AIMMS - Quotes of our Customers

Read what our customers say about AIMMS and/or Paragon Decision Technology:

“AIMMS is a superbly designed and engineered modeling system that allows the user to concentrate on solving the problem at hand. We have successfully used AIMMS as a tool to rapidly develop, demonstrate and deploy complex decision support applications. Among its outstanding features are- scalability, exceptional GUI design capabilities, and multiple solver capability. The support provided by the AIMMS staff is timely and invaluable; their manuals are detailed and thorough, and can be used as textbooks by those new to the field. AIMMS is rich in capabilities for those looking to continually modify and improve upon their applications. We would wholeheartedly recommend AIMMS to the beginner as well as the accomplished practitioner in the field of Operations Research.”
Ranjan Ghosal, Applied Optimization Inc., Indiana, USA - Process Industry Specialist

“AIMMS is our product of choice for both prototyping and fielding customized models. We prefer the algebraic modeling style for ease of development and maintenance of our process and blending models. We save time and get the applications deployed into the refineries much quicker where they can begin making money. AIMMS has by far the most advanced GUI and most flexible capabilities for interfacing with external programs. And Paragon's support of our developers, from answering programming questions, to troubleshooting, to implementing enhancement requests has been nothing short of fantastic.”
Steven Kleinman, BP, Chicago, USA - Supply Chain Specialist

“Software development requires four tasks: definition, design, implementation and testing. When using AIMMS, the focus is on definition. The result is an implementation which can be immediately tested. I now spend the majority of my time working on the customer's problem, and verifying that we have got the requirements correct. My job is now that of an applications engineer, rather than a software engineer. One of our customers stated that our recent project with them (using AIMMS) was the first software project in their history not to have generated a single Software Problem Report”
Dan Streiffert, Areva Transmission & Distribution, Bellevue, USA - Energy Specialist

“AIMMS is a high quality modeling system with excellent professional back-up. It enabled us to create an intuitive, interactive platform for a large decision support system. Thanks to the AIMMS GUI design tool, the flexible interface that is now used by many forest planners makes it easy to concentrate on what's important - identifying forest management problems and developing strategies.”
Rob Davis, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada - Forestry Specialist

“We are progressing very well using the new capabilities of AIMMS 3 and its intuitive modeling structure. It took some time for us to shake off the AIMMS 2.20 programming style and to get comfortable with the new model building process of AIMMS 3. But, once we embraced the new style, it became obvious that the new version of AIMMS is more powerful, more flexible, and easier to use. Paragon has done a great job with AIMMS 3, and it shows!”
Adel Hedfi, AXIOM Decision Systems Inc, Maryland, USA - Consultant

“Yours has been the best support organization of many different OR packages I have used. I chose AIMMS over others, despite my knowledge of them from school, because yours seemed the most robust and friendliest for input, design and output. I am glad I made this choice.”
Keith Gardner, The Lewin Group, Virginia, USA - Consultant

“I like the tree structure of AIMMS, which enables you to see the overall structure of the model. The way you can move around the model with a click of a mouse is particularly useful. This is the easiest way I've ever seen of coding and debugging an optimization or equilibrium model.”
Benjamin Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA - Professor

“AIMMS has provided us with the competitive edge to become and stay the leader in energy management solutions.”
David Sun, Areva Transmission & Distribution, Bellevue, USA - Manager of Central Markets Applications

“Next to the state-of-the-art solvers that are available, COMPACT has been implemented in AIMMS because of AIMMS’ Graphical User Interface. It enabled us to make COMPACT easily accessible for users with varying backgrounds.”
, CQM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands - Manager Optimization

“Thanks to AIMMS algebraic language and its GUI components, UniSoma was able to represent the complete decision-making process for the energy and utilities balance in less than four months. This prototype was then used in the deployment of a dynamic planning system currently used by a major Brazilian steel company (CST).”
Eduardo M. Milanez, UniSoma, São Paulo, Brazil - Development Director

“Overall, AIMMS helps Merck maximize the value throughput of the pipeline and rationalize and optimize resource allocation to support this strategy. ”
Lifei Cheng, Merck & Co, Pennsylvania, USA - Associate Manager CPM

“AIMMS provides for a great experience in mathematical modeling and analysis - through the stages of building, testing and deployment. I am a strong proponent of AIMMS!”
Dr. Jayanth Balasubramanian, Fairfax, VA, USA -

“I am both impressed with AIMMS and overwhelmed. I'm truly amazed at the extent of its development capabilities---especially with respect to 'the user' and overwhelmed at just how much it can do.”
Ted Helvoigt, ECONorthwest, Eugene, OR, USA - Economist

“The AIMMS based Optimizer developed by UniSoma is the “heart” of the System and the most important component of the project. It optimizes demand based on customer profitability - a request which we did not find in any standard package - indicating the most lucrative flat steel customers for CST and ‘Vega do Sul’.”
Marcia Schwarz de Assis, CST (Arcelor Mittal), Vitoria, Brazil - CST´s Project Manager

“It's me to thank you for your patient help and straightforward solution. You can be sure I'm continuing using AIMMS as I like this software really – quite aside from your extraordinary support (and if I write "extraordinary" I know what I'm talking about because I was the person responsible for computers in our institute during several years).”
Martin Brugger, ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Zurich, Switzerland - Agricultural Economist

“Our summer interns are programming productively, on their own, after only 1 day of going through the AIMMS tutorials.I even enjoy AIMMS during my vacation; something I have not had the urge to do before with other modeling tools.”
Scott Bury, The DOW Chemical Company, Freeport, TX, USA - Senior Engineering Specialist

“AIMMS enables one to easily show large and diverse datasets in graphs and tables, to easily select variables or parameters and to easily create one’s own datasets or graphs. It combines user friendliness with visual attractiveness.”
Koen Smekens, ECN, Petten, The Netherlands -

“AIMMS provides exact first and second derivative calculations in an efficient manner using advanced automatic differentiation techniques. Having access to accurate and efficient derivative calculations is an essential ingredient in achieving good performance for nonlinear optimization software codes such as KNITRO.”
Richard Waltz, Ziena Optimization (KNITRO), Evanston, IL, USA - President

“AIMMS is a quite unique tool. It combines ability to create very advanced optimization models with simplicity and easy-to-use. AIMMS slick user interface and very well written documentation & tutorials will significantly reduce your learning curve, even when you did not use optimization tools before. I would specifically mention the very friendly customer support. AIMMS consultants from Paragon not only answered our questions, but also helped us to build our first models.”
Lev Virine, Schlumberger, Calgary, Canada - Value and Risk Product Development

“AIMMS has clearly excelled the competition; especially by means of your vision to provide a capable, yet easy to use platform to address real life problems. A real solution in business life corresponds to efficiency and a solid financial return to your business. This is exactly what we achieved with AIMMS in our business”
Cenk Arslan, Horoz Logistics, Istanbul, Turkey - VP Business Development & Information Systems

“AIMMS is a very powerful tool that enables the efficient development of state-of-the-art decision support solutions. In many situations it is necessary to enhance the standard models with customer-specific features. In contrast to the standard advanced planning solutions in the market, AIMMS offers the flexibility to modify and test new models in a very short period of time. Our customers benefit from this by significantly reduced project times and lower costs.”
Dr. Tore Grünert, GTS, Germany - General Manager

“AIMMS has a great interface and its programming language is very simple. I developed a two-stage stochastic model in AIMMS, and the tool met all my expectations. Although stochastic programming is a relatively new subject and many commercials modeling systems are not ready yet to meet this new demand, AIMMS seems a excellent tool for optimization under uncertainty.”
Gabriela Ribas, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -

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