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Premium Solver Platform for Excel for Mac 2011 is now available!
Our best-selling product for conventional optimization is now available for the Mac! Premium Solver Platform for Mac offers far more power, speed and flexibility than the Standard Excel Solver while allowing all your existing models, even your VBA code, to be used as-is:
- Built-in capability to handle significantly larger problems
- Increases variable and constraint limits by 2 to 40 times those of the Standard Excel Solver
- Solves every type of conventional optimization problem
- Includes more solver engines and accepts a range of additional plug-in Solver engines
- Solves problems faster than ever before
- Reduces solve time from 2 to 200 times depending on the type of problem
- Accepts large-scale Solver engines to easily handle even extremely large problems
- Some of our users have linear programming models with millions of decision variables!
Learn more and get your own free trial copy.
Note: Premium Solver Platform for Mac requires Excel 2011. This is because Excel for Mac 2008 doesn’t support either VBA or Apple’s Scripting Bridge technology which are required for Premium solver Platform for Mac to work with Excel.
Standard Solver for Excel 2011 Now Also Available
Frontline Systems has been working with Microsoft's Mac Business Unit for the past two years to bring you a faster, easier to use, and more powerful Solver. If you have Excel 2011 installed, you can download and install it right now.
Solver is substantially improved, but two of its best features haven't changed: It's still free and 100% compatible -- your existing Solver models will work without any changes, whether they're from Excel 2004 or 2008 for Mac, or Excel 2003, 2007 or 2010 for Windows.
If you're still using Excel 2008 for Mac, you can download the Standard Solver for Excel 2008 here -- but we highly recommend an upgrade to Excel 2011, for many reasons including a better Solver!
Matches New Solver for Excel 2010 for Windows
Standard Solver for Excel 2011 for Mac has the same new features and user interface as Solver for Excel 2010 for Windows -- which is greatly enhanced over Solver for Excel 2007.
Includes New Evolutionary Solving Method
Based on genetic algorithms, this method complements Solver's linear programming and nonlinear optimization methods. Use it to find solutions for models with IF and LOOKUP functions.
Global Optimization for Nonlinear Models
Automatically run the GRG Nonlinear Solver from multiple, intelligently chosen starting points, to find better solutions when the old Solver would be "trapped" in a local optimum. |
New user interface matches Excel 2010
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Solver for Excel 2008 is still available Here.
You may also be interested in:
- Try our Solver Tutorial to learn more about building Solver models and getting solutions.
- If you are a developer of optimization or simulation applications, check out our Solver SDK Platform. It's available for Windows and Linux -- but contact us for news about availability of the SDK for Mac OSX.
