CB 7.3 Professional Edition
Crystal Ball 7.3 Professional Edition is the most comprehensive suite of Excel-based risk analysis and forecasting tools available.
By combining risk analysis, forecasting, and optimization, Crystal Ball 7.3 Professional helps not only to understand risk, but also guides you to better decisions. The Professional Edition includes all the features and benefits of the Standard Edition and adds additional power to help users make better decisions. Since the program is a fully integrated Microsoft add-in, it seamlessly extends the power of Excel spreadsheet models.
Find the best solution, pick the right project mix, create accurate predictive models and streamline risk analysis.
Crystal Ball 7.3 Professional Edition is the easiest way to perform risk analysis in your own spreadsheets. With one integrated toolset, you can use your own historical data to build accurate models, automate "what if" analysis to understand the effect of underlying uncertainty and search for the best solution or project mix.
And now, Crystal Ball 7.3 makes it even easier to add scalable methods for collaborating and sharing models and data. It also includes improved reports, charts and graphs that let you vividly present and communicate the results of your analysis, and give you a credible picture of risk.
For Six Sigma applications, capabilities metrics calculated with the simulation results let you better integrate simulation and optimization into your methodology.
This software suite includes:
Crystal Ball Standard Edition: Monte Carlo simulation for spreadsheets. Quickly assign ranges of values to model inputs, automatically calculate ranges of forecasted outputs and their probabilities. Record the results for in-depth analysis or summarized reporting with Crystal Ball's many reports, charts and tools.
OptQuest®: Automatically search for your optimal solution, accounting for uncertainty and constraints.
CB PredictorT: Analyzes your historical data to build the model, with time-series forecasting and multiple linear regression.
CB Tools: Automate model building tasks, simulate variability, define correlations and perform additional functions.
Extreme speed: Run your simulations up to 100 times faster than normal.
Crystal Ball & CB Predictor Developer Kits: VBA customization tools.
Version 7.3, released in November 2005, adds many new and useful features to the software. These can be grouped in three main categories:
Process Capability features that support quality improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma DFSS (Design for Six sigma) and Lean principles.
Ease-of-use enhancements, including a Welcome screen with links to tutorials and models, split view charting, and dual locking grabbers.
Performance improvements such as faster response for Correlation Tool, faster response for models with large numbers of assumption and forecasts, and support for circular references in Extreme Speed.




