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What is prescriptive analytics?
Prescriptive analytics provides organizations with recommendations around optimal actions to achieve business objectives such as customer service, profits and operational efficiency. Prescriptive analytics solutions use optimization technology to solve complex decisions with millions of decision variables, constraints and tradeoffs. Organizations across industries are using prescriptive analytics for a range of use cases spanning strategic planning, operational and tactical activities.
Benefits
Improve operations
Optimize product planning, reduce inefficiencies, drive smarter operational decision-making.
Manage resources more efficiently
Better utilize: capital, personnel, equipment, vehicles and facilities.
Mitigate risks
Gain insight into how decisions can have business-wide impacts and hedge against data uncertainty.
IBM Decision Optimization
IBM Decision Optimization is a family of prescriptive analytics offerings that helps organizations solve their toughest decision-making problems by providing tools to convert business problems to optimization models. IBM Decision Optimization provides powerful optimization engines that help solve a variety of optimization models.
Products
IBM ILOG® CPLEX® Optimization Studio
Provides a model development toolkit for rapid development of decision optimization models using mathematical and constraint programming.
IBM Decision Optimization for Watson Studio
Combine optimization and machine learning techniques in a unified environment to build the optimal action-plan and meet business goals.
IBM Decision Optimization Center
A configurable platform for building and deploying applications to solve complex planning and scheduling challenges.
IBM Decision Optimization on Cloud
Harness the power of decision optimization engines on the cloud to solve mathematical optimization problems.
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimizer for z/OS®
Solve mathematical programming models, like MIP/MIQCP, using CPLEX Optimizer on z/OS.
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Planning analytics
Still taking a manual, trial-and-error approach to planning? Accelerate planning cycles and improve plan quality with IBM Decision Optimization.
Resources
Deliver superior business results by combining optimization and machine learning
Explore benefits and see use cases relating to combining machine learning techniques with decision optimization.
How prescriptive analytics delivers better financial services
Learn about use cases for optimization in financial services.
What is optimization and how does it improve planning outcomes?
Learn about the power of optimization solutions to facilitate better planning decisions.
How to improve manufacturing ROI with prescriptive analytics
Learn how manufacturing firms are making better decisions using prescriptive analytics.
Prescriptive analytics – the cure for healthcare industry
Read how healthcare processes can be improved using decision optimization technology.
Key decision optimization technology use cases and concepts
Learn about optimization concepts, their applicability across industries and how IBM can help.
Client success
Driving innovation in bulk transportation company
IBM is delivering huge cost savings and supporting growth at a leading bulk transportation company by finding efficient routes in near real time.
Banque de France
Banque de France uses IBM optimization solutions to process hundreds of thousands of securities transactions quickly and securely.
BondIT helps financial advisors accelerate time-to-market
IBM technology helps create smart fixed-income portfolios in minutes to deliver greater value to investors.
FleetPride improves supply-chain efficiency with IBM prescriptive analytics
IBM Analytics solutions give supply chain managers game-changing insights into operations.
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