Simulation and Optimization - Microsoft .NET, COM, Java, MATLAB Developers Start HereQuickly Develop High Performance Simulation and Optimization Applications with Your Favorite Tools, Saving Time, Grief and Money for Your Company!If you're a reasonably proficient programmer using Visual Basic or C/C++, VB.NET or C#, or Java or MATLAB, you've come to the right place for optimization and simulation software! For more than 15 years, corporate developers and other software companies have relied on Frontline Systems Solvers in "callable library" form. From departmental applications with a few users to high volume commercial products with hundreds of thousands or millions of users (as in Mathcad and Microsoft Excel), Frontline Solvers have been proven in use.
The best way to learn more is to register on Solver.com (it's free), so you can:
Solver Platform SDKOur "flagship" product for developers is the Solver Platform SDK. It may well be all you need, because it can handle every type of optimization and simulation problem up to certain size limits:
Given the breadth and depth of its optimization capabilities alone, the SDK would be a great product. But there's much more! Other "callable library" optimizers emphasize fast solution times, but they can be difficult to use for a developer who doesn't have a PhD in operations research. In contrast, the Solver Platform SDK emphasizes ease of use and fast development times! The SDK features:
For Intranet, Web Server, or Web service applications, the Solver Platform SDK is ideal -- it's thread-safe, supporting multiple sessions concurrently; it's very high performance; and it offers Flexible Use Runtime licenses that don't require tracking of named users or client computers. And it's easier than you think -- you can use Visual Studio-supplied Wizards with the SDK's Wizards to create a working Web server or Web service application in minutes! Click here for more specific Solver Platform SDK Product Information. Plug-in Solver Engines for Large-Scale ProblemsIf your optimization problem is likely to exceed the size limits of the Solver Platform SDK for the type of problem you want to solve, then you'll want to choose a Solver Engine that handles larger-scale problems of that specific type. Even if your problem fits within the size limits of the Solver Platform SDK, you may find that you can obtain much faster solutions with one of our large-scale Solver Engines. It makes sense to choose a Solver Engine that uses algorithms or methods most efficient for your type of problem, especially if the problem is larger size. For more information on Solver Engines for specific types of optimization problems, click on one of the links below:
Note: Every Frontline Systems Solver product will handle problems with integer variables, including variables subject to the "alldifferent" constraint. If your problem involves many such variables, however, you may find much faster solutions using the Solver Engines found through the link "Integer and Constraint Programming Problems" above. SDK and Solver Engine Licensing for DeploymentDo you plan to deploy your application to users within your organization, or to external customers? Frontline's runtime licenses give you the right to embed the Solver Platform SDK or the Premium Solver Platform and -- if required -- one or more of our Solver Engines into your application and duplicate or distribute copies, or make the application accessible to users on an Intranet or Web server, or via a Web service. And our runtime license management options make it easy to monitor and control use of the software, using either Frontline-provided tools or your own tools. If you need only one of the Solver Platform SDK's five Solvers -- or just one of our plug-in Solver Engines -- for deployment, you can still develop with the Solver Platform SDK. Runtime licenses allow you to pay for only the Solver features you need in your application; they can be matched to your method of licensing or controlling use of your application software. Click to find out more about SDK and Solver Engine runtime licensing. |
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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