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At the heart of Analytic Solver Optimization is the combination of our advanced Solver Engines and our proprietary PSI Interpreter — which algebraically analyzes your formulas, delivers model structure information crucial for advanced optimization algorithms, computes function gradient and curvature results with maximum speed and accuracy, and fully exploits multiple processor cores. And we make all this advanced technology easy — even automatic — for you to use.
With Analytic Solver Optimization you’ll get more accurate results in less time, no matter what type of optimization problem you are trying to solve, and what Solver Engine you use to solve it. No other product comes close — except our own Analytic Solver Comprehensive, an even more powerful product that 100% upward compatible from Analytic Solver Optimization!
Industry Leading Optimization Capabilities
Analytic Solver Optimization provides best-in-class tools to help you solve virtually any conventional optimization problem of any size.
| Excel Solver compatible | Use existing Solver models and VBA macros as-is, but solve faster — just open your workbook and solve. |
| Upgrade to full analytics | Upgrade Premium Solver Platform for Windows to handle stochastic and robust optimization, all the way to full-power predictive and prescriptive analytics. |
| Unlimited size models | Handle problems with up to 8,000 decision variables (40 times larger than the Excel Solver) using built-in Solver engines, and virtually unlimited size problems with optional plug-in Solver engines. |
| Easier model building | Our Constraint Wizard helps you think about and define constraints. Guided Mode helps you better understand your model, refine it for better answers in less time, and find and correct any errors. When you’re up to speed, Auto-Help Mode gives you expert help only when you encounter an error. |
| Dimensional modeling | Build more structured, easily readable, compact Excel models, that represent business situations with many ‘dimensions’ such as products, customer types, geographic regions, or time periods. |
| Helpful example models | Over 60 example models show you step by step how to create a basic Solver model, build more complex models, and use more advanced features. |
| Better solutions | Find better solutions to portfolio optimization problems, global optimization problems, and models using arbitrary Excel functions with the built-in LP/Quadratic, SOCP Barrier, Interval Global and Evolutionary Solvers. |
| Faster solutions | Find solutions between 2X and 200X faster thanks to more advanced Solver engines, better optimization algorithms, and our super-fast, proven accurate PSI Interpreter. |
| Insightful reports & charts | Easily understand and share results, and get insight into the key drivers of your model results and potential decision trade-offs you can make. |
| Easy to use interface | Use either a dialog-based interface that matches the basic Excel Solver, or our Ribbon and Task Pane interface with quick access to advanced features and help. |
| Remove guesswork | Simply define your model in Excel — Premium Solver Platform will analyze it algebraically and automatically choose the best available Solver engine for it. |
| Automatic transformation | Premium Solver Platform goes beyond model analysis — if your model would solve slowly because it uses functions like IF, VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, MIN and MAX, it will seek to transform your model automatically into a form that can be solved much more quickly and accurately. |
| Upgrade Solver Engines | We developed the solver in Excel — you get an extremely powerful, 100% compatible upgrade now, and the ability to «plug in» the world’s best Solver engines for every type of optimization problem, whenever you need them. Your plug-in Solver engines will work with all our Platform products. |
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| Documentation | From a simple Ribbon and Task Pane interface, to instant-access online Help, our 21-page QuickStart Guide, and over 1,800 pages of User and Reference Guides, we’ve got you covered. |
| Textbooks | If our built-in documentation isn’t enough, scores of textbooks for MBA analytics courses use Analytic Solver software throughout, with step-by-step instructions and example models. |
| Wizards | Our Constraint Wizard helps you think through and then define the right constraints for your optimization model. Our Distribution Wizard does the same for probability distributions in your simulation model. |
| Guided Mode | Guided Mode takes you step-by-step through automatic diagnosis of your optimization model, recommended Solver Engines, and interpreting result messages. Auto-Help Mode steps in only when a problem arises. |
| Live Chat | Only Frontline Solvers offer quick access to Tech Support via Live Chat from inside Excel — automatically passing error information to our support reps. |
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Your Analytic Solver annual license covers your use across devices: office computer, laptop and home PCs, and «in the cloud» — using Excel for Windows, Excel for Macintosh, and Excel for the Web (but only one at a time). A successful model can earn back the software license cost many times over!
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Premium Solver Platform, created by Frontline Systems, developers of the Solver in Microsoft Excel, is a compatible upgrade of the Excel Solver that greatly extends its speed and problem solving capacity. If you ve run up against the size limits of the standard Solver (200 variables) or found it too slow, the Premium Solver Platform is for you. It handles linear programming, integer programming and quadratic programming (for investment portfolio optimization) problems up to 2,000 variables; nonlinear and global optimization problems with improved GRG, multistart, and new Interval Global Solvers; and arbitrary Excel models with an Evolutionary Solver based on genetic algorithms. It solves nonlinear problems 3 to 20 times faster, and linear, integer and quadratic problems 10 to 100 times faster than the standard Excel Solver, with many new ease-of-use features and 9 different analytical reports.
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Premium Solver Platform is our most powerful upgrade for conventional optimization. It offers far more speed and power than even Premium Solver Pro, solving a wider variety of harder problems in less time.- Description
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- Easily model your problem in Excel with full support for VBA
- Build an optimization model of virtually any size and type
- Get better answers to even the hardest problem types
- Identify and understand trade-offs in alternative solutions
- Use comprehensive reporting and charting to share your results
- New Evolutionary Solver power, client for Solver Web Service
| Excel Solver compatible | Use existing Solver models and VBA macros as-is, but solve faster — just open your workbook and solve. |
| Available for Mac | Premium Solver Platform and a set of plug-in, large-scale Solver Engines are available for Excel 2011 for Macintosh |
| Unlimited size models | Handle problems with up to 8,000 decision variables (40 times larger than the Excel Solver) using built-in Solver engines, and virtually unlimited size problemswith optional plug-in Solver engines. |
| Easier model building | Guided Mode helps you better understand your model, refine it for better answers in less time, and find and correct any errors. |
| Helpful example models | Over 60 example models show you step by step how to create a basic Solver model, build more complex models, and use more advanced features. |
| Better solutions | Find better solutions to portfolio optimization problems, global optimization problems, and models using arbitrary Excel functions with Premium Solver Platform’s built-in LP/Quadratic, SOCP Barrier, Interval Global and Evolutionary Solvers. |
| Faster solutions | Find solutions between 2X and 200X faster thanks to more advanced Solver engines, better optimization algorithms, and our super-fast, proven accurate PSI Interpreter. |
| Insightful reports & charts | Easily understand and share results, and get insight into the key drivers of your model results and potential decision trade-offs you can make. |
| Easy to use interface | Use either a dialog-based interface that matches the basic Excel Solver, or ourRibbon and Task Pane interface with quick access to advanced features and help. |
| Remove guesswork | Simply define your model in Excel, and Premium Solver Platform will analyze it algebraically and automatically choose the best available Solver engine to solve it. |
| Automatic transformation | Premium Solver Platform goes beyond model analysis — if your model would solve slowly because it uses functions like IF, MIN and MAX, it will seek to transform your model automatically into a form that can be solved much more quickly and accurately. |
| Easy upgrades | We developed the solver in Excel – you get an extremely powerful, 100% compatible upgrade now, and the ability to “plug in” the world’s best Solver Engines for every type of optimization problem, whenever you need them. |
- We are the technology source in this area for some of the world’s largest software companies. We developed both the Solver for optimization in Microsoft Excel, and the Extreme Speed feature — for high-speed simulation — in Oracle’s Crystal Ball. We have an 18-year history of technology «firsts» in this field.
- Our advanced Solvers are proven in use by nearly 200,000 people. We count over five thousand companies as customers, many of them Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 firms. Our software is also the overwhelming favorite tool for teaching these methods to MBA students in a thousand universities worldwide.
- More than any other vendor, we’ve made this technology easy to use by smart people who aren’t specialists in «operations research» or «management science.» Beyond software, we have the experience to help you build a model and get results quickly — in a full consulting capacity if needed, but more often in a «coaching» role for model-builders in your company.
- Working Capital Management: Invest in 1-month, 3-month, and 6-month CDs to maximize interest while meeting cash requirements
- Capital Budgeting: Choose a combination of capital projects to maximize overall NPV (Net Present Value)
- Inventory Management: Compare investory stocking and reordering policies with the EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) model
- Cash Management: Determine where to locate lockboxes to minimize the «float» or interest lost to due mailing delays
- Capacity Planning: Determine which plants should be opened or closed
- Portfolio Optimization — Markowitz Model: Allocate funds to stocks to minimize risk for a target rate of return — with known or computed variances and covariances
- Stock Portfolio Management: Uses a VBA macro to optimize several scenarios for minimum risk at different target rates of return, then draws a graph of the efficient frontier
- Portfolio Optimization — Sharpe Model (CAPM): Uses Excel’s regression functions to calculate alphas and betas for stocks relative to a market index, then uses these to find an efficient portfolio
- Bond Portfolio Management: Allocate funds to bonds to maximize return while ensuring that the portfolio duration equals the investment horizon for maturity — with known or computed durations
- Bond Portfolio Exact Matching: Allocate funds to bonds to maximize portfolio return while ensuring that periodic liabilities are met — with or without reinvestment
- Product Mix: Determine how many products of each type to assemble from certain parts to maximize profits while not exceeding available parts inventory
- Machine Allocation: Allocate production of a product to different machines, with different capacities, startup cost and operating cost, to meet production target at minimum cost
- Blending: Determine which raw materials from different sources to blend to produce a substance with certain desired qualities at minimum cost
- Process Selection — Decide which of several processes (with different speeds, costs, etc.) should be used to make a desired quantity of product in a certain amount of time, at minimum cost
- Cutting Stock: Determine how to cut larger pieces of wood, steel, etc. into smaller pieces of desired sizes, each needed in certain quantities, to minimize waste
- Transportation Model: Determine how many products to ship from each factory to each warehouse, or from each factory to each warehouse and direct to each end customer, to minimize shipping cost while meeting warehouse demands and not exceeding factory supplies
- Multi-Level, Multi-Commodity Transportation Model: Determine how many products of several different types to ship from each factory to each warehouse and each customer, to minimize total shipping cost while meeting demands and not exceeding capacities and supplies
- Partial Loading — Decide which sizes or types of products to load into a vehicle, given its size limits, to best meet demand or to minimize wasted space
- Facility Location: Determine which (if any) plants to close to minimize total costs, including fixed operating costs and shipping costs between facilities
- Production / Transportation Model: Determine how many products to produce in each factory and ship to warehouses and customers, to minimize overall costs while meeting demands, warehouse capacities and factory supplies
- Contract Awards — Award contracts to suppliers who have bid certain prices to supply products to facilities in several states — allow for bids specifying a minimum size for each state
- Inventory Stocking/Reordering: Compare inventory stocking and reordering policies with the EOQ (Economic Order Quantity) model
- Media Planning — Decide how much advertising to purchase in different media to minimize total cost while achieving a target level of reach or frequency
- Purchasing / Transportation Model: Determine how much to purchase from different suppliers at specified prices, to be shipped from their locations to various plants, to minimize total costs including purchase and shipping costs
- Crew Scheduling: Assign crews to different airline flight segments to minimize total cost while ensuring that a crew «rotation» begins and ends in the same city
- Office Assignment: Assign employees to available offices to maximize satisfaction of employee preferences
- Employee Scheduling: Schedule park employees for weekly «shifts» (five works days plus two consecutive days off) to minimize payroll costs while meeting varying demand for each day of the week, optionally taking into account employee seniority and preferences
- Workforce Composition: Decide how many employees to retrain, hire and fire to meet changing workforce composition requirements while minimizing costs or employee turnover
- Workforce Movement: Decide how many troops to move from several camps to several other bases, to minimize movement time or total cost
- Crew Scheduling: Given a flight schedule, aircraft assignments, and restrictions on duty periods, allocate crews most effectively to flights
- Fleet Routing and Assignment: Determine which aircraft to fly on each route, and the sequence of segments flown by each aircraft
- Revenue Management: For different classes of tickets, determine how many seats to sell or hold back as flight date approaches
- Gasoline Blending: From hydrocarbons with specific octane ratings, vapor pressure, volatility and cost, determine how much of each should be blended together to produce regular, midgrade, and premium gasoline
- Gas Contract Purchase: With forecasted but uncertain demand for gas, determine which contracts to buy, and how much gas to store at different times
- Pipeline Capacity Auction: Determine which bids, at different prices, should be awarded to maximize sales revenue while not exceeding daily pipeline capacity
- Cutting Stock Problems: Given large wood / paper sheets or steel slabs / bars, and demand for units of smaller lengths/widths, determine the cutting pattern of large into small pieces that meets demand while minimizing waste
- Crop Planning: Given forecasted crop prices and growing conditions, determine how much of each crop to plant
- Feed Blending: Given the nutritional requirements for feed animals and the price of available feeds, find the blend of feed ingredients that will minimize total cost
- Generator Commitment: Given forecasted demand by period and operating cost for each generator, determine which generators should be run in each time interval
- Electricity Trading: Maximize the value of electricity sales in an ongoing auction environment
- Efficient Portfolios: Given forecasts of stock, bond or asset class returns, variances and covariances, allocate funds to investments to minimize portfolio risk for a given rate of return
- Index Fund Management: Solve a portfolio optimization problem that minimizes «tracking error» for a fund mirroring an index composed of thousands of securities
- Asset/Liability Management: Allocate funds to various investments to maximize portfolio return while ensuring that periodic liabilities are fully funded
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Here are just a few stories from our over 5,000 corporate and university users.
Our first project uncovered nearly $1MM in savings.
“The Premium Solver Platform with Xpress Solver engine has been a huge asset to us. We have been able to utilize the solver’s capability to run extremely complex models of our distribution network uncovering large savings; our first project uncovered nearly $1MM in savings.”
Michael Mazzanti, Kraft Foods, Inc. USA
The package seemed to go way beyond my wildest dreams.
“…Then I discovered Solver and all the stuff I had done before after months of programming and sweat was there at my fingertips. The packages seemed to go way beyond my wildest dreams. And all the other little extra bits were there as well at the click of a button — non-negative and integer coefficients, constraints, and some other bits I have yet to use. And the thing just works! …
So now in my daily work I might propose a model for the change of the dry matter or the color of firmness of kiwifruit over time and use Solver to fit it to a large data set. The models typically involve 10 to 20 parameters many of which are the same for all sets of fruit but some are set-specific. For example the time of reaching maturity may vary from orchard to orchard of course so that one may need to have a different value for each orchard. But with the tools of Excel available that is easy. … So do I use Solver? Absolutely! Do I like it? I Love it! Could I do my job without it? No way! Indirectly the New Zealand kiwifruit industry has benefited immensely form Solver. So have I!”
Bob Jordan, Senior Scientist, Plant and Food Research Co, New Zealand
The number of variables and constraints became so large that a standard solver would not suffice – no problem, however, for the Premium Solver.
“Having learned to use Premium Solver during my MBA back in 2003 on a more theoretical level, I was a little disappointed of not having real-life opportunities in my job initially after the MBA. It was in 2010 when I started to work at the Institute of Green Technology & Rural Development [i.green]. In my very first project, Premium Solver was the central tool to do research.
The project analyzes the shifts of income in the agricultural sector of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia through the implementation of the Renewable Energies Sources Act. We set up a typical farm model with resources and constraints, namely arable land, animal population, crop cultivation, work force availability, market prices for feed and farming products etc. and included the regulatory framework of the Renewable Energies Sources Act. The number of variables and constraints became so large that a standard solver would not suffice – no problem, however, for the Premium Solver. We could calculate which direction of production a farmer would choose given the current regulatory framework, and, more importantly, which parameters influenced his decisions the most.
The results will be used to assist policy makers to amend the mentioned law, as this planned on a regulatory 3-year basis, to avoid false developments on the way towards a 100% renewable energy supply In Germany.”
Wolfgang Strauss, Institute of Green Technology and Rural Development, Germany
It was also very easy to integrate with Excel.
“The Frontline Premium Solver was very helpful in solving a large water reuse optimization problem for one of our manufacturing plant. It was also very easy to integrate with Excel.”
Mohammed Qayyumi, Aditya Birla Science and Technology, India(a US$29B Indian conglomerate) This would have cost me double the time if I would have done it in the classical way. “What I very much like about your Solver product is that, without being an expert on Solver, even worse, while only being a beginner, I can apply it so many times in my daily life (I am a professor of Chemical Engineering), that it saves me a significant amount of time. For example, last weekend I solved eight problems on Chemical Reaction Engineering and for six of them I used Solver. This would have cost me double the time if I would have done it in the classical way. I use Solver mainly for curve fitting (any type of model), roots finding for simultaneous equations, maximizing functions.” John Hopmans, Professor, Batangas State University, Philippines The result is a truly impressive product. “Risk Solver has innovative ‘simulation optimization’ capability that richly integrates simulation with Frontline’s optimization capability. The result is a truly impressive product.” Thomas Grossman, Spreadsheet O.R. Comes of Age
- A limited warranty for the functionality and performance of the software product
- All software upgrades for the product released during the contract term
- Ability to trade in this product for an even more powerful Excel Solver product
- Technical support by phone and email during normal business hours
- Up to 15 minutes of consulting assistance arising during the contract term
Плагин Excel Solver позволяет найти минимальные и максимальные значения для потенциального расчета. Вот как это установить и использовать.
Существует не так много математических проблем, которые не могут быть решены с помощью Microsoft Excel. Его можно использовать, например, для решения сложных аналитических расчетов «что если» с использованием таких инструментов, как поиск цели, но при этом доступны более эффективные инструменты.
Если вы хотите найти минимальные и максимальные числа, возможные для решения математической задачи, вам необходимо установить и использовать надстройку Solver. Вот как установить и использовать Солвер в Microsoft Excel.
Solver — сторонняя надстройка, но Microsoft включает ее в Excel (хотя по умолчанию она отключена). Он предлагает анализ «что если», чтобы помочь вам определить переменные, необходимые для решения математической задачи.
Например, какое минимальное количество продаж вам нужно совершить, чтобы покрыть стоимость дорогостоящего бизнес-оборудования?
Эта проблема состоит из трех частей: целевого значения, переменных, которые оно может изменить, чтобы достичь этого значения, и ограничений, с которыми должен работать Solver. Эти три элемента используются надстройкой Solver для расчета продаж, которые вы бы хотели выполнить. необходимо покрыть стоимость этого оборудования.
Это делает Solver более продвинутым инструментом, чем собственная функция поиска цели в Excel.
Как включить Солвер в Excel
Как мы уже упоминали, Solver включен в Excel как сторонняя надстройка, но сначала вам нужно включить его, чтобы использовать.
Для этого откройте Excel и нажмите Файл> Параметры открыть меню параметров Excel.
в Параметры Excel окно, нажмите Надстройки вкладка для просмотра настроек для надстроек Excel.
в Надстройки На вкладке вы увидите список доступных надстроек Excel.
Выбрать Надстройки Excel от управлять раскрывающееся меню внизу окна, затем нажмите Идти кнопка.
в Надстройки установите флажок рядом с Надстройка Солвера вариант, затем нажмите Хорошо подтвердить.
Как только вы нажмете Хорошо, надстройка Solver будет включена, и вы сможете начать ее использовать.
Использование Солвера в Microsoft Excel
Надстройка Solver будет доступна для использования, как только она будет включена. Для начала вам понадобится электронная таблица Excel с соответствующими данными, чтобы вы могли использовать Солвер. Чтобы показать вам, как использовать Солвер, мы будем использовать пример математической задачи.
Исходя из нашего предыдущего предложения, существует электронная таблица, показывающая стоимость дорогостоящего оборудования. Чтобы заплатить за это оборудование, бизнес должен продать определенное количество продуктов, чтобы заплатить за оборудование.
Для этого запроса несколько переменных могут измениться для достижения цели. Вы можете использовать Solver для определения стоимости продукта для оплаты оборудования на основе заданного количества продуктов.
В качестве альтернативы, если вы установили цену, вы могли бы определить количество продаж, которое вам нужно было бы достичь безубыточности — это проблема, которую мы попытаемся решить с помощью Солвера.
Запуск Солвера в Excel
Чтобы использовать Solver для решения этого типа запроса, нажмите Данные вкладка на панели ленты Excel.
в анализировать раздел нажмите решающее устройство вариант.
Это загрузит Параметры решателя окно. Отсюда вы можете настроить запрос Солвера.
Выбор параметров решателя
Во-первых, вам нужно выбрать Установить цель клетка. Для этого сценария мы хотим, чтобы доход в ячейке B6 соответствовал стоимости оборудования в ячейке B1, чтобы достичь безубыточности. Исходя из этого, мы можем определить количество продаж, которое нам нужно сделать.
к цифра позволяет найти минимум (Min) или максимум (Максимум) возможное значение для достижения цели, или вы можете установить ручную цифру в Значение коробка.
Лучшим вариантом для нашего тестового запроса будет Min вариант. Это потому, что мы хотим найти минимальное количество продаж, чтобы достичь нашей цели безубыточности. Если вы хотите добиться большего, чем это (например, чтобы получить прибыль), вы можете установить целевой показатель дохода в Значение коробка вместо.
Цена остается неизменной, поэтому количество продаж в ячейке B5 является переменная ячейка, Это значение, которое необходимо увеличить.
Вам нужно будет выбрать это в Изменяя переменные ячейки коробка выбора.
Вы должны будете установить ограничения дальше. Это тесты, которые Solver будет использовать для определения окончательного значения. Если у вас сложные критерии, вы можете установить несколько ограничений для работы Солвера.
Для этого запроса мы ищем номер дохода, который больше или равен первоначальной стоимости оборудования. Чтобы добавить ограничение, нажмите Добавить кнопка.
Использовать Добавить ограничение окно для определения ваших критериев. В этом примере ячейка B6 (показатель целевого дохода) должна быть больше или равна стоимости оборудования в ячейке B1.
После того, как вы выбрали критерии ограничения, нажмите Хорошо или Добавить кнопок.
Прежде чем вы сможете выполнить свой запрос Solver, вам необходимо подтвердить метод решения, который будет использовать Solver.
По умолчанию это установлено на GRG нелинейный вариант, но есть другие доступные методы решения, Когда вы будете готовы выполнить запрос Солвера, нажмите Решать кнопка.
Запуск Solver Query
Как только вы нажмете РешатьExcel попытается выполнить ваш запрос Солвера. Появится окно результатов, показывающее, был ли запрос успешным.
В нашем примере Solver обнаружил, что минимальное количество продаж, необходимое для соответствия стоимости оборудования (и, следовательно, безубыточности), составило 4800.
Вы можете выбрать Keep Solver Solution вариант, если вы довольны изменениями, внесенными Солвером, или Восстановить исходные значения если нет
Чтобы вернуться в окно «Параметры решателя» и внести изменения в свой запрос, нажмите Вернуться к диалогу параметров решателя флажок.
щелчок Хорошо чтобы закрыть окно результатов, чтобы закончить.
Работа с данными Excel
Надстройка Excel Solver берет сложную идею и делает ее возможной для миллионов пользователей Excel. Однако это нишевая функция, и вы можете использовать Excel для более простых расчетов.
Вы можете использовать Excel для расчета процентных изменений или, если вы работаете с большим количеством данных, вы можете делать перекрестные ссылки на ячейки в нескольких листах Excel. Вы даже можете вставить данные Excel в PowerPoint, если вы ищете другие способы использования ваших данных.
Premium Solver Platform, created by Frontline Systems, developers of the Solver in Microsoft Excel, is a compatible upgrade of the Excel Solver that greatly extends its speed and problem solving capacity. If you ve run up against the size limits of the standard Solver (200 variables) or found it too slow, the Premium Solver Platform is for you. It handles linear programming, integer programming and quadratic programming (for investment portfolio optimization) problems up to 2,000 variables; nonlinear and global optimization problems with improved GRG, multistart, and new Interval Global Solvers; and arbitrary Excel models with an Evolutionary Solver based on genetic algorithms. It solves nonlinear problems 3 to 20 times faster, and linear, integer and quadratic problems 10 to 100 times faster than the standard Excel Solver, with many new ease-of-use features and 9 different analytical reports.
Version 6.0 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Microsoft Excel 97
Limitations:
15-day trial
Solver is definitely next What’sBest! The most popular tool for solving optimization models using Microsoft Excel as a platform. In fact the free version of Solver we use is developed by Frontline Systems Inc., which provides a number of tools and resolution engines that are very useful when addressing problems of real life situations that are applied in the industry.
In the following article we will show you how to download and install the trial version of Premium Solver which is available for free for a period of 15 days, which allows us to solve significantly higher operational research models when it comes to the number of decision variables and constraints than those which can be solved with the traditional version of Solver. Additionally, by having improved resolution algorithms reliability of the solutions found and the processing times are more reliable. Here are the detailed instructions on how to download and install the trial version of Premium Solver Pro on a computer with an Excel 2010 version.
Step 1: Sign in Frontline Systems Inc, fill out the information required in the subscription form.
Step 2: Download the trial version compatible with the version of Excel that you have. In this tutorial the 64-bit version installation is shown. Once you are sure of our choice select “Download Now”.
If you have Excel 2010 and want to know how many bits you use to run your version of Excel, go to menu and select the Help option. In the lower right corner the number of bits of your version is displayed under “About Microsoft Excel”.
Step 3: Check your email account (which you provided in the subscription form from Step 1) and write down the 2 passwords that you have been assigned (pictured below, these have been protected with blue and red).
Step 4: Once the download is complete run the “SolverSetup64.exe” file (or the name that corresponds to the version of Excel you are using).
Then select “Next”.
Now we enter the password that we have received by email (Step 3) to continue the program activation:
Then we must accept the license agreements of the program and select “Next”.
At the moment, the program license has been activated and we must continue the installation process by selecting “OK”.
You must select the folder where the program will be installed and you can at this point simply select the folder that the program has selected by default.
It’s time to select the product you wish to activate. In this case we selected “Premium Solver Pro” which corresponds to the improved version of Solver which is generally used for academic purposes.
The installation wizard will ask us to confirm that we have selected the installation (Press “Install”).
Finally we have completed the installation of the Premium Solver Pro program and we are in a position to use it to solve optimization models using Microsoft Excel as a platform.
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Есть такая настройка Premium Solver, которая отличается от стандартной excel-версии, бОльшим количеством переменных (в excel max 200). И которая работает, насколько помню, 15 дней. Скачать ее можно с
www.solver.com
(на данный момент последняя версия 9.5)
Использую ее для планирования.. штука очень полезная, но стОит тоже немало.
Вопрос, как снять ограничение в работе по времени? или может у когото есть более раннии версии без защиты
PS поисковики не помогли , стандартый solver в excel тоже не способен справится с задачами.
PS2 если нарушил какие-либо правила форума (перед созданием темы 10 раз прочел правила.. может чегото не заметил и нужно было прочитать 11й раз) извиняюсь, и прошу удалить тему..
Спасибо.
Optimization solvers are about finding the best values for numeric inputs while honoring a set of constraints.
What Optimization Solvers Can Do
Contents
- 1 What Optimization Solvers Can Do
- 2 Optimization Solver Add-Ins
- 3 For the Serious Analyst: Use Solver-Friendly Spreadsheet Programming
- 4 For the Applied Mathematics Professional: Cutting-Edge Algorithms at Your Service
The commercial-quality
optimization solvers described on this page contain advanced technology that
can handle spreadsheet models that the free ‘Solver
Add-In’ cannot. The current
generation of spreadsheet optimization solvers have extraordinary
capabilities to handle very large models and are suitable for many truly
«industrial strength» applications.
At the risk of over-simplifying, Optimization Solvers are powerful but not necessarily robust. When an Optimization Solver works well (as is the case for most business models) it provides excellent results, and usually provide a mathematical guarantee of the quality of the recommendation. However, on some models, optimization solvers don’t function well. Such models are candidates for Meta-Heuristic Solvers, or for thoughtful reprogramming to make the spreadsheet model more «solver-friendly» as discussed in the «For the Serious Analyst» section below. (Note: «Operations Research» professionals should be sure to read the «For the Applied Mathematics Professional» section at the bottom of this page.)
Optimization Solver Add-Ins
Solver Add-In (an Excel feature)
The Solver Add-In built into Excel provides basic optimization functionality.
In Excel 2007: Data Analysis Solver .
You might need to install the “Solver Add-in” using Microsoft Office Button Add-Ins Excel Add-Ins .
Editor’s Note: The free Solver Add-In was developed by Frontline Systems, which sells more sophisticated versions described below.
Premium Solver; Premium Solver Platform; and RiskSolver Platform by Frontline Systems
“Premium Solver is Frontline Systems’ basic upgrade for the standard Excel Solver. It’s 100% upwardly compatible from the standard Solver — which Frontline developed for Microsoft — with the capacity to solve much larger problems — up to 2,000 variables — at speeds anywhere from three to 100 times faster than the standard Solver.”
“Premium Solver Platform is our premier Excel Solver upgrade for conventional optimization (without uncertainty). It offers far more power than Premium Solver, accepts plug-in Solver Engines, and is upgradeable to Risk Solver Platform, which adds simulation and stochastic optimization (for models with uncertainty).”
Training: «Our Quick Problem Review offers
an attractive alternative. For a very modest fixed price,
you’ll gain about two hours of expert consulting time
devoted entirely to your problem, requirements, and model
formulation. Using telephone and email, our consultant gains an
understanding from you of what you’re trying to achieve, and gives you
our assessment of the likely answer to the question “Will I be able to
solve my problem?”
“What’sBest! is an add-in to Excel that allows you to build large scale optimization models in a free form layout within a spreadsheet. What’sBest! combines the proven power of linear, nonlinear and integer optimization with Microsoft Excel — the most popular and flexible business modeling environment in use today.”
“Lets you build linear, nonlinear, and integer models in Excel. Models are easy to build and understand using standard spreadsheet equations. Excel users can often begin building models within minutes of installing the What’sBest! program, and the problem capacities of the larger What’sBest! versions allow large scale, real world problems to be solved.”
Training: «LINDO Systems offers on-site training.
Training can be tailored to a particular industry or application area as
well as to a particular level of modeling experience.»
For the Serious Analyst: Use Solver-Friendly Spreadsheet Programming
If you’re serious about putting optimization to use in your organization, you should invest some time in learning to make your spreadsheets «solver friendly». You should program your spreadsheets in a solver-friendly way because there are times when a commercial optimization solver will perform poorly or even not work at all, because «intuitive» spreadsheet programming approaches can confuse an optimization solver. Experience tells us that seemingly minor details in
the way you program your model can make a big difference in what an
optimization solver can do for you.
By taking steps to design and program your spreadsheet to be «solver-friendly», it is possible for extremely large and/or extremely complex
models to be successfully optimized. You can find advice for solver-friendly programming
by
contacting your vendor and in the references below:
Conway, D. G. and C. T. Ragsdale (1997), “Modeling
optimization problems in the unstructured world of spreadsheets”, Omega 25(3), pp. 313-322. [Accessible through many academic libraries or via Science Direct.]
Frontline Systems (2009), “Optimization Problem Types
Overview”.
Powell, S. and K. Baker (2007), Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets 2nd
edition, John Wiley & Sons. (See sections 10.3 and 10.4.)
For the Applied Mathematics Professional: Cutting-Edge Algorithms at Your Service
If you’re an «operations research» professional or have other advanced mathematical training, you should know that commercial
spreadsheet solvers can handle problems of any size (physical memory limitations still apply) via proprietary algorithms or plug-in optimization engines that include cutting-edge tools such as XPRESS,
GUROBI and others.
In this sense, spreadsheet solvers are just as powerful as algebraic optimization software. You should also know that the «simulation optimization» capability in Risk Solver Platform is among the best in class.
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