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Testimonials and Case Studies

OptaPlanner is used all over the world to optimize all kinds of planning problems. A fraction of our users have shared their story publicly:

Case Studies

  • Plan when to do maintenance of 220K+ elevators and escalators over 2500+ mechanics.

    • 2017 slides

    • 2019 video

  • Vehicle routing for digital service providers

  • Schedule shifts of hospital doctors

Articles (English)

  • Automatic scheduling of people and rooms

  • oVirt OptaPlanner plugin: Cloud optimization of Virtual Machines

  • Billboard advertisement scheduling for EPAMEDIA in Austria

Articles (non-English)

  • French, German and Japanese: see the language specific pages linked from the homepage.

  • Portuguese: Resolving planning problems (partially paywalled)

  • Finnish: Limited resources optimization

3rd party open source projects

  • IYPT Jury Planner

  • Wedding Tables Planner (Web - Core): uses OptaPlanner with OpenShift, Scala, Play, AngularJS, …​

  • OptaConf Conference Planner uses OptaPlanner with JavaEE 7 (JAXRS, CDI, WildFly) to expose a REST service.

  • Farm optimization uses OptaPlanner with Drools DSL and EMF.

Podcasts

  • JBoss Asylum: OptaPlanner for the masses

Testimonials

  • I am really impressed by OptaPlanner. You really did a great job! Up to 4 days ago I didn’t even know planning on such a scale is even possible without a years of programming investment…​ now, I have almost fully working prototype product for 1 use-case in less than 3 days! - Luka Bradesko (CEO Solvesall)

  • OptaPlanner rocks! Complex planning problems solving & optimization made easy. We love it! - Vincent Eggen

  • Thanks to OptaPlanner we are able to provide fast and affordable automated resource planning cloud service to IT organisations in Germany. - Reinis Vicups

  • Speedyroute.com changed from OpenOpt to OptaPlanner to provide optimised delivery routes - Magic Hat Solutions

  • Using OptaPlanner for the first time, I was able to build a proof-of-concept for a complex scheduling and packing problem in less than 2 days. - Jannes Verstichel

  • OptaPlanner (as well as Drools) rocks! - Juan Ignacio Sánchez

  • There are few things more satisfying in life than getting an OptaPlanner system up and running. It’s like magic. - Cedric Hurst

  • It is very easy to add custom modules on top of OptaPlanner’s elegant framework. - Isaac Zhang

Papers

  • Uma análise do framework OptaPlanner aplicado ao problema de empacotamento unidimensional

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  • 9.44.0.Final released
    Wed 6 September 2023
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Latest blog posts
  • Scaling Up Vehicle Routing Problem with planning list variable and Nearby Selector
    Thu 27 April 2023
    Anna Dupliak
  • OptaPlanner 9 has been released
    Mon 24 April 2023
    Radovan Synek
  • OptaPlanner 9 is coming
    Tue 21 February 2023
    Lukáš Petrovický
  • Farewell - a new lead
    Tue 15 November 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Run OptaPlanner workloads on OpenShift, part II
    Wed 9 November 2022
    Radovan Synek
  • Bavet - A faster score engine for OptaPlanner
    Tue 6 September 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Run OptaPlanner workloads on OpenShift, part I.
    Thu 9 June 2022
    Radovan Synek
  • Blog archive
Latest videos
  • The Vehicle Routing Problem
    Fri 23 September 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Introduction to OptaPlanner AI constraint solver
    Thu 25 August 2022
    Anna Dupliak
  • On schedule: Artificial Intelligence plans that meet expectations
    Sat 23 July 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Host your OptaPlanner app on OpenShift (Kubernetes)
    Mon 7 February 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • OptaPlanner - A fast, easy-to-use, open source AI constraint solver for software developers
    Mon 31 January 2022
  • Order picking planning with OptaPlanner
    Fri 31 December 2021
    Anna Dupliak
  • AI lesson scheduling on Quarkus with OptaPlanner
    Thu 18 November 2021
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Video archive

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