.g., via OLAP) are no longer a luxury but a real necessity. In this context, the powerful facilities of the SENS system to automatically react to user-defined changes in data are particularly relevant. These custom-defined conditions can be of practically any complexity and they can even represent results of on-line analyses performed by SENS in real-time on the incoming data stream or on sampled data. These flexible facilities are built using StatSoft's real-time data monitoring technologies and they can be used in countless business or research applications. Facilities are provided to setup any SENS workstation as an automatic data monitor and/or processor, that will fetch or sample the appropriate data subsets from the SENS or other enterprise data warehouse, perform the predefined analyses and then respond appropriately. For example, when certain conditions are met (e.g., the price of a particular commodity reaches a certain threshold, certain inventory falls below a particular level, the number of complaints or registered defects compared to the moving average exceeds a preset tolerance level), then SENS will automatically execute a predefined action (e.g., send e-mail, send a fax, call a pager, or simply broadcast the relevant information or the result of analyses to selected members of the organization or nodes of the SENS installation).

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The technology offered in STATISTICA Enterprise-Wide SPC System (SEWSS) and STATISTICA Enterprise-wide System (SENS) allows companies to fully integrate our software with their existing computing environments - practically regardless of their size or complexity. However, advanced expertise may be necessary to implement such integration when (a) the existing enterprise systems use very complex and proprietary or specialized data formats (or schemas of databases) or (b) the resulting integrated systems are expected to perform highly specialized, automated information delivery, monitoring, processing, and/or auto-response functions.

StatSoft Technical Services and R&D Departments offer a wide variety of custom development, implementation and system integration services that can range from small-scale, single-device data monitoring and analysis systems or setting up your STATISTICA software to work with your current corporate database to developing and implementing a large-scale integrated, enterprise-wide quality control data collection, warehousing, and analysis system.

For example if your company requires a highly specialized, custom data monitoring and auto-response solution (e.g., you need an application that will monitor tens of thousands of characteristics simultaneously, process the respective data in the background, and notify the operator workstations only if some pre-defined set of conditions are not met), we can set up a custom "headless server" or "black box" extension of the STATISTICA Enterprise-Wide System (SEWSS) and implement it at your site.

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