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<br /> FORECASTING SOFTWARE SURVEY:<br /> New tools, capabilities, trends<br /> June 2016<br /> Volume 43 • Number 3<br /> ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Reforming America’s<br /> defense<br /> procurement<br /> Defining analytics<br /> A conceptual framew<br /> Sports analytics<br /> Taxonomy, V1.0<br /> Ag analytics<br /> Optimizing crop<br /> management<br /> Primer on p-values<br /> What you need to know<br /> ork<br /> Military spending needs systematic review, but conflicts<br /> of interest present major challenges<br /> <br /> ORION delivers<br /> Edelman for UPS<br /> <br /> <br /> Contents<br /> June 2016 | Volume 43, No. 3 | ormstoday.informs.org<br /> Features<br /> 2<br /> 2<br /> 18 Reforming America’s defense procurement<br /> Hawks and doves agree U.S. military spending needs a serious,<br /> systematic review, but widespread conflicts of interest present a<br /> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=1"> FORECASTING SOFTWARE SURVEY: New tools, cap</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=2"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=3"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=4"> Contents June 2016 | Volume 43, No. 3 | ormst</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=5"> XLMINER®: Data Mining Everywhere Predictive Anal</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=6"> June 2016 | Volume 43, No. 3 | ormstoday.info</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=7"> ANALYTIC SOLVER® PLATFORM From Solver to Full-Po</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=9"> Your Analytics App – Everywhere Use Solver, Risk </a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=10"> President’s Desk Ed Kaplan ‘</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=11"> Is your solver provider getting in the way of you</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=12"> INFORMS in the News Compiled by Olivia Schm</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=13"> Most enterprises rely on analytic experts to solv</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=14"> Issues in Education Wendy Swenson Roth </a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=15"> I have been working on developing some troducing</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=16"> PuzzlORJohn Toczek puzzlor@gmail.com Elevato</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=17"> DATA ANALYTICA CEREBRUM understanding the un</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=18"> Newsmakers Salary survey, IAAA & award-winning</a> <a title="ORMS Today, June 2016 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/085442e2?page=19"> What's Your StORy? 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