OPL Studio 3.0 supports Windows DNA via Microsoft COM, the most widely used component software model in the world, in use on 200 million systems worldwide, according to Microsoft. With Windows 2000 at it core, Windows DNA addresses requirements at all tiers of modern distributed applications, including data, presentation and business logic. As a Windows DNA business logic component, optimization code developed with OPL Studio 3.0 can be integrated into any Windows-based application supporting COM, including Microsoft Excel. With OPL Studio 3.0, Excel users deploy Excel's embedded Visual Basic for Applications environment to integrate their OPL model into an Excel spreadsheet. Meanwhile, optimization is easily embedded in larger applications by using the OPL Component Libraries, which allow developers to work with optimization models in an abstract way without having to worry about low-level mathematical details.
Optimization employs fast computers and powerful software to find the best, or optimal, solution.
ILOG is the leading supplier of optimization software components and provides its optimization software to leading ISVs, such as Oracle and SAP, and most major airlines and shipping companies. Savings not calculated, but estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars annually. Global supply chain planning for General Mills that helped the company make important decisions about adjusting its distribution networks. Other applications using optimization today include yield management for hotels, airlines and cruise ships that determine how many seats or rooms can be allocated at what price. OPL Studio features a graphical user interface that lets users edit their models and data sets, manage projects, debug their solution strategies and visualize solutions.