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10/28/11: Used in an article for NATO from the Canadian Department of Defense on "Quantifying and Managing Foreign Exchange Risk in the Canadian Department of National Defence" by P.E. Desmier and D.W. Maybury"

10/16/11: Visit us at our booth at the IBF Demand Planning & Forecasting Conference in San Francicsco, CA

6/07/11: Here is the PPT we presented at the 5th annual Vicenda Best Practices for Demand Planning held in South Africa remotely

5/02/11: We have added safety stock to the output

4/05/11: Visit us at our booth at the upcoming IBF Demand Planning & Forecasting Conference

3/01/11: Autobox Batch can now read and write directly from/to Excel files for univariate problems

2/14/11: Who you gonna call? Business Modelling Associates has called on us to partner. Our latest alliance will bring our solution to Cash Demand Forecasting

2/10/11: Visit us at our booth at the IBF Supply Chain Forecasting Conference

2/02/11: Profiled in ORMS Today's 2011 Statistical Survey with Autobox compared amongst 19competitors. by James Swainview

7/13/10: Cited in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. You will see Autobox mentioned on 11,15,20.
You will see that the roots of Autobox's code can be literally traced directly to Box-Jenkins themselves in 1970 to the work of David Pack. (see bottom of page 10 for the beginning of that discussion).

6/21/10: Autobox used in Global Warming paper presented at the 2010 International Symposium on Forecasting in San Diego

3/19/10: Review our talk at the April IBF meeting "Can Forecasting Help Me Staff a Specific Call Center at 10:30 am on a Friday?"

2/16/10: Reviewed in OR/MS Today, February 2010

12/30/09: Review our talk at the February IBF meeting in Phoenix on "Building Demand Forecasting Models for ATM Machines & the Time Value of Money Risk

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Why Autobox?

  • Click on the capabilities presentation to the left for the full story
  • Launched in 1976 as the first-to-market Forecasting & Time Series analysis software.
  • Automatically Builds the model for each time series whereas the others use a "pick-best approach"
  • Automatically Adjusts for 4 types of outliers
  • Automatically identifies/adjusts for lead and lag relationships in your causal variables
  • Picked as the Best Dedicated Forecasting Software in the "Principles of Forecasting" text book
  • 12th Place in the 2008 Neural Forecasting Competition (1st overall for Automatic software)

How does Autobox do it?

Our heuristics perform an exhaustive search considering alternative sequences to build the model. Only Autobox adjusts for interventions like outliers, seasonal pulses, level shifts, local time trends, variance & parameters changes. Only Autobox adjusts the model for lead and lag relationships automatically!

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