With its patent-pending technology, Crystal Ball Predictor is the first, and only, time-series forecasting software tool designed to work seamlessly with risk analysis and optimization technology. Crystal Ball Predictor is a simple ten-step process that makes time-series analysis and multiple linear regression accessible for statisticians and non-statisticians alike.

The world’s ONLY forecasting tool designed to work seamlessly with risk analysis and optimization technology.

Decisioneering's Crystal Ball Predictor is the latest addition to the Crystal Ball suite of world-class decision-support tools. With its patent-pending technology, Crystal Ball Predictor is the first, and only, forecasting tool designed to work seamlessly with risk analysis and optimization technology.

With Crystal Ball Predictor, available as a stand-alone or as part of Crystal Ball 2000 Professional Edition, future performance can be accurately predicted from historical data.

Time-series forecasting (TSF) is a collection of methods used to predict future outcomes based upon historical values. These historic values, often referred to as a “time-series” data, are spaced equally over time and can represent anything from monthly sales data to daily electricity consumption to hourly call volumes.

Time-series forecasting assumes that your time-series data is a combination of a pattern and some random error. By understanding the pattern’s trend, its long-term increase or decrease, and its seasonality, the pattern can be separated from the error and extrapolated into the future.

Once you place your time-series data into Excel, you can turn on Crystal Ball Predictor to begin your analysis. When the Crystal Ball Predictor wizard starts, it automatically finds and interprets the data format.

From there, you simply follow the ten-step process and answer the questions for each step. At any time during the analysis, you can view the data or run a forecast.

Crystal Ball Predictor analyzes the trend, seasonality, and error in your time-series data using one of eight different forecasting methods. It ranks all the methods according to how closely they fit your data and automatically selects the best one to use.

After previewing the results graphically, you can have the forecasted values placed into your spreadsheet where you can use them in subsequent calculations and formulas.

With Crystal Ball Predictor, you can automatically generate Crystal Ball assumptions from your time-series forecasts.

Crystal Ball 2000 or Crystal Ball 2000 Professional users can immediately use the assumptions CB Predictor creates in your spreadsheet model and move right to optimization with OptQuest for Crystal Ball!

Crystal Ball Predictor has been developed for individuals and organizations that need to increase the accuracy of their forecasts and have historical information to aid them in this process.

Crystal Ball Predictor is the perfect forecasting tool - whether you want to forecast product demand for inventory control, natural gas consumption for the upcoming winter or next year’s sales performance. Crystal Ball Predictor provides the clearest picture of what’s to come.