Decision optimization
Transform business decision-making with powerful optimization solutions
Overview
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.
Industry solutions
Financial
Financial
Simplify complex decisions with decision intelligence software for precise and timely delivery of financial services. Learn how prescriptive analytics help deliver better financial services.
Travel and transportation
Travel and transportation
Help prepare for unforeseen circumstances more accurately. Shorten overall travel time and improve the customer experience through route optimization.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Reduce uncertainty when met with constantly changing production conditions. Optimize outcomes and prepare better for the future using decision analytics.
Retail
Retail
Streamline product assortment planning, warehouse replenishment, pricing and promotions with decision intelligence. See how decision optimization works when solving a retail promotions planning scenario.
Healthcare
Healthcare
Help reduce costs using prescriptive techniques to evaluate millions of “what-if” scenarios to assess impact. Get guidance for making better decisions for patients.
Energy and utilities
Energy and utilities
Use prescriptive analytics and machine-learning techniques to improve resource planning and scheduling. Act to help reduce or eliminate penalties and drive better business outcomes with smart grid utilization.
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.
IBM Decision Optimization for IBM Watson® Studio
Combine optimization and machine learning within a unified environment — IBM Watson® Studio — that gives you AI-infused optimization modeling capabilities.
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.
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.
Deploy and configure IBM Decision Optimization Center applications on Red Hat® OpenShift® with this hands-on-lab
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Better decisions with prescriptive analytics
Bridge the gap between analytical insights and actions with prescriptive analytics.
ESG Technical Validation
Predict and optimize with IBM Decision Optimization for IBM Watson Studio and IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio
Explore better decision-making processes such as operational, strategic planning and scheduling.
Better ways to make smarter decisions
Capitalize on decision optimization capabilities within IBM Watson Studio.
Get started with Decision Optimization in IBM Cloud Pak® for Data
Learn how you can use Decision Optimization in IBM Cloud Pak for Data, including setting up an environment for new users.
Deploy and configure on Red Hat OpenShift
Make smarter decisions using an interactive and preconfigured environment.