Dear Analytica user, On behalf of everyone at Lumina, thank you for your support of Analytica, and for making it the tool of choice of thousands of business modelers and decision analysts for years. Today, Lumina Decision Systems is proud to announce the latest member of the Analytica product family, the Analytica Decision Engine 2.0 (ADE). ADE is a powerful development tool that makes it easy to incorporate sophisticated modeling and probabilistic analysis capabilities into custom applications and web sites. ADE allows you to create, read, check, parse, evaluate, modify, and save Analytica models from within your own application programs to analyze complex problems. ADE can be used to enhance analytic and computational capabilities in a wide range of application areas, including e-commerce, financial and sales forecasting, corporate strategy, artificial intelligence, simulation, risk analysis, R&D project evaluation, new venture assessment, environmental cost-benefit tradeoffs, public policy scenario analysis, health-care cost management, and energy exploration. As you know, Analytica is a sophisticated modeling tool that uses influence diagrams to communicate the flow of information, and harnesses the power of Intelligent Arrays� to model complex problems. Creating even the most complex model is fast and straightforward. The Analytica Decision Engine includes all of capabilities of Analytica, but use a programmatic front-end, rather than a visual one. With ADE, the computational power of Analytica can be integrated into a business application, or leveraged a thousand-fold by deploying it on a web server. To provide the widest range of inter-application compatibility, ADE is provided as both an ActiveX in-process automation server and an ActiveX local automation server. The capabilities ADE provides are accessible through an API from any of the following development environments: web pages using VB Script web pages using JavaScript Microsoft Active Server Page technology (ASP) the Microsoft Office suite of applications (including Microsoft Word and Excel) applications with Visual Basic for Applications support (VBA) any OLE client development environment any C or C++ program For more information about the Analytica Decision Engine 2.0, please visit our web site at http://www.lumina.com - -- Keith Woolner Director of Marketing Lumina Decision Systems, Inc. - -------------------- E-mail sent using WorldMerge, the fastest and easiest way to send personalized e-mail messages. More information at: http://www.coloradosoft.com/worldmrg 881776 ------- End of Forwarded Message
