Bounded Curation: Optimization — Companies — I
Who is applying all those optimization techniques on business problems? Here, I list some companies (I think) working on Operations Research and optimization in general.
I don’t want to misrepresent any company accidentally. This is just a curation. So, I will abuse quotation marks and blatant copy pasting from their webpages.
This curation is a bit long, therefore I will divide it into two or three parts.
- Optit
Optit is an Italy based company. They are “working since 2007 to combine mathematics and business.” with “40+ (non-artificial) intelligence” tools.
Reportedly they have solutions on Energy, Waste, Logistics & Supply Chain, Digital Industry and Analytics & Optimization. They have a good roster of clients listed on their websites.
- SimpleRose
This US-based firm has only a landing page. They seem to claim speeding up optimization process: “Our optimization platform is built for the peta/exascale age, leveraging algorithmic innovation on a massively parallel architecture to solve existing problems exponentially faster and tackle larger problems that are infeasible using conventional optimization solutions.”
They also advertise “Unprecedented Speed and Scaling”, “Differentiated Numerical Accuracy”, and “Dynamic Programming”. They work on “scheduling, “production planning”, and “portfolio optimization”.
- NextMV
One of the startups I features on my earlier posts is US-based NextMV. Their attempt to make optimization more suitable for devops is plausible: “From vehicle routing to workforce scheduling and beyond — make better decisions with the time and resources you have.”
Their founding team has experience as a team in Grubhub. They are domain specific but flexible: “Build domain-specific decision services faster with Nextmv. Then customize with constraints and value functions to represent your business logic.”
They have a transparent pricing of USD 2500/month.
- Satalia
Satalia (“a Wunderman Thompson company”) positions itself as an Enterprise AI company based in UK, Lithuania, Greece and Austria. They are “one of a handful of companies that truly understand AI, and regularly keynote on AI and its impact on humanity.”
Their featured products are delivery and workforce optimization. They also provide custom services on “AI”. Their customer base includes Tesco, Dfs Delivery, TechData, Giga Clear, Odeon and DS Smith.
- Optilogic
This one is a US-based supply chain firm founded in 2018. Apparently they do not have their own solvers but use 3rd party software such as Gurobi. Their product is named Cosmic Frog and it has three functionalities. One of them is (supply chain) optimization: “Design Your Supply Chain with the Most Powerful and Intelligent Optimization Engine”
Their references include Oliver Wyman, iGPS, Peco Pallet, and more.
They have a transparent pricing of USD 3800/month or USD 34000/year.
- Rulex
This one is a little less conventional. They announce themselves as “The platform for smart data management”. Optimization is just a module and main motto is no-code.
There are several application areas listed on the home page. One of them is supply chain and it is all about optimization. “Our no-code platform accelerates and optimizes every operational step of the supply chain journey, from inventory replenishment to distribution networks.”
