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What makes you want to use AIMMS?

Dear community members, users of AIMMS,   We are always curious to know why our users use AIMMS. So a simple question for you that I hope you can answer and let us and other community members know: What makes you want to use AIMMS (and not other tools)? Understandably this is a very open question, any answer is good (long, short). Of course, it always help to give context.

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AIMMSFEST POSTPONED TO A LATER DATEEvent

!! UPDATE !!   We are saddened to inform you that AIMMSFEST will no longer take place on April 3, 2020, due to the uncertain expansion of the coronavirus. The wellbeing of our community always comes first, and unfortunately this means steering away from our original plan to connect in person next month. To decide whether or not to join AIMMSFEST, under these circumstances, is a decision we don’t want to ask from our community. In the meantime, we are looking into activities that do not require travel which we could potentially host on April 3. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to meeting you in the near future. If you have any questions, please contact me. Sending you our best wishes, Kim Meijer AIMMS Marketing EMEA     ORIGINAL MESSAGE   Experience the power of the AIMMS Community live and in person  APRIL 3, 2020 | 10 AM - 6 PM | AMSTERDAM, NL   It's my pleasure to invite you to AIMMSFEST, a new speed networking event for the AIMMS community taking pl

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AIMMS acquires ISO 27001 Certification

When you work with AIMMS, you get upgraded to exceptional care. Customers are our focal point and fundamental to everything we do. That is why we are pleased to announce that we were awarded our ISO 27001 Certification on January 17. This international certification demonstrates that we manage information security in a way that safeguards the integrity, confidentiality and availability of our customers’ information.  We have been investing heavily in information security for a long time, especially since we started offering the AIMMS Cloud Platform four years ago. As cyber security risks were rising across all industries, we decided to further 'up our game' and adopt the ISO 27001 standard. This would offer us a ready-to-use, proven and widely recognized framework for risk management and continuous improvement in information security.   In the course of a year, we created our ISO 27001 compliant Information Security Management System - essentially a collection of documents and forms -

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Take your model documentation to the next level with our new, open-source Sphinx theme

  Our User Support team has been working on very exciting changes that will make AIMMS documentation a lot easier to find and navigate through. One of those changes has been the transformation of the AIMMS Function Reference from a PDF into an HTML site. This is a pretty big deal for us. Not just because the Function Reference is now more seamless to use, but because we achieved this using a template that you can use to build your own AIMMS documentation site too! We have open-sourced the theme files in GitLab. Read on to find out what got us here and why we’re so thrilled to share this with you.    First, a word about the AIMMS Function Reference       The AIMMS Function Reference is the go-to guide for all the functions, sets, and procedures in the AIMMS core. They are the pre-declared building blocks of the AIMMS language. When we first started out, these got documented in a PDF. That PDF grew over the years and, as you can imagine, it became quite long and difficult to maintain. So

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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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AIMMS Documentation and Community Survey

Our Docs & Community Teams are working to continuously improve and expand product documentation, developer resources, and the community.We want to make sure we’re covering the topics you need most, in the way you need them, so we’re asking for your input.It should only take about 5-6 minutes to complete, and your response will make us very happy!Take the survey

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Most popular posts of 2019

The new year is here already?? Hello, 2020! 2019 was an eventful year, with plenty of things worth remembering! Here are our most popular posts from the last year - just in case you missed something to read with your afternoon coffee :) Articles Partner share: 3 Tips for a Better Page Layout Interview: Unisoma on Analytics and Data Science in Brazil Inside AIMMS: Insider’s View of WebUI Interview: Districon on Driving Change with Optimization   Product questions User question: Multiple Optimization User question: MIP Relative Optimality Tolerance User question: Disable CSV Download in WebUI   Product Discussions Roadmap discussion*: Workflow Menu Roadmap discussion*: Python Integration Roadmap discussion*: Widget Actions Product idea*: Display Custom Text Strings in WebUI Product idea*: Bar Chart with Line Chart Product discussion: Display a Dataset with Status Bar   *Note that product ideas and roadmap forums are restricted by customer login.

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Consolidating _tooltips, _flags and _text identifiers into Identifier Annotations

I want to let you know that we are in the process of consolidation the mentioned identifiers to specify e.g. the readonly flag, define a tooltip, or the text in a Gantt char item, will receive it’s own annotation in the identifier specification. This is a more elegant way and will make the model more flexible with respect to choosing which identifiers should be the annotations (and name those to your liking). In addition, it will make it clearly inside a Identifier declaration with annotations exist. We expect to release this in 4.71 (our first release in 2020 ).     The new model Annotations that will be added to support this WebUI behavior: webui::TooltipIdentifierwebui::FlagsIdentifierwebui::ItemTextIdentifier In the model, this will be represented as follows (as you can see, the annotation can be of a lesser dimension then the identifier itself):   IMPORTANT: This also means that the old style will receive the status deprecated as of 4.71. The specification by _flags, _tooltips, _a

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Reflecting on 30 years of AIMMSBlog

Thirty years ago, our founder Jan Bisschop started AIMMS with a vision: to develop technology that would make it easy and intuitive to build optimization models and user applications, in one go. Jan handed over his ownership of AIMMS in 2003. Through a management buy-in, I became a shareholder and leader at AIMMS. Since that moment, I see it as my primary role to serve AIMMS in unleashing its full potential, and to be the steward of Jan’s legacy.  In 2012, we made an important strategic decision at AIMMS, in our quest to bring the amazing benefits of optimization to society. We realized that to increase the positive impact of AIMMS, we needed to get closer to the business side, where the value of AIMMS is “consumed.” Since our company was founded, most customer projects had been in the field of Supply Chain and Operations, so we started adding a supply chain management chapter to the AIMMS journey. In past years, we have been working on two important and large product development proje

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Stay up-to-date on Articles Recently Added to How-To!

Did you know that we are adding new articles to How-to nearly every week?  Don't miss out on fresh tips and knowledge to get the most of out AIMMS! Here's where to check out the newest articles: Recently Added to How-To And feel free to add comments below if you have any suggestions for areas you'd like to know more about

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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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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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How leading retailers prepare for the holiday seasonInterview

It’s hard to beat Santa’s supply chain. Who else offers present deliveries to millions of households around the world in a single night? Even our favorite retailers are not there yet! We like to think new methodologies and tools are helping them get a little bit closer, though. In this interview, Districon’s Sander van Lokven shares insight into how retailers prepare for the holiday season. Districon is a supply chain specialty firm and an AIMMS partner with more than 40 years in the business.  Sander, can you start by telling us about yourself and your experience in supply chain optimization?I have a background in Operations Research and worked as a process consultant for Districon in EMEA, delivering optimization projects for nine years. Two years ago, we started working with Peapod to design their warehouses and we set up a Districon branch in Chicago. I'm now responsible for our North America operations and manage a team of six consultants here in the Chicago area.Peapod is one of

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New Search in Documentation and How-To!

Predictive search for AIMMS Docs is here! For those who didn’t yet memorize the exact URL of each page in our documentation, we have great news!Thanks to Algolia our search just got a whole lot smarter. Try it out in How-To or Documentation and let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Meet Alberta Au-Yeung, a new contact for License supportInterview

Do you have questions about your AIMMS license? Meet Alberta, our new colleague in License & Sales Support. Alberta is originally from Hong Kong. She has a background in finance and IT. We spoke with her to learn more about what drew her to AIMMS and what she finds exciting about working here. Alberta, can you tell us a bit more about your background? Before joining AIMMS, I worked in sales and support roles at a few companies. In Hong Kong, I worked for a company that develops an ERP system and I worked closely with customers to ensure a smooth implementation of the system. I provided training and delivered support, from the start to the go-live and after launch. After I moved to the Netherlands, I worked for Booking.com, supporting accommodation owners to get their business going. I also took care of the sales administration for a plastic recycling company. This is very close to what I do now at AIMMS. What brought you to the Netherlands?   I met my husband, who is Dutch, in Hong

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Partner Spotlight: ORTEC’s Frans van Helden on Building Lasting Relationships in the Analytics IndustryInterview

As part of our interview series with AIMMS partners, we spoke with ORTEC's Frans van Helden. Frans is Managing Director of ORTEC’s Data Science and Consulting Division. With 39 years in the industry and a team of 1,000 people working from 13 countries, ORTEC leverages data and mathematics to create value for businesses and society at large. AIMMS’ partnership with ORTEC spans more than two decades. Read the interview with Frans to uncover how our shared passion for mathematics has generated value for some of the world’s largest organizations.  Frans, AIMMS and ORTEC have been partners for 20 years. How have you seen the partnership and the industry develop overtime? Indeed, AIMMS and ORTEC have been partners for about 20 years now. I think the main reason our partnership has been successful is that both organizations have a similar core purpose. AIMMS brings the benefits of optimization to society and ORTEC uses a passion for mathematics to improve our world. AIMMS is quite an importan

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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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Partner Spotlight: UniSoma’s Volnei dos Santos on the Growth of Analytics and Data Science in BrazilInterview

AIMMS works with a global ecosystem of consulting companies and resellers to deliver powerful optimization solutions to customers. In this interview, we hear from UniSoma, a provider of advanced analytics solutions with 35 years of experience in the market. Based close to São Paulo in Brazil, UniSoma is AIMMS’ leading partner in Latin America. Together, we have helped companies like Tereos, Petrobras, Arcelor Mittal, Suzano, Marfrig and JBS improve supply chain decision-making. Read the interview with the company’s Technical Director, Volnei dos Santos, to learn more about their role in the Brazilian market and how data science has gone mainstream. Volnei, can you tell us more about your role at UniSoma? As Technical Director, I am responsible for choosing the technologies we use to address our customers’ business problems. I also organize our technical teams to best meet customer needs. Our relationships with customers vary. For example, it could be a project-based relationship, whe

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Widgets Actions

In case you missed it, we released Dialog Pages and Workflow Procedures last week. Following up on our workflow improvements, we are currently developing Widgets Actions for the AIMMS WebUI. These will allow you to take actions close to where your data resides (like a right-click menu). A small preview is available in the screenshot below.

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Welcoming Aanand Pandey to AIMMS!

We believe our customers should be fully empowered to improve their company's strategy and operations. That's why we create training programs and provide dedicated support to help organizations every step of the way. We're pleased to welcome Aanand Pandey as the newest member of our support team. Aanand has a background in both engineering and supply chain studies, as well as practical experience in business matters and programming. We welcome him to AIMMS in the role of Supply Chain Analyst and End User Support. What attracted you to pursuing a job at AIMMS? There are 2 things I value in my career: technology and working with people. This position at AIMMS is right in the middle of those 2 things. Part of my job will be to work with prospective customers, on the tech side, to ensure that the apps can deliver what they want. Another part will be taking customer needs and working with development to ensure that our tech and product really follow those needs. It means I’ll get

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Partner Spotlight: Communication Insights from CQM's Jacob Jan PaulusInterview

AIMMS works with a global ecosystem of consulting companies and resellers to deliver powerful optimization solutions to customers. For the next installment in our Partner Spotlight series, we spoke to Jacob Jan Paulus, Senior Consultant at CQM. CQM is a data science consulting firm based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. They offer optimization, statistics and AI applications with focus ranging from industry, retail, and service.CQM has been a partner almost since the beginning of AIMMS – about 30 years. How has the relationship developed over the years?We’ve currently got about 15 specialists who use AIMMS regularly. In the last few years we’ve had some bigger projects, which brought us in closer contact with the AIMMS support team, and resulted in a growing relationship with R&D. In working together, we have shared insights about users’ needs and provided a lot of input for the development of new features.How has AIMMS been a part of your career with CQM?I used AIMMS while I was tea

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Why nearly 90% of New Customers Choose the AIMMS CloudBlog

It’s been more than two years since we launched the AIMMS Cloud Platform. During this time, we’ve seen the AIMMS Cloud grow in both its use and robustness. In this article, I’ll share some highlights of the technology behind it and why we’re pleased to see that almost 90% of new customers choose to deploy their Apps using the Cloud. AIMMS Cloud Platform: the early days We officially released the AIMMS Cloud Platform at the AIMMS Summit in 2017, but we had been working with three launching customers for almost a year ahead of that time. Enterprise IT adoption of cloud was accelerating. We noticed that most of our customers were experiencing IT-related friction when adopting AIMMS PRO. They were dependent on the prioritization, capacity and skills of their company's IT departments. They also had a hard time answering questions from their IT colleagues, such as the sizing required. This friction was delaying their time-to-value and distracting them from their key task: initiating and m

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Partner Spotlight: Districon’s Jack Pool on Driving Change with Optimization ProjectsInterview

AIMMS works with a global ecosystem of consulting companies and resellers to deliver powerful optimization solutions to customers. This interview is the first in a series that will shed light on the achievements of our partners. Districon is one of these valued partners. Districon is a Supply Chain specialty firm with offices in the Netherlands, the United States and Singapore. The company creates Supply Chain solutions to help clients address strategic, tactical and operational challenges. Read this interview with Districon's Managing Director, Jack Pool, to hear about the long-lasting impact they have had at clients and how they help organizations drive change. Jack, Districon and AIMMS have worked together for a long time. How did this relationship develop? Well, that’s an interesting story. About 10 years ago, HEINEKEN, one of our main clients, was working with us to do distribution studies. They used AIMMS and basically told us that we needed to start using AIMMS as well. We

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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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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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