It is popular in education,[2] the public sector[3] and industry for optimization users because it uses industry-standard modelling languages and is faster than traditional Excel optimisation approaches.
SolverStudio works with a range of commercial and open source modelling systems.
A second open-source Python option is Pyomo which supports non-linear and stochastic programming and provides access to a larger range of solvers.
SolverStudio also makes the two popular commercial modelling languages, AMPL and GAMS available to Excel users.
SolverStudio allows models written using these languages to be solved on the user's own PC, or in the cloud using NEOS.