Learn what your peers think about IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
Graduate Research Assistant at University Of Tennessee Space Institute
Nov 2, 2017
I would definitely recommend CPLEX to colleagues who are thinking of using it; it is very reliable and there is a lot of programming behind it, and I am confident that I can rely on the solutions that it gives me.
If a university is seeking challenging problems in an area which is heuristic optimization or non-linear optimization, I do not think that CPLEX is the best software to do that.
Learn what your peers think about IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
Phd Student at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Nov 2, 2017
I did have some problems with error messages where, for example, it's infeasible, but instead of telling you it's infeasible it will give you something else.
Graduate Research Assistant at University Of Tennessee Space Institute
Nov 2, 2017
You need to learn how to play with the settings so it doesn't crash. But if you run on the default settings and your program size is large, it might crash after about an hour.
