Storm: Personal Version 3.0 : Quantitative Modeling for Decision Support/Book and 3.5" Disk [Paperback]

Hamilton Emmons (Author), A. Dale Flowers (Author), Chandrashekhar M. Khot (Contributor)

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From the Publisher

Personal STORM is a collection of easy-to-learn, easy-to-use quantitative modeling techniques most frequently used in real world business and engineering applications. The techniques are drawn from the disciplines of Operations Research/Management Science, Operations Management/Industrial Engineering, and Statistics.

From the Back Cover

STORM is an integrated software package consisting of the most frequently used quantitative modeling techniques in real world business and engineering applications. The new 3.0 version contains new capabilities for decision analysis and decision trees, provides the ability to import and export ASCII files as block operations in the Data Editor in any module, and increases the maximum problem sizes in all modules. A must-have tool for anyone involved in quantitative analysis, including: systems engineers, business analysts, management engineers/analysts, statisticians, corporate planners, etc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 747 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div; Pap/Dis edition (February 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0138474508
• ISBN-13: 978-0138474508
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,655,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Highly useful program, if you can get past the MS-DOS format, April 4, 1997

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This review is from: Storm: Personal Version 3.0 : Quantitative Modeling for Decision Support/Book and 3.5" Disk (Paperback)

Storm Personal Version 3.0 is one of a nearly extinct species of programs: DOS. It defies logic that Prentice Hall and Storm Software have not updated the format to Windows. At this point in time, they should be working on a Java version of the program. The book is written with the operation manager in mind, another rare and endangered species. The language is overly perky, "...Little else need be said, except so long and come back soon!" (pg. 44), and the examples are presented but not adequately explained for the newcomer. Perhaps my poor opinion of the book and diskette's format is a result of not being a member of its intended audience, the long-time operations manager or material scheduler. I would hypothesize that the main population of the audience is not the professional manager, but rather the newly introduced student of the decision sciences. If this is the case, the publishers would do well to revise the focus of the book and format of the program.