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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

  • Task assignment for RJV (Belgium)

Articles (English)

  • Automatic scheduling of people and rooms

  • oVirt OptaPlanner plugin: Cloud optimization of Virtual Machines

  • Vehicle routing with real routes, scaling it (before nearby selection) and using GraphHopper in Germany

  • 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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    Fri 5 March 2021
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Upcoming events
  • KIE Live
    Worldwide - Tue 9 March 2021
    • Testing your constraints with OptaPlanner by Lukáš Petrovický, Karina Varela, Alex Porcelli
  • Javaland
    Worldwide - Tue 16 March 2021
    • AI on Quarkus: I love it when an OptaPlan comes together by Geoffrey De Smet
  • Red Hat Webinar
    Worldwide - Wed 24 March 2021
    • AI planning: Top 3 use cases and benefits by Ronald Meuwsen, Geoffrey De Smet
  • SouJava MOTU
    Worldwide - Thu 15 April 2021
    • Planejamento de Recursos com OptaPlanner by Karina Varela, Otávio Santana
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Latest blog posts
  • Optimizing COVID-19 vaccination appointment scheduling
    Thu 4 March 2021
     Paul Brown
  • How much faster is Java 15?
    Tue 26 January 2021
     Michal Tomčo
  • Solve the facility location problem
    Fri 9 October 2020
     Jiří Locker
  • OptaPlanner Week 2020 recordings
    Mon 7 September 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • Let’s OptaPlan your jBPM tasks (part 1) - Integrating the two worlds
    Fri 3 July 2020
     Walter Medvedeo
  • AI versus Covid-19: How Java helps nurses and doctors in this fight
    Fri 8 May 2020
     Christopher Chianelli
  • Workflow processes with AI scheduling
    Tue 5 May 2020
     Christopher Chianelli
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Latest videos
  • YT Maintenance scheduling
    Wed 24 February 2021
     Julian Cui
  • YT Vaccination appointment scheduling
    Wed 3 February 2021
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Shadow variables
    Tue 19 January 2021
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Domain modeling and design patterns
    Tue 17 November 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Quarkus insights: AI constraint solving
    Tue 20 October 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT AI in kotlin
    Wed 23 September 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
  • YT Planning agility: continuous planning, real-time planning and more
    Thu 3 September 2020
     Geoffrey De Smet
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