COMPANY PROFILE Vanguard Software Corporation 1100 Crescent Green Suite 221 Cary, NC 27511 +1-919-859-4101 Fax: +1-919-851-9457 sales@vanguardsw.com www.vanguardsw.com Brian Lewis, Ph.D., Vice President, Professional Services Company Description: Vanguard Software Corporation develops decision analysis software for building real-time business models and decision support applications. Vanguard has combined widely-used decision-making techniques, artificial intelligence, and session-processing technology into the core of its products to provide an interface that is easy to apply yet powerful, flexible, and scalable. Businesses can not only solve complex problems and perform meaningful analysis, but they can also help customers make better decisions by building Wizard-style applications that guide their customers through a decision-making process. In conjunction with our cutting-edge software technology, Vanguard also offers a full range of professional services, such as project consulting, custom application development, and training, to address your problems and develop effective solutions. Vanguard has the know-how and technology to turn your mission-critical applications into a competitive advantage. Product Descriptions: Vanguard System The Vanguard System is a state-of-the-art business modeling and knowledge management software tool that integrates all of the key, proven decision analysis techniques as well as artificial intelligence to help you make better business decisions. It supports forecasting, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization, decision tree analysis, statistical analysis, sensitivity analysis, cash flow analysis and reporting, high-level math, expert systems, general modeling, and much more. With its visual modeling framework, you can effectively communicate your models and analysis to a wide audience, from engineers to analysts to executive management. Using cutting-edge component technology, complex problems are easily broken down and collaboratively modeled across the enterprise as an integrated collection of smaller, reusable component models. A wiki-style knowledge portal allows component models to be organized, searched, distributed, and run by your entire organization using desktop software or just a Web browser. You can also build and deploy Web-based expert systems that interactively guide users through complex decision-making processes, such as product selection, troubleshooting, and resource allocation. Vista Vista is a web-based survey tool that allows users to create, post, and track surveys online. Vista's results analysis is unmatched by any online survey tool. From confidence intervals to an exhaustive correlation analysis, Vista handles the statistics for you automatically. Products & Services Primary Business: Software Development and Sales Consulting Type of Software or Service: Algebraic Modeling Systems Decision Analysis/Decision Support Enterprise Resource Management / E-Business Forecasting Knowledge Management Logistics Operations Management Optimization Simulation Statistical Analysis Other: Online Surveys, Expert Systems, Web Development Specific Methodologies and Applications or Areas of Expertise: Linear/Integer Programming Location Analysis Non-Linear Programming Product Management Production Planning Project Management Purchasing Management Revenue Management Risk Management Scheduling Supply Chain Management Systems Analysis Fields or Industries served: Business Chemical/Process Industries E-Commerce Environment Financial Government (nonmilitary) Healthcare Manufacturing Marketing Military Oil/Natural Gas Telecommunications Transportation Utilities - Water & Power OR/MS Today Resource Directory Home Page OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 2006 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Rd., Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060 USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 2006 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.