Preface

This is book treats the syntax and semantics of e³value and explains the various analyses that can be done with the e³value software tools. E³value is a language to build and analyse business models of value networks.

Software tools to edit and analyze e³value are available from our web site www.thevalueengineers.nl. Currently there are four tools.

The e³value tool allows editing and analysis of e³value models according to the techniques described in this book
The e³value time series editor (downloadable together with the e³value tool) allows the creation and analysis of time series according to the techniques described in this book.
The e³tool allows editing and analysis of e³fraud models.
The e³web tool runs in any browser window and currently only contains editing functionality for e³value models.

Eventually, the functionality of all tools will be implemented in the e³web tool, and the older tools will be phased out. Currently, all tools offer some interesting functionality and this book describes all of them.

This book is available as pdf file, as set of help pages in the e³web editor and on our web site, and as a paper book in online bookshops.

To be neutral with respect to regions where this book is used, we use fas generic currency symbol. Pronounce: “Florin”.