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Premium Solver Platform is Frontline Systems' flagship spreadsheet optimization product -- the most powerful Solver we've ever offered. It has all the features of the Premium Solver and much, much more.  Compare features of our Excel Solver upgrades.  Read a summary of new capabilities in Version 8.0 in PDF form.

Premium Solver Platform is dramatically enhanced in Version 8.0, with support for Excel 2007 and worksheets up to 16 thousand columns and 1 million rows, multi-worksheet models with decision variables and constraints on any sheet, simulation optimization with Risk Solver, function-based models and Interactive Optimization, and our new Object-Oriented API for high-level control of the Solver in VBA.

Premium Solver Platform V8.0 Stochastic Edition offers new optimization power that you can't get anywhere else, at any price:  A unified framework for defining and solving models with uncertainty and risk, compatible with Risk Solver, with recourse decision variables and chance constraints.  It's the first commercial product with support for new robust optimization methods, and the first and only product to solve uncertain models using the full spectrum of simulation optimization, stochastic programming, and robust optimization methods.  (More information coming soon -- see the V8.0 User Guide for full details.)

For full details, click the "Platform Capabilities" links on the right.  But the best way to decide whether Premium Solver Platform is for you is to try it out!  If you register below (it's easy and free), you can:

Become a Solver Expert in Your Company

When 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 the Premium Solver Platform!  With our 300-page User Guide and tutorial, online Help, Web demos, Secrets of Optimization e-Letter, expert technical support, and easy-to-use software, you can learn quickly while building your first model.

And because the 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 the Premium Solver Platform's most basic features are fully compatible with the Solver in Excel -- that Frontline Systems developed for Microsoft.

Fully Compatible

The Premium Solver Platform is 100% upwardly compatible with the standard Excel Solver. It appears when you select the Tools Premium Solver... menu choice; you'll see a familiar Solver Parameters and Solver Options dialog with many new features. 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 the Premium Solver Platform.

Greater Speed and Capacity

You'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 the Premium Solver Platform can be ten to 200 times faster!

And the 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 Problems

The SOCP Barrier Solver in the 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 the Premium Solver Platform -- a unique combination of genetic algorithms and classical nonlinear optimization methods -- enables you to optimize models with any Excel functions -- even user-written functions.  The Solver 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 2007

The Premium Solver Platform V8.0 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 Solutions

The Premium Solver Platform V8.0 deliver 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 Now

Why wait?  You can download and run the PSPSetup program that installs the full-power 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.