Forecast Pro: Easy, Accurate, Affordable Forecasting Software

The leading forecasting software with 25,000+ users worldwide, Forecast Pro is easy to learn and use. Whether you need to automatically create accurate forecasts for thousands of items or to carefully build and diagnose sophisticated custom models, there is an edition of Forecast Pro for you. Visit www.forecastpro.com for a free Demo Pack.

Demand Works

Demand Works offers standalone or multi-user solutions for forecasting, demand and supply planning, and S&OP. The flagship Smoothie® solutions feature Pivot Forecasting®, a proprietary technology that makes it possible to flexibly work with product, customer, facility or mixed hierarchies.

Autobox

Selected as the best dedicated forecasting package in the Principles of Forecasting Handbook. Top Automatic package in the 2008 IIF Forecasting Competition using Daily data.

The Finished Goods Series

The Finished Goods Series by E/Step Software – a forecasting and inventory planning system that either stands alone or bolts into an existing ERP system.

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• A3 Forecast Solutions - produces sales forecasting software, A3, supplier of demand forecast and planning software.

• Adexa - a provider of supply chain planning solutions for e-businesses.

• Alpine Analytics sells STATGRAPHICS software which has powerful capability in time series and forecasting models. They also teach courses in Industrial Statistics.

• Alt-C Systems Inc. - provides forecasting systems for manufacturing, distribution and sales-force environments. Offerings include TimeTrends Forecast Warehouse, e-Forecasting and Promotions Management. Access, SQL Server, and Oracle database systems are supported.

• Aptech Systems Inc.
• Automatic Forecasting System – David Reilly's Autobox.
  
• Avercast LLC.
• B.T. Smith and Associates - Focus Forecasting® software for complete inventory management with daily review of all items in just minutes - offers free analysis using the actual software.
• Business Forecast Systems, Inc. – Makers of the Forecast Pro product line for creating forecasts automatically or building sophisticated custom models.

• Decisioneering, Inc. – CB Predictor and Crystal Ball, time-series forecasting and risk analysis add-ins for Excel .

• Delphus Inc. – Hans Levenbach's Peer Planner and other forecasting software.

• Demand Solutions Inc. – Forecast Management.

• Demand Works - Desktop and server-based demand management software featuring Pivot Forecasting^TM.

• Energy Information Administration – short-term energy model available for free download.

• FIC Inc.- Developers of FIRM, forecasting and inventory replenishment system; offers a liberal free trial of the complete FIRM system.

• ForecastWare

• Foresite SPA^TM - Provides sales forecasts based on the firm's plans and information on its production and distribution.

• Fourcast – for turning points and changes in trend.

• Future Tool Kit – an Australian firm that offers weekly sales forecasting tool and forecasts on selected Australian economic indicators.

• Global Energy Decisions - the leading provider of integrated software, data and consulting solutions for the energy industry.

• Greystone Software – Robert G. Brown's LOGOL program from Material Management Systems Inc.

• iModel Preditor 2003: An Excell add-in which discovers empirical patterns within Excel data and creates predictions based upon them. Evaluation copy available from Pececillo.

• Infor Global Systems - offers collaborative web-based demand planning/forecasting solutions for the process manufacturing industries.

• Itron, Inc. – MetrixND and other forecasting software for energy forecasters, with updated graphics capabilities.

• John Galt Solutions, Inc. – Business and sales forecasting software for Windows, free demo available.

• Logility Inc.

• Logistics Planning Associates, LLC.

• Minitab.

• NCSS – A variety of forecasting tools that are part of a comprehensive, easy-to-use statistical package.

• Neurox – Offers a Microsoft Excel add-in that performs neural network forecasting using simple or complex data. Their software can be used for applications in finance, medicine, business, research science and other areas.

• NeuroXL - neural network software add-ins for Excel

• NeuralWare.

• Oxmetrics – provides STAMP (v.6) Structural Time series Analyser, Modeller, and Predictor, a program that uses structural time-series models.

• ParkerSoft – ezForecaster, an Excel and ActiveX DLL time-series forecasting add-in.

• Phicast, time series forecasting add-in for Excel - Exponential Smoothing and Box-Jenkins ARIMA medling for Excel97+ - from The Monash University Business and Economic Forecasting Unit

• Prophecy – a UK-developed software package designed for major customer business forecasting and planning; it supports judgmental forecasting as well as statistical forecasting.

• Quantitative Micro Software.

• Roadmap Technologies.

• SAS Institute - Large-scale automatic forecasting with SAS Forecast Server, along with a variety of forecasting tools that are part of a comprehensive business intelligence package.

• Scientific Computing Associates – Expert system and user-directed modeling/forecasting for research and large-scale corporate applications.

• Smart Software, Inc. – Charles Smart's SmartForecasts for Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

• Spredgar Software – an Excel add-in to permit calculations and graphing of 30 standard financial ratios and cash flow from the 10-K and 10-Q filings stored on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database.

• SPSS Inc. - DecisionTime & WhatIf? – Automatic, interactive and deployable time-series forecasting software, in client and server versions.

• StatPoint.com.

• StatSoft Inc., – STATISTICA products offer comprehensive tools for linear and non-linear modeling, forecasting, and more.

• StrataView - Multi-user collaborative forecasting system

• User Solutions Inc.

• Vanguard Software.

• Virtual Business Systems, LLC – Production control and financial forecasting