I apologize up front for the broadness of this question, but I\'m wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers.
A friend\'s company uses SPSS for statistical data, s
http://www.spss.com/smartscore/
In addition, it appears that SPSS has an available API to make the SPSS information available to other apps. Assuming you could get a connection to the SPSS system, it'd be a matter of CURLing the information back and forth (a web service) Aside from the XML brain damage, this is one of the best ways to get two non-similar systems talking to each other.