Analytica User FAQs/Reference Materials and Additional Reading

What reference materials exist for Analytica?

(see http://lumina.com/ana/support/download.htm to be sure you have links the latest versions )

• The Analytica User Guide. (comes installed with Analytica)
• The Analytica Tutorial. (comes installed with Analytica)
• The Analytica Optimizer Guide. (comes installed with Analytica).
• The Analytica Wiki (which you are currently viewing)
• The Analytica Scripting Guide

What reference materials exist for ADE?

• The ADE Developers Guide (comes installed with ADE, includes both a tutorial and a reference)
• The Analytica Scripting Guide (comes installed with ADE)

Where can I find overviews of Analytica?

Here are a few articles that overview Analytica:

• Morgan & Henrion, "Uncertainty", 2^nd ed., chapter 10.

Although not an overview per-se, this is a very good motivating article:

• Henrion (2004), "What's wrong with Spreadsheets - and how to fix them"

Where can I find published third-party reviews of Analytica?

• Robert D. Brown III (June 2008), Software Review: Analytica 4.1, OR/MS TOday

• Barry Grushkin (March 2005), Business Modeling: No Spreadsheets Required, Intelligent Enterprise.

• Jim Ericson (6 Oct 2003), "A Better Spreadsheet: Twenty-five years after Excel, Lumina Decision Systems analytic tool is visual, powerful and flexible", Line56: The E-Business Daily

• DM Review (Oct 2003), Lumina Decision Systems Launches New Business Analytics Tool, DMReview.com

• Henry Morris (Sept 2003), "Group VP for Applications and Information Access", IDC Conference 2003.

Brief quotes from numerous other reviews are summarized at [1].

Where can I find published articles that utilized Analytica?

See Articles that refer to Analytica.

What are some good books or articles on Decision Analytic modeling?

• Morgan & Henrion, "Uncertainty", Cambridge University Press. Note: Best to get the second edition.

• Virine & Trumper (2007), "Project Decisions: The Art and Science".