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Greetings

Hello everyone!

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What's going on in the AIMMS CommunityNews

We want to make sure the time you spend here is worthwhile - getting help with a specific problem, learning about upcoming AIMMS features, exchanging tips with other users. Maybe you’re also curious about how we’re going about it? Check out some cool stats from 2019, preview some plans for 2020, and share your input (really!)    Who are our users? Our users are representative of the AIMMS ecosystem - Academics concerned with modeling, Partners who create AIMMS-based solutions for their customers, Customer companies whose teams use AIMMS, and AIMMSians who work on the product and experience. Community Users 2019  What do people do here? For one thing, people engage with one another on problems and solutions, product ideas, and more... Community Engagement 2019  ...and from all those discussions come help and answers that everyone can benefit from. Community Helpfulness 2019What are people interested in? We do our best to find interesting topics and write about them. We’ve shared a list

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Set your project up for success: Part 6, Maintenance and support

Include maintenance and after care in your planning This article is part of the series “Set your project up for success.” Even after an app is accepted, know that there will be a life cycle. Along the way, your app will likely need to "mature" and be adapted. Making a plan for maintenance ahead of time will set expectations for everyone involved. Know that there will be a life cycle. Your app will need to "mature" and be adapted. Entering the maintenance and support phase After the application is delivered and accepted by users, the project is usually closed and a new phase starts in which users will find bugs, ask questions about usage, and request new functionality. We recommend entering into a maintenance and support contract with the customer for this. Do not forget to include the costs for testing in your contract. Be specific about how the users' needs will be met: Bug reports - How quickly will these be dealt with? How will they be prioritized?  Usage questions - How will they c

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Join our Academic User Group!

We’re happy to announce the new Academics user group! It’s a place for students and professors to connect with peers and find topics of special interest to academics.  Visit Academic group page Feel free to introduce yourself and let the community know what you’re working on.  

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Our Community by The Numbers - 2020 in ReviewBlog

2020 went way off-script but a few things remained constant - our Community kept growing! We helped and inspired each other, exchanging feedback, ideas and insights. Check out some cool stats from last year, relook at our most popular articles and find more ways to get involved. Last year:                     What are people interested in?Most of our members are interested in AIMMS Developer, AIMMS WebUI and OR-related topics. Check out our most popular posts from last year.Product Questions  Ant-Colony Optimization  Modelling Question - if-then constraint  Releasing RAM memory after finishing with an execution  Reporting the contents of the Progress window  How many rows to read from an excel file (axll)?  Articles  Using Machine Learning and AIMMS for Better Decision-Making  Immediate Supply Chain Actions to Take Amid COVID-19  Product Discussions  How to Combine Bar Chart and Line Chart  CurrentRegularPage  Interviews  Supporting the Dutch Healthcare System with AIMMS-bas

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New Error Handling Course Now Available on AIMMS AcademyNews

We are happy to announce that a new Error Handling course is now available on AIMMS AcademyIn software development, errors inevitably occur. Whether it’s typos during interaction, erroneous input, coding errors, or externally caused issues, such as a broken internet connection. Did you know AIMMS has built-in features that allow you to diagnose and handle errors? The course teaches you to use these features, so you can provide easy-to-use applications for end users. Sometimes, just knowing how to communicate the error can reduce a lot of friction in an app. Applications with extensive diagnostics and careful and consistent error handling make users feel in control.Sign up for the course and follow it at your convenience. If you have questions about the training, feel free to contact its creator, @Chris Kuip.

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1.000 Students!!

We made it! 1.000!We are proud to announce that we have reached the impressive number of 1.000 registered users in our academy! Congratulations to all involved in this!!This is one of our key platforms in providing quality content for our Users.Want to check our roadmap?Thank you everyone!

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30 years of AIMMS

Last week the AIMMSians from the Haarlem, Seattle and Singapore offices gathered near Bilbao, Spain. To celebrate 30 years of AIMMS. You might recognize some familiar faces 🙂.

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Standard & Advanced 2-Day Workshops scheduleWorkshops

The next Standard 2-Day Workshops is scheduled for August 21-22 (Haarlem) and August 28-29 (Seattle). The next Advanced 2-Day Workshops is scheduled for 18-19 September (Haarlem) and 20-21 November (Seattle). If you have a subscription to a Developers License then these workshops are for free. Sign up at support@aimms.com Standard 2-Day Workshops We have created a 2-day workshop format to give users an opportunity to learn and share their AIMMS learning experience in a group setting. This hands-on workshop will be led by one or more of our AIMMS experts. They will provide guidance while you are working on various exercises. The workshop is geared to help you to make immediate use of the advanced productivity tools and features of AIMMS. Topics - Model Building- End-User Interface- Structuring Large Models- Pages and Templates- Quantities and Units- Gantt Charts and Network Objects- Linking to a Database- User-Defined Menus- Linking your own DLL to AIMMS- Data Management Advan

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AIMMS releases will be compiled and offered using Visual Studio 2017 only per May 1, 2019.

In January we announced that AIMMS releases will be compiled and offered using Visual Studio 2017 only per May 1, 2019. This means that, to keep benefiting from the latest releases of AIMMS, our customers need to upgrade their on premise AIMMS PRO version if they have not done so yet (version 2.28 or higher!).

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Recent UI/UX changes

@Gertjan created a short video that shows recent UI/UX changes. Starting with version AIMMS 4.53 (introduced the new Navigation menu) to 4.66 (current latest IFA with widget actions). Some things you notice: - UX 2.0 style - Navigation Menu - Page Actions - Dialog Page - Widget Actions - Open URL - Highlighting of bars in widgets - ...

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Advanced Modules Workshop - Haarlem - May 21 and 22 (for free if you subscribed to a Developers License)

Come join our Advanced Modules (2 days) Workshop. Haarlem - May 21 and 22 (just before the AIMMS Summit) @Chris Kuip will talk, teach and explain about a lot of the more advanced things you can 'do' with AIMMS. Like: Solving and manipulating mathematical programming instances, Unit testing, DB + filtering, error handling, execution efficiency ... and more ... Check here If you have subscribed to a Developers License in 2018/2019 this training is for FREE. Interested? leave a reply here and we will reach out to you! We still have 4 open spots! If you are new to AIMMS and bought your first license, we also offer basic trainings. Check here.

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AIMMS wants 'happy' WebUI users

The WebUI is one of the main focus areas within our product development. For 2019 we have set ourselves the goal that we want AIMMS developers to be ‘happy’ when they use the WebUI. So far, we asked a selected group of users to tell us if we are making progress. Every 2 months we ask them the same question. How likely are you to recommend WebUI to another AIMMS app developer? Feel invited to help and join our ‘road to happiness’- team by answering this one question: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y9KT6SM Thanks And, of course, you can also share your thoughts by replying to this post.

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Join a new Constraint Programming Training next Spring!

  In recent years, we have received many questions about Constraint Programming, a paradigm typically used for scheduling cases. Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School of Business (Carnegie Mellon), is an expert on this topic and a trusted advisor many organizations rely on to address a variety of OR problems. He has offered to prepare a training to help our partners and customers build internal know-how on CP. The 4-days training is scheduled for March 30 to April 2, 2020, and will take place in our Haarlem office (Diakenhuisweg 29- 35).   All of the examples discussed in the training will be built in AIMMS, so you’ll be able to apply your CP knowledge when developing AIMMS apps.   If you are interested, please send me an e-mail patrick.donders@aimms.com

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AIMMS Workshop & Tutorial at INFORMS Business Analytics ConferenceEvent

Find us at the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference!Houston, TX | April 3-5, 2022 AIMMS Workshop From Supply Chain Design to Production Planning April 3, 20221-2:45pm CST In this workshop, you will learn to tackle different supply chain problems using mathematical optimization and scenario modeling.We will cover 3 use cases: Supply Chain Design, Integrated Business Planning and Production Scheduling.  Supply Chain Network Design  Discover a systematic approach to determine the optimal size, location and flows between the nodes of your supply chain, using advanced mathematical modelling.  Supply Chain Planning using IBP  Work out the optimal solution to meet projected demand in a cost-effective way. Gauge the potential implications of decisions by running scenarios to test assumptions, understand risks and create more business transparency.  Bespoke Production Scheduling  Translate your plans into a daily production schedule. Find out how you can achieve this with a bespoke application

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Set your project up for success: Part 1, Know the key areas

Devote time to key areas in your plan for success One of the very first posts on our Community is "How to create a reliable and successful AIMMS application" which provides tips for developers and project managers. This topic is crucial for many of our customers, and is well worth revisiting from an even higher level for all stakeholders.  As Director of User Support & Customer Success, I have evaluated many AIMMS projects. Evaluation shows that "just" making a good model with AIMMS is no longer sufficient for a successful project and a happy customer. An AIMMS implementation is increasingly a software implementation, including everything that comes with it.   The developer is increasingly becoming part of a team of specialists, including IT specialists, data connection experts, and UI or interaction designers.  An AIMMS implementation is increasingly a software implementation, including everything that comes with it.    The main reasons for this:  Applications developed w

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Set your project up for success: Part 3, Data management

Determine what data from which sources is needed   This article is part of the series “Set your project up for success.”   Start with the assumption that this aspect is going to be difficult – even in successful projects.  Companies have a lot of unstructured data. Acknowledge that it will be a big task to get the "right" data in the "right" format.  Prepare clear documentation of what data you need, and consider all sides of it. In what format should data be?  Where does it come from? How you will get it into AIMMS? In what order does it need to go in? How you will store it? In what type of database should it be stored? What will you do with the data after AIMMS has optimized it? Consider how often you will need fresh data – and whether you need a full set of new data, or just a delta containing the changes to previous data.   The more details you know up front, the easier it will be to track down the data and explain to the responsible parties what they need to provide

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Set your project up for success: Part 2, Time to value

Make “Time To Value” a priority   This article is part of the series “Set your project up for success.”   Customers often name "fast modeling" as a distinguishing factor of AIMMS compared to other modeling languages. As we know, time is money, and the longer a project takes to deliver, the higher the cost. Your customers will be happier when they can see things moving along quickly.  Make it official with KPI’s Adding Time to Value as a project KPI means evaluating items based on what has the highest value and can be delivered in the shortest time. It tells you what to prioritize as the project goes along.  That means that your first priorities should be on a Minimum Viable Product, focusing on those high-value features and functions that serve the primary user needs. Once that is delivered (or presented), you can tackle other user needs in following versions.  Your first priorities should be on a Minimum Viable Product, focusing on those high-value features and functions. De

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AIMMS has a new website!

Go explore our new website! You may have noticed our re-designed website: www.aimms.com.We are super excited about this next step and would love to hear what you think. There are a few important changes you need to know about: Our Support and Developers sections are completely reorganized – we've pared it down to bare essentials, letting our Documentation and Community take over much of the content. We have a new Support Center, which you can access from the home page. This will be your new hub for AIMMS documentation, product downloads and resources. Watch this 1 minute video to learn more:  Please send us your feedback! Got questions, suggestions, bugs, comments? Please submit your first impression in the poll and leave a comment below this article.

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Top 5 Barriers to Supply Chain Network Design Adoption and How to Overcome ThemWebinar

Want to build your internal capability, reduce costs and make better decisions? It's easier than you think. We’ve all been there. You have tough decisions to make about your network design. You may have recently had M&A activity, about to roll out a new product line or need to cut costs. You need answers to urgent network questions, but weeks go by. When you finally have the analysis, everything has changed, and it is no longer relevant. How can you build this capability in-house and get the answers you need in a timely way? This webinar will share research findings from Supply Chain Insights, including the top 5 obstacles that bog you down when trying to improve your network design efforts: Poor data quality Lack of skilled resources Don’t have the right tools/tools are too complex or expensive Lengthy time to plan/execute Lack of upper management support Paul and Brian will discuss how to tackle these obstacles, outline steps you can take to begin the journey a

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Set your project up for success: Part 5, Change management

Managing organizational change as part of implementation This article is part of the series “Set your project up for success.”The implementation of a new software product actually always implies a change:An old tool is replaced New functionality is added, old, perhaps much-loved, functionality is removed Tricks and workarounds might no longer work A new UI, a different workflowBut often the change goes further than end-users who get a new app:A new process is implemented Data streams are merged Departments must collaborate or become dependent on each other Figures that were only known to a few are made explicitThese are all examples that we have encountered during AIMMS projects over the years. If properly handled, a project can be successful. When they're not, a project can be endlessly delayed or even fail.In this post, you will not find golden rules for Change Management. Instead, we'll share a simple advice: Realize, at all times, that a project with AIMMS brings about a change and

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Welcoming Andrew Ong!News

We are happy to welcome Andrew Ong, our newest AIMMS Support Team member! He will be focusing on PRO, Cloud and licensing support, and will be a Community moderator.  Andrew focused on Technology and Computer Science in his studies, and has experience in IT support. He's a Pacific Northwest native. He likes outdoors activities like hiking and snowboarding, and enjoys going to concerts. He also loves to travel, and even spent a few years living in Korea when he was in high school. We spoke to him about his first impressions of his new role at AIMMS.   What brought you to this role at AIMMS?  I was just interested in the role itself, since it seemed like a good fit for my background. But now I understand what is special about the company. I like that AIMMS operates on the Holacracy model. It promotes independence, but also accountability.    What are some first impressions of working here?  For one thing, the company is relatively small, so it gives a sense of closeness among colleagues.

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Focus on UX to Drive App AdoptionInterview

Tips from Total Design’s Thomas Pleeging   As you know, AIMMS has been on a journey to improve user experience, both in our own products and through our WebUI, which provides a toolkit for AIMMS developers to deliver a great-looking user interface in their Apps. The importance of UX cannot be understated and it’s not just about cosmetics. As this article in our Project Success series explains, your app should look appealing, but it should also fit into your user’s workflow, reduce friction and present data in a seamless way. How can you achieve this? We spoke with Thomas Pleeging, a guru for all matters UX and former Senior Designer at Total Design, to get some practical tips. Thomas has worked in design for 10 years, six of them specifically devoted to UX. He has worked closely with our team for nearly three years now. Here’s what he had to share.  UX and UI, you often hear these terms in concert with one another. What do they actually mean?   Yes, that’s right. UX stands for User Exp

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Set your project up for success: Part 4, UI and UX

Thinking about User Experience is not optional This article is part of the series “Set your project up for success.” We all know that users’ expectations have changed about what an app should be. Not only should your app serve its primary functions, but also provide information in an attractive and easy-to-digest way. It should fit into the user's workflow and avoid friction. In my experience, good user experience (UX) is the basis for acceptance of the app and of the outcomes of the app. It doesn't mean just cosmetics, like adding a few graphs and matching the button colors to the company logo. It means really understanding how your user will use the tool, in what context, and structuring to facilitate that purpose.Good User Experience (UX) is the basis for acceptance of the app and of the outcomes of the app.  Know your possibilities, and your limitsIn the AIMMS platform, a model developer can build the whole User Interface (UI) – and we're doing our best to keep delivering WebUI too

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kthriftFormer AIMMSian
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Join our Customer Event in Seattle!

Our first ever North America Customer Event will take place at the Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel on Thursday, October 24, 2019. The event will take place in room Ravenna. We will be touching on Customer Case Studies, our Supply Chain Vision and Product Roadmap, and Industry Trends. At the end of the event, we will visit Pike Brewing, a Seattle favorite, for a local brewery tour. Don't miss this great opportunity to engage with peers and do some networking across the AIMMS community! To register, click here.

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