Visual Numerics Consulting Services Group helps develop a reliable, custom solution for you in many ways. Visual Numerics' experts provide a full range of services covering the smallest details to the most complex technical problems. Working with Visual Numerics Consulting Services provides unmatched value. Simple off-the-shelf analysis provides commodity results, while the analytical expertise offered by Visual Numerics provides unique results that provide organizations with a unique strategic advantage.

The following are examples of two target project areas and specific services that the Consulting Services Group could provide to your organization.

Successful predictive analytics uses statistical and mathematical techniques to analyze current and historical data to make predictions about future events. Many organizations evolve their predictive analytic capabilities over time and Visual Numerics Consulting Services can help organizations get to the next stage of ability.

For organizations that are just getting started with predictive analytics to improve decision-making and results through analytic methods, Visual Numerics offers:

• Training on statistical methods
• Basic forecasting techniques
• Using and interpreting data
• Visualizing your analytical data

In many organizations, management needs proof that predictive analytics will be of value before making a long-term commitment. In these situations, Visual Numerics can help with:

• Scoping studies
• Prototypes

For organizations that already taken the first step towards predictive analytics and want to go deeper with their analysis, Visual Numerics can assist in a number of ways, including:

• Identifying methods to bring more sophisticated analysis into the organization
• Selecting effective performance metrics
• Single version of the truth
• Analytical audits
• Supplementing internal expertise
• Customize off-the-shelf applications
• Custom analytical applications that fit into existing infrastructure

Finally, for organizations that have very sophisticated analysis in place and want to get more mileage from their data to become “best in class” for analysis, Visual Numerics can help with:

• Partnership with the analysis group
• Experimentation
• Custom visualization and algorithms
• Expert opinions / research
• Parallelization of algorithms for performance improvements of analysis applications

Whether the goal is to become more predictive, better leverage existing tools, or simply deploy analytics into an existing infrastructure – FAST – Visual Numerics Consulting Services can help in the project areas listed above or with other offers such as:

• Analytical audits
• Analytical Q&A / Support/ Vetting Ideas
• Partnership / Ongoing relationship
• Build analytical apps

Since 1970, Visual Numerics has provided customers with numerical analysis solutions. As many long-term customers consider migrating applications to new languages or platforms, Visual Numerics Consulting Services can be an excellent partner to make the migration fast, efficient and cost-effective.

Examples of common migrations include:

• Migrating an application originally written in Fortran to C, Java or C#
• Migrating a PV-WAVE application written for a Unix platform to a Windows or Linux platform

With years of IMSL Numerical Library and PV-WAVE experience, Visual Numerics can help organizations through a migration faster, more efficiently and less expensively by:

• Expertly evaluating your application
• Making recommendations on how to best do your migration
• Providing examples so you can avoid problematic situations
• Augmenting your staff with seasoned IMSL Library or PV-WAVE developers