Prescriptive analytics

Simplify complex decision-making while balancing business goals and constraints using optimization technology
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Prescriptive analytics software

Prescriptive analytics provides organizations with recommendations around optimal actions to achieve business objectives like customer satisfaction, profits and cost savings. Prescriptive analytics solutions from IBM use optimization technology to solve complex decisions with millions of decision variables, constraints and tradeoffs.

Benefits
Improve operations

Optimize product planning, reduce inefficiencies and drive smarter operational decision-making.

Increase efficiency

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.

Case studies
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ÇimSA uses data science to optimize decision-making
ÇimSA used IBM CPLEX Optimization Studio to improve customer service and reduce cement manufacturing, warehousing and distribution costs.
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Learn about optimization concepts, understand their applicability across industries and explore how IBM can help.

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