★★★★½ (4.5/5 over its lifetime). JMP has never been the cheapest or the fastest, but it remains the most thoughtfully designed desktop statistical software for interactive discovery. Its version history shows a company that listens to engineers and scientists, not just programmers.
introduced the Add-In Manager and made JSL scripting much more user-friendly. More importantly, it added Excel add-in support, letting analysts launch JMP directly from spreadsheets—a huge enterprise productivity win. jmp version history