Analytica Newsletter January 2008

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Best Wishes for the New Year to our valued customers! Thank you for your continued support as we enter our seventeenth year of providing
leading-edge analytical solutions and services.
Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.

Resources

2008 Training Schedule

Analytica 4.0
Lumina officially launched Analytica 4.0 in November 2007. Our latest release has been met with great enthusiasm. For a full list of new features, see What's New in Analytica 4.0.
Release 4.0 is packed with dozens of compelling new features including greatly expanded graphing capabilities and auto backup, so you can't lose work. The new graphing tools let you easily create boardroom-quality graphs with new styles, such as stacked bars, filled areas, background colors, 3D effects, log scales, and horizontal bar graphs such as classical tornado diagrams.
Graph Style Templates let you apply and reuse a collection of graph settings for a consistent style for a model or your entire organization.

Flexible licensing
We need your input. In our continuous effort to modify our solutions and licensing options to best suit the needs of our clients, we are considering offering a Flexible licensing scheme. Potentially this would be a server-based license that could be used on a concurrent basis, thus not needing to be licensed to a named individual. Would this benefit you? Do you or your organization have a preference in software licensing options? We would appreciate your feedback by email.

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	Newsletter January 2008
Best Wishes for the New Year to our valued customers! Thank you for your continued support as we enter our seventeenth year of providing leading-edge analytical solutions and services. Lumina Decision Systems, Inc.
What's New? Analytica Release 4.0 IRRM: Case Study of the Month New Member Joins Lumina Team ADEPT-Analytica Datacenter Energy Planning Tool	Resources 2008 Training Schedule Analytica Wiki (Anawiki) Live Analytica Demos	Your Turn Flexible Licensing Career Opportunity
Analytica 4.0 Lumina officially launched Analytica 4.0 in November 2007. Our latest release has been met with great enthusiasm. For a full list of new features, see What's New in Analytica 4.0. Release 4.0 is packed with dozens of compelling new features including greatly expanded graphing capabilities and auto backup, so you can't lose work. The new graphing tools let you easily create boardroom-quality graphs with new styles, such as stacked bars, filled areas, background colors, 3D effects, log scales, and horizontal bar graphs such as classical tornado diagrams. Graph Style Templates let you apply and reuse a collection of graph settings for a consistent style for a model or your entire organization.
Case Study of the Month IRRM: How to rehabilitate rivers with damaged ecosystems. Most wild rivers have been tamed - enclosing them in channels and levees to reduce flood risk and improve navigation. But this also damages key ecosystems along river banks. Swiss aquatic scientists used Analytica to create the Integrative River Rehabilitation Model to evaluate ways to balance flood control and habitat restoration. For the full case study, please visit: IRRM
New Member joins the Lumina Team To meet increasing demand for our solutions and services, Lumina is glad to welcome Surya Swamy as a Decision Analyst. Surya holds a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University where he was a Research Assistant at the Design Decisions Laboratory. He brings with him a strong background in decision analysis, mathematical programming, energy and environmental modeling and leadership development. At Lumina, Surya's role involves building decision support models to assist organizations improve decisions on energy efficiency, life-cycle energy usage, and hedging against future risks on energy price and supply.
New Solution from Lumina ADEPT: Analytica Datacenter Energy Planning Tool With the increased capacity of servers and price of electricity, many data centers now spend as much for power, including for cooling, as they do on servers. New, more efficient servers and infrastructure are starting to become available. Companies are faced with complicated questions of how much capacity to invest in to meet the uncertain load, or what combination of products will minimize total cost of ownership (TCO). Analytica Datacenter Energy Planning Tool (ADEPT) helps you make confident and informed decisions about capacity sizing, deployment phasing, and selection of equipment for new and upgraded data centers. To learn more, please visit ADEPT.
Classroom Analytica Training We will be offering training classes throughout the year in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. The training dates will be: April 2-4, June 25-27, September 24-26, December 3-5 To learn more and register, please visit: Analytica Training
Analytica Wiki The new Analytica Wiki — or Anawiki — is a shared source of information created by and for Analytica users. Please visit it at Anawiki.
Live Analytica demos Do you have colleagues who could benefit from using Analytica? You might want to let them know about Lumina's weekly webinars. Seeing a live demo is the easiest way to understand what Analytica is about. The webinars include a Q&A session with an Analytica expert. We offer a webinar every Wednesday at 10:00am PST. For more info and to sign up, please visit: Analytica Web Demo
Flexible licensing We need your input. In our continuous effort to modify our solutions and licensing options to best suit the needs of our clients, we are considering offering a Flexible licensing scheme. Potentially this would be a server-based license that could be used on a concurrent basis, thus not needing to be licensed to a named individual. Would this benefit you? Do you or your organization have a preference in software licensing options? We would appreciate your feedback by email.
Career Opportunity Lumina is seeking an analyst with extensive experience in modeling energy and environmental problems to join our "green decisions" consulting team. We are looking for someone with excellent analytic skills who enjoys working on complex problems and wants to apply their talents to creating tools to help organizations reduce their environmental footprint and energy costs. PhD level. For more, please email us.
Each Analytica Newsletter contains brief news of new releases, hints and guidelines for using Analytica, and case studies on interesting applications. We send it at most once a month.
Please send your comments, suggestions, or contributions to newsletter@lumina.com To stop getting Analytica Newsletters, send email to ananewsoptout@lumina.com