Risk Solver Platform for Excel - Simulation and Optimization Overview
The Ultimate Tool to Reduce Costs, Control Risks,
and Make
Better Decisions under Uncertainty -- Our
Integrated Platform for Simulation and Optimization
If you're called upon to do more
with less, and find ways to reduce costs and control risks
without an army of PhD operations researchers, this product is
for you.
Risk Solver Platform is by far the most powerful tool for risk analysis, simulation and optimization
in Excel -- and with its new user interface and automatic mode for selecting methods and options, it's
by far the easiest way to build models and get
results for critical planning decisions --
especially those that involve uncertainty.
It includes all the capabilities of Risk Solver for risk analysis and Monte
Carlo simulation, all the capabilities of Premium Solver Platform for optimization, and new
capabilities for finding robust optimal decisions automatically, using stochastic
programming and robust optimization methods -- not available anywhere
else.
To learn more, watch the short video demos on the
right. But the best way to decide whether
Risk Solver Platform is for you is to try it out! If you register below, you can:
- Download a free 15-day Trial Version of Risk Solver
Platform
- Download our Solver User Guides -- learn about Risk Solver
Platform
- Access "protected" Tech Support pages and downloadable example models
If you're not sure yet what you need, consult
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can give you an answer, and acquaint you with our expert consulting
services, at very modest cost.
Risk Solver Platform can take you all the way from a
conventional "what-if" model in Excel, through Monte Carlo simulation,
multiple parameterized simulations, and optimization of an uncertain
model to find robust optimal decisions:
- A simulation model that incorporates uncertain parameters,
samples thousands of possible cases, and summarizes the outcomes
for you with charts and statistics.
You can even ask "what-if with uncertainty" using
Interactive Simulation -- not available in other
software
products.
- A model that explores possible decisions using
multiple simulations that automatically vary one or more
controllable parameters, and summarizes the
outcomes for you across simulations with
charts and graphs -- far more easily,
and with spectacular speed, compared to other software products.
- An optimization model that finds robust decisions
that will optimize a quantifiable objective that
you set --
from maximizing profit to minimizing risk -- subject to
constraints that you specify, across the full
range of uncertain outcomes in your model -- with
many capabilities not available in other products.
Unlike more limited software products such as Crystal Ball and
@RISK, Risk Solver Platform makes it easy to specify "wait and see" or
recourse decisions, as well as probabilistic or
chance constraints, and find robust optimal
solutions. Risk Solver Platform empowers you to use
stochastic programming and robust
optimization methods, without requiring a team of
PhDs to build the model. You simply define your model,
and let Risk Solver Platform automatically diagnose the
model's characteristics, automatically apply stochastic and
robust transformations, automatically select a method and
Solver Engine, and find a robust optimal solution!
Risk Solver Platform has all the capabilities of Premium Solver
Platform, widely acknowledged as the leading optimization
software for Excel, adding powerful facilities for multiple
parameterized optimizations, the fastest-available
simulation optimization, and new stochastic
programming and robust optimization
capabilities that simply aren't available in other software.
It includes modern capabilities for
semicontinuous constraints, alldifferent
constraints, cone constraints, multiple
solutions for mixed-integer and global optimization problems,
and more.
Risk Solver Platform features a new user interface,
integrated into the Excel 2007 Ribbon and Task Pane, with
simpler, faster "modeless" model creation and editing, new
charts of linear and nonlinear functions, new
solution progress
reporting and charts of the objective, a log of model diagnosis,
transformation and solution actions, quick access to results
across multiple optimizations, and persistent availability of
Solver reports. (Click the example display below for a full-size
image.)
Of course, Risk Solver Platform is 100% upward
compatible with the Excel Solver that Frontline developed for
Microsoft. Your existing Solver models can be solved with no
changes, faster and more easily than before, and your VBA code
that uses the standard Solver will work as-is with Risk Solver Premium.
You can solve linear models up to 8,000 decision variables with
up to 2,000 integer variables, and nonlinear and non-smooth
models with up to 500 variables.
But that's just the beginning: You can "plug in" any of
seven large-scale Solver Engines to solve
models of virtually unlimited size.
We've integrated the world's best Solvers, to handle the largest linear programming problems
(with
millions of decision variables), quadratic,
conic and nonlinear problems, and mixed-integer problems. Risk
Solver Platform can automatically
diagnose your Excel model as linear, nonlinear or
non-smooth and help you find mistakes in formulation,
automatically apply
transformations to make the model easier to solve, and
automatically select the
best built-in or plug-in Solver Engine for your problem.
Remarkably, Risk Solver Platform outperforms other simulation products -- even in simulation! It offers
many more distributions, statistics and risk measures than
Crystal Ball, much faster simulations than @RISK, and
easier, faster model definition. (Crystal Ball's
Extreme Speed feature relies on Frontline's PSI Technology software --
Risk Solver Platform takes
PSI Technology to a whole new level.)
You don't have to take our word for it:
Read a
comparative review of Crystal Ball, @RISK and Risk
Solver V8.0 in
FORESIGHT
magazine, which says: "Risk Solver has several
distinguishing features. First, input and output distributions
can be viewed by simply moving your cursor over the Excel cell
and double-clicking. Second, it is extraordinarily fast, which
gives it a substantial advantage for handling large models.
Third, it offers the most advanced functionality
for optimization." Risk Solver Platform offers even
greater power than Risk Solver V8.0, with new distributions,
statistics and risk measures, new forms of distribution bounds,
new types of charts, and rich support for multiple parameterized
simulations.
Compare Risk Solver, Risk Solver Premium, and Risk Solver Platform.
Why wait? To try out Risk Solver Platform, you can download and run the
RSPSetup program that installs the full version of the software with a free 15-day trial license. You can use every feature, solve real problems, examine the full User Guide and Help, and get expert technical support -- all without any obligation.
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