For the past 40 years, Maryland-based Aspen Publishers Inc. has been a leading professional publisher, providing educational materials for fields such as healthcare,law, science, and business.

The company needed to reduce the time and money spent to produce quarterly reports that serve as industry benchmarks - influencing critical decisions for hundreds of hospital administrators across the United States.

With SPSS Inc. products and services, Aspen created a new system that enables employees to complete the entire survey process - from data entry to analysis to output - independently and in the process saved $20,000 in annual consulting fees.