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Competitive
Analysis
Oscar Wilde said "A cynic is a
person who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing".
Our competitors charge many times more than we do. Why? Simply put, they are
overpriced.
Myth #1: Accuracy
Let's dispel the accuracy myth.
Where these products use
the same published forecast techniques, they'll produce exactly the
same
results.
Myth #2: ezForecaster can't possibly be a
heavy-duty forecasting application
We beg to differ! ezForecaster does
everything the unwieldy standalone applications do - it's just that it
hides the tedious tricky stuff behind a concise easy-to-follow interface.
With their muddled user interfaces, these competitors have more buttons than
a truck load of Levi 501s!
Myth #3: Feature Sets
It's difficult to call them competitors, but let's see
how they compare to ezForecaster.
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Product
Feature |
ezForecaster
1.7 |
ForecastPro XE
5.1 |
SmartForecasts
8.2 |
| Excel
Add-in |
YES |
No - Standalone
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No - Standalone
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| Knowledge
of Forecasting Terminology Required |
None/Low
- Designed to be used by regular people! |
High
- They say it's easy, but really it's designed to be used by professional Forecasters |
High
- Designed to be used by professional Forecasters |
| Forecast
Wizard |
YES
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No |
No |
| Curve
Fitting Methods (#) |
7 |
4 |
0 |
| Smoothing
Methods (#) |
8 |
12 |
4 |
| Seasonal
Methods (#) |
6 |
YES |
2 |
| Maximum
Number of Simultaneous Forecasts |
2,000,000
(in Excel 2007 & 2010)
64,000 (All prior Excel releases) |
100
(if you want more, it will
cost you a whopping $4,995!!)
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1,000 |
| Regression
Wizard |
YES |
No
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No |
| Stepwise
Regression (#) |
YES (4) |
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? |
| Free,
Published
API |
YES |
? |
? |
| Programmable
ActiveX DLL |
YES |
No |
What's a DLL? |
| Programmable
inside Excel |
YES |
No
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Excel? What kind of new-fangled technology is that? |
| Can
be run in Active Server Pages |
YES |
No |
Huh? |
| Cost |
$399 |
$1,295!!
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$5,995!! |
| Annual
Maintenance |
FREE |
15%
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15% |
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You could be
forecasting... |
less than 5 mins
after installation |
Probably hours
after installation. Remember, you have to import your data
first! Make sure someone from IT is on hand. |
Hours, days maybe.
Remember, this software was
first run on wood-burning computers. |
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Used by Noah to forecast the Flood |
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Yes |
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