COMPANY

• Lumina Decision Systems, Inc., was founded in 1991 by Max Henrion and Brian Arnold.

• To meet the needs of demanding projects, Lumina often

assembles virtual organizations bringing in complementary expertise and resources from affiliated organizations, small and large.

• Its main office and R&D labs are located in Los Gatos in California's Silicon Valley and representative is in CHINA.

COMPANY

• Lumina is the developer and publisher of Analytica.

• We also provide consulting to develop decision-support tools and decision analysis, especially for applications in energy and environment.

• Lumina develops and disseminates innovative technologies that help individuals and organizations to make effective decisions.

OBJECTIVES

• Lumina pursues goal in two ways:-

• By developing and marketing advanced software for decision support.

• By providing consulting, contract research, and seminars to help organizations make more effective use of decision-support tools.

POLICY• Lumina is committed to protecting customer privacy and never share or

sell your contact information to a third-party, unless compelled to under penalty of law.

• Encrypt any identifying personal information that we send or receive from your Web browser and let you opt out of any electronic mailing list on any e-mail from that list, such as for the Analytica Newsletter.

• We ask for your email address when you order Analytica so that we can send you an activation code and instructions to install your software.

• From time to time, we may contact you to ask for your feedback on Analytica or to let you know if your support is expiring.

ANALYTICA

• Analytica is a visual software package developed by for creating, analyzing and communicating quantitative decision models.

• Everything that's wrong with the common PC spreadsheet is fixed in Analytica.

• If you use spreadsheets for building business models or policy analysis, Analytica will be a revelation.

ANALYTICA

• Its intuitive influence diagrams let you create a model the way you think, and communicate clearly with colleagues and clients.

• Its Intelligent Arrays let you create and manage multidimensional tables with an ease and reliability unknown in spreadsheets.

• Its efficient Monte Carlo lets you quickly evaluate risk and uncertainty, and find out what variables really matter and why.

FEATURES

• Estimate that the time spend writing Analytica models is one quarter to one half of that devoted to similarly complex spreadsheets.

• Lumina's Analytica rends the veil that has kept business managers from collaborating with analysts on complex business models.

• Analytica 1.0.1 is not only the right computing tool for financial decisions, it helps you think more realistically.

FEATURES

• Within its chosen domain and uncertainty propagation through influence diagram models.

• PC software users looking for a data analysis solution beyond the spreadsheet have a new alternative.

• Analytica makes an excellent replacement for a spreadsheet and is an excellent tool for most engineers.

USER OPINIONS

• Analytica is very easy to learn. Once learned, it is delightful to use.

• Attend a live demo via the web from the convenience of your desk by one of our most experienced demonstrators. Ask your own questions — it’s live.

• Analytica is so much easier to use than spreadsheets. The brilliant thing is its influence diagrams. First you build a model graphically, and then fill in the details.

USER OPINIONS

• Analytica makes an excellent replacement for a spreadsheet since models can be constructed directly from relationships without being constrained by the row and column paradigm of a spreadsheet.

• A powerful forecasting and business-modeling package does what spreadsheets never could.

• Analytica is one of the best examples of an analytical tool with rich, visual modeling capabilities that is being used to build a wide range of decision-centric analytic applications

BENEFITS

• Ease of learning and use.

• Model clarity and influence diagams.

• Comparison to spreadsheets.

• Intelligent Arrays.

• Uncertainty, risk analysis and Monte Carlo.

• Decision analysis.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES• For the quantitatively-inclined, Lumina is a great place to work.

• Lumina's software is fun to use, and with it actively used by so many analysts in numerous fields, you get rapid feedback that your accomplishments are being put to work to solve real world problems.

• Working with Lumina clients provides exposure to many very smart people in many diverse fields of expertise, providing ample opportunities to learn in depth and development of work within Lumina provides opportunities to gain skills with a wide variety of technologies.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

• Analytica has users in almost every sector of the economy. Almost 40% are outside the USA, 25% of our customers are government, 20% are Universities, and 38% are outside North America.

• Connect with the Analytica community on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

• Analytica is being used in major corporations, consulting firms, universities, and government agencies, on six continents.