Databases have high levels of interchangeability with other systems, such as word processors, spreadsheets, graphics packages and statistical packages. One of the primary skills in information management is being able to decide where to 'place' information, and what form it should take. There are application systems that carry out a wide range of statistical techniques. What they offer is advanced data manipulation. This includes sophisticated data description, and a range of various statistical tests.
Statistical systems interchange particularly strongly with graphic systems.
Having generated the statistics we would usually expect to find some graphical presentation for those results. Generally, you are not going to store data in a graphical system for future analysis. The assumption is that you have carried out the analysis and what you are interested in doing is generating graphical displays of your results. Thus one way of thinking of electronic storage is as a series of 'resting places' for data. Each adds 'value' to the data by generating new information from the data or new ways of looking at it.