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Analytica

Analytica

Description

What is Analytica?

Analytica is a visual software environment for building, exploring, and sharing quantitative decision models. If you find yourself struggling with complex spreadsheets, you will find Analytica a revelation.

Speed: Build and Run Faster

Analytica runs 5 to 10 times faster than equivalent spreadsheets. And more important, you can build models 2 to 4 times faster. Models are 10 to 100 times smaller than equivalent Excel files — and correspondingly easier to build, debug, and explain.

Clarity: Influence Diagrams

Build, navigate, and present your models with intuitive influence diagrams. Distinguish decisions, uncertainties, and objectives by node shape. Clarify dependencies with influence arrows.

Scalability: Module Hierarchy

Cope comfortably with models too complex for spreadsheets. Organize large models as a hierarchy of comprehensible modules.

Flexibility: Intelligent Arrays

Explore multidimensional data with the ease and power of Intelligent Arrays™. Work with arrays, not cells. Formulas generalize automatically as you extend and add dimensions.

Transparency: Self-Documenting Models

Each variable includes units, description, inputs, outputs, and more. This transparency helps you and your clients understand the assumptions and trust the results.

Risk and Uncertainty: Monte Carlo

Explore uncertainty with efficient Monte Carlo. Discover which uncertainties really matter and why, with intelligent sensitivity analysis.

Power: Optimization

Find the best decision strategy with the Analytica Optimizer. It formulates problems automatically for optimization. You can upgrade to the World’s most powerful solver engines.

Sharing: Analytica Cloud Platform

Deploy models instantly onto the web for end users with the Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP). Your whole team can collaborate with an ACP Group Subscription.

Integration

Spreadsheet add-ins try to retrofit one or two of these features. We designed Analytica from its inception as a coherent and elegant whole.