IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.3 out of 5

19 reviews
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What is IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio?

IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (COS) is an enterprise analytical decision support toolkit. It enables rapid development and deployment of decision optimization models using mathematical and constraint programming. COS combines a fully featured integrated development environment (IDE) that supports Optimization Programming Language (OPL) and the high-performance CPLEX and CP Optimizer solvers. COS enables you to optimize your business decisions, develop and deploy optimization models quickly, and create real-world applications that can significantly improve business outcomes.

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IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio is the #2 ranked solution in top Mathematical Optimization Tools. PeerSpot users give IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio is most commonly compared to Gurobi Optimizer: IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio vs Gurobi Optimizer. IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a manufacturing company, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Featured IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio reviews

it_user766614

Post Doctorate Research Fellow at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I guess I would like to see it become faster and more user-friendly. I think CPLEX is very flexible for different languages so maybe they can provide more detailed documentation on how to format a model in CPLEX, and how to output the solutions. It could provide some examples, some specific standard examples, which I think would be very helpful for beginners. I would also like to be able to receive feedback on why sometimes a problem gets solved easily and why sometimes it does not. If we had more insights into the problem structures we would know if we need to use the back end for some problems, or if we need to use other software or develop our own algorithms.

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Professo346c

Professor

I would like see a more user-friendly interface, especially for new students. I would also like to have more options to choose from. Different problems have different options. We already have a different option in a CPLEX setting for the different search direction but I expect that we can combine with some heuristic matter, have that together. For example, we might solve some stage at the beginning, find some infeasible and look at the bound. Then I can go to the feasible bound heuristic to find a good solution quickly.

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it_user766629

Associate Professor at University of Miami - Miller School of Medicine

What I like most about CPLEX that it can be called or it can work with many other applications. You can use it with AMPL, which is an application that I use frequently. You can call it, as far as I know from C++ or C#, which I did in the past. Then there's the OPLs suite that you can also use. What I like the most about it is you can actually have access to CPLEX through different interfaces. And the fact that it can effectively solve integer models, which, most of the time, that's what we deal with.

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IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio in the Mathematical Optimization Tools category stands at 24.3%, down from 29.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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