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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.

Uncertainty analysis: are you sure about what you’re not sure about?

Tracking uncertainty in the input data in a model and showing how different degrees of such uncertainty affect the final result are strengths of Analytica. However, uncertainty ...

Why you need a decision support software

For Decision Strategies, Inc., the recommendation is clear: ‘Executives who are hesitant about using decision support systems should consider Analytica.’ Pointing executives...

Decision analytics & feedback loops: the driver & the driven

Out of descriptive, predictive and decision analytics, decision analytics are squarely in the here and now. If you look at the Lumina analogy of driving a car, you’ll see several ...

Modeling software as a service (SaaS) & accounting for profitability

What should you expect in terms of profitability when modeling software as a service? Conventional business theory says an enterprise cannot be unprofitable over too long a time...

Data modeling without tears: perils & pitfalls to avoid

If a model is to yield a result, it needs data. Data are described by a data model, sometimes very simple (‘year’); sometimes more complex (energy consumption by type of energy, ...

Resource use analysis & modeling of recycling, waste prevention, & eco-design

Do we actively poison our environment? Some would say yes – that the substances we artificially produce are positively noxious, pointing to vehicle emissions and sewage as ...

Healthcare decision tree & sensitivity analysis

Learn how decision trees improve healthcare decision-making, boost patient outcomes, and streamline processes with real-world applications and benefits.

Multi-attribute decision analysis & the fun of fuzzy

Between the fuzzy sets of Lotfi Asker Zadeh and the fuzzy math of George W. Bush, what precisely are the implications for multi-attribute decision analysis (MADA)? First of all, ...

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