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IBM SPSS Modeler vs Oracle Advanced Analytics comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SPSS Modeler
Ranking in Data Mining
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (13th)
Oracle Advanced Analytics
Ranking in Data Mining
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Mining category, the mindshare of IBM SPSS Modeler is 13.3%, down from 21.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Advanced Analytics is 5.3%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Mining Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM SPSS Modeler13.3%
Oracle Advanced Analytics5.3%
Other81.4%
Data Mining
 

Featured Reviews

RB
Business Owner at SASS GmbH
Support and flexibility enable effective project initiation and meet customer needs but deployment requires enhancement
The customer comes to you and says they want to deploy it and make a production out of this, which is very difficult and expensive with IBM SPSS Modeler. With MATLAB, there is no problem. I have a solution, and then I convert my MATLAB solution to C programming language. This I can deploy, and I can check it, and it is MISRA compatible. It is very easy to deploy it, to go from MATLAB to C or C++, which is actually needed in the car industry. In the car industry, they want to have it in the hardware. You cannot put MATLAB or IBM SPSS Modeler in the hardware of a car, but with C, there is no problem with a microcontroller. They can shoot it into the microcontroller, and I can check it with Polyspace, and it is MISRA compatible, which is an industrial standard. There is nothing similar in IBM SPSS Modeler. I made solutions with IBM SPSS Modeler, and then the customer said they wanted to make a production out of it, and it was not possible. I stopped with IBM SPSS Modeler 18. It is now 18.6 from what I know at the moment. I do not believe that there is a possibility to design a graphic user interface with it. It is itself a graphic user interface, where you put all sorts of little icons into the display.
PR
Technical Manager at LTM
Analytics features have improved our reporting workflows and support data‑driven decisions
The feature is called Oracle R Enterprise, and I have not worked with it. I have not used Oracle Enterprise. I am hearing about it for the first time. We have not used machine learning. We do not work with it for creating any data models from machine learning. My overall rating for this product is 8.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Our business units' capabilities with SPSS Modeler is high. They no longer waste time on modeling and algorithms, meaning they are not coding any more. For example, segmentation projects now take one to three months, rather than six months to a year, as before."
"It handles large data better than the previous system that we were using, which was basically Excel and Access. We serve upwards of 300,000 parts over a 150 regions and we need to crunch a lot of numbers."
"I would recommend SPSS to someone who has just started trying to run a lot of modeling, it's a good starting point."
"The benefits are that this product makes us a more efficient sales staff, reducing the inefficiencies in the buying patterns of our customers by calling them when we know they're ready to order, instead of waiting for them to call us."
"It is a great product for running statistical analysis."
"GUI and flow management."
"In the solution, I like the virtualization of data flow since it shows what goes where, which is mostly the strength of the tool."
"The quality is very good."
"Ability to pull together multiple sources of information."
"Oracle is number one in the world for security, safety, and privacy."
"Oracle Data Mining provides a powerful functionality as it enables users to discover new insights hidden in data."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to pull together multiple sources of information and the tools are easy to use which is the main factor."
"When it comes to data mining, I am acquainted with most or all of the Oracle tools and have had a positive experience with them."
"The dashboard interface is intuitive and the user is able to interact with it to receive good results from the analytic."
"Oracle Advanced Analytics helps us to steer the company, to create centralized reports and dashboards so that we're all using the same information, and we're not relying that much on Excel and different custom reporting solutions."
"Easy to use, simple, with a quick learning curve."
 

Cons

"Unstructured data is not appropriate for SPSS Modeler."
"It is very good, but slow. The slowness may be because we have not finalized all the background information in SPSS. It still needs some tweaking."
"Regarding visual modeling, it is not the biggest strength of the product, although from what I hear in the latest release it's going to be a lot stronger. That, to me, has always been the biggest flaw in using this. It's very difficult to get good visualization."
"When I do clustering, I want to try a different stream, but currently the only thing that I can really pick is averaging."
"The biggest issue with the visual modeling capability is that we can't extract the SQL code under the hood."
"The product does not have a search function for tags."
"If IBM could add some of the popular models into the SPSS for further analysis, like popular regression models, I think that would be a helpful improvement."
"We would like to see better visualizations and easier integration with Cognos Analytics for reporting."
"Could use some refinement getting things that are not standard cloud applications, but more customized."
"One area for product improvement is the user experience, particularly when navigating through screens."
"Since a separate Oracle database is needed, the data loading and cleansing the raw data can be a time consuming process."
"There are some transactions we have not been able to find through the dashboard."
"The performance, scalability and queries should be addressed, as well as the data distribution of certain data techniques."
"Basic capabilities, less professional than would be expected from a company dealing with databases as a core business."
"It is not a really easy product to use, so you have to do a lot of configuration."
"I would like to see an improvement in the ease of implementing customized data sources and the like."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an expensive product."
"If you are in a university and the license is free then you can use the tool without any charges, which is good."
"The government has funds and a budget, it's hard to say if it's expensive or cheap. In Canada, they have a yearly budget. They used to encourage people to use the modeler for development. If ten users use the server with ten licenses, it runs faster. But if forty users use the same appliance, everything slows down. People then think it's not easy to do things and prefer using remote tools like Python to extract data from the database. It's not about being expensive or cheap, but about people's knowledge and experience in how to do the work."
"I am using the free version of IBM SPSS Modeler, it is the educational edition version."
"This tool, being an IBM product, is pretty expensive."
"It is a huge increase to time savings."
"$5,000 annually."
"When you are close to end of quarter, IBM and its partners can get you 60% to 70% discounts, so literally wait for the last day of the quarter for the best prices. You may feel like you are getting robbed if you can't receive a good discount."
"The solution is priced well."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
9%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with IBM SPSS Modeler?
The customer comes to you and says they want to deploy it and make a production out of this, which is very difficult and expensive with IBM SPSS Modeler. With MATLAB, there is no problem. I have a ...
What is your primary use case for IBM SPSS Modeler?
I have been using IBM SPSS Modeler for a long time. I am using IBM SPSS Modeler mainly for ETL. Sometimes I use it to compare the results of the modeling as compared to MATLAB. MATLAB is the main t...
What advice do you have for others considering IBM SPSS Modeler?
You should put MATLAB into your database. According to Gartner, from what I have seen last year, there was a Gartner four quadrants perspective, and MATLAB was in a very good position. I remember a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Advanced Analytics?
It is not about data, but mostly about cost, which is why I do not give it a nine or ten. It is costly.
What needs improvement with Oracle Advanced Analytics?
From my perspective, there is sometimes room for improvement in advanced analytics, especially if the data is large, then it shows some performance issues.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Advanced Analytics?
Some customers are implementing and working with Oracle Advanced Analytics, while some do not use it, so it depends on the customers. The implementation of Oracle Advanced Analytics is mostly for r...
 

Also Known As

SPSS Modeler
OAA
 

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Sample Customers

Reisebªro Idealtours GmbH, MedeAnalytics, Afni, Israel Electric Corporation, Nedbank Ltd., DigitalGlobe, Vodafone Hungary, Aegon Hungary, Bureau Veritas, Brammer Group, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, InSites Consulting, Fortis Turkey
Orbitz, Marriott, SGS Life Science, Masdar, AlliantEnergy Corporation, British Standards Institute, Skybox Security, Triple PointTechnology, and Coca Cola.
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