Pioneer and Market Leader
The Optimization Firm produces BARON, the world's fastest and most powerful MINLP solver, and continues to reimagine robust algorithms with the ALAMO modeling tool. BARON was the first branch-and-bound solver for global optimization of nonlinear programming (NLP) and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, which are some of the hardest mathematical optimization problems in the world.
The Optimization Firm has over 1,000 customers, including world-leading universities, research institutions, and companies spanning the energy, finance, healthcare, materials, and technology sectors. The Optimization Firm's technology originated at top research universities and is now used in more than 60 countries.
BARON
The world's best complete solver for global optimization. Solves your LP, NLP, MIP, MINLP problems.
ALAMO
Novel analytics tool for building accurate and interpretable models. Model, evaluate, and optimize your data.
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Our goal is to develop and implement novel algorithms that make it possible to solve large-scale problems quickly and efficiently.
Recent and Upcoming Events
Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2025
Conference: June 3-6, 2025
The Optimization Firm is excited to be a sponsor of the 2025 MIP Workshop taking place at the University of Minnesota. If you are attending, be sure to pick up a BARON giveaway.
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30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Conference: September 2-6, 2024
The Optimization Firm is excited to be a sponsor of CP 2024.
Learn More ⟶Featured Sponsorships
The Optimization Firm is a proud sponsor of the following conferences:
MIP 2024 June 3-6, 2025
IPCO 2025 June 11-13, 2025
ICCOPT 2025 July 19-24, 2025
SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Test of Time Award awarded at SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26), June 2-5 2026