Minitab is the unmatched, all-in-one data analysis and statistics software for everyone that lets data be used for what it is worth. It is not only a leader in providing statistical software and services for quality improvement, education and research applications, but also a world-leading software tool for quality management and Six Sigma implementation, as well as a good tool for continuous quality improvement. It can analyze data to identify problems and meaningful solutions when users encounter the most intractable business problems.

As a matter of fact, qualitative analysis is less dependent on software than numerical analysis. Although software brings great convenience, it can also hinder people's thinking ability, even the actual effect is not as good as the traditional pen & paper operation. Anyway, there have been a lot of QDA (Qualitative Data Analysis) software in the market, but only three of them are the most popular ones: ATLAS.ti, NVivo and MAXQDA. By contrast, MAXQDA's user interface is friendly, supports Unicode encoding, has a very small file size (only dozens of MBs), and runs fast.

The operation and maintenance of websites or web services can't do without checking and analyzing the server logs. For this, many webmasters or administrators may have the very powerful and professional log analyzing tool from Microsoft - logparser (AKA: Log Parser, Microsoft Logparser) in mind. But Microsoft Logparser's command line interface can be a daunting challenge for many non-professional managers. Thereupon, some enhanced GUI tools for Microsoft Logparser such like Visual Log Parser GUI, Log Parser Lizard appeared.

Tableau Desktop is a famous and very powerful data analysis & visualization leader. In addition to professional technology, more importantly, it's a foolproof tool that can make externalization and visualization process to complex data, so that ordinary users are able to easily show their complex data in hand in a professional way with all sorts of graphs.