<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"><html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>What is Analytica?</title> <script language="JavaScript"><!-- Hide from old browsers //debug //alert (top.frames[1].frames[1].document.name); var LETHAL = sniff_browser(); function sniff_browser() { var LETHAL if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 4') != -1)){ LETHAL = "FALSE"; } else if ((navigator.appName.substring(0,8) == "Netscape") && ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('3') != -1) || (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('4') != -1))){ var LETHAL = "FALSE"; } else { LETHAL = "TRUE"; } return LETHAL; }//end sniff_browser if (LETHAL == "FALSE") { //images for Navigation bar. news = new Image(); news.src = "../images/btn_news.gif"; newsover = new Image(); newsover.src = "../images/btn_news_1.gif"; cons = new Image(); cons.src = "../images/btn_cons.gif"; consover = new Image(); consover.src = "../images/btn_cons_1.gif"; comp = new Image(); comp.src = "../images/btn_comp.gif"; compover = new Image(); compover.src = "../images/btn_comp_1.gif"; cont = new Image(); cont.src = "../images/btn_contact.gif"; contover = new Image(); contover.src = "../images/btn_contact_1.gif"; }//end of image definitions function switchem (nameof, button_num) { if (LETHAL == "FALSE") { eval("document.button" + button_num + ".src =" + nameof + ".src"); }//end if }//end switchem // Stop hiding from old browsers --> </script> <meta name="keywords" content="Analytica, Lumina, analytics, spreadsheets"> <meta name="description" content=""> <meta name="keywords" content="Analytica, Lumina, analytics"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../LuminaStyleSheet.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="keywords" content="Analytica software, Lumina Decision Systems, analytic, spreadsheet, modeling, ana"> <meta name="description" content="An overview of Analytica - beyond the spreadsheet - software for business modeling available from Lumina Decision Systems."> <table WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="82" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" BORDER="0" align="center"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="52"><a href="/index.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Lumina home';return true"><img align=bottom border=0 height=52 src="../images/navbar_logo.gif" width=136 naturalsizeflag = 3></a><img align=bottom height=52 src="../images/navbar_mdl.gif" width=83 naturalsizeflag = 3><a href="../whatsnew/index.html" onMouseOut="switchem('news','1')" onMouseOver ="switchem('newsover','1');window.status='News about Lumina';return true" ><img alt=News border=0 height=52 name=button1 src="../images/btn_news.gif" width=62></a><a href="../software/index.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Lumina products';return true"><img border=0 height=52 src="../images/btn_prod_1.gif" width=71></a><a href="../corporate/index.html" onMouseOut="switchem('comp','3')" onMouseOver ="switchem('compover','3');window.status='About Lumina';return true" ><img alt=Company border=0 height=52 name=button3 src="../images/btn_comp.gif" width=75></a><a href="../consulting/index.html" onMouseOut="switchem('cons','2')" onMouseOver ="switchem('consover','2');window.status='Lumina consulting services';return true" ><img alt=Consulting border=0 height=52 name=button2 src="../images/btn_cons.gif" width=82></a><a href="../contact/index.html" onMouseOut="switchem('cont','4')" onMouseOver ="switchem('contover','4');window.status='Send email to Lumina';return true" ><img alt="Contact Us" border=0 height=52 name =button4 src="../images/btn_contact.gif" width=91 ></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td HEIGHT="30" align="left" class="pageheading"> <img src="../images/title_analytica.gif" width="191" height="30">What is Analytica? </td> </tr> </table> <table width="604" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="232" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left" height="288"> <table width="94%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="227"><img src="../images/AnaCube.jpg" width="177" height="210"></td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="227" valign="top"> <p>Analytica is a visual tool for creating, analyzing, and communicating decision models.</p> <ul> <li> Its intuitive <a href="#diagrams">influence diagrams</a> let you create a model the way you think, and communicate clearly with colleagues and clients.</li> <li> Its Intelligent Arrays&#153; let you create and manage multidimensional tables with an ease and reliability unknown in spreadsheets.</li> <li> Its efficient Monte Carlo lets you quickly evaluate risk and uncertainty, and find out what variables really matter and why.</li> </ul> <p> If you use spreadsheets for building business models or policy analysis, Analytica will be a revelation. But don't take our word for it. Look at what <a href="users.htm">users</a> and <a href="#reviewers">reviewers</a> say about Analytica. See <a href="#casestudies">case studies</a> of applications. Then try it yourself with our <a href="#trial">15-day free trial</a>. </p> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td colspan="2" class="subhead" valign="top" height="5"> <hr align="center" noshade size="1"> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" valign="top" height="87"> <div align="left"><b><a name="users"></a><a href="users.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="users.htm" class="subhead">What users say</a></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="87" valign="top"> &quot;Analytica is very easy to learn. ... Once the software has been learned, it is delightful to use. The number of mouse-clicks and key strokes required to produce desired results is minimal, yet the process to follow is obvious.&quot; <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tony Cox, CEO, Cox &amp; Associates, Colorado. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="users.htm">See what other users say.</a></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="111"> <div align="left"><b><a name="reviewers"></a><a href="reviewers.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="reviewers.htm" class="subhead">What reviewers say</a></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="111" valign="top"> &quot;Everything that's wrong with the common PC spreadsheet is fixed in Analytica.<font size="2">&quot;</font> <span class="normal"><b><i>PC Week</i></b>.</span>&quot; <p> &quot;A powerful forecasting and business-modeling package that does what spreadsheets never could.&quot; <i><b>InformationWeek</b></i>.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="reviewers.htm">See more from these and other reviews.</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="58"> <div align="left"><b><a name="casestudies"></a><a href="customers.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="customers.htm" class="subhead">Who uses Analytica?</a></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="58" valign="top">GM, Ford, Boeing, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Merrill-Lynch, PWC, Chevron, EPA, NASA: Many of the largest &#151; and smallest &#151; organizations, in the USA and outside, use Analytica.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="customers.htm"> See some of our best-known customers.</a></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="27"> <div align="left"><b><a name="casestudies"></a><a href="../casestudies/index.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="../casestudies/index.htm" class="subhead">Case studies</a></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="27" valign="top">The Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) used Analytica to that computerized order entry software in US health clinics could avoid 2 million adverse drug reactions and save $44 billion per year. <br> See this and 5 other <a href="../casestudies/index.htm">case studies</a> of how people are using Analytica. </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td colspan="2" class="subhead" valign="top" height="5"> <hr align="center" noshade size="1"> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="28"> <div align="left"><a name="overview"></a><b><a href="../software/ana_brochure.pdf"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="../software/ana_brochure.pdf" class="subhead">A graphical overview</a></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="28" valign="top">A 6-page graphical introduction to Analytica:<a href="../software/ana_brochure.pdf"> Download PDF file</a> (315 KB) </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="32"> <div align="left"><b><a name="diagrams"></a><a href="../software/influencediagrams.html"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="../software/influencediagrams.html" class="subhead">Influence diagrams</a></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="32" valign="top"> <a href="../software/influencediagrams.html">See an introduction</a> to this simple graphical display for creating and communicating the essential structure of a model.</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="51"> <div align="left"><font size="-1"><b><a href="editiondescriptions.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="editiondescriptions.htm" class="subhead">Which Edition do I need?</a></font></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="51" valign="top">Editions of Analytica include the Free <a href="player.htm">Player, </a>Free <a href="trial.htm">15-day Trial</a>, Professional, Enterprise, Power Player, and the <a href="ADE.htm">Analytica Decision Engine (ADE)</a>. For details, see <a href="editiondescriptions.htm"> Editions</a> and the <a href="editiontable.htm">feature table</a>.</td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="66"> <div align="left"><font size="-1"><b><a href="ADE.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="ADE.htm" class="subhead">What is ADE?</a></font></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="66" valign="top"> <p>The <a href="ADE.htm">Analytica Decision Engine (ADE)</a> runs Analytica models on a server. You can write your own user interface or Web application using its Application Programming Interface (API). <a href="Release4.htm">Order ADE.</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="53"> <div align="left"><b><a href="newtoana4.0.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="newtoana4.1.htm" class="subhead">What's new in 4.1?</a></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="53" valign="top">Our latest release, Analytica 4.1 adds dozens of new features, including, flexible new graphing options, auto save, and much more. <a href="newtoana4.1.htm"> For more.</a> <a href="Release4.htm"> <br> To upgrade to 4.1.</a></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td colspan="2" class="subhead" valign="top" height="5"> <hr align="center" noshade size="1"> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <td width="32%" class="subhead" valign="top" height="54"> <div align="left"><font size="-1"> <a name="trial"></a><b><a href="trial.htm"><img src="../images/arrow_1.gif" width="21" height="18" align="absmiddle" border="0"></a></b><a href="trial.htm" class="subhead">Download a free trial</a></font></div> </td> <td width="68%" class="normal" height="54" valign="top">To truly appreciate what Analytica can do for you, <a href="trial/index.html" target="_blank">download</a> our free 15-day trial version. 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