AIMMS Named 2013 Cool Vendor by Gartner Inc.

Haarlem, The Netherlands (April 29, 2013) – AIMMS has been identified as a Cool Vendor in the Supply Chain Management Applications 2013 report by Gartner Inc.

Vendors selected to be Cool Vendors are innovative, impactful and intriguing according to the information technology analysts at Gartner Inc.

“We are delighted to be recognized as a Cool Vendor by Gartner,” said Gijs Dullaert, CEO of AIMMS. “AIMMS technologies bring unique value to clients by answering the need for optimization tailored to each specific situation, and by, at the same time, covering all areas of the supply chain such as network optimization, rapid response optimization, segmentation, cross-segment optimization and end-to-end deployment optimization.”

One of Gartner’s key findings in this report is that “Decision support and optimization continue to be prime areas for SCM application innovation. Visualization and modeling are also becoming essential for companies to maintain visibility and control across complex supply chains.”

AIMMS allows businesses to differentiate and to improve decision-making by using agile, powerful optimization technology to discover true challenges and to deploy solutions to every workstation within an operation.

Gertjan de Lange, VP Product Strategy for AIMMS says, “We are passionate about putting the innovative power of mathematical optimization into the hands of people in supply chain organizations. We are relentlessly driven to make it easier for organizations to reap the benefits of optimization. That motivates us to continuously invest in our AIMMS technology to ensure that our clients can rapidly develop and iterate their tailored AIMMS optimization apps, and that these apps can easily and instantly be published on the client’s proprietary AIMMS Enterprise App Store.”

About AIMMS

AIMMS is an innovative technology company with offices in The Netherlands, United States, Singapore and Shanghai. AIMMS has been sold as a unique mathematical optimization platform for more than 20 years, and provides a web-based tool for building Enterprise App Stores. AIMMS customers can create optimization engines and solutions that enable optimal decision making on complex strategic, tactical or operational problems. www.aimms.com

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¹Gartner “Supply Chain Management Applications” by C. Dwight Klappich, Christian Titze, Tim Payne, Noha Tohamy, Amber Salley April 16, 2013

PwC and AIMMS Sign Partnership Agreement

Haarlem, The Netherlands (April 16, 2013) – The Dutch advisory part of professional services firm PwC has signed a partnership agreement with Paragon Decision Technology, the developers of AIMMS.

In AIMMS, the Quantitative Analysis department of PwC builds custom-made decision support software for clients to improve their executive decision making and to retrieve more value out of their assets.

Brazil’s leading food processing company JBS chooses AIMMS

Haarlem, The Netherlands (March 1, 2013) – JBS, Brazil’s largest multinational food processing company (revenue of $34 billion), is working closely with AIMMS and AIMMS’ partner UniSoma to optimize various core business processes of their organization. JBS embraces optimization by choosing AIMMS and the AIMMS PRO platform to roll out various solutions to their supply chain, starting with their application OCC (In Natura Meat Chain Planning Optimizer) and soon to be added applications OCI (Processed Meat Chain Planning Optimizer) and PDC (Slaughterhouses´ Daily Programming).

AIMMS Welcomes New COO Jan Willem van Crevel

Haarlem, The Netherlands (February 1, 2013) – In order to provide additional dedicated support to AIMMS’ Research & Development and product development efforts, Paragon Decision Technology has hired Jan Willem van Crevel as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Jan Willem will manage all of the R&D and product development processes for AIMMS and AIMMS PRO, and will be responsible for staff development and recruitment. He will also be responsible for release management and product delivery, and for internal IT activities.

AIR LIQUIDE Deutschland GmbH Chooses AIMMS

Haarlem, The Netherlands (November 30, 2012) – Air Liquide has selected AIMMS technology as their optimization platform to support business decisions ranging from strategic to short-term based on a ‘fact based’ assessment of a large portfolio of real options.