Editorial
By Greger Ottosson
Product Manager
From factories to stock portfolios, optimization squeezes savings and performance out of resources. Even so, many decision makers have yet to experience the benefits of optimization.
With ILOG Optimization Decision Manager (ILOG ODM), ILOG
is leading a renaissance for optimization through a renewed, pragmatic focus on useability, sensitivity analysis, explanations and relaxable business rules. The introduction of these innovative decision-support capabilities enables application users to work interactively with optimization.
ILOG ODM equips business people to make complex decisions with greater confidence by juggling conflicting constraints and goals with greater ease.
ILOG Optimization Decision Manager
Better decisioning for all
ILOG has eliminated yet another barrier to the use of optimization technology by business users, now making it directly accessible to them through ILOG Optimization Decision Manager (ODM). ILOG ODM combines ILOG’s top optimization, business rule and visualization technologies into a framework for creating custom planning and scheduling applications, and delivers scenario management and what-if analysis straight out of the box.
“The idea is to give business users direct access to the power and flexibility of optimization,” says Greger Ottosson, product manager for ILOG ODM. “ILOG ODM gives them this access, enabling decision makers to manage rules and make tradeoffs between preferences and goals before making final decisions.”
ILOG ODM provides:
- Scenario management, for what-if analysis and solution comparison
- Business view, for displaying constraints and goals with business terminology
- Business rules, for customizing what-if scenarios
- Goal programming, for weighing multiple objectives in making decisions
- Soft constraints, for automatically relaxing over-constrained problems and displaying violated preferences
- Microsoft Excel and database management system integration, for predefined data sources, cut-and-paste editing and on-the-fly export to Excel
To learn more, visit odm.ilog.com.
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