At ILOG, we believe that optimization can bring value to organizations across industries around the world by helping people make difficult economic trade-offs and by helping people find the best solutions to complex planning and scheduling problems.

Our vision is simple. We want organizations to make important planning and scheduling decisions more easily. For us, this means helping you build optimization models that fully capture all the complexity that you need to consider and then helping you turn those models into applications that non-OR persons can use to make more balanced, informed and confident decisions. We also believe in operations research as a stimulating and important profession, and we want to help OR professionals be successful in delivering the value we know is possible.

As a commercial software company, ILOG is also committed to optimization as a technology.   We want to maintain our position as the leader and  continue to deliver better tools and more powerful and robust engines to allow you to use the science and art of optimization to its fullest, while building smarter and more useful applications, whether they are for portfolio management, network design, production planning, truck loading, operational scheduling, vehicle routing or revenue and yield management.

For all of these reasons, we want to know what you need. We want to know what makes you successful. And we want you to know what we are working on.

The pages within the ILOG Optimization Information Center are dedicated to fostering clear communication between ILOG and the OR Community.   Some of the many things you will find include:

• Best practices around model development and debugging
• Tips and tricks for model and performance tuning.
• Papers written by ILOG OR experts (MP & CP)
• Academic Program information & updates, including our academic price list and exclusive grant opportunities
• ILOG OPL Development Studio beta testing opportunities
• Contests—OR Challenges
• Profiles of members of the ILOG product development team
• Links to ILOG technical support
• Registration for the ILOG OR Friends e-mail distribution list
• A suggestion box for our product managers

Let us know how we can improve the optimization pages and keep visiting, as new items will be added continuously.