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Who uses Analytica and for what?

There are analysts in almost every sector of the economy who use Analytica as their tool of choice for quantitative modeling. Below are a few of our better known customers, and examples of actual Analytica applications, organized by these fields and industries:

  • Aerospace
  • Defense and homeland security
  • Computers and telecom
  • Consumer products
  • Consultants
  • Education

  • Computers and telecommunications


            

    Applications include R&D management, business case for new products, fibre optic routing and cost analysis, telecommunications policy analysis.


    Consumer products

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    Applications include business analytics, market analysis, online consumer advice, pricing, investment analysis for manufacturing plant, R&D management.


    Energy



                                     

    National Renewable Energy Lab
    Applications include R&D project management, exploration, development, production, transportation, distribution, pricing, maintenance, environmental risk analysis, waste disposal for energy from coal, oil, gas, nuclear power, fuel cells, hydropower, windpower, and other renewables.

    Environment

    US Environmental Protection Agency
    Union of Concerned Scientists
                      
    Applications include water quality, radioactive waste disposal, power plant emissions, atmospheric transport, acid rain, air quality, human health risk, food risks, salmon farming, endangered species, ecosystem modeling, greenhouse gases, global climate change, health risks, cost-benefit analysis, Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis, integrated assessment models.

    Aerospace

    Applications include schedule and cost risk analysis for repair and maintenance of the space shuttle, cost-benefit analysis of airline safety options, and R&D project portfolio analysis.


    Defense and
    homeland security

    Applications include aerial combat attrition models, acquisition analysis, bio-attack monitoring, geopolitical gaming, rapid deployment logistics, staff and resource planning, probabilistic intelligence analysis, and many others that our customers could not reveal without shooting us.


    Financial services and insurance

        

    Applications include probabilistic risk analysis,foreign exchange rate hedging, insurance contracts, credit risk, consumer loan market analysis, cashflow management, online consumer advice.


    Food and agriculture


    US Department of Agriculture
    Archer Daniel Midland Company

    Applications include analysis of food processing, financial analytics, salmon farming, and health risk analysis.


    Health and
    pharmaceuticals



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    US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
    US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    US Food and Drug Agency
    Applications: Cost-benefit of medical information technology, R&D project portfolio management, clinical trial analysis, food risk analysis, radioactive dose reconstruction, resource and staff planning, epidemiological modeling.

    Manufacturing and
    automobiles

             

    Applications include market analysis, manufacturing capacity sizing, R&D project portfolio analysis, warranty service and maintenance cost analysis.


    Consultants

    Accenture, Battelle, Bechtel, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Mitre Corp, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, RAND Corporation, SAIC

    Consulting organizations, large and small, like Analytica because of the speed with which they can develop sophisticated decision models. Their clients like it because of the transparency of the results and assumptions.


    Higher education

    Cambridge University, Carnegie Mellon, Duke University, Georgia Tech, Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, Penn State, RAND Graduate School, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, University of North Carolina, University of Southern California.

    Applications: Analytica is widely used in university courses to help students develop skills and sophistication in building, analyzing, and computing models. It is most used in schools of business, public policy, engineering, and public health.


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