Optimisation is a math-based technology which helps allocate resources for maximum operational efficiency by reducing runtime, bandwidth, memory or other requirements of the system.

SCS partners ILOG, a market leader in optimisation technology, to offer its Optimisation Decision Management System, a comprehensive and flexible solution for modeling and application development. The system comprises:

• ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System, a complete, integrated development environment (IDE) for building optimisation models,
• ILOG Optimisation Decision Manager (ODM), a specialised application development and deployment tool,
• ILOG CPLEX, a mathematical programming engine, and
• ILOG CP, a constraint programming (CP) engine for solving complex scheduling, sequencing, timetabling, routing and dispatching problems with large numbers of irregular constraints.

Optimisation provides an objective basis for decision-making and performing "what if" analysis in industries such as manufacturing; transportation; healthcare; advertising; telecommunications; financial services; energy and utilities; and marketing and sales.

The ILOG Optimisation Decision Management system enables organisations to manage risk and miximising the efficiency of all resources, reducing operating costs and avoiding capital expenses. It also enables enterprises to offer flexible, precise customer service and shorten delivery time.

SCS works with ILOG to deliver a complete suite of services to help organisations leverage optimisation technologies to deliver business benefits. These include using modelling tools to define and structure all the components of a complex problem, for example, the resources available, demand to be filled or services to be performed, operating and capital costs as well as yield and throughput assumptions. Optimisation is usually used as part of a larger system, and often, multiple alternatives are available. The Optimisation Decision Management System analyses the various options and selections the best one for the situation.