Mathematica includes thousands of built-in functions and curated data on many topics that let you:

• Build customized analytical tools
• Fit data to common models or to newly developed theoretical models
• Study voting patterns or other social statistics
• Merge built-in economic data with your customer data to understand how changes in sales are linked to broader events
• Make statistical visualizations with a high level of algorithm automation and computational aesthetics
• Create interactive tools for analyzing your data and deploy them as presentations or reports in the Computable Document Format
• Develop original, sophisticated algorithms for data science

Does your current tool set have these advantages?

• Combine your data with Wolfram|Alpha's ever-increasing database on a wide range of topics, accessible programmatically and ready for further analysis
  No other system has built-in access to such a broad selection of curated data
• Instantly create interactive tools for curve-fitting or data analysis
  Other programs do not allow creation of interactive tools
• Import, analyze, and deliver results in one interactive document instead of across several applications
  MATLAB does not offer this feature
• Create highly customized, presentation-quality visualizations, including charts, bar charts, scatter plots, and many more
  SPSS requires explicit programming for customized charts
• Work with sparse arrays with algorithm support that improves performance of very-large-scale linear algebra operations
• Work with 35 properties of over 100 statistical distributions with specialized coverage for finance, medicine, and engineering—more distributions than any other system, including dedicated statistics software
• Extend built-in algorithms with your own models
• Use readable, easily recognizable function names
  R's function names are nonstandard abbreviations
• Use built-in parallel and GPU computing capabilities to speed your computations
  Other programs do not offer built-in parallel or GPU computing