Vensim

What do you like best?

Very easy to use, user friendly, can get the answer fast, can handle many variable, The advantage of this software is the security of having one of the pioneering tools for simulating dynamic systems. Excellent introductory system dynamics modeling tool. Good value, but not the prettiest. My overall experience was good for simulating basic models, I have been able to represent the diagrams and see the curves correctly

What do you dislike?

Sometime it's freeze and buggy, multi running window is not provided, Dull interface and some of the features are complicated. Cons to simulation are that the model needs to be done right before it will work at all. So, you can't see what would happen if it were working to see the errors you are making. That may be, but there are other alternatives that do not have this problem and it makes things much easier for many applications, especially by the 99% of non-experts who would be using the software.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

use must use vensim in order to do any job and review for system dynamic. Business problems Big data allows us to have a lot of detail for so many variables. But, just having them doesn't help you make sense of them. System dynamics can help with that. Vensim is one tool to do that. Conceptualization and simulation in Vensim are extremely powerful tools for making sense of data and done right would be superior to AI on many fronts. The state of the art for how to do this can be found in the heads of dozens of skilled modelers around the world. Yeah, dozens. And the software and business processes to make it work probably can't be found in any organization. So, those dozens would be consultants. In other words, computer scientists have perfected the AI thing because it fits their philosophy about systems. But, that philosophy is missing a lot when it comes to social systems, like an organization. Perhaps if a organizaitons were more like gas giant planets, AI would be great. But, because they aren't its not. And Vensim is a perfect embodiment of this situation: it is a little old-fashioned, not easy to learn or use for most of its main purposes.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

formulated salacca-pondoh's business as a common condition in Sleman District in the form of system dynamics simulation, Analysts and researchers with hard problems to solve in business, public policy and academia.