DoorDash optimizes complex deliveries up to 100x faster with FICO® Xpress Optimization

Case Study Challenge: Increase the speed and complexity of solving delivery matching problems in order to improve delivery time and efficiency for each order. Solution: FICO® Xpress Optimization Results: Using FICO’s optimization solver on a mixed integer problem (MIP), DoorDash has improved solving time by 10–100x and can now assign multiple orders to each driver to…

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OPTIMIZATION DIRECT AT INFORMS 2020 BUSINESS ANALYTICS CONFERENCE, ORLANDO FL, April 14-16 2024

HOW TO DEPLOY APPLICATIONS THAT COMBINE MACHINE LEARNING/DEEP LEARNING TOOLS AND OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS XPRESS/ ODH|XPRESS Presented by: Robert Ashford Organizations are increasingly hiring Data Scientists with Open Source skills. They leverage the capabilities and work with Open Source tools like R, Python, Spark, as well as integration with FICO-XPRESS and large data. Come…

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Optimization Direct will present at the FICO Technology Workshop at the INFORMS Annual meeting.

We will present at the FICO Technology Workshop at INFORMS https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2023/exhibitor-workshops/#fico Presented by: Robert Ashford Saturday, October 14, 4-6:30 pm, Location: CC-North 121 B ODH-XPRESS Integration ODH is a software package from Optimization Direct Inc. that runs concurrently with MIP optimizers like FICO Xpress to accelerate and extend their capabilities for large and difficult optimization…

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Optimization Direct has entered into an agreement with FICO to resell FICO Xpress.

Optimization Direct has partnered with and entered into a distribution agreement with FICO. Combining the founders’ industry and software experience and FICO’s Xpress product with the arsenal of Optimization modeling and solving tools from FICO provides customers with the most powerful capabilities in the industry. FICO Xpress solves large-scale optimization problems and enables better business decisions…

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Optimization Direct Releases Version of ODHeuristics with Support for the Gurobi Optimizer

HARRINGTON PARK Nj. & BEAVERTON, Ore. October 7 2022. During the last 20 years, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) problems have become more complex, larger, and equally complex to run. ODHeuristics (ODH) is a new algorithm created by Optimization Direct, designed to run on modern multiprocessor machines. Many cores (24+ ideal) are exploited by the ODH engine…

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Optimization Direct at INFORMS 2022 ANNUAL MEETING, Indianapolis IN, October 16-19, 2022

We are holding technology tutorials and workshops at INFORMS Technology Tutorial at INFORMS ODH Python Primer Presented by: Robert Ashford Monday, October 17, 11:40am-12:15pm   This short tutorial shows participants how to build a basic model using the ODH|CPLEX in Python. This session includes setting the Python environment, reading data from a csv or spreadsheet,…

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