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Many California produce farm operations use a rule-of-thumb to determine a hedge ratio for their seasonal productions. They often aim to contract 80% of their...
Application Modeling the frequency and magnitude of future debris flows to determine the optimum hazard mitigation strategy. Communicating risk to clients by displaying the probability...
Application Modeling rock fall masses, trajectories, velocities, and energies to design rock fall protection structures. Communicating risk to clients by calculating impact energy probability so...
Learn how Indiana State University’s School of Nursing effectively uses Sonia for managing student placement programs around the United States and sending mass communication to...
USAID uses NVivo to improve learning agenda Background The United States Agency of International Development (USAID) is a U.S. government agency that betters the lives...
Australian not-for-profit are utilizing NVivo to evaluate the success of their community program. Shooting Stars is an initiative of Netball WA and Glass Jar Australia,...
Dr Agustinus Bandur uses NVivo to improve the quality of education in Indonesia. One of the driving influences behind improving the quality of education across...
NVivo Plus enables quick identification of themes and sentiment in University wide student feedback. An impossible task? The National Student Survey (NSS) is an annual...
NVivo has a long history of assisting qualitative researchers with managing, and analyzing their data, and being a part of complex research. What you might...
Dr. Anupama Shekar shares her story of following her passion for ensuring equitable access to quality education, no matter a child’s economic circumstance, and how...
The province of Alberta in Canada is home to 3.7 million people, spread across some 661,000 square kilometers. In 2009, Alberta's nine independent health authorities...
New and emerging digital music technologies, applications and processes are challenging standard music industry practices, founded on traditional physical formats, unit sales and middle of...
Learn how East Carolina University’s College of Education Streamlined Placement Management with Sonia. When it was time for ECU’s College of Education to migrate to...
Located in the Melbourne metropolitan area, the Council and management team at the City of Kingston decided to create a shared, long term vision for...
Bruce is comparing how experts and novices understand data for his PhD thesis. Who used NVivo? Bruce Tsuji, PhD student, Carleton University’s Department of...
Disparate storage of student placement data highlighted as a risk during an emergency response Sonia has delivered University-wide efficiencies, more robust risk management and improved...
NVivo is helping the team at the Strategy Unit at NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Unit interrogate their data on a deeper level and make...
Christ church is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area. It is the South Island’s economic...
Manual Processes Were No Longer Viable The Field Education team at Massachusetts-based William James College, a leader in experiential education, behavioral health, and psychology education,...
Ole Steen Kristensen’s research aimed to identify the difficulties of young people transitioning from foster care to independent adulthood from their perspective. In his study...
Due to a global public health crisis, the University of Newcastle faced widespread impacts to day to day placement operations. Staff needed an efficient, consistent...
Placement team uses Sonia to improve student placement operations. Piecemeal operations were streamlined Valuable data and communications hub Insights into site supervisors and placement sites...
In the United States it has become popular for presidential candidates to appear on entertainment talk shows. A study was undertaken to explore how viewers...
Sonia is customized and adapted to meet the unique needs of various disciplines and placement programs across a major research university Processes are streamlined and...
The use of spreadsheets for placement administration proved costly when a file corrupted and the data recovery process proved to be time-consuming and laborious. Sonia...
NVivo shows its power in providing defensible findings, in the field of User Experience research. Background Zoe Rosen is an anthropologist working in the field...
AgustaWestland uses @RISK to develop financial business cases and feasibility studies to produce in-depth analysis so that the senior management team can make informed decisions...
Dr. Michael Sanderson of Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine developed a risk management tool for veterinarians and beef cow-calf producers to assist in...
Researchers at the University of Victoria used @RISK to model the differences in Lifetime Excess Cancer Risk (LECR) for Canadians based on contaminants found in food...
The Fort McMurray Airport Authority (FMAA) turned to Revay and Associates Ltd. to assess the potential risks they face as an organization as they try...
Patrick Engineering provides independent cost estimating, scheduling, and risk analysis services for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) as the basis for budgeting and reserving...
Analyses of equipment failures in industrial settings have traditionally been done to support investigation into recognized problems. The Maintenance and Reliability Services Group at Zachry...
After the EU introduced regulatory requirements for better visibility into capital market investments, CONTI began using @RISK to construct financial models that capture and assess...
To tackle new challenges for accurate decision-making around load forecasting, an electric power holding company based in the Eastern United States used the DecisionTools Suite...
Researchers at the World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association (WAVMA) use @RISK to demonstrate the practice of biosecurity to aquatic farmers. The method helps to reduce...
“OilCo” an anonymous oil and gas company, was entering bankruptcy and needed assistance in valuing its assets and negotiating a potential buyout. The company turned...
Bucknell University used quantitative decision analysis software PrecisionTree to evaluate technological alternatives.
Jim Aksel, Principal at ProjectPMO in Anaheim, California, has consulted for several major aerospace companies in project and schedule management. In this case study, he discusses how...
Students at Virginia Commonwealth use @RISK to learn how to apply Value at Risk (VaR) analysis to understanding the measures of risks, and also to...
Actuaries face similar challenges every day when calculating requirements for pension funds, life insurance, or long-term care. A research study provides a model for projecting...
ENGCOMP used @RISK for cost and schedule risk analysis for the Canadian Department of National Defence's Fleet Maintenance Facility Cape Breton located at the Canadian...
Decision makers for all long-term investment pools face a critical challenge: Multi-year allocation among the various available asset categories. By incorporating longer time horizons and...
When global direct sales giant Amway prepared to get even bigger, their Industrial Engineering team called on Palisade to create a strategic tool based on @RISK to improve...
Liquid eggs are used as an ingredient in many foods around the world. The risk of Listeria bacteria in eggs, which can lead to illness...
In a sector that faces many risks, engineering and construction services company Murray & Roberts takes a cash flow based approach to enterprise risk management...
Dr. Kim Bang Salling's graduate students at Technical University of Denmark use @RISK to incorporate uncertain elements into decision-support models for transportation projects.
A Cranfield University project uses @RISK to calculate the likelihood of sub-sea oil and gas equipment failure, and the overall cost throughout the project life...
A researcher at Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart, Germany uses NeuralTools for historical classifaction and grading of tumors, an important aspect of diagnosis since the treatment and...
Deloitte Actuarial and Insurance Solutions (AIS) is a specialist insurance and actuarial consulting team, based in South Africa, which operates in more than 40 countries...
Albert Fensterstock used Palisade’s NeuralTools software to help Business Backer, a lending company, begin refining their decision-making process.
The IUCN-World Conservation Union’s Conservation Breeding Specialist Group uses @RISK and PrecisionTree in ongoing workshops to help conservationists identify and analyze the risks of disease...
Netconomy Software and Consulting specializes in omni-channel and e-commerce software integrations, creating digital marketplaces for a diverse range of companies in the retail, wholesale, consumer,...
While employed at a major Biopharmaceutical company facing a choice between competing product investment strategies, Richard Bayney and his colleagues used Palisade’s PrecisionTree software to...
NIPSCO uses @RISK, Evolver, and RISKOptimizer to optimize its use of generating assets in order to meet increasingly strict clean air standards.
In 2009, researchers at the business schools of Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State University used @RISK to conduct an analysis of ocean carrier ships’...
Healthcare consultant Barbara Tawney used StatTools and NeuralTools to figure out how to anticipate and prepare for surges in patient load in the Richmond Hospital...
HealthCare Appraisers Inc. (HAI), a national, employee-owned healthcare valuation services firm in the U.S., was engaged by a national ambulatory surgery center management company to perform...
Willy Aspinall uses @RISK in combination with PrecisionTree to simulate risks to individual villages on Montserrat under various volcanic scenarios.
Students in corporate finance classes at Illinois State University’s College of Business rely on Palisade’s @RISK, in Dr. Domingo Castelo Joaquin's MBA and undergraduate courses.
Now part of the Jacobs Group, Aquenta’s Risk Management Service’s team works with high profile clients across Asia-Pacific in the development and delivery of major infrastructure...
Columbia University students in Professor Roy Nersesian’s Quantitative Methods in Energy and Policy Analysis course gain hands-on experience in the development and interpretation of quantitative...
Palisade’s risk analysis software was used by Roy Nersesian to create a planning methodology to assist utilities that are making major investments in renewable power...
Ariadna Berger, professor of Farm Management at the University of Buenos Aires, uses @RISK to analyze risks and opportunities of large cash cropping operations in...
Researchers at Cornell University and Purdue University completed a study that assesses the impacts of US farm programs on farm returns. They used @RISK to...
Financial analytics consulting firm Cynametrix uses the DecisionTools Suite to integrate life insurance products into general financial analysis for clients.
By slashing analysis time and enhancing model accuracy, the DecisionTools Suite has become critical to Netherlands-based consultancy Logion's strategy and competitive position.
For project sanction and to satisfy its many stakeholders, an oil and gas industry risk analysis expert needed to quantify the cost uncertainties and inflation...
Palisade’s risk analysis software, @RISK, was recommended by the European Investment Bank for the task of modelling potential train travel over the next 30 years...
More than a trillion dollars are risked worldwide on sports gambling every year. DePaul University professor Clayton Graham's prize-winning paper “Diamonds on the Line: Profits...
Fernando Montemayor, Global Analysis Vice President of the consulting firm Throughput Professionals, and his team worked with the largest oil refinery company in Colombia (producing 250,000...
A major U.S. beverage manufacturer was moving forward with implementation of a water recycling system, but faced a decision barrier around the perceived low cost...
National Grid UK, the electricity transmission system owner for England and Wales and the system operator for all of Great Britain, uses @RISK’s probabilistic modeling...
PragmaRisk uses the DecisionTools Suite to assess the risks related to budgets and schedules overrunning for engineering and construction projects. Using @RISK and StatTools (both part of the DecisionTools Suite),...
To train effective leaders at the University of Pennsylvania, Keith Hornbacher uses @RISK software to take graduate students through actual case studies of how organizations...
The cost of pitting and corrosion of metals at sea is estimated to be around $1.372 billion, and is a major problem, especially with off-shore...
In-depth analysis using @RISK enables Pantektor, a construction consultancy based in Sweden, to define the best and most cost-effective fire protection strategy for every structure...
At Cincinnati-based Cinergy (now Duke Energy Corporation), Soubhagya Parija uses @RISK to model decisions involving all of the utility's potential transactions with other companies, especially...
Benjamin Waisbren, President and a shareholder of LSC Film Corporation, uses @RISK to analyze uncertainty behind financing major Hollywood films. The software helped finalize the funding and...
Biswas X-Ray and Scan Centre is located in Asansol, a coal city in eastern India. It is a dedicated imaging and research laboratory that specialises...
The Centre for Traffic and Transport (CTT) in Denmark undertakes research into optimizing traffic and transport systems. The CTT uses @RISK to develop evaluation models...
PCM Consulting, a project, contract, and engineering management consulting company based out of South Africa, used @RISK to determine the financial viability of biogas plants...
Captum Capital Limited, a life sciences and health care industry consulting company, specializes in the valuation of early stage companies. This process, especially in the...
A number of long-distance, high-speed rail projects in France were analyzed using @RISK to fully weigh the challenges each project faced. “@RISK allowed us to...
Integral Consulting was hired by a Fortune 100 mining company to assist with evaluating remediation (aka cleanup) strategies for a 100-year-old mine. The Integral team...
A major electronics retailer's financial services department needed to increase the profitability of its private label credit card. Nighthawk Intelligence used the DecisionTools Suite to...
For UK Environment Agency projects, Halcrow employs @RISK in the risk quantitative stage to set risk budgets at the start of each phase of the...
Solvĕre provides technical consultancy on infrastructure projects with a particular focus on Private Public Partnerships. It uses @RISK to enable government bodies, public agencies, contractors...
With 75 gyms across Australia, Fitness First identified business electricity cost as a fiscal risk. Knowledge Global constructed an @RISK model for energy cost management.
RiskAdvisory helps mid-size utilities get a handle on uncertainties--how much energy to produce, when to produce it, and how to price it. To effectively take...
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene led a public health project to develop new strategies to mitigate a severe influenza pandemic...
DNV GL's customer, ROAF, a Norwegian inter-municipal waste management company, wanted to invest in a new waste management system. DNV GL used @RISK to evaluate...
Visual Reporting used @RISK to help the Danish Government comply with newly formed Danish legislation which requires that all Government related IT business cases that exceed...
Researcher Darren O'Connell used @RISK to examine the tools that are used to teach probability and risk in Australian institutes of higher learning.
A consulting firm that advises international development organizations has the directive to determine what efforts have the highest impact along with the best value for...
Dr. Gregor Reid, a senior research scientist with the University of New Brunswick, has used @RISK models as a means to better help aquaculturists improve...
'@RISK is used at AMSAA to help senior level officials avoid risks of schedule and cost overruns in equipping and sustaining weapons and materiel for...
John Muir Land Trust, a nonprofit organization in Martinez, CA, conducts fundraising mailing campaigns twice a year. The group uses @RISK to help them better...
Value Management Strategies, Inc. (VMS) offers risk and management consultancy to a wide number of industries and uses @RISK to accurately identify risk factors that...
AC Immune SA, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing product candidates to treat neurodegenerative diseases, harnesses the power of Lumivero's products—specifically @RISK and PrecisionTree, to...
London Underground uses risk consultants Istria Ltd and its software tool IRIS, with @RISK embedded as the engine, to manage diverse risks from investment projects...
@RISK is used at AMSAA to help senior level officials avoid risks of schedule and cost overruns in equipping and sustaining weapons and materiel for...
Pace University’s Lubin School of Business combined their MBA-level Statistics and Operations Research courses, using Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel from Duxbury...
Metaproject was asked by the Chilean government to advise on the best way to rescue the miners. Manuel Viera developed a new model in PrecisionTree...
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 This case study shows an example of how to manage schedule risk that could affect the realization of different strategic and...
Asher Drory of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management uses @RISK in his graduate-level Financial Management course. Understanding how to use Monte Carlo...
Thales uses @RISK to quantify complex markets in of mission-critical electronic information systems for aerospace, defence, and security around the world. Thales is a leading...
Metallurgical giant Met-Mex Peñoles uses the DecisionTools Suite for Six Sigma Design of Experiments. Because silver and gold are so expensive, process optimization allows analysts...
A consultant with Triangle Economic Research, an Arcadis company, Tim Havranek works with Fortune 500 clients to identify and quantify their potential environmental liabilities and...
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) provides contracts to U.S. Agencies for telecommunications and information technology. The newest set of services GSA facilitated are called...
Transnet, the primary freight logistics company in South Africa, relied on @RISK to assess infrastructure expansion, to better understand the risks that might arise during...
Preformed Line Products (PLP), a leading manufacturer in the overhead power lines industry, uses @RISK and its GoalSeek function to develop an intelligent and tailored...
Steel giant Tata Steel enlisted the help of HVR Consulting Services Ltd to conduct a series of project and business risk assessments. The project risk...
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, a project of Cambridge University’s Judge Institute of Management, developed an analysis model using @RISK to...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) divisions use @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite for dam and levee safety, asset management, cost estimation, construction, SMART Planning,...
Wright Homes, a small real estate development and property management company, uses Palisade’s @RISK to minimize financial risk when purchasing, rehabilitating and managing affordable, single-family...
Professor Katsuaki Sugiura of the University of Tokyo uses Monte Carlo simulation in @RISK to improve the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) surveillance program in Japan,...
P&G trained over a thousand people throughout the company on @RISK for modeling its entire range of investment decisions including new products, geographical expansions, manufacturing...
A study was commissioned to analyze the internal stability of the Ohio River Greenup Locks and Dams, utilizing @RISK. The findings of the project would...
WEnergy Global was considering the pros and cons of moving forward with a 25-year term renewable energy project over multiple geographies, which required a thorough...
The Director of Foreign Exchange at multinational pharmaceutical giant Merck uses @RISK to evaluate value-at-risk (VAR) for currency risks. For a company the size of...
Veteran oil and gas industry analyst and decision-making expert Steve Begg garnered some global media attention prior to the FIFA World Cup when he used...
The Larsen & Toubro Institute of Project Management created a methodology for service providers in the engineering outsourcing industry to determine risks affecting their ability...
Using @RISK to Analyze Key Risk Factors and Schedule Risk NASA and Lockheed Martin are working together to plan the first manned mission to Mars,...
To evaluate risks such as O&G production, derivatives, commodities, and operating expenditures, the Exploration and Production (E&P) section of Petrobras developed an in-house system for...
UK Ministry of Defense projects can be large and complex, including major equipment procurement projects. A Project Risk Maturity Model incorporating @RISK has increased the...
In an award-winning case study, researchers at the London Business School used @RISK, PrecisionTree, and RISKOptimizer to demonstrate some of the analytical techniques used by...
Scottsdale Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Nationwide, used Palisade’s @RISK to portray how the insurer would decide which commercial property which would have a higher...
To better inform decisions, Unilever selected Lumivero’s DecisionTools Suite as the principle analysis software to support its Decision Making Under Uncertainty process and decision-focused culture...
Dave MacAdam, Senior Manager of Innovation Strategy at Novelis, relies on the DecisionTools Suite of products to value high-risk research and development (R&D) projects. His...
Consultants at multinational defense contractor QinetiQ used @RISK for cost and schedule risk analysis to analyze key questions around the emerging technology of wireless power...
Gemeente Hoorn, city in the Netherlands, uses Palisade’s @RISK to mitigate the financial risk in the development of housing projects across the region. Hoorn is...
Risk management is embedded within the core principles of the UK government’s Environment Agency. Halcrow has used @RISK for a number of years on a...
Fluor Corporation, the multinational engineering, construction and project management firm, standardized on @RISK for cost estimation of refinery facility construction projects. The cost of a...
FutureMetrics, a consultancy for project development and policy research in the biomass thermal energy sector, uses Palisade’s @RISK to accurately estimate wood costs, as one...
ADWEC uses @RISK to help forecast Abu Dhabi’s water demand up until the year 2030. The Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Company (ADWEC) is a...
Palisade’s risk analysis software @RISK is being used by energy research organisation, ECN, to determine whether offshore windfarms are financially viable from an operation and...
Offered by the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, Dr. Calum Turvey’s Risk Simulation and Optimization course introduces students...
Global consultancy Deloitte uses @RISK to help insurers determine the risks that they may be exposed to when considering cell captive insurance policies. The insurance...
Lawrence W. Robinson, Professor of Operations Management at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management took Nate Silver’s US Senate prediction one step further by...
Bigen Africa uses @RISK to mitigate the risks that impact the financial feasibility of development projects that bring basic services such as housing, water, and...
Blade Energy developed a statistical analysis tool that can estimate productivity improvements for underbalanced drilling. This tool is an Excel based application program that uses...
Commercial litigation specialists Ascendion Law rely on Palisade’s PrecisionTree software to create detailed decision trees for mapping out the numerous probabilities at play in a...
BC Hydro has used Palisade’s risk analysis software @RISK for electricity load forecasting for many years; this use was expanded to the DSM program. @RISK...
Broadleaf Capital International uses Palisade software in their work as a specialist risk management consultancy. The company has helped clients in numerous industries analyze, quantify,...
Dr. José Raúl Castro Esparza, professor at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, in Puebla, Mexico used @RISK to create a more exact and accurate pricing...
To forecast possible price increases, Tioga Energy inputs historical electricity rate data into a model developed using Palisade’s risk analysis software, @RISK. Tioga Energy (now...
In a volatile industry sector, large energy companies are well-versed in understanding and modelling business risks such as oil and power prices to optimised insurance...
To address complicated debt portfolio and capital investment problems, Dr. Emmanuel Donkor uses Palisade software @RISK and RISKOptimizer. His research has led to new and...
Researchers used @RISK and PrecisionTree to model the likelihood of a successful evacuation during a volcano eruption. University of Bristol’s Environmental Risk Research Centre (BRISK)...
The Shanghai FDA has been using @RISK for monitoring contaminants as well as food safety risk assessment, focusing on food service and the circulation of...
