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Features

Vensim is industrial-strength simulation software for improving the performance of real systems. Vensim’s rich feature set emphasizes model quality, connections to data, flexible distribution, and advanced algorithms. Configurations for everyone from students to professionals.

Vensim is used for developing, analyzing, and packaging dynamic feedback models. We emphasize:

• High quality, with dimensional consistency and Reality Checks™
• Connections to data and sophisticated calibration methods
• Instant output with continuous simulation in SyntheSim
• Flexible model publication
• Model analysis, including optimization and Monte Carlo simulation

Vensim contains many industry-leading technical advances in simulation technology.

Read more in the Vensim brochure.

Ventity Bundle

Vensim Pro and DSS licenses with current maintenance now include a Ventity subscription! Learn more.

Versions

See our Comparison Chart for different Vensim configurations.

Latest Release – Vensim 9.3.5

Vensim 8 is now ready for download. See the news and release notes for details.

Professional & DSS

Read the Vensim Brochure. Vensim Professional is what is needed for managing large and complicated models. It provides Causal TracingTM of structure and behavior, and has Monte Carlo sensitivity, optimization and subscripting (array) capabilities. Vensim DSS adds an interface development tool for creating management flight simulators, external functions and macros, compiled simulations, and more.

Custom Vensim applications (flight simulators and other interfaces to models) can be developed with the Venapp builder, or in a programming language such as Visual Basic, C, C++, Visual C++, Delphi, Excel, and multimedia authoring tools, or in Sable (below).

PLE Plus

Vensim PLE Plus bridges the gap between the inexpensive (or free) PLE and our higher configurations. PLE Plus is fully featured for its price point and includes data connectivity, multiple views, Monte Carlo sensitivity simulations, game simulations, and the new model-user interface (Input and Output Controls).

PLE

Vensim PLE (Personal Learning Edition) is software that gets you started in system dynamics modeling and is free for educational use and inexpensive for commercial use. Vensim PLE is ideal for classroom use and personal learning of system dynamics.

Model Reader

The Vensim Model Reader is free software which allows you to publish models constructed with Vensim and distribute them to other people. Your model and the Vensim model reader can be copied and passed to as many people as you want, giving people access to your model without their needing to purchase Vensim.

Molecules

The Molecules software is used for constructing system dynamics models from “chunks” or molecules of system dynamics structure. This software is a collaborative effort among a number of authors.

Ventana Systems UK Ltd. — Sable

Developed by Ventana Systems UK Ltd., Sable is a programming environment used in creating application interfaces for Vensim, similar to the Venapp builder. Sable has a number of features which make it unique and useful. You can program interfaces that run over intranets or the internet.

History of Vensim

The history of Vensim is here.

Compliance

Ventana Systems is committed to complying with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act when providing electronic and information technology solutions to our customers. We incorporate the Section 508 design guidelines into our software user interface planning and our website.

To help meet this commitment, both Vensim and our website satisfy federal guidelines for accessibility under Section 508, requiring federal agencies to ensure that information technology is accessible to persons with disabilities.

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