March 2007 - Decisioneering was acquired by Hyperion to add predictive capabilities to its business intelligence suite that uses Microsoft Excel as its primary interface. June 2004 - Decisioneering launched Crystal Ball Premium Edition, combining time-series forecasting, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization and real options analysis. Crystal Ball Pro was hailed as a breakthrough product and received several awards and nominations. 1998 - Decisioneering introduced Crystal Ball Professional Edition, the first desktop software suite to combine the technologies of Monte Carlo simulation and global optimization. to integrate Monte Carlo techniques into spreadsheets and systems to more accurately forecast risk and variance. Crystal Ball was originally introduced in 1986 by Decisioneering Inc.
