The President and the US Congress demanded analysis and answers to how an electrical power outage cascaded across the continent’s east coast to shut down the financial, operations and nerve centers of two countries. Homeland Security issues dominated early concerns. Decision Systems Inc analysts and REASON technology were called upon by the U. S. Department of Energy to head up and coordinate the international root cause analysis team’s effort to uncover the systemic causes of this national crisis. Hundreds of engineers, operations personnel and technical professionals were brought together to investigate, analyze and model the root causes of that critical event applying REASON technology and software systems.

DSI experts served as the root cause analysis command center for that project, directing and identifying the specific needs for particular data, monitoring and assessing incoming data, pushing questions out into the field for answers and modeling validated data to construct a REASON model of the myriad of causal details that finally generated the substance of the subsequent report presented to the U. S. Congress.

While your problem probably will not involve Congress, or at least we hope for your sake that it does not, you may none-the-less be faced with a critical problem that calls for quick answers and substantial investigation of the underlying causes and solutions. Decision Systems, Inc. has the expertise, experience, personnel, tools and services to work with your professionals to discover the root causes and solutions to your operations problems.

Many world class organizations in both the public and private sector have called upon DSI and the unique capabilities of REASON for expert, third-party analyses of problems ranging from the threat of nuclear toxic waste spills, to failure of a national electrical power grid, to process equipment failure, to legal challenges and compliance issues.