Analytica Cloud Platform

The Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP) lets you run Analytica models via a web browser, and share your models with other people. This page explains the advantages of ACP, how to use ACP, the different ACP subscriptions, with links to subpages with more detail.

Why use ACP?

ACP lets you share any Analytica model with others to view and run as a web application.
ACP users don’t need to install any software. They just need a web browser.
Running a model in ACP is similar to Analytica in browse mode. You can view model influence diagrams and objects, change inputs, and compute results as tables and graphs. But you can't edit model expressions or add variables.
When you deploy a model via ACP, you can be sure that all users have the latest version of a model and any data -- which is not so easy when you distribute a model and data for end users to run with desktop Analytica.
ACP offers several useful user-interface and navigation styles convenient for web applications, which are not available in Analytica on the desktop, including:
- Tabs across the top or down the left side of the screen let users navigate to user-interface pages (Analytica modules.)
- You can embed tables and graphs in a diagram using Frames.
- For more, see Differences between ACP and Desktop Analytica

How to use ACP

ACP works best in Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and other browsers using the Blink / Chromium engine. Such as Opera, Brave, and Chromium. We don't recommend using Safari or Internet Explorer.
Any Analytica user (even with Analytica Free) can sign up for an ACP account at acp.analytica.com. Enter your email address and a password, then press Sign up. ACP will email you a link to verify your email address, and then you can sign in. Or you can use a Gmail or other Google sign in and if your password is saved in your browser you will signed in to a new individual account..
In the ACP Models page, click the Upload button to upload an Analytica model to run in ACP.
Upload a model to ACP directly from inside Analytica. Just select Publish to Cloud from the File menu.
The first time you Publish to Cloud, it prompts you to start an ACP account.
With your ACP account, you can log in to ACP from a web browser and select a model to run.
An ACP account includes a project folder on the server that lets you review, start, share, upload, and download your models.
You can email anyone a link to let them run your ACP model. Just click the Invite button at the bottom of the model.
With a Group Account, an Admin can add users as Reviewers, Authors (who can upload new models), or other Admins. You can also create new Projects, each with a directory of models and data.
ACP models can import and export data as CSV files.
ACP can open and save Excel spreadsheets using LibXL. (On acp.analytica.com, for security and reliability reasons Excel is not installed, if you have an ACP_Server_License you can install and use Excel to work with spreadsheets). Features _excluded_from_ACP3.
ACP servers can be configured to connect to databases.
For more, view the Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP) video

Capabilities by ACP subscription type

Every Analytica user can create an ACP account and upload models to run in it. Even with Analytica Free, you have 25 free ACP model runs. If you have a current subscription or support, you get 25 runs per month. You can always buy more runs. With a Group Account, you can create projects with multiple users, 5 for a Basic Group Account, and 12 users for a Premium Group Account. These all run on servers hosted by Lumina. You can also buy an ACP Server license to run on a dedicated server that you can host yourself.

Edition	Analytica Free	Analytica with paid subscription	Basic Group Account	Premium Group Account	ACP Server License
Email Invites & Embed in web page	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Save changed model	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Users & Roles with access control	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
Shared Project Folders	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
Model runs	25 total	25/month	500/month	1200/month	No limit
Maximum Number of Users	1	1	5	12	24 upwards
Additional Sessions	$100 for 100 sessions	$100 for 100 sessions	$100 for 100 sessions	$100 for 100 sessions	No limit
Maximum File Size	25 MB	25 MB	50MB	100MB	200 MB
Max memory per session	2 GB	4 GB	8 GB	8 GB Ask for more	No limit
Optimizer	✗	✗	✗	Add-on	Add-on
Annual Price	Free	Included	$2,000	$5,000	Call (+1) 650-212-1212 or Sales@Lumina.com

A Model run means launching a model, including when someone runs a model from a link you emailed or posted on a web page.
Viewing model listings without running a model does not use a session.
The free 25 model runs with Analytica Free (or with expired support) never expire.
The 25 free model runs per month with a paid subscription expire after each month.
You can buy more ACP runs at $100 per 100 runs.
See the table above for limits on file sizes and CPU Minutes per calculation. Note that a calculation that takes, say, 2 CPU minutes may take longer to run in elapsed time when many users are running models on the same server.

ACP Group Plans

See also ACP Group Plans.

A Group Plan lets multiple users run and share models with a single account.
You can buy a Basic and Premium Group Plan at https://analytica.com/purchase-analytica/, or call (+1) 650-212-1212, or sales@lumina.com.
A group plan can have multiple Projects, each containing a directory of models and data.
Each user has their own account and password and can access only Projects of which they are a member.
Each user may have a role in each Project, as a
- Reviewer, who can run models, upload and download data, and save snapshots (models with changed data)
- Author who can also upload and delete models, and send email invites, or a
- Manager, who can also add or change roles of other users of a Project for which he is a manager (including other managers).
A Subscription Admin is a Plan level, not Project level setting , and is a user who can create or delete Projects.

ACP Server License

You may purchase an ACP license to install on a dedicated server. This lets you have many more users and/or run computationally intensive models without having to share server resources with other customers. You can install it on a server behind your organization's firewall on a corporate intranet for extra security for confidential or proprietary models and data. See ACP Server License

Security

Analytica Cloud Platform is a secure way to share models:

ACP uses a https for data transfer
Data input is not saved unless the user explicitly saves the model or a copy.
You can also lock and encrypt models so that all or parts of a model are hidden even if someone accesses the file