SYSTAT is a statistics and statistical graphics software package, developed by Leland Wilkinson in the late 1970s, who was at the time an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Systat Software Inc. was incorporated in 1983 and grew to over 50 employees.
By 2002, SPSS had changed its focus to business analytics and decided to sell SYSTAT to Cranes Software in Bangalore, India.
By 2005, SYSTAT was in its eleventh version having a revamped codebase completely changed from Fortran into C++.
Version 13 came out in 2009, with improvements in the user interface and several new features.