OTTAWA, Nov. 25, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kivuto Solutions, the global leader in complex digital distribution solutions, is excited to provide Dell’s award-winning Statistica advanced analytics software for free to college students and professors in the United States.

Announced at the higher education summit EDUCAUSE 2015, the Dell Statistica Free Academic Program is built to nurture college students’ passion for data analytics. Learning how to analyze data will prepare students as the next generation of employees for predicting trends, testing hypotheses, and limiting business risks in a variety of industries.

Workplace preparedness was a major point of discussion at the education technology conference SimplifiED Summit 2015, presented by Kivuto. Dr. Michelle R. Weise, Executive Director of The Innovation Lab at Southern New Hampshire University, observed that the number of skills required for career success increased from approximately 150 to 950 between 2009 and 2014.

“The Dell Statistica Free Academic Program furthers our goal of improving students’ career skills by improving their access to software,” says Vivek Raju, Director of Sales at Kivuto. “Learning data analytics today will help students achieve business success tomorrow.”

Businesses have relied on Statistica for more than 30 years to make decisions through data. The new free offering includes helpful how-to videos, a free online textbook on statistics, report generation, and access to a community of student and professional users in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Dell Statistica for Advanced Analytics

Dell Statistica is a leading advanced analytics software platform that helps simplify and improve the process by which organizations deploy predictive models directly to data sources inside the firewall, in the cloud, and in partner ecosystems. An easy-to-use solution that requires no coding and integrates seamlessly with open source R, Dell Statistica delivers a full range of data blending, data discovery, and advanced and predictive analytics tools that help organizations tap into all data to predict future trends, identify new customers and sales opportunities, explore “what-if” scenarios, and reduce the occurrence of fraud and other business risks.

About Kivuto

Kivuto Solutions is the world’s leading provider of advanced digital distribution and management solutions that enable the secure delivery of digital goods to individuals, businesses, and organizations anywhere in the world. Kivuto simplifies the process of delivering any digital good to any market under virtually any terms and conditions. Over 60,000 academic institutions and departments trust Kivuto to manage and distribute software to their students, faculty and staff. The company distributes software in 195 countries and supports 14 languages. http://www.kivuto.com.

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