SPREADSHEET MODELING AND DECISION ANALYSIS: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ANALYTICS, 8th Edition, helps your students transition to business analytics. The edition works seamlessly with Microsoft Excel 2016. Succinct instruction highlights the most commonly used business analytics techniques and demonstrates how to implement them. This product focuses on developing algebraic and spreadsheet modeling skills. It now features Analytic Solver and XLMiner Platforms with powerful tools for performing optimization, simulation, and decision analysis in Excel, as well as complete tools for performing data mining in Excel and techniques for predictive analytics.