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<br /> LINEAR PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE SURVEY<br /> June 2017<br /> Volume 44 • Number 3<br /> ormstoday.informs.org<br /> The future<br /> of scientific<br /> funding<br /> Ready for more robust analytics<br /> and optimization software?<br /> Boost productivity and collaboration with a technology that’s easy to<br /> customize, update and deploy. Find out how JBS, a global leader in beef,<br /> lamb and poultry processing, increased their margin by 25% by trading<br /> spreadsheets for AIMMS-based Prescriptive Analytics applications.<br /> “<br /> Thanks to the flexibility of AIMMS, the development of new optimization modules can<br /> be done with the agility comparable to the dynamism of our company and its market.”<br /> - João Batista Rocha de Souza, Integrated Planning Manager at JBS<br /> Read the case study:<br /> casestudy.aimms.com/jbs<br /> The AIMMS Prescriptive Analytics Platfor<a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=1"> LINEAR PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE SURVEY June 201</a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=2"> Ready for more robust analytics and optimizat</a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=3"> </a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=4"> Contents June 2017 | Volume 44, No. 3 | ormst</a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=5"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Optimiza</a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=6"> June 2017 | Volume 44, No. 3 | ormstoday.info</a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=7"> Is your solver provider getting in the way of you</a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a> <a title="ORMS Today - June 2017 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/711a0222?page=9"> What's Your StORy? Ranganath S. 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