Release notes - IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6

The Data Model acts as a data access framework that sits between applications and data stored in various formats or database schemas. You can consider the Data Model to be an interpreting or translation service that enables an application to understand the data. This capacity of the Data Model, together with its open architecture, removes the data storage and access restrictions of older, proprietary architectures.

In the past, market research software often stored survey data in nonstandard formats making it difficult to share data between different families of data collection and analysis tools. The Data Model takes advantage of industry-standard, open technologies, so that you can collect and process data using any conventional application, such as Microsoft Excel. The Data Model allows you to work with the data independently of the underlying storage format. This means that you are no longer tied to any one product when accessing data and products are no longer tied to one particular data storage format. This gives you greater flexibility and improved workflow.

Refer to DataCollection6ProductLicenseNotices-final-utf8.txt in the root directory of the installation CD\DVD for information pertaining to IBM SPSS Data Collection 3rd party acknowledgments.

The IBM SPSS Data Collection Data Model 6 no longer supports the following features:

• Nothing to note in this release.