INFORM has been developing intelligent software systems to optimise business processes for the past 40 years. Innovation, quality, performance and reliability are the decisive factors in the development of our software. 350 employees provide over 700 companies world-wide from various sectors with tailored solutions to control a complex supply chain.

ILOG, an IBM company, delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 3,000 corporations and more than 460 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management systems (BRMS), supply chain planning and scheduling applications as well as its optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge.

Over 1,300 companies, including 160 of the Global 500, use ILOG's optimization tools and engines to solve the most challenging strategic planning and operational scheduling problems found in manufacturing, transportation and logistics, energy and financial services; and software applications from eight of the top 10 supply chain vendors help ILOG Optimization technologies reach thousands more. As the "gold standard" for speed, solution quality and reliability in the Operations Research community, these products are in use at over 1,000 universities. For more information, please visit http://optimization.ilog.com.

Maximal Software has decided to give away a FREE perpetual license of the MPL Modeling System to every registered participant at the EURO 2009 Bonn Conference! To sign up for your free copy, or just to find out why we are now giving away development copies of our MPL software, please come visit us at our booth during the conference, or attend our pre-conference Workshop on Sunday at 13:00 - 15:00pm, or attend our MPL software session on Tuesday (TD-42).

Maximal Software is the developer of the MPL Modeling System, an advanced modeling language for formulating optimization models. MPL is one of the fastest and most scalable modeling languages on the market, and with the OptiMax Component Library add-on can be used to build customized end-user applications to solve real-world optimization problems.

Bridging the gap: The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) has been continually evolved to reflect insights gained from more than twenty years of close collaboration with both the world's leading software creators for optimization techniques and successful clients from academia, authorities, and industry.

AIMMS enables people in industry and academia to apply OR successfully by offering an integrated development environment. AIMMS facilitates formulating complex optimization models, linking to the best solvers, exchanging data with various sources, constructing a graphical user interface, and deploying your application operationally.

FICO (NYSE:FIC) is the leader in decision management, transforming business by making every decision count. FICO combines trusted advice, world-class analytics, and innovative applications to help businesses automate, improve, and connect decisions over customer lifecycles and across the enterprise. Clients in 80 countries work with FICO to increase customer loyalty and profitability, reduce fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share.

Since the acquisition of Dash Optimization, makers of Xpress, we continuously invest in optimization technology. We are committed to maintaining Xpress as the world's leading software product for decision modeling and optimization and to developing optimization frameworks in particular for the financial and insurance industry.

Our product portfolio includes leading solutions across the customer lifecycle, from marketing and account origination to fraud protection, customer management and collections/recovery. We also supply tools and services for model development, business rules management, and decision optimisation. In addition to our products, we support clients through custom engagements, analytic services and consulting.

FICO clients include 9 of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies.
FICO adaptive control systems are used to manage 65% of the world's credit cards.
FICO credit fraud solutions protect around 1.5 billion cards worldwide.
FICO Blaze Advisor(tm) business rules management system is ranked as the leading business rules system by independent analysts.

GTS Systems and Consulting GmbH offers systems and consulting services related to the optimisation of supply chains and transport networks. At the Euro meeting we present the latest version of our vehicle routing and scheduling system TransIT. The academic version of TransIT has an open service-oriented optimisation interface, comes at a strongly reduced price and can be used for both teaching and research.

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We aim to offer excellence - more than 150 Nobel prize-winners have published with Springer to the present date. Many of our publications are considered authoritative works in their field, read by academics and students, used by libraries and universities, academic professionals and practitioners in various branches of industry.