Lumina Introduces Analytica Decision Engine 2.0 Development Tool; ADE 2.0 Makes It Easy to Utilize Analytica Decision Support Software in MS Windows Applications and Over the Web

Business Wire, Oct 19, 1999

Risk Analysis and Uncertainty ADE 2.0 enables users to treat uncertainty explicitly with probabilities and to:

-- Express uncertainty about any variable by selecting a probability distribution or directly specifying likelihoods with a probability table. -- Easily and efficiently propagate uncertainties through the model using Latin hypercube or Monte Carlo sampling. -- Compute uncertain results as standard statistics, probability bands, probability density functions, or cumulative probability functions.

Specifications Enterprise-Ready Connectivity

ADE 2.0 includes ODBC integration which enables access to ODBC-compliant databases and applications including:

-- Microsoft Access -- Oracle -- Informix -- DB2 -- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) -- F Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- E-commerce Systems -- Data Warehouses

Development Environments

To provide the widest range of inter-application compatibility, ADE 2.0 is provided as both an ActiveX in-process automation server and an ActiveX local automation server. The capabilities provided by ADE 2.0 are accessible from any of the following development environments:

-- Web pages using VB Script -- Web pages using JavaScript -- Microsoft Active Server Page (ASP) -- Microsoft Office Suite of applications (including Microsoft

Word and Excel) -- Applications with Visual Basic (VBA) for applications support -- OLE client development environment -- C or C program

System Requirements

-- 486-66Mhz or greater -- Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 or later -- 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended) -- 10 MB of disk space -- Color display