Artelys to distribute
Dash's Xpress-MP in French-speaking Europe
Today, 27th November 2000, Dash is delighted
to announce an agreement with Artelys to distribute Dash's
Xpress-MP software in France, French-speaking Belgium, Luxembourg
and French-speaking Switzerland.
Xpress-MP is used by leading companies such as Air France,
AspenTech, BASF, Bouygues, Electricité de France, Ford,
France Telecom, PowerGen, Procter & Gamble, Renault, Shell
and Unilever to model and solve planning problems arising
in Supply Chain Management, Transportation and Distribution,
Production and Scheduling, Financial and Investment Management,
Telecommunication Network Design, and Yield Management.
Artelys, based in Paris, is a young company specializing in
high performance optimization. Artelys is headed by Arnaud
Renaud, former scientific advisor in optimization at Electricité
de France and Associate Professor at Sorbonne University.
At Electricité de France he acquired more than 10 years
of experience in the application of state-of-the-art optimization
technology to electricity production management in regulated
and deregulated markets. He is the author of numerous publications
in leading journals in the area of optimization and its application
to power systems.
Artelys will not only distribute and support Dash's Xpress-MP
product range but also provide services to help their customers
draw the best out of optimization technology within their
organization. These services range from consulting in modelling
to customization of optimization components for specific needs.
The agreement between Dash and Artelys will allow companies
in French-speaking Europe to benefit from an outstanding level
of services based around Xpress-MP. Dash and Artelys will
help them model and solve problems of unprecedented complexity,
yielding significant financial returns.
About Dash
With its leading edge Xpress optimization software, Dash has
been at the forefront of optimisation software development
since 1983. Dash concentrates exclusively on software products
and provides optimisation software and components to end users,
consultants and value-added resellers, such as systems integrators
and solution providers.
Xpress has an excellent reputation for solving large, real-world
problems quickly and reliably. For example, Dash has become
the leading supplier of optimization technologies to the process
industries, traditionally the area where the most difficult
optimization problems are encountered.
Through working closely with their customers and innovative
algorithmic developments, Dash has remained responsive to
the market's need for large scale problem solving. Dash also
provides a high quality support service to help its customers
and business partners get the best possible results with the
products.
Dash has offices in the UK and US, and distributors in Europe,
the Far East and Japan.
For more information about Dash contact:
Bob Daniel
Dash Associates
Blisworth House
Blisworth, Northants NN7 3BX
UK
E-mail: rcd@dash.co.uk
Tel: +44 1604 858993
Fax: +44 1604 858147
Web: www.dash.co.uk

About Artelys
Artelys' team is composed of specialists in optimization and
its application in a business setting. Artelys offers a wide
range of services to help companies use the best of optimization
to improve their decisions. Beyond the distribution of Xpress-MP,
Artelys offers consulting services to model the most challenging
optimization problems and develop customized software to solve
these problems. Artelys also offers training programs in optimization
for executives.
For more information about Artelys contact:
Arnaud Renaud
Artelys
12 rue du Quatre Septembre
75002 Paris
France
E-mail: info@artelys.com
Tel: +33 1 44 77 89 00
Fax: +33 1 42 96 22 61
Web: www.artelys.com

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