Optimization Direct An introduction

Optimization Direct

• IBM Business Partner

• More than 30 years of experience in developing and selling Optimization software

• Experience in implementing optimization technology in all the verticals

• Sold to end users – Fortune 500 companies

• Train our customers to get the maximum out of the IBM software

• Help the customers get a kick start and get the maximum from the software right from the start

Background

• Robert Ashford • Robert co-founded Dash Optimization in 1984.

• Helped pioneer the development of new modeling and solution technologies – the first integrated development environment for optimization

• Dash was sold in 2008 and Robert continued leading development within Fair Isaac until the Fall of 2010.

• Dr. Ashford subsequently, co-founded Optimization Direct in 2014.

• Alkis Vazacopoulos • Alkis is a Business Analytics and Optimization expert.

• From January 2008 to January 2011 he was Vice President at FICO Research.

• Prior to that he was the President at Dash Optimization, Inc. where he worked closely with end users, consulting companies, OEMs/ISVs in developing optimization solutions.

• Dr. Vazacopoulos subsequently, co-founded Optimization Direct in 2014.

Which software?

• IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio

• Cplex is the leader in optimization technology

• Cplex can handle large scale problems and solve them very fast

Which markets

• Retail

• Energy

• Financial

• Process

• Big data

• Airlines

Why IBM? Why Cplex?

• Fast

• Reliable

• IBM software

• Large scale

• Gives you the ability to model develop and solve your decision problem

• Complete solution

What types of problems?

• Retail – optimization of campaigns

• Financial: trading, portfolio optimization

• Process industries: schedule your refinery

• Big Data: We see new innovations in human /machine interface and how operation research Experts they solve complicated problems in data mining

How can we help?

• Benchmark your problems?

• Help you with next steps for developing your solution!

• Develop optimization prototypes using OPL

Why Optimization Direct?

• Experience

• Responsive

• Benchmark faster against competition

• Expertise

• 15 years of experience competing with CPLEX

• Understand differentiator

• Know how to sell against competitors

To learn more

Contact

Alkis Vazacopoulos

201 256 7323

alkis@optimizationdirect.com

www.optimizationdirect.com