AFS News

4/27/03: Carreker selects Autobox for use of their MAC cash management systems.

2/12/03: Market6 selects Autobox for use in their DemandChain Inventory Management systems as part of the Anheuser-Busch Win

10/13/02: Freefore is released as a fully working version of Autobox to http://download.com.com/3000-2064-10133365.html?tag=lst-0-1 and http://www.tucows.com/preview/262700.html

2/12/02: Autobox is ported to Linux as a callable object

6/11/01: Autobox is selected as the best dedicated forecasting package in the text “Principles of Forecasting” J. Scott Armstrong

3/3/01: John Pickett, David Reilly and Robert McIntyre’s White Paper titled "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions"

7/1/99: Availability of Autobox 5.0

This version offers the ability to run a tournament of options leading to potentially different models in order to determine an optimum. Our tests have found this approach outperforms Autobox 4.0 significantly.

An alternative and creative accompanying feature is the "combined forecast" option. It uses the same tournament approach, but differs in that the forecast are driven from all of the models tried. Each of the forecasts for all of the "tried" models are weighted inverse to the standard deviation of their forecasts. This approach lets those models that fit the data better (smaller standard deviation the more the weight) have a more significant effect in driving the forecast.

5/3/99: Availability of Autobox as a DLL

This allows integration of Autobox into any C/Visual Basic applications.

10/8/98: AFS recently forged an Partnership with i2 Technologies

We recently forged an partnership with i2 Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of supply chain optimization and decision support solutions. Through this agreement, i2 will be embedding the AUTOBOX forecasting algorithms into its Demand Planner solution for cases where customers require the use of a Box Jenkins approach. AUTOBOX is a state-of-the-art forecasting engine that uses Box-Jenkins modeling techniques enhanced by Intervention (Outlier Detection) schemes. These tools are both univariate and causal and can produce forecasts for large numbers of series with limited or no manual intervention.

8/23/96: Autobox cited in Gartner Group Study on demand forecasting capabilities

On August 23 the Gartner Group released on study on forecasting systems for production planning and control. AFS was cited as one of a handful of companies with the forecasting technologies that will meet the needs of technically aggressive corporations in the 1990's.

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12/2/96: What to Look For in a Forecasting Package published in the Fall Edition of the Journal of Business Forecasting

Upcoming Events

David P. Reilly, Sr. Vice President of AFS will be at:

IBF 8/21-8/22/03 Boston

IBF 10/27-10/28/03 Orlando

Cash Management Conference 10/8-10/10/03 St. Petersberg

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