If you are looking for help in using Analytica, these affiliated
consultants offer special expertise in the use of Analytica to
create effective decision tools. Lumina has selected these firms
on the basis of their outstanding skills in decision analysis
and decision-oriented modeling, and knowledge of Analytica and
other tools. They have experience in applications in a wide variety
of areas, including the environment, oil and gas, earth sciences,
telecommunications, e-commerce, health, and pharmaceutical.
Lumina will be glad to help you select an affiliate to suit your
needs. Our
recommendations will be based on the type of assistance you want,
expertise in application area and methodology, geographical region,
and preferred language. Please call us at 650-212-1212 or email
us.
StrategicFit is a strategy consulting firm that works with
business leaders to simplify strategic decision making without sacrificing value. We do this by
applying established decision quality principles, industry experience, and analytical tools, to
get to the heart of what matters. Our focus is on energy-related industries.
We have worked with most supermajor petroleum companies, several national oil companies,
energy industry organisations, and many of the independent E&P firms. We have also worked with
utilities and oil industry service companies. Our flexible approach can unlock value in situations
where there are high-stakes decisions to be made in highly uncertain environments. Between us we
can draw on extensive consulting experience in many other industry sectors with these characteristics,
such as life sciences and consumer electronics.
We believe the use of Analytica benefits our clients in two ways. First it enables clients to use our analysis
themselves on an ongoing basis, enabling them refresh insights by keeping inputs up-to-date in a run-time
version. Second, we use Analytica for highly complex decision analysis work where traditional spreadsheet models
become unmanageable.
Incite has delivered solutions in
Analytica since 1996 within a broad array of commercial sectors.
Although we specialize in supporting strategic technology decisions,
we have applied Analytica in a wide array of client problems including
facilities capital cost estimating, market evaluation, project
valuation and selection, schedule risk and cost analysis, environmental
remediation, litigation strategy, new product development, network
architectural design, commercial real estate strategy, and portfolio
system design and support for pharmaceutical R&D and electronics.
Analytica's influence diagram environment, support for scalable
multidimensional analysis through Intelligent Arrays(TM), and
native Monte Carlo engine allow us to capture the logic and behavior
of client problems quickly and present them in a way that facilitates
productive and decisive dialog. By combining these uniquely adaptable
and flexible features with our structured approach to decision-making,
we help our clients gain deeper insights into opportunities and
make better decisions faster.
Novix assists companies with their
business planning. We model the financial, marketing, production
and logistics planning processes to better understand the key
business variables so that our clients are able to make informed
and better decisions. The Novix mulitilingual team (Spanish, Portuguese,
English) has worked with companies from Asia, Europe, Latin America
and the USA.
Using Analytica as the main development platform, we are able
to provide our clients with a powerful tool for decision making
analysis that is flexible, allows the analyst to handle large
data sets consistently and can easily be adapted to business changes.
Headquarters: Argentina
Fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese. http://www.novix.com
Bicore specializes in innovation management solutions,
with a focus on new business, new product development, and R&D.
We support a wide range of European clients in the high-tech,
automotive and process industry with management consulting, training,
and coaching, as well as implementation support.
Bicore is an affiliate consulting partner of Lumina, with expert
hands-on experience of the Analytica toolsuite. Analytica's support
for incremental modeling, concise and visual model presentation,
and ease of uncertainty analysis make it our tool of choice for
typical innovation management challenges such as business case
modeling and innovation portfolio analysis.
Veritas Economic Consulting supports
the informed decision-making of clients in the areas of public
policy evaluation, resource management and allocation, strategic
choice, and environmental quality. Analytica is a key tool that
complements the expertise of Veritas in microeconomic modeling
and in decision theory and related methods.
Key features of Analytica that are especially valuable for Veritas
clients and projects are the: diagrammatic model structure which
promotes transparency and understanding of analytical structures;
ease with which user-friendly interfaces can be incorporated;
capability to quickly change model dimensionality; and the ability
to incorporate uncertainty in the model parameter values and determine
the implications of this uncertainty for problems of public and
private sector choice.
QUANTUM AMERICA Corp. is an international
consulting firm specialized in Public Utilities Regulation for
the Electricity and Natural Gas Sectors, with a strong presence
in the Latin American market and expanding into the rest of the
world with offices in Argentina, USA, Brazil and Peru. Since 1986,
our multidisciplinary team of professionals has been researching
the best forms of regulation, designing new incentive regulation
mechanisms, and creating models and methodologies to respond to
the needs of our clients.
By implementing Analytica in the electricity and gas distribution
optimization models and tariff calculation models, we have managed
to reduce their complexity, allowing a better understanding and
use, as well as obtaining a great flexibility for the creation
of simulation scenarios and forecasts. Analytica-based models
offer users a powerful tool for their decision making process.
Summit Blue Consulting provides
a variety of energy and other utility-related services that help
clients compete and succeed in the fields of energy efficiency
and demand response, energy resource procurement and related business
pursuits. Our service lines are defined around our staff's expertise
in planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of energy,
water and other utility program and resource portfolios.
Summit Blue has Analytica experts who can apply their knowledge
of the energy space to solve complex problems for its clients.
The Analytica tool affords the opportunity to create user-friendly,
visual, and highly transparent models that facilitate a deep understanding
of analysis by clients. This approach ultimately enhances the
effectiveness of the analysis engagement and avoids the "black-box"
syndrome that is so common with other modeling frameworks. Additionally,
the flexibility of Analytica's "intelligent array" algorithm
permits Summit Blue Consulting to adapt quickly and cost-effectively
to client needs.
Decisionalysis Risk Consultants provide risk assessment
expertise primariliy in the areas of food safety, transportation
safety and environmental management.
"We particularly enjoy the considerable productivity gains
associated with Analytica. We are always working in partnership
with our clients. In this environment, good model development
practices rely on visualization, collaboration, computation, and
documentation. Analytica encourages all of these to work harmoniously.
The capacity to deliver web-based solutions with Analytica is
also exciting, where models built in Analytica are easily maintained
within the Analytica environment, while the web-based dissemination
provides low cost distribution and communication options for external
users of policy models." - Greg Paoli, President, Decisionalysis
Risk Consultants
Enrich Consulting is a management
consulting firm with practice areas in strategy development, business
case analysis, portfolio planning, and market opportunity sizing.
Our suite of enterprise-class software products extends the power
of Analytica to the web, so that Analytica data, models, and reports
can be accessed across the enterprise, or across the globe. We
specialize in the installation of decision support systems in
the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, high-technology,
and oil and gas industries.
We use Analytica to map and simulate the economic
impacts of projects our clients are considering. By modeling their
projects in Analytica's unique simulation environment, our clients
understand the driving factors in their projects and the effects
of exercising numerous options within those driving factors quicker,
more profitably, and in more detail than is possible in similar
attempts with spreadsheet models. Our experience spans such activities
as product development in the pharmaceutical, electronics, telecommunications,
and plastics industries; real estate lease versus buy models;
litigation risk management; and petroleum well development.
