Soft DEA 2.0

Soft DEA is a user-friendly application for Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), designed to evaluate the relative efficiency of comparable units such as branches, hospitals, schools, or production lines. It helps analysts build and run standard DEA models—input- or output-oriented, with options for different returns to scale—and produces clear results including efficiency scores, reference (peer) sets, slacks, and improvement targets.

The software streamlines the full workflow: import data from common spreadsheet formats, define inputs and outputs, run analyses, and export results and charts for reporting. Its guided setup and clean interface make it suitable for students learning DEA as well as practitioners and researchers who need quick, reproducible benchmarking studies. Typical uses include performance measurement, resource allocation, and productivity improvement across private and public sector organizations.

Soft DEA is developed by Instramed - Ind. Méd. Hosp. Ltda. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 1.0 and 2.0. The names of program executable files are Soft DEA V2.0R0T.exe, Soft DEA V2.0R1.exe, Soft DEA.exe and USB.exe.