A Brief Discussion of the DeSASim System:
DeSASim® is an integrated Continuous Scenario Planning technology used to model, simulate, project and analyze the performance of existing and proposed businesses.

It provides a financially-oriented, virtual business environment in which one can design scenarios for an enterprise of essentially any type, scale or level within the
    
manufacturing,
    
service,
    
distribution, or
    
knowledge generation industries.

It's an interactive, behavior-focused system that can track and predict the cost and performance of up to 10
    
products,
    
services,
    
sites, or
    
small business units
simultaneously, week-by-week for a period of up to 10 years.

DeSASim is licensed in two forms:
    
"Business Explorer", and
    
"Business Explorer - Shared Source"

Supplemental modules and add-on feature packages for these products are included or are available to licensees.

 

The 7 Elements of DeSASim:

The core engine of DeSASim is pre-engineered.  This makes it unique because it already contains most of the interactive variable relationships that exist within profit-oriented businesses.  Its expert system framework can be applied to the analysis of both conventional organizations and to value-chains of interdependent businesses.  And, there's no programming or special computer knowledge or training required to use DeSASim.
DeSASim users communicate with the system through intuitive interfaces.  Most interface controls are product-specific and represent elements of a business, such as processing level, productivity, system capacity, etc., which a manager could logically control on a week-to-week basis.
As in the real world, the results of making a control change are not seen immediately but are delayed until the change takes effect.  Service capacity changes, for example, do not happen overnight.
DeSASim makes it possible to better understand the complex realities of today's business world.  For example, many cause and effect business relationships are product specific and cannot be generalized or represented correctly using absolute algorithms.  For these, DeSASim uses a series of more than 90 interactive graphical relationships with a "default package" offering a feasible starting point for each relationship to assure that the system will yield rational results.
As a starting point for a scenario, DeSASim uses the assumptions for the businesses that are contained in a "Living Blueprint".  These unique digital images describing the strategic makeup of a business are then modified during the scenario to drive business performance as desired.  DeSASim tracks these changes, making them easily available for review, learning, and consideration for other scenarios.
All calculated financial and performance metrics are recorded for each time period and are available to the user in a variety of printed and on-screen reports and active presentations. Scenario output can be archived for transmission to others and the scenarios themselves can be digitally documented for later review and for use as a basis for future scenarios.
DeSASim's report protocol permits users to "drill-down" and examine how each variable in the system is calculated.  In this way, a business can get to the root causes of performance - to see the main "drivers" of each performance variable.  A full cash management system is imbedded into DeSASim reports.
All the variables used in DeSASim are described in an on-line "Help" function.  This comprehensive feature defines the metrics associated with the variable and includes comments about how the variable is used in the system.  DeSASim also includes an on-line "Guidebook" that makes it easy to use system controls and to understand the relationships of the wealth-generating functions for today's businesses.

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