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Decision analysis & multi-criteria

Decision analysis is a set of methods to help people and organizations address challenging decisions more effectively than using simple intuition. It provides tools like decision trees and influence diagrams to help structure problems, multiattribute (multicriteria) methods to handle problems with several often conflicting objectives, quantifying attitudes towards risk, and ways of treating uncertainty using probability distributions.

What’s the best retirement account type for me? 401(k), IRA, Roth, other?

It’s tax week here in the US, and like many other people, I have less than a week to finalize my tax returns. I also have some last minute decisions. Should I, or my wife, ...

Is Analytica Microsoft’s future programming?

Norm Judah, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Services, recently talked about the future of programming: “When someone thinks of business...

Marginal abatement: adding a dimension

In my earlier blog article, on marginal abatement, I explained what a Marginal Abatement graph is and how to set up such a graph in Analytica. In this article, I’m going to...

Analytica & decision analysis

I absolutely admire Analytica as a tool/software and find it a work of art, really. I admire the people who created it. I discovered Analytica in 2013 on an INFORMS web directory...

Pledges for the Paris climate talks analysis

October 1, 2015 was the UN’s deadline to receive national pledges for the UN Climate Change Treaty to be negotiated in Paris this December. At the end of February, the UN...

Marginal Abatement

Analytica models in the energy sector often include a Marginal Abatement graph for CO2 emissions. In this post I explain briefly what a Marginal Abatement graph is and provide...

Max Henrion DAS’s 2014 Best Practice Award

Max was awarded and recognized as an outstanding decision analyst in 2014 in “How to Dispose of California’s Defunct Offshore Oil Platforms”.

Risk analysis methods from probability, clustering, to multi-attribute utility theory

Machine failure, patient injury, terrorist attacks, and oil spills are just a few events we endure and have to prepare for in life. It is hard to manage things that are not ...

Some Analytica customers

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.


    Analytica Cubes Pattern

    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.


      Analytica Cubes Pattern