The V2017 release features further significant enhancements to Frontline’s popular Evolutionary Solver for optimization, focusing on the most difficult non-smooth, non-convex models with integer variables.
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A multi-user license option enables organizations to share a license among multiple users and multiple machines, without having to run a special “license server.”
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Users can now install and use Frontline’s software on multiple computers, such as a desktop, laptop, home PC or virtual machine – but only one of these at a time.
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After a simple, point-and-click upgrade step, the user has both the large-capacity product and Analytic Solver Basic, with its ongoing “free trial” of other functions.Īlso in this release, Frontline has implemented a new cloud-based software licensing system, similar to the approach taken by Adobe Systems. The software enters “Test Run Summary Only” mode, and runs the problem but delivers only summary information such as the final objective in optimization or key statistics in simulation/risk analysis, then recommends the best upgrade option. Users can simply create or open models or data sets larger than Analytic Solver Basic’s limits – and run them. (All of the 100+ example models and data sets included with the software can be used.) Paired with Solver Academy, Frontline’s new Open edX-based online learning platform, Analytic Solver Basic offers a way for business analysts to gain “advanced analytics ninja” skills.Īnalytic Solver Basic gives the user an ongoing “free trial” opportunity for all the large-capacity products that Frontline offers. Analytic Solver Basic includes every feature of Frontline’s analytics software, but handles only limited-size models and data sets, suitable for learning. In this release, Frontline is making available to all users Analytic Solver Basic V2017, a new version of its Analytic Solver Platform for Education product, formerly offered only for university MBA programs and used to learn by hundreds of thousands of students. “Our users can build models with point-and-click ease of use, while taking advantage of the most advanced analytic algorithms and methods.” “We’re making advanced analytics power tools and learning aids accessible to every business analyst,” says Daniel Fylstra, Frontline’s president and CEO. The new release unifies and simplifies Frontline’s products, makes learning predictive and prescriptive analytics accessible to everyone at very low cost, is easier to upgrade for larger models or data sets, and is easier to use across multiple desktop machines and the cloud. Frontline Systems is shipping a new product line release for desktop and cloud, Version 2017 of its Solvers for Excel and , its SaaS equivalent.