Premium Solver Platform for Excel - Optimization Software OverviewOur Most Powerful Excel Solver Upgrade Solves Every Type and Size of Optimization ProblemPremium Solver Platform is our premier Excel Solver upgrade for conventional optimization (without uncertainty). It offers far more power than Premium Solver, accepts plug-in Solver Engines, and is upgradeable to Risk Solver Platform, which adds simulation and stochastic optimization (for models with uncertainty).
Compare features of our Excel Solver upgrades. If you want to know “Will I be able to solve my problem?” with this software, our Quick Problem Review can help, and acquaint you with our expert consulting services, at very low cost. For full details, click the "Platform Capabilities" links on the right, or watch a 13-minute video demo. But the best way to decide whether Premium Solver Platform is for you is to try it out! If you register on the simple form below (it's free), you can:
Premium Solver Platform is dramatically enhanced in Version 9.6, with an new user interface that uses Excel's Ribbon and Task Pane for easier, faster model definition, plus the classic Solver Parameters dialog; new charting features to visualize linear and nonlinear functions; new parallelized algorithms to utilize all the power of your multi-core processor; new features to easily solve multiple, parameterized optimizations; and a new Automatic mode that diagnoses your model and selects transformations and Solver engines for you. Become a Solver Expert in Your CompanyWhen you have the knowledge and tools to build an optimization model that can help find the best way to allocate scarce resources, the payoff can be enormous. It's not uncommon for Premium Solver Platform users to save their companies millions of dollars. But what if you have no formal training in "operations research" or optimization methods? Then you're like most users who have purchased and learned to use Premium Solver Platform! With our easy-to-use software, video demos, extensive User Guide and tutorial, online Help, example models, expert technical support, and consulting assistance available when you need it, you can learn quickly while building your first model. And because Premium Solver Platform can handle every type of optimization problem up to certain size limits -- easily increased with plug-in Solver Engines -- you can become the Solver Expert in your company who can answer the question "can we solve this new problem with optimization?" It's easy to get started, because Premium Solver Platform's most basic features are fully compatible with the Solver in Excel -- that Frontline Systems developed for Microsoft. Fully CompatiblePremium Solver Platform is 100% upwardly compatible with the standard Excel Solver. You can use a familiar Solver Parameters and Solver Options dialog -- but you'll quickly come to prefer our new, modeless (faster!) user interface for defining optimization models. Your existing models can be solved with no changes, faster and more easily than before -- even if you use the new Evolutionary Solver or a Field-Installable Solver engine! And your VBA code that uses the standard Solver will work as-is with Premium Solver Platform. Greater Speed and CapacityYou'll be able to solve linear and quadratic programming problems with 40 times the number of variables (up to 8,000) as the standard Excel Solver, integer programming problems with 10 times as many variables, and general nonlinear problems with 2.5 times the number of decision variables and constraints. Just as important, larger problems which took minutes or hours to solve with the standard Solver will often run from five to twenty times faster. Speed gains are especially noticeable on nonlinear problems of all kinds, and on linear problems with integer constraints -- where Premium Solver Platform can be ten to 200 times faster! And Premium Solver Platform is easily expandable with Field-Installable Solver Engines to handle problems of virtually unlimited size. Many users solve problems with hundreds of thousands of variables and constraints! Solve New Kinds of ProblemsThe SOCP Barrier Solver in Premium Solver Platform -- one of the first and only commercial Solvers of its kind -- enables you to solve new second order cone programming (SOCP) problems -- the natural generalization of linear and quadratic programming -- to obtain robust solutions to problems in finance and engineering design. And it also solves quadratically constrained (QCP) problems that go beyond conventional quadratic programming (QP). Just select this Solver from the Solver Engines dropdown list and click the Solve button! The hybrid Evolutionary Solver in Premium Solver Platform -- a unique combination of genetic algorithms and classical nonlinear optimization methods -- can optimize models with any Excel functions -- even user-written functions. It outperforms other spreadsheet optimizers based on genetic algorithms, yet it is easier to use and fully compatible with existing models created with the standard Excel Solver. Just select this Solver from the Solver Engines dropdown list and click the Solve button! Full Support for Excel 2007Premium Solver Platform includes includes full support for Excel 2007 -- the biggest Excel upgrade in at least 10 years, with everything from a new "ribbon" based user interface to huge worksheets with 16,384 columns and 1,048,576 rows – far beyond the 256 column and 65,536 row limits in previous Excel releases. This makes it much easier to lay out your models on a worksheet, without having to split up large tables of information. Viewing Multiple SolutionsPremium Solver Platform delivers multiple solutions, not just a single best solution, for integer programming and global optimization problems. The best integer solutions (“incumbents”) for MIP problems, locally optimal solutions for global optimization problems, or best final population members for non-smooth problems solved with the Evolutionary Solver can be viewed in a worksheet report, or easily accessed in your VBA code via the new object-oriented API. Download a Free Trial Right NowWhy wait? You can download and run the RSPSetup program that installs Risk Solver Platform (a superset of Premium Solver Platform) with a free 15-day trial license. You can use every feature of the software, solve real problems, examine the full User Guide and Help, and get expert technical support -- all without any obligation. Just enter your name and email address, and optionally your company and phone, pick the closest "User Type," and click the Register for Download button. You can download immediately after registering, or return later anytime -- just login with your email address. Ready to order, or just want to know more about prices, upgrades from previous versions, competitive upgrades, and annual support? Click here for more information. |
Platform Capabilities What's New in Version 9.6 Plug-in Solver Engines
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. |
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