Beta Tester Page

We invite you to be a beta tester of Analytica 5.1, if:

You have Analytica 5.0 installed on your computer with an active subscription. (Sorry, not Analytica Free 101). It also works for floating licenses with a license manager.
Your computer has an internet connection without a firewall or proxy server that prevents the installer or the update checker (AnalyticaUpdateChecker.exe) from communicating with the AnalyticaOnline.com server.

Why become a beta tester?

Test drive the next upcoming release of Analytica early.
Start using new features immediately.
Help improve the final release.
Ensure that your models work in the new release. Let us know of issues while they can still be fixed, ensuring a seamless transition for you and your model users when this release becomes official.
Participate in webinars on tips and guides on new features.

Your responsibilities as a beta tester

Read What's new in Analytica 5.1? so you know what new features are available.
Sign up as a beta tester by filling in the form when you run the installer.
Explore new Analytica enhancements of interest to you and learn about them on this wiki.
Submit a bug report when you find an issue
Keep up-to-date by installing the latest beta build. Analytica will show you an alert whenever there is a new build ready to install, about every 2 weeks. We may also send you email reminders. See release notes for changes and bug fixes in each beta release.
We encourage you to retain Analytica 5.0 when you install Analytica 5.1 beta. That lets you compare their behavior if you suspect a new bug.

How to start beta-testing

Download the installer for the latest beta build, release number 5.1, from:

If you have a current 5.0 subscription and accessible internet connection, the installer normally obtains the required license automatically. If not, send us an email with the details: support@lumina.com.

If you use a centrally-managed license for Analytica (e.g., a floating license), the installer should still be able to obtain a beta license automatically. If you want to install a 5.1 beta license on the RLM server for easy use by anyone in your organization, please contact us via support@lumina.com.

Improve docs on the Analytica wiki

During beta period, we are still updating this Analytica Wiki to reflect new features. What's new in Analytica 5.1? is the most complete listing of new features, and is also a work in progress. As we approach final release date, this information will be more complete.

As an Analytica user, you are invited to contribute to the docs! Since it's on a wiki (using Mediawiki software, just like Wikipedia), you can add or edit any content. If you find something unclear, incomplete, or just wrong, feel free to fix it yourself. Or add comments, asking someone else to. And you are welcome to add tips or interesting examples.

Known issues

If you find an issue, please let us know about it at support@lumina.com. Please see Submitting a bug report for instructions on reporting bugs.

Problems acquiring a beta license

If the installer fails to automatically acquire a beta 5.1 license, please include a screenshot of the third page of the installer when reporting this to support@lumina.com. The third page is titled Analytica Automatic Beta Licensing and looks like this:

The illustrated error occurs if your computer does not have an internet connection, or if you have a firewall that blocks communication on IP port 80 between the installer and the AnalyticaOnline.com server. For this particular error, you'll need to reconfigure your firewall to allow communication on port 80 by the installer program and the AnalyticaUpdateChecker.exe program (which is a component that will be installed) with the AnalyticaOnline.com server.

If it skips this page entirely and goes directly to the License Information page, it means that it did not find any already installed valid 5.0 license on your computer. If this occurs and you have Analytica 5.0 (Professional, Enterprise or Optimizer) installed on your computer, and are able to use it, then this would appear to be a bug that you should report to support@lumina.com (please include info about your 5.0 license to help us debug). If you don't have Analytica 5.0 installed on this computer, then that is the problem since that is a requirement for beta testing 5.1.

If the error is that you don't have an active subscription or active support, then you aren't eligible to beta test, or you can contact us if you believe this to be in error.

Note: We will list only the most important issues here (ones that might impact your ability to use it, or which are likely to be found and reported multiple times). We maintain a comprehensive bug base in-house, which is not accessible outside of Lumina.

FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions

See Analytica User FAQs for frequently asked questions not specific to 5.1 or to beta testing.