Simbon, Lumina's affiliate in the Netherlands, is offering a two-day Analytica training in Eindhoven on January 14-15th, 2008. They are also offering additional half day of one-on-one tutoring two weeks later to help trainees with their own modeling projects. Consultants at Simbon have extensive experience using Analytica with great success for their clients. For registration, please contact Tom Raaijmakers, senior consultant of Simbon via e-mail at tom.raaijmakers@simbon.nl or by mobile phone on +31 623921989. More ..

The cost of energy for power and cooling at many datacenters and server farms now exceeds the cost of the servers themselves. There are many new products and services designed to reduce datacenter energy use. But, it's challenging for managers to figure out what combination will reduce total cost of ownership, while providing sufficient capacity and reliability. Lumina has created a prototype tool to help them, the Analytica Datacenter Energy Planning Tool or ADEPT. More..

Professors find that Analytica helps students master essential modeling skills more easily than with spreadsheets. Analytica's influence diagrams let students move directly from visualizing the conceptual structure of a problem to building and analyzing a quantitative model. Lumina is now offering Analytica free of charge for use in university classes. More..

Come and meet Lumina CTO and leading Analytica architect, Dr. Lonnie Chrisman at the Lumina booth at The INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. Lonnie will present a special three-hour hands-on workshop, with an in-depth introduction to Analytica for those considering it for use or teaching on Saturday, Nov. 3rd and a demonstration and talk on Sunday, Nov. 4th titled Analytica: What it does that spreadsheets can't. More..