Abstract: The present invention provides systems and related methods for forming a market response model (“MRM”) for modeling the probability of winning a price quote to a prospect or customer. Such a MRM may thereafter be used to estimate the probability of winning a bid to sell a product or service to a particular customer at a particular price against specific competition. In preferred embodiments, the process of developing a particular MRM for use in optimizing a bid entails the steps of acquiring historical data; creating an analysis data set from the historical data; exploring the data sets and identifying segments; defining an MRM structure using the segments; and validating the MRM. Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and related methods for forming a MRM for modeling the probability of winning a price quote to a prospect or customer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a Lease/Rent Optimizer (LRO) for helping property management companies to forecast and analyze market demand and unit availability, as well as to set leasing agreements based on dynamically measured consumer demand. The LRO takes into account customer preferences, market conditions, and competitive behavior. The system optimally applies user-defined business rules to provide market-specific flexibility in combining base rents and concessions to consumers. By forecasting demand for different unit types and lease terms, then using those forecasts to ensure that inventory is optimally positioned to satisfy demand, the LRO is designed to enhance overall revenue contribution from new and renewing leases. Conversely, these features benefit customers by helping them find the unit types and lease terms they need when they need them by better matching rental unit supplies to demand.

Abstract: The present invention provides a promotion pricing system and a related model for producing a value evaluation and recommendation for promotion on a targeted product so as to analyze, evaluate, improve, and design promotions to meet a user's need. The promotion pricing system generates promotion price evaluations and recommendations for each product promotion related to a target product of a user along with associated competing products from the user and competitors.

Abstract: According to the present invention, apparatus, systems and methods are provided in which a computer (the “fare construction computer system”) is programmed to construct travel fares in conformance with recognized industry rules by building matrices of fare components for travel between one or more cities in such a way that the matrices can be combined in such a way that the travel fares between the two cities are constructed. Each user specifies one or more market areas of responsibility. Each market area consists of one or more cities. According to the user's market area request, the fare construction computer system accesses a database of market points to create a market list of all possible origin-gateway-destination combinations. The fare construction computer system also accesses a database containing fare components.