Frontline Systems

07/07/2026

When you build a real decision model, you’re not just writing formulas or a script. You’re encoding deep domain knowledge about how your part of the business actually works: the constraints, the cost tradeoffs, the operational limits.

That’s valuable intellectual property. And in too many organizations it’s buried … on one analyst’s laptop, inside a script or a workbook nobody else can maintain. When the analyst moves on, the model goes “into the forgotten pile”. Don’t let this happen (any longer)!

RASON models are structured JSON, built to be saved, versioned, and catalogued. The model survives personnel changes, grows more capable over time, and adapts to new problems without starting from scratch. Keep them as valuable IP, inside your network or in the cloud.

RASON Desktop puts that model where your team already works: Power BI.

Free 15-day trial: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06m1y50

06/29/2026

Picture a capital budgeting exercise. For each project requesting funding, you’ve done careful estimates of costs and paybacks in each future period. Your capital budget will fund some, but not all of the projects. The plan goes before the board.

Then someone asks, “I’ve been watching the Fed, the 2-year Treasury and the yield curve and I’m worried – what if interest rates, hence our cost of capital rise by a percentage point?”. The usual answer would be “let me re-run it and get back to you.” By then the moment has passed.

With RASON Desktop, the outcome is completely different: the CFO changes the cost of capital parameter, clicks Solve, and everyone immediately sees which capital projects should be funded in that case. The question gets answered now – not “I’ll follow up”, and confidence increases “across the board”.

Free 15-day trial: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06m3pp0

06/29/2026

Every analyst knows this loop. Pull the data out of Power BI. Open Excel. Run your model. Copy the results back into the report by hand. Then the numbers change, and you do all of it again.

We built something to end that loop. RASON® Desktop runs your simulation and optimization models right inside Power BI. It reads your data, solves, and writes the results straight back to your dashboard. No exporting. No re-pasting. No starting over.

Free 15-day trial: https://na2.hubs.ly/H06m2c10

03/12/2026

Many business decisions look profitable under a single forecast.

But forecasts rely on assumptions about demand, costs, and market conditions. When those assumptions change, the financial outcome can change dramatically.

Analytic Solver® helps make that uncertainty visible.

Join us for our upcoming webinar to see how Analytic Solver® Simulation uses Monte Carlo simulation to test thousands of possible outcomes and reveal downside risk.

WEBINAR: Leverage Monte Carlo Simulation to Analyze and Control Risk Effectively with Analytic Solver Simulation®
👉March 18 | 8:00 AM PST

Register:

Leverage Monte Carlo Simulation to Analyze and Control Risk Effectively with Analytic Solver Simulation® Date/Time: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 8:00 AM PST Duration: 60 minutes

03/04/2026

Many analytical models start as spreadsheets used to explore tradeoffs, test assumptions, or evaluate scenarios.

But some of those models represent decisions that need to be made repeatedly and consistently across an organization.

With the right tools, those models don’t have to remain isolated analyses. They can evolve from Excel-based analysis into structured models and, when needed, run directly inside operational applications.

That’s how organizations move from one-off analysis to disciplined, repeatable decision making.