Company History

Founded in 1983 as a California corporation, Analytic originally provided consulting and software development services in management and business applications, with a major emphasis on developing customized business accounting and financial planning systems for venture-funded high tech Silicon Valley firms.

As an indirect result of the founder's software development for companies such as ASK, Electronic Arts and Quantum and his role in city government, in 1987, Richard Wilmuth helped Analytic obtain its first school district client, the initial project being the evaluation of its various custom-designed financial systems. This led to significant improvements in their budget development, financial systems and business processes. Of particular note, Analytic's services helped three large school districts restore financial health from severe crisis, resulting in their DOS-based budget development and salary projection software system used by more than 50 school districts in California.

In conjunction with supporting school district budgeting software, and largely due to Wilmuth's extensive education from Berkeley and Stanford and from his background in modeling and simulation, he provided consulting services in the areas of multi-year budget development, financial analysis, labor negotiations and staffing management. Richard is now a well-known expert in school district financial planning and administration.

Subsequent to Microsoft's 1998 declaration that "DOS was dead" and resulting elimination of DOS-based software support, Analytic began research and development on an innovative new network-based system for school budget development and human resources. Launched in May, 2003 and delivered via Software as the Service (SaaS) solution on an annual subscription basis.

Analytic continues to advance SaaS technology as the most cost-effective ERP system to school districts.

Richard J. Wilmuth, Ph.D.
President & Founder

Richard, a UC Berkeley graduate with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, specialized in Control Theory. He then joined IBM, working on high-performance computer architecture and computer systems performance analysis and later attended Stanford University as an IBM Resident Study Fellow where he received a Ph.D. in Operations Research.

After nearly a decade at IBM, Richard founded Analytic and began consulting independently. By drawing on his background in modeling and simulation, he developed software for business financial models used by emerging Silicon Valley technology firms such as ASK, Electronic Arts and Quantum. He simultaneously served as councilman for Mountain View and later as Mayor for a term. As a natural segue to his interest in public service, he became involved with school administrative systems with a focus on financial modeling and developed PC-based software that was used for budget development by over 50 school districts in California. As a result, Richard is a well-known expert in school district financial planning and administration.

Leveraging his systems architecture and programming background with his extensive school district knowledge, he is one of the key developers of Analytic’s Software as a Service solutions for school districts, with Human Resource management, Financial Reporting and Budget Development modules.