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DEAFrontier TM Microsoft® Excel Add-In

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Once the payment information is received, the software (along with a user manual) will be emailed to the email address that you provided.

Please try the Free version first and make sure the Free version works on your PC (and your version of Excel, and the Excel Solver installed on your PC).

No refunds after the payment is made via Paypal.com. Thank you.

(A few cases have been reported that non-English version of Excel encounters a runtime error and has to stop the program when  the Risk Solver Platform is installed. The causes of that is due to the Solver product. Users who plan to use the DEAFrontier under other Solver products are strongly advised to test the free DEAFrontier version under Risk Solver Platform.)

Academic Use: US$669
The price is for a single CPU license and for educational institutions (students and professors only). The user must provide a valid educational institution email address for software delivery.

The software is not for commercial/business use, including consulting.

A user manual (with DEA models) is provided. However, the user should have a good understanding of the DEA methodology.

If you are using the standard Excel Solver, there can be a limitation on how many DMUs you can have (see models.xls in the above link). You can upgrade the standard Excel Solver. Please visit the DEAFrontier Support page and www.solver.com for different Solver products and their capacity (and solver's academic discount). Or, you can use the DEAFrontier with OpenSolver which does not set limits.


Business Use: US$ 2,559
The price is for a single CPU license and for Business use.

A user manual (with DEA models) is provided. However, the user should have a good understanding of the DEA methodology.

If you are using the standard Excel Solver, there can be a limitation on how many DMUs you can have (see models.xls in the above link). You can  upgrade the standard Excel Solver. Please visit the DEAFrontier Support page and www.solver.com for different Solver products and their capacity. Or, you can use the DEAFrontier with OpenSolver which does not set limits.


 

The above license fee includes a 1-month free technical support. The technical support is provided only by email and we do not guarantee any turn-around time for answering technical help. The free 1-month technical support is only for using the DEAFrontier software and does not deal with the DEA modeling issue.

DEAFrontier uses Excel Solver, and does not set any limits on the number of DMUs, inputs or outputs. However, please check www.solver.com for problem sizes that various versions of Solver can handle. The standard Excel Solver shipped with Microsoft Office solves problems with sizes of 200x200 (variables x constraints). Alternatively, the use can use the DEAFrontier version for use with OpenSolver which does not set any limits.

The user will receive DEAFrontier versions that work under Excel 97-2003, Excel 2007, Excel 2010, standard Excel Solver, Solver Platform and OpenSolver.