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Analytica for students & faculty

Max Henrion developed the idea for Analytica while a professor at Carnegie Mellon. His goal was to help students and practicing analysts master the art and science of quantitative decision modeling.

First, you identify the key decisions, objectives, and uncertainties, and the influences among them, then you create the underlying mathematical structure. Influence diagrams encourage you to conceptualize and structure complex problems the same way expert analysts do.

Analytica is used for teaching and research in leading universities around the world. See how others have used Analytica in academia. Read some of the published papers and case studies that have featured Analytica.

Analytica free for classes

The free edition is well suited for use by students in learning how to structure and analyze decision models. We offer additional options for classes, please reach out to [email protected] to discuss further. 

Discount for education

Analytica editions are available for researchers at universities and schools at 50% discount for funded projects. You must be a student or faculty member at an accredited educational institution and use the software for educational or research purposes in conjunction with that institution. Compare editions to see which version of Analytica suits your needs.

What you get with a subscription

  • A standard subscription for Analytica is for 12 months.
  • Use of Analytica or ADE software installed on your own Windows computer for the term of the subscription.
  • Free technical support by email. See the support section for details.
  • Free patches and upgrades to all new releases.
  • Edit access to the user guides.
  • 25 free Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP) sessions per month
  • See the end user license agreement for more information. 

Analytica educational editions

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Product Title Description Variations Price Quantity Action
The standard version of Analytica, with full model creation functions.
$500
Supports ODBC database access, Huge Arrays, Protection, Time Profiling and more.
$1,000
The Optimizer Edition includes a powerful, general purpose solver and optimizer for linear, mixed integer and nonlinear programs. 
$2,000
Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP) Basic Group Plan for academic purposes.
$1,000
Purchase 100 extra ACP session credits, for paid Analytica editions only.
$100
Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP) Premium Group Plan for academic purposes.
$2,500
Four-half day training course sessions.
$800

Education clients

See also

Areas of use

Analytica is used in just about every industry and sector. See how others are using Analytica in diverse ways.

Publications using Analytica

Explore the power of the Analytica software and how it has been utilized in diverse fields through various journal articles and publications.

Introduction videos

Watch and learn! Analytica videos cover a range of topics. You’ll be building your first model in no time.

Compare editions

See what features are included in each edition of the Analytica software including Free edition, Professional, Enterprise, Optimizer, ADE and ACP.

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    The free edition of Analytica includes these key Analytica features:
    Free Analytica has no time limit. The only constraint is it won’t let you create more than 100 variables or other objects. But your model can be quite substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you explore, change inputs, and run existing models of any size (excluding features unique to the Enterprise or Optimizer editions).

    Download the free edition of Analytica

    The free edition of Analytica includes these key Analytica features: 

    Free Analytica has no time limit. The only constraint is it won’t let you create more than 100 variables or other objects. But your model can be quite substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array.  It also lets you explore, change inputs, and run existing models of any size (excluding features unique to the Enterprise or Optimizer editions).

    Analytica runs on any Windows computer, or on a Macintosh using Parallels or VMWare.


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