SmartPLS: New Release 3.2.7 Available

Download the new SmartPLS release

Be always ahead of others and upgrade to SmartPLS 3.2.7. The new release gives you access to the latest PLS-SEM advances:

The update comes free of extra charges. Just download and install. Don´t worry! - you can continue using your existing projects.

You can use SmartPLS in 11 different languages, now. Arabic and Indonesian are the latest additions.

Please contact us if you like to participate in the translation project. We look forward to complete the existing translations and want to support additional languages soon.

Visit the next PLS-SEM course

This course offers the latest knowledge on PLS-SEM fundamentals and advanced topics.

Course Date: November 1 to 4, 2017
Place: Northern Institute of Technology (NIT), Hamburg, Germany
Presenters: Marko Sarstedt, Christian M. Ringle, and Jan-Michael Becker
SmartPLS Professional license for 2 month included
All course participants get a certificate

New required readings

New guidelines: Hair, J. F., Hollingsworth, C. L., Randolph, A. B., and Chong, A. Y. L. An Updated and Expanded Assessment of PLS-SEM in Information Systems Research. Industrial Management & Data Systems, Volume 117(2017), Issue 3, pp. 442-458.

Fresh from the press: Read the brand new Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling handbook chapter by Sarstedt, Ringle, and Hair.

Prediction-oriented evaluation (as implemented in SmartPLS): Shmueli, G./ Ray, S./ Velasquez Estrada, J.M./ Chatla, S.B.: The Elephant in the Room: Evaluating the Predictive Performance of PLS Models, Journal of Business Research, Volume 69 (2016), Issue 10, pp. 4552–4564

Extra time saver:

Check the literature section on our websites! We prepared a collection of “must read” literature that will help you to save much of your precious research time.

September 2017