Palisade Corporation Company Profile { Our Mission Palisade Corporation is committed to developing the world’s most robust, innovative, and comprehensive software and solutions for risk analysis and decision support. A Global Presence Palisade Corporation sales@palisade.com +1 607 277 8000 1 800 432 RISK Palisade Europe sales@palisade-europe.com +44 1895 425050 UK 0800 783 5398 France 0800 90 80 32 Germany 0800 181 7449 Spain 900 93 8916 Palisade Asia-Pacific sales@palisade.com.au Sydney +61 2 9252 5922 Tokyo +81 3 5456 5287 1 800 177 101 Palisade Latinoamérica ventas@palisade-lta.com +1 607 277 8000 ext 318 Palisade Brasil vendas@palisade-lta.com +55 (21) 2586-6334 } Risk Analysis and Decision Support in Microsoft Excel Palisade Corporation is the maker of the market leading risk and decision analysis software @RISK and the DecisionTools ® Suite. Virtually all Palisade software adds in to Microsoft Excel, ensuring flexibility, ease-of-use, and broad appeal across a wide range of industry sectors. Its flagship product, @RISK, debuted in 1987 and performs risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation. With an estimated 150,000 users, Palisade software can be found in more than 100 countries and has been translated into five languages. Headquartered in Ithaca, New York, Palisade also maintains offices in London, England, Sydney, Australia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Innovative Analytics Since 1984 Founded in 1984, Palisade’s first product was PRISM, which gave PC users the ability to quantify risk by running Monte Carlo simulations. In 1987 it was succeeded by @RISK for Lotus 1-2-3, the world’s first Monte Carlo simulation add-in for spreadsheets. Today, @RISK is an add-in to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project. Customer-Focused Technology for Every Sector Palisade users directly influence software features, interface, and capabilities. Because enterprise decisions can be complex and involve massive amounts of data, @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite are designed for maximum computation speed and capacity—without sacrificing ease of use. Used by professionals across a broad range of disciplines, Palisade tools can be used to analyze any decision, course of action, or project. @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite have been most widely adopted in finance and investment, energy, insurance, and other industries: Accounting Aerospace Consumer products Defense Economics Engineering Environmental sciences Finance and investment Government Healthcare Insurance and reinsurance Manufacturing Medicine Mining and metallurgy Oil, gas, energy, and utilities Pharmaceuticals Project management Real estate Six Sigma It has become the world’s leading risk analysis tool and remains the company's best-known product. Building on the success of @RISK, Palisade has developed other programs to meet the growing professional demand for technically refined decision support software. These programs form Palisade’s DecisionTools Suite, a complete toolkit for quantitative decision making. The DecisionTools Suite includes @RISK, and every program adds-in to Microsoft Excel. It consists of: @RISK Risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation PrecisionTree ® Decision analysis using decision trees and influence diagrams TopRank® Automated what-if sensitivity analysis Evolver Genetic algorithm-based optimization RISKOptimizer® Optimization under uncertainty using genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo simulation StatTools ® Advanced statistical analysis NeuralTools ® Prediction and forecasting with neural networks. Training and Consulting Palisade offers comprehensive training and consulting services to teach professionals in all fields how to apply not just the software but the principles of quantitative decision making to realworld problems. The company offers custom on-site training as well as a global schedule of public regional seminars and web-based training. Palisade Consulting helps organizations define decision issues and develop custom analytical models and programming solutions. Academic Presence @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite are used widely in undergraduate and graduate business programs worldwide. Through arrangements with academic publishers like Cengage Learning, Palisade software is bundled with dozens of top management science and business statistics textbooks. Coupled with the company’s generous academic sales program, over 60,000 students learn to make better decisions using @RISK and the DecisionTools Suite each year. Additionally, Palisade publishes a number of business titles of its own utilizing @RISK and DecisionTools software. palisade.com