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POST is a powerful application that lets you access an ACE session from within Microsoft Excel. This enables people who are not familiar with ACE to run ACE-hosted models and estimates from a familiar application.
POST is made up of two parts: an ACE calculation engine server and a user interface client application. The POST interface is accessed via Excel through an add-in application that provides wide capability in accessing ACE sessions. From POST, you can provide new inputs to an existing ACE session, execute the underlying ACE session on these inputs, view ACE output results, and create reports. In addition, you can access the risk analysis capability built-in to ACE. In using POST, an XML-based file is created that contains all the calculated results for the what-if cases assessed.
POST provides key functionality for reporting, what-if excursions, and document/presentation development.
Key Reporting Features
- Time-Phased Results
- What-If Results,
- Case Comparison / Delta Report
- Multi-session Report
- Risk statistics Report / S-Curve plot
- Sand Chart
- Pie Chart
- Customization capability
- Ability to save commonly used formats
- Interactive ability to quickly update reports
- No need for re-calculation – all results (BY, TY, SY, Risk) are readily available
Key What-If Analysis Features
- Capability to access ACE cases
- Ability to quickly create on-the-fly excursions
- Sheet interface to allow users to specify what-ifs on an Excel spreadsheet
- Allows handling of phased, constant, cost and non-cost inputs
- Simple graphical user interface to view/enter inputs and results via several data slices
- Cases can be easily exported to other sessions or imported from other sessions
Key Document / Presentation Generation Features
- Charts/reports can be easily exported directly into a PowerPoint presentation or a MS Word document
- POST charts within PowerPoint and Word documents can be automatically updated through a menu command in POS
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