Provisdom has worked on eight Customer Test Cases, five with large public high-tech corporations.  Provisdom has also worked on over 165 Stylized Case Studies across the spectrum of business strategy problems, demonstrating the broad scope and performance of the Provisdom Decision Platform.

Customer Test Cases

In the test-cases, the Provisdom Decision Platform has helped customers with:

·         Increasing True Shareholder Value by as much as 144% and $460M while preventing an average of 66,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions;

·         Creating sophisticated and agile strategies in 2-7 days;

·         Gathering relevant decision information and communicating the resulting complex strategies in 45 to 90 minutes;

·         Adding considerable depth to the decision-maker’s understanding; and

·         Using significantly more available information to create True Shareholder Value.

Below are links to four test cases that describe how Provisdom worked with customers, along with the highlights and an executive summary. 

·         Data Center Management Highlights – Server upgrade strategy for a large datacenter.

o   Data Center Management Executive Summary

o   To see the Data Center Management Test Case, please contact info@provisdom.com.

·         Technology Acquisition and Project Management Highlights – Valuation of acquisition target and associated project management for bringing acquired technology to market.

o   Technology Acquisition and Project Management Executive Summary

o   Technology Acquisition and Project Management Test Case

·         Internet Acquisition Highlights– Potential acquisition and management of advertising network.

o   Internet Acquisition Executive Summary

o   Internet Acquisition Test Case

·         DRAM Supply Chain Highlights – Optimization of supply-chain strategy for purchase and inventory of DRAM.

o   DRAM Supply Chain Executive Summary

o   To see the DRAM Supply Chain Test Case, please contact info@provisdom.com.

Stylized Case Studies

The first two stylized case studies below were performed by Provisdom based on information from consultants who had worked on the original oil and gas problems.  They detail how Provisdom solved the problems.  The next two case studies demonstrate how traders can maximize True Shareholder Value for their financial institutions.  The last two include screen shots and were developed by Provisdom to show the broad range of applicability of the Provisdom Decision Platform. 

·         Deep Water Oil Sequential Exploration Summary – Optimal drilling order for geologically related sites.

o   Deep Water Oil Sequential Exploration Case Study

·         Oil Production Summary – Buy/sell production rights based on uncertain future volume.

o   Oil Production Case Study

·         Simple Stock Trading – Optimal stock trading through knowledge gathering

·         Simple Trading – Complex derivatives trading based on market mispricing.

·         Simple Boiler – Choice between an industrial boiler which burns gas, oil, or both.  For the boiler which burns both fuels, illustrates the use of market-traded assets (oil and gas) and the effects of switching costs in choosing the optimal fuel strategy over the boiler lifetime.

·         Simple Dynamic Pricing – Optimal pricing strategy for a new product introduced by a pizza chain. The optimal price changes as a function of costs, customer demand, and advertising.