Premium Solver Platform for Excel - Optimization Software Overview
Our Most Powerful Spreadsheet Optimizer
Solves Every Type and Size of Problem
Premium Solver Platform is Frontline Systems' premier spreadsheet optimization product.
It has all the features of Premium Solver and much, much more. 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 give you an answer, and acquaint you with our expert consulting services, at very
low cost.
Premium Solver Platform is dramatically enhanced in Version 9.0,
with an all-new user interface that uses Excel's
Ribbon
and Task Pane for easier, faster model definition; new
charting features
to visualize linear and nonlinear functions; new
features to easily solve multiple, parameterized optimizations;
faster "incremental parsing" in the PSI Interpreter;
and a new Automatic mode that diagnoses your model and
selects transformations and Solver engines for you.
For full details, click the "Platform Capabilities" links on the right, or
watch a 13-minute video demo
of V9.0. 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:
- Download a free 15-day Trial Version of Risk Solver
Platform, its subset Premium Solver Platform, or any of our other software products
- Download our Solver User Guides -- learn about Risk Solver
Platform, Premium Solver Platform, and more
- Access "protected" Tech Support pages and downloadable example models
Premium Solver Platform V9.0 is a subset of
our new "super-product"
Risk Solver Platform,
that includes all the capabilities of Risk Solver for risk analysis and Monte
Carlo simulation, all the capabilities of
Premium Solver Platform for optimization, and new
capabilities for finding robust optimal decisions, using
simulation optimization, stochastic
programming and robust optimization methods -- amazing power that's
accessible for the first time to non-experts. You can
upgrade from Premium Solver Platform to Risk Solver
Platform, at any time, for the difference in price.
Note: If you've been using an older
Premium Solver Platform version, it's high time
to catch up! Read a summary of
capabilities
added in Version 8.0 in PDF form: 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, function-based models and Interactive Optimization, and our new Object-Oriented API
for high-level control of the Solver in VBA.
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
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.
Premium 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.
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
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!
The 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!
Premium 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.
Premium 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.
Why 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.
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