1. By developing and marketing advanced software for decision support.
2. By providing consulting, contract research, and seminars to help organizations make more effective use of decision-support tools

Lumina's flagship software product, Analytica®, is a quantitative decision-support environment that helps people visualize problems with a clarity and power far beyond what is possible in a spreadsheet. Existing applications of Analytica include strategic planning, R&D management, decision analysis, and risk analysis in finance, healthcare, energy, environment, aerospace, and telecommunications. Analytica is being used in major corporations, consulting firms, universities, and government agencies, on six continents. Check out our Customer List for a sample of our clients.

Lumina consultants work closely with clients to develop models of the complex and uncertain environment faced by their organizations. The focus of these models is to provide insight into what matters and why as a basis for justified and confident decisions. Lumina helps decision makers and experts to represent their objectives and knowledge in intuitive yet rigorous graphical forms. Using Analytica and other tools, we develop quantitative models with a speed and flexibility unavailable with conventional modeling tools. Typically, we help clients arrive at clarity and consensus for immediate decisions, and provide them with a decision-support system for continuing use for their future decisions. The Lumina team brings to bear extensive experience in decision analysis, risk analysis, operations research, software engineering, and knowledge-based expert systems.

Lumina also provides tutorials and seminars in decision analysis, risk analysis, and artificial intelligence. We have presented invited tutorials at national meetings of The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and at numerous corporations and government agencies.

Lumina is committed to continuing research and development to bring innovative decision technologies to individuals and organizations. Recently developed products include Web-based tools for personal and collaborative decision making.

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.

Product Description:

Lumina's flagship software product, Analytica®, is a quantitative decision-support environment that helps people visualize problems with a clarity and power far beyond what is possible in a spreadsheet.

Analytica's intuitive influence diagrams let you create a model the way you think, and communicate clearly with colleagues and clients.

Analytica's Intelligent Arrays' lets you create and manage multidimensional tables with an ease and reliability unknown in spreadsheets. Building off this, Analytica employs array abstraction which allows a modeler to operate mathematically on an entire table with-out writing formulae that reference each element in a table or without writing procedural iteration routines, unless specific individual cell references are necessary. The results are that time to write code is significantly reduced, copying errors are significantly reduced, and debugging time is reduced.

Analytica also integrates rapid Monte Carlo and Latin hypercube simulation for risk and uncertainty analysis right into tool. This allows modelers to quickly evaluate risk and uncertainty, and find out what variables really matter and why.

Existing applications of Analytica include strategic planning, R&D management, decision analysis, and risk analysis in finance, healthcare, energy, environment, aerospace, and telecommunications. Analytica is being used in major corporations, consulting firms, universities, and government agencies, on six continents.

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