AFS Product Milestones

• 1976 .... AFS Incorporates
  
• 1976 .... AUTOBJ is delivered as an application on the most popular time-sharing systems with Automatic Univariate ARIMA
  
• Interactive Data Corporation (PROBE) - IBM equipment
  
• Compuserve - DEC equipment
  
• Computer Science Corporation (INFONET) - IBM equipment
  
• 1983 .... AUTOBJ converted to DOS based machines
  
• 1986 .... AUTOBOX 1.0 integrating AUTOBJ and Automatic Transfer-Function (CAUSAL) becomes available
  
• 1988 .... Automatic Intervention Detection incorporated into procedures .... AUTOBOX 2.0
  
• 1991 .... AUTOBOX 3.0 incorporating a sophisticated proprietary database system is introduced. Installation of ENGINE version into Anheuser- Busch's Production System.
  
• 1992 .... Variance Change Detection introduced
  
• 1993 .... Constancy of Parameters/Model test introduced/
  Swiss Government signs on to use AUTOBOX to screen data
  
• 1994 .... Pooled Cross-Sectional Time Series introduced
  
• 1995 .... AUTOBOX 4.0 for Windows introduced
  
• 1996 .... AUTOBOX 4.0 used in Quality Control Systems
  
• 1997 .... Added Local Time Trend Detection Algorithm
  
• 1998 .... i2 integrates AUTOBOX into their Demand Planning System "PLANNER"
  
• 1998 .... Autobox 5.0 released
  
• 1999 .... Received special honors from the M3 Competition
  
• 2000 .... Established contracts with Vizability, JustEnough, 3DGraphics, Onttargetech
  
• 2000 .... Offered Intermittent Demand modeling using Transfer Function Models
  
• 2000 .... Offered Combined Modeling
  
• 2001 .... Selected as the Best Dedicated Forecasting Package by Len Tashman and Jim Hoover
  
• 2001 .... enWorkz integrates Autobox into their Energy Information Services Suite
  
• 2001 .... AUTOBOX is selected as the best dedicated forecasting package by IIF
  
• 2002 .... AUTOBOX is ported to Linux as a shared library
  
• 2002 .... FreeFore is released as a FREEWARE version of AUTOBOX
  
• 2003 .... Market6 selects AUTOBOX for the Anheuser-Bush Supply Chain Project
  
• 2003 .... Carreker Corporation selects AUTOBOX to replace SAS for Cash Mgmt
  

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