What's New in Optimization and Simulation

Breakthrough in Optimization of Uncertain Models!

Frontline Systems is shipping new Premium Solver Platform V8.0 Stochastic Edition -- the first and only complete toolkit for finding optimal solutions to models with uncertainty.  Easily define models with uncertain parameters (using PSI functions like Risk Solver), normal and recourse decisions, normal and chance constraints, and expected value and risk measure objectives.  Find optimal solutions using robust optimization, stochastic programming, and simulation optimization methods.  Models that once requires huge budgets, teams of experts, and months of effort can now be created and solved by smart business users in Excel!

New Optimization and Simulation Power in Version 8.0!  Frontline Systems is shipping Premium Solver Platform V8.0 -- faster than ever on LP/MIP models, with new support for semi-continuous variables, and a new, simpler but more powerful Solver Parameters dialog; Risk Solver V8.0 with advanced support for simulation optimization, Overlay charts, Scatter Plot charts, and Chart Markers, and a new Chart View Control toolbar to magnify, reduce, shift, and rotate charts; and seven Solver Engines V8.0 with across-the-board speed improvements on linear, mixed-integer, and smooth nonlinear problems.  Selected Solver Engines V8.0 now take advantage of dual-core and quad-core processors.  Download a free trial today!

New Risk Analysis Power -- Introducing Risk Solver!  Frontline Systems is shipping Risk Solver V7.0 -- the easiest, fastest, and most powerful tool you can buy for risk analysis of your Excel models.  Designed from the ground up for the power of modern PCs and Excel 2007, it's a true "industrial strength" risk analysis tool -- the first new choice to appear in many years.  And it also works great in Excel 2003, XP and 2000!  Login and download a free trial version today!

Only Risk Solver has instant, interactive risk analysis based on PSI Technology™, with lightning-fast simulations and instantly updated charts and statistics, each time you change a number. 

Only Risk Solver empowers you to explore the new discipline of Probability Management. 

Only Risk Solver works with our leading-edge Premium Solver to give you breakthrough speed for simulation optimization. 

And only Risk Solver includes a runtime package, Risk Solver Engine, making it easy for you to develop and deploy your applications to end users.

Risk Solver Engine Enhanced!  Frontline Systems is shipping Risk Solver Engine V7.1 with new easy-to-use features for publishing and using Certified Distributions and aids for exchanging models with other users, as well more probability distributions, enhanced numerics for existing distributions, more extensive distribution fitting, new aids for creating rank correlation matrices, and licensing support for Windows Vista.

New Simulation and Optimization Power!  Frontline Systems is shipping the Solver Platform SDK V7.1 with greatly enhanced support for Monte Carlo simulation and simulation optimization, new support for OSiL, the XML-based "instance language" of the Optimization Services initiative, and enhanced developer aids.  Also shipping is the Premium Solver Platform V7.1 -- both products include new licensing support for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista.

Our Biggest New Product Release Since 2004!  Frontline Systems is shipping the Premium Solver Platform V7.0, Premium Solver V7.0, and seven Solver Engines V7.0 -- One of our biggest new product line releases ever, with full support for Excel 2007, worksheets with 16 thousand columns and 1 million rows, multiple solutions for integer programming and global optimization problems, and -- when used with our Risk Solver Engine V7.0 -- ability to solve simulation optimization problems with breakthrough performance!  Download a free trial version today!

New Risk Solver Engine!  Frontline Systems is shipping Risk Solver Engine V7.0, an exciting approach to Monte Carlo simulation that enables Excel users to play 'what if' with uncertain values as easily as they do with ordinary numbers. Each time a user changes a number on the spreadsheet, a simulation with thousands of trials is performed -- often in no more time than a single spreadsheet recalculation -- and the full range of simulation results and statistics may be displayed. 

And Risk Solver Engine V7.0 works with the Premium Solver Platform V7.0 to solve simulation optimization problems with unprecedented speed!

SDK V7.0 for 64-bit and 32-bit Windows and Linux!  Frontline Systems is shipping the Solver Platform SDK V7.0 for application developers -- featuring new support for 64-bit Windows, 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft .NET 2.0, and MATLAB, and significant enhancements to its Monte Carlo simulation capabilities.  See our product pages and press release for complete information.

Quadruple the LP Power at the Same Price!  Frontline Systems is shipping the Premium Solver V6.5 -- now handling 2,000 LP variables, Premium Solver Platform V6.5 -- now handling 8,000 LP variables, and eight new and improved Solver Engines V6.5.  LP/MIP solution times are spectacularly faster in Version 6.5!  See our product pages and press release for complete information.

New Solver Platform SDK for Developers!  Frontline Systems is shipping the Solver Platform SDK V6.5 for application developers -- featuring a new Object-Oriented API, deep support for Microsoft .NET, easy-to-use Wizards and IntelliSense in Visual Studio, and comprehensive support for MATLAB and Java as well as C / C# / C++ and VB6 / VB.NET!  See our product pages and press release for complete information.

New Monte Carlo Simulation Technology!  Crystal Ball® 7.1, the latest release of a leading product for risk analysis and Monte Carlo simulation in Microsoft Excel, from Decisioneering, Inc., is up to 100 times faster than previous releases -- thanks to PSI Technology™ licensed from Frontline Systems -- the same technology used in the Premium Solver Platform V6.0.

Our Biggest New Product Release Since 2002!  Frontline Systems is shipping the Premium Solver V6.0 and Premium Solver Platform V6.0, and eight new Solver Engines V6.0.  See our product pages and press release for complete information!

Our Biggest New Product Release To Date!  Frontline Systems is shipping the Premium Solver V5.0 and Premium Solver Platform V5.0, and six new Solver Engines V5.0 (see below).

The Premium Solver Platform V5.0 is dramatically improved with a new Parser and Interpreter that will automatically diagnose your model as linear, quadratic, smooth nonlinear or non-smooth, automatically select appropriate Solver engines, compute fast and accurate derivatives for Solvers via automatic differentiation, and compute interval values for Excel formulas.

A new Interval Global Solver, bundled with the Premium Solver Platform V5.0, overcomes the limitations of classical nonlinear methods to find the true globally optimal solution of a constrained optimization problem, or all real solutions of a system of nonlinear equations.  It leverages the interval capabilities of the new Parser and Interpreter in the Premium Solver Platform V5.0.

The Premium Solver V5.0 now features the hybrid Evolutionary/Classical Solver formerly available only in the Premium Solver Platform.  It also features improved Branch and Bound search methods for mixed-integer programming, comments on blocks of constraints, and selective inclusion of blocks of constraints in reports.

Our Premium Solver Platform works with existing Excel Solver models, solves much larger problems up to hundreds of times faster, and solves new kinds of problems via Evolutionary Solver. Solver Engines plug into the Premium Solver Platform.

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.

Risk Solver is the easiest, fastest, most powerful tool you can buy 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".