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Optimization & solvers

Complex problems may involve a large number of decisions with interacting effects. Optimization tools help automate the search for decision strategies that maximize objectives (or minimize costs) subject to constraints. Analytica Optimizer uses influence diagrams to make it much easier to organize information around your problem compared to traditional math programming tools. Analytica automatically selects the most appropriate solver, whether linear or nonlinear programming, and mixed integer programming (MIP).

Optimizer edition

Incorporate powerful solvers that maximize and optimize any quantified objective. Sign up and test out a 30-day free trial of Analytica’s optimization functions.

Solver engines

Learn more about the solver engines that power our optimizer edition. Upgrade now to tackle large-scale linear programs, quadratic programming, and more.

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Energy optimization of buildings through customer surveys

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An optimal Valentine’s date

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Smart grid electricity management & decision analytics

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See how marketing agencies use decision analytics

Marketing Evolution is a leading consulting group dedicated to helping marketers maximize ROI for their advertising budgets. Improving yield on marketing budgets is big business.

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    The free edition of Analytica includes these key Analytica features:
    Free Analytica has no time limit. The only constraint is it won’t let you create more than 100 variables or other objects. But your model can be quite substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you explore, change inputs, and run existing models of any size (excluding features unique to the Enterprise or Optimizer editions).

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    The free edition of Analytica includes these key Analytica features: 

    Free Analytica has no time limit. The only constraint is it won’t let you create more than 100 variables or other objects. But your model can be quite substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array.  It also lets you explore, change inputs, and run existing models of any size (excluding features unique to the Enterprise or Optimizer editions).

    Analytica runs on any Windows computer, or on a Macintosh using Parallels or VMWare.


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