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Risk Analysis for 2008: Interactive Simulation, Stunning Graphics, Lightning-Fast Simulation Optimization

Risk Solver is the easiest, fastest, and most powerful tool you can buy for risk analysis of your Excel models, using Monte Carlo simulation.  Designed from the ground up for the power of modern PCs and Excel 2007, it's a true "industrial strength" risk analysis tool -- the first new choice to appear in many years.  And it also works great in Excel 2003, XP and 2000!

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Only Risk Solver has instant, interactive risk analysis based on PSI Technology, with lightning-fast simulations run each time you change a number. Statistics and charts update instantly, showing a new distribution of outcomes for each change -- and new insights for you.

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Only Risk Solver works with our leading-edge Premium Solver to give you breakthrough speed for simulation optimization.

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Only Risk Solver includes a runtime package, Risk Solver Engine, with 80 new Excel functions and a VBA object model, making it easy for you to develop and deploy your applications to end users.

For full details, click the "Risk Solver Capabilities" links on the right.  But the best way to decide whether Risk Solver is for you is to try it out!  If you register below (it's easy and free), you can:

bulletDownload a free 15-day Trial Version of Risk Solver, or any of our Premium Solver or SDK Solver products
bulletDownload our Solver User Guides -- learn more about Risk Solver, Premium Solver Platform for optimization, and more
bulletAccess "protected" Tech Support pages and downloadable example models

Tame Uncertainty - and Make Better Decisions

Has your company ever missed opportunities or lost money because single-point estimates of market demand, materials costs, or project completion time turned out to be way off the mark?  There's no escaping uncertainty -- demand fluctuates, costs increase, and things take longer than expected.

But you can capture the uncertainty in your Excel model, and explore its consequences -- taking into account not just a "best, average and worst case" scenario, but thousands of scenarios -- in seconds. And modifying your existing Excel model to do this is easier than you think, with Risk Solver.  Risk analysis expert Dr. Sam Savage says, "Risk Solver does for uncertainty what the spreadsheet did for numbers."  If you can use Excel, you can use Risk Solver!

With Risk Solver, each time you change a number on the spreadsheet, a new simulation with thousands of trials is performed -- often in no more time than a single spreadsheet "recalc" -- and a full range of simulation results -- including charts and statistics -- can be displayed.  Suddenly, you find that insights about your model, and decisions you can make, start to flow intuitively. Early users have called this instant, interactive feedback "addictive."

To see the distribution of Net Profit, just hover the mouse over cell B9.  Or double-click to see full-power charts, statistics, percentiles, and more.  B10 = PsiMean(B9) shows you average Net Profit over 1000s of scenarios -- updated instantly with every change.

Risk Solver uses Frontline's Polymorphic Spreadsheet Interpreter technology to achieve breakthrough simulation speeds -- up to 100 times faster than normal Excel-based Monte Carlo simulation -- thus making Interactive Simulation practical every time you change a number on the spreadsheet.  PSI Technology™ uses vectorized evaluation to effectively compute hundreds or thousands of Monte Carlo trials in parallel, for unmatched speed and responsiveness.

Great-Looking Charts in Seconds

You'll be amazed at how quickly you can create high-quality charts and graphs of your results, print them, or copy and paste them into PowerPoint or any Windows application. Like everything else in Risk Solver -- but unlike its competitors! -- charts update instantly when you change colors, titles, gridlines, legends and other options -- and when model inputs change!  You can create PDF and CDF (forward or reverse) charts for uncertain variables, and Frequency, Cumulative Frequency (forward and reverse) and Sensitivity (Tornado) charts for uncertain results, plus more charts for distribution fitting.

Click the chart to see it full size

More Industrial-Strength Features

Risk Solver is a true "industrial strength" risk analysis product.  It gives you more sampling methods, more analytic distributions, more statistics and risk measures, more aids for correlation and distribution fitting, more flexible charts and graphs, and an easier, faster graphical interface. All of which is designed to make your analysis more productive.  For example:

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Four high-quality random number generators

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Standard Monte Carlo, Latin Hypercube, and Sobol (randomized QMC) sampling

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40 probability distributions from Bernoulli to Weibull, including custom distributions

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Full support for Stochastic Libraries containing pre-generated Monte Carlo trials

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Facilities for publishing and using general or company-specific Certified Distributions

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20 statistics and risk measures, including SemiVariance, VaR and Conditional VaR

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Rank order correlation of dissimilar distributions, with automatic adjustment of correlation matrices

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Automatic fitting of continuous and discrete distributions to user data or simulation results

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Error filtering and easy ways to include/exclude scenarios to obtain conditional distributions

Download a Free Trial Right Now

Why wait?  You can download and run the RSSetup program that installs the full-power Risk Solver software with a free 15-day trial license.  You can use every feature of the software, solve real problems, examine the full User Guide and Help, and get expert technical support -- all without any obligation.

Just enter your name and email address, and optionally your company and phone, pick the closest "User Type," and click the Register for Download button.  You can download immediately after registering, or return later anytime -- just login with your email address.

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Risk Solver Capabilities
Ribbon User Interface
Instant Charts of Results
Right-Click Menus
Quick Model Navigation
Define Uncertain Inputs
Define Uncertain Results
Drag and Drop Statistics
Define Correlations
Fit Distributions to Data
Interactive Simulation
Speed of PSI Technology
Simulation Optimization
Probability Management
Certified Distributions
Stochastic Libraries
Sampling / Distributions
Statistics / Risk Measures
Conditional Distributions
Deploying Custom Apps
80 New Excel Functions
VBA Object-Oriented API
Download Free Trial
How to Order Your Copy
Support and Upgrades
Runtime Licensing
   
Our Premium Solver Platform works with existing Excel Solver models, solves much larger problems up to hundreds of times faster, and solves new kinds of problems via Evolutionary Solver.  Solver Engines plug into the Premium Solver Platform.
   
Solver Platform SDK makes it easy to solve any type or size of optimization problem in your Visual Basic, VB.NET, C/C++, C#, Java, or MATLAB program. And it's easy to deploy your application with our flexible licensing for software vendors and corporate developers.
   
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