StatSoft, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is now one of the largest global providers of analytic software worldwide. StatSoft is also the largest manufacturer of enterprise-wide quality control and improvement software systems in the world, and the only company capable of supporting its QC products worldwide, with wholly owned subsidiaries in all major markets (StatSoft has 20 full-service offices, on all continents), and its software is available in Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and other languages. The STATISTICA product line and its cutting edge, enterprise-wide, scalable, fully Webenabled, distributed processing systems are utilized across a wide variety of industries and applications by leading global corporations in such areas as Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Petrochemical, Food Processing, Automotive, Heavy Equipment, Insurance, Telecom, R&D, and others. STATISTICA is widely used as an integral, crucial component of corporate computer infrastructures to boost productivity and the bottom line, and also to increase safety. It is used in mission critical manufacturing applications, in regulated FDA controlled industries [also to help achieve compliance with CFR Part 11 and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations] and as a foundation of corporate-wide Six Sigma initiatives. STATISTICA has achieved an unprecedented record of recognition from both users and expert reviewers since its first Windows release in 1993, being ranked the highest in every review by an independent third party.