IBM Decision Optimization Reviews & Product Details

IBM Decision Optimization is a family of prescriptive analytics products that combines mathematical and AI techniques to help with business decision-making including operational, tactical and strategic planning and scheduling use cases. The solutions enable business decision-makers to choose the optimal course of action from millions of alternatives when faced with decisions that involve multiple variables, trade-off possibilities and complex constraints. The solution incorporates powerful optimization solvers namely CPLEX Optimizer and CP Optimizer to solve the breadth of optimization problems including mathematical and constraint programming and constraint-based scheduling models. Learn more about this portfolio here https://www.ibm.com/analytics/decision-optimization IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio is one of the products within the IBM Decision Optimization portfolio. Organizations across industries are using IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio to drive operational efficiency and generate significant ROI by optimizing planning, scheduling, pricing and other business decisions. The offering provides users the flexibility to develop optimization models either using general programming language APIs like Python, Java, or using Optimization Programming Language (OPL). The powerful CPLEX optimization engines can deliver the power necessary to solve very large, real- world optimization problems at the speed required for today’s interactive decision optimization applications. Learn more about this product here - https://www.ibm.com/products/ilog-cplex-optimization-studio IBM Decision Optimization is also included within Watson Studio Premium for Cloud Pak for Data to enable data science teams to capitalize on the power of prescriptive analytics and build innovative solutions using a combination of techniques like machine learning and optimization. Data science teams can easily demonstrate business value of optimization by leveraging tools like visual dashboards & modeling assistant to quickly build models, test/evaluate multiple scenarios, solve using powerful optimization engines and deploy the models easily . IBM Decision Optimization solutions bring more than 30 years of experience in the field and is a proven optimization technology and organizations across industries are using IBM Decision Optimization solutions to run their mission-critical decision-making applications and have benefited by way of reduction in operating costs, increase in revenue and accelerated time to value.

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IBM

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Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Sajan Kuttappa

Pricing

Pricing provided by IBM Decision Optimization.

IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio Free edition

Free

Developer Subscription

$199.00 USD*

per authorized user

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/11/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Solve serious optimization problems in the cloud"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

Finally a cloud based service for solving the most difficult management science and optimization problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

Is there any way to better integrate this with the rest of the IBM products? Any way to make this consumable by the user freindly tools that I already know and love from IBM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Chemicals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/12/2018

"OPL cplex is a best practice in large-scale optimization"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

The flexibility and capabilities of OPL Cplex for making and solving LP/MIP complex mathematical modelling in a simple, ordered and robust way, is outstanding; specially when you need to make large-scale optimization or models with many constraints (business rules). OPL is a pure mathematical optimization language and that is one of its main advantages over other general programming languages, which makes it a best practice for industry problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

The immature relationship OP-python-Julia, is not a dislike, it is basically something that is in an introduction stage, but it will be very powerful when gets to right level of maturity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/13/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"using ODM in modernization with DBRE"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

its capacity to enhance the DBRE process in utilizing complex decision tables Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

There is nothing negative to report at this point. As we use the product in our modernization / DBRE projects, we will have more information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dnyaneshwar M.

Research Scholar

Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/4/2018

"widely used software for optimization problems"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

It solves MILP problems very easily with very less CPU time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

it doesn't solve the MINLP problems especially cubic programming and more than that. Similar while solving the large size problems of MILP it takes huge CPU time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/4/2018

"CPLEX experience"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

It is one of the tool that is easy to learn and can find solutions very fast. Though there are some instances which takes lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

I would like to have global optimization feature added to it, at present the quadratic optimization problem is not able to solve more complex non linear problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/14/2019

"Looking for a solution that provides greater transparency - non black box"

3/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

Product lift and output has been positive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

Blackbox solution that does not meet regulatory requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/17/2018

"Innovation in new technologies"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

Innovation in new technologies in block-chain and Artificial intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

Weakness in cloud storage in storing files and folders(picture, clip, ....) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM Decision Optimization:

Better use of block-chains technologies and artificial intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Decision Optimization solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM is working on the AI project and the Internet of Things and the development of blockading technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/4/2018

"Cplex and CPO"

4/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

I have noticed improvements in optimization power of CPO and CPLEX by upgrading from 12.7.1 version to 12.8 version. My the most recent project is focused on scheduling problems using CPO and I can get better results in less running time which is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

I want to be able to output the solution in a more friendly way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/4/2018

"Very Satisfied"

5/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

It's handy once you know how to code. However, for some problem instances it failed to give me a solution because of memory issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

Not very easy to learn, documentation on the programming is not very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/13/2018

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"From rapid prototyping to advanced decomposition techniques"

3/5

What do you like best about IBM Decision Optimization?

The ability to write quickly prototype with OPL The ability to design high level optimization modules using CPLEX and CPO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Decision Optimization?

Current Decision optimization platform User Experience is obsolete with Decision Optimization Center Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.