Effective Yet Easy to Use Excel Forecasting Solution!
Caster is very easy-to-use yet effective forecasting solution designed as MS Excel Worksheet. Just paste your data, click "calculate" and enjoy the forecast chart equiped with all estimates and limits!
Live scenario modelling gives you the unique chance to literally "touch" the future through the built-in mechanism of visual scenario modelling. Try to move any data point: all forecasts will respond by tracking the input changes! Caster is an expert system which automatically analyses the data, detects trends, seasonal components and searches ARIMA model to optimize forecast. All that written in C++ and compiled into a highly optimized program module directly available from within Excel!
The Caster forecasting Excel workbook was designed at the Russian Academy of Science on an order from the large Russian bank. Since then it has been widely used by government agencies, financial institutions and private firms. The flexibility and power of the Caster modeling interface gives you the unique chance to literally "touch" the future!
Caster® is distributed as a zip archive. The archive contains two files: caster.xls and arima.dll. File caster.xls is the Excel'97 worksheet which gives the interface to the model. You'll need Excel'97 or above installed. Clone and rename caster.xls as needed to make new models.
