Built on Open edX – the software that powers the edX.org MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform – Solver.Academy offers self-service courses in data mining and predictive analytics, Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis, and mathematical optimization.
Solver.Academy, an online learning platform and formerly available only to select customers for general use. And in fall 2016 Frontline launched, its own cloud-based platform for optimization, simulation/risk analysis, forecasting and data mining, widely used by business students - now with 100,000 user accounts. In March 2015, Frontline launched RASON – RESTful Analytic Solver Object Notation – for developers, likely the first cloud-based REST API service for prescriptive analytics. Risk Solver, XLMiner Data Visualization and XLMiner Analysis ToolPak, also launched in 2014, have been adopted by another 200,000 users. More than 200,000 users have adopted these analytics tools (according to data from Microsoft and Google). faced a shortage of “1.5 million data-savvy managers” to make analytics-based decisions Frontline believes it has materially contributed to easing this shortage.įrontline Systems moved early to the cloud by launching its Solver – a prescriptive analytics tool – for Excel Online in July 2013, followed by Solver for Google Sheets in October 2014. In addition to the 500,000 users of its cloud-based analytics tools, Frontline’s software for desktop Excel has been used by more than 500,000 MBA and undergraduate business students, over more than 10 years, to learn modeling and analytics in university courses.Īn oft-cited June 2011 study from McKinsey Global Institute estimated that the U.S.
“We’re closing the ‘skills gap’ that would otherwise limit deployment of analytics methods in business.” “We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of non-experts build and solve advanced analytics models,” says Daniel Fylstra, Frontline’s founder and president. Frontline also announced that it has surpassed 500,000 users of its cloud-based advanced analytics tools, aimed at spreadsheet-literate business analysts who aren’t expert data scientists. Frontline launches Solver.Academy, surpasses analytics tool milestoneįrontline Systems, developer of the Solver in Microsoft Excel, has launched Solver.Academy, its online learning platform for predictive and prescriptive analytics.
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