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Figure 6.5 SimaPro Sankey diagram results view, SimaPro 7.3.2 (www.pre-sustainability.com/
simapro).

6.1 A2 Other LCA Software Systems
There are other commercially-available LCA software packages. An overview
of available LCA modeling software is provided by the JRC "toollist" [ILCD
2012], which is occasionally updated.
Umberto, by ifu Hamburg, offers LCA modeling among other modeling
choices (e.g. dynamic models with storage terms; nonlinear relations between
processes); LCA modeling is somewhat more complex than with SimaPro or
GaBi. Prices are in a similar range as for GaBi and SimaPro.

6.1.5 Trends in LCA Software

Trying to predict possible developments and trends is of course always a risky,
yet interesting, exercise. To put possible trends described below somewhat in
perspective, it is also interesting to look at ideas that still lack some momentum
at the present.