SPSS Dimensions Component Pack 5.5

SPSS Dimensions Component Pack Developer: SPSS Ltd.

SPSS Dimensions Component Pack is the shared runtime and toolkit that underpins the SPSS Dimensions platform for survey and market research (later known as IBM SPSS Data Collection). It installs the common components, libraries, and APIs required by related modules—such as Author, Interviewer, Interviewer Server, and Survey Reporter—ensuring consistent functionality, compatibility, and deployment across the suite.

Key capabilities:

• Common runtime and services: Provides the core libraries, metadata services, and resources used by multiple SPSS Dimensions applications.
• Developer and automation support: Exposes COM/.NET APIs and scripting capabilities for building custom extensions, integrations, and automated workflows.
• Data connectivity: Enables access to Dimensions data and metadata formats and supports integration with analytics and reporting tools.
• Localization resources: Supplies language packs and utilities to support multilingual questionnaires and international projects.
• Documentation and samples: Includes guides, examples, and utilities to accelerate setup, development, and troubleshooting.
• Centralized configuration: Helps standardize installations, manage updates, and maintain version compatibility across client and server components.

Typical uses:

• Preparing desktops and servers with a consistent foundation for SPSS Dimensions applications.
• Enabling custom interview, data processing, and reporting workflows through scripting and APIs.
• Streamlining deployment, updates, and integration across research teams and IT environments.

Note: This is a legacy SPSS Ltd. product; in later releases, branding and naming transitioned under IBM SPSS Data Collection.

SPSS Dimensions Component Pack is developed by SPSS Ltd.. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 3.0, 3.5, 4.5 and 5.5. The name of the program executable file is spssprod.exe.