Decision Optimization

Transform business decision-making with powerful optimization solutions
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Why decision optimization?

IBM® Decision Optimization represents a family of optimization software that delivers prescriptive analytics capabilities to help you make better decisions and deliver improved business outcomes.

Gain additional deployment flexibility by running these products on IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, a containerized data and AI platform that lets you build and run optimization models anywhere—on cloud and on premises.

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Featured products IBM® ILOG® CPLEX® Optimization Studio

Accelerate optimization modeling using an integrated development environment, powerful optimization solvers and support for multiple optimization modeling approaches.

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IBM Decision Optimization for IBM Watson® Studio

Combine optimization and machine learning within a unified environment that gives you AI-infused optimization modeling capabilities.

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IBM Decision Optimization Center

Build and deploy end-to-end decision support applications using a GUI, collaboration tools, "what-if" analysis, application data model support and flexible deployment architecture options.

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IBM CPLEX® Optimizer for IBM z/OS®

Use the IBM CPLEX® Optimizer engine on IBM z/OS® to solve mathematical programming models such as MIP/MIQCP with C and C++ API for modeling.

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Use case

Financial Travel and transportation Manufacturing Retail Healthcare Energy and utilities
Customer success stories 
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Reduced manufacturing, warehousing and distribution costs
ÇimSA used optimization software from IBM to run complex "what-if" scenarios quickly, optimizing business decisions to improve customer service and reduce costs.
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Accelerate manufacturing process with prescriptive analytics
Read how Decision Optimization models help reduce the clay-bending process from days to seconds.
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FleetPride accelerates inventory, increases revenue
Transforming its supply chain management with analytics, FleetPride is moving faster and spending less.
Take the next step

Get started with a quick start tutorial to see how you can build and run Decision Optimization models or book a meeting with an IBM expert to discuss how optimization software can help deliver improved business outcomes.