Solver Support - Center for Frontline Systems Excel Solvers

Center for Excel Solvers

This page is a gateway to a set of "protected" pages that provide online information, models and other downloadable files for users who have purchased, or who are evaluating Frontline Systems' Premium Solver products.

To access most of the links on this page, you must have registered to create an account on this Website, you must be currently logged in, and your account must have access to Excel Solver support information.  If you have problems accessing these pages, please contact us.

• Converting a Model to Fast Problem Setup
• Piecewise-Linear Approximations for Nonlinear Functions

Note:  The first example above illustrates how an optimization model can be created, or converted to "fast problem setup" form, to achieve faster total solution times.  This is still supported in our current products, and it can be effective in Premium Solver or Risk Solver Premium; but you can save yourself a good deal of time by upgrading to Premium Solver Platform or Risk Solver Platform, where Frontline's PSI Technology can be used to achieve much faster setup and solution times, without any extra effort on your part.

If you have purchased an Annual Support Contract for any of our Premium Solver products, or if you purchased a product license without a support contract in the last 90 days, you should have an account (with your email address as the user name) with access to these links.

If you have registered and then downloaded an evaluation version of one of our Premium Solver products, your account is automatically granted access to these links for 15 days.  Within this time, if you are currently logged in, you should be able to access these links.

Risk Solver Platform is an integrated superset of Premium Solver Platform and Risk Solver with best-of-breed simulation, best-of-breed optimization, and new stochastic programming and robust optimization capabilities you can't get anywhere else.

Premium Solver Platform, our premier tool for conventional optimization, uses new PSI Technology to automatically analyze and transform your Excel model. It solves every type and size of problem, using built-in and plug-in Solver Engines.

Premium Solver, our basic upgrade for the Excel Solver, solves up to 10X larger problems at much higher speed, and solves new kinds of problems with our Evolutionary Solver.

Risk Solver Platform is an integrated superset of Premium Solver Platform and Risk Solver with best-of-breed simulation, best-of-breed optimization, and new stochastic programming and robust optimization capabilities you can't get anywhere else.

Risk Solver Premium integrates all the features of Premium Solver and Risk Solver, with far superior optimization and higher performance, easier to use simulation, for about the same price as competitive products for Monte Carlo simulation.

Risk Solver is the easiest and fastest tool available for risk analysis of your Excel models, using Monte Carlo simulation. Evaluate thousands of scenarios in seconds, and see instantly updated charts and statistics, each time you ask "what if".

Software Developer Tools:

Solver Platform SDK makes it easy to solve any type or size of optimization problem in your Visual Basic, VB.NET, C/C++, C#, Java, or MATLAB program. And it's easy to deploy your application with our flexible licensing for software vendors and corporate developers.