Vanguard Launches Business Analytics Suite

Industry–leading Analysis, Simulation, Optimization and Forecasting Tools now Merged into One Package.

Cary, NC – February 20, 2009 – Vanguard Software has launched its newest offering, the Vanguard Business Analytics Suite. Designed for professional business modelers, Vanguard's Business Analytics Suite merges Decision Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation, Optimization and Time-series Forecasting into an integrated package. Some of the key innovations in the new Business Analytics Suite include collaborative modeling, grid-based Monte Carlo simulation and stochastic optimization.

Vanguard's collaborative modeling approach enables groups of modelers to develop large-scale models by linking together smaller, individual models in real-time. This offers a unique and robust approach to probability management in that risks and uncertainties are captured and maintained as component models in a central library where they can be accessed and linked together as needed.

With the world's first commercial grid computing service for running large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, the Vanguard Business Analytics Suite enables simulation speeds that are 250 times faster than the latest spreadsheet add-ins.

The Business Analytics Suite also includes Vanguard's new, cutting-edge Stochastic Optimizer. Built from the ground up after years of research and development, the Stochastic Optimizer has the ability to solve virtually any optimization problem, even problems with non-linear, discontinuous objectives and constraints.

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About Vanguard Software

Vanguard Software is a privately held corporation founded in 1995 to develop business Decision Support software. Customers in over 60 countries and in every major industry use Vanguard’s software for forecasting, resource optimization, Web-based expert systems, and financial modeling. For more information about Vanguard, visit http://www.vanguardsw.com/.