• FICO Xpress Mosel, the leading analytic orchestration, optimisation modelling and programming language is now available to everyone free of charge. 
• With this release, FICO is enabling the data science community at large to develop and deploy optimisation solutions that solve complex, real-world business and customer engagement challenges. 
• Xpress Mosel is a key component of FICO Optimisation solutions, which help global brands such as Southwest Airlines, Honeywell, and Nestle make better business decisions based on actionable data.

Silicon Valley analytics software firm FICO today announced that Xpress Mosel, the most flexible analytic orchestration, optimisation modelling and programming language, is now open to connect to any solver, and is free to use. With this release, anyone can now create optimisation models to solve problems more efficiently and make better business decisions based on data.

“FICO is deeply committed to advancing the field of mathematical optimisation,” said Oliver Bastert, Ph.D., vice president of optimisation product management, FICO. “From the boardroom to the classroom, Xpress Mosel brings significant benefits to any optimisation project, which is why we wanted to make it publicly accessible. Now anyone can employ the same technology that optimises operations for global brands such as Southwest Airlines, Honeywell, and Nestle.”

As the core of all FICO Xpress Optimisation solutions, Xpress Mosel serves as the glue that connects business users with data and advanced machine learning/artificial intelligence capabilities. It enables users to rapidly develop and deploy optimisation solutions that solve complex, real-world business and customer engagement challenges. Now, by enabling open connections to third-party solvers beyond the FICO® Xpress Solver, optimisation professionals may choose their solver technology based on their specific problem characteristics or personal preferences. 

“Xpress Mosel gives more power to the developer to create better optimisation models in less time. Unlike other solutions on the market, Xpress Mosel allows for every single aspect of the model to be developed and maintained within its development environment. It is a complete modelling and programming language in one,” said Nejat Karabakal, vice president of applied research, Llamasoft.

The benefits of FICO Xpress Mosel include:

• Simple deployment in heterogeneous environments and can be supported on all operating systems. 
• Flexibility to solve the most complicated optimisation problems, not limited to or by predefined language features.
• Fast optimisation models take advantage of the full computing infrastructure through distributed computing, including cloud. 
• Rapidly deploy optimisation into any use case, ranging from real-time artificial intelligence systems to collaborative business user environments. 
• The ability to quickly pivot when circumstances change.

FICO Xpress Mosel is available by downloading the FICO Xpress Community License.

To learn more about the FICO® Xpress Optimization portfolio and Xpress Mosel, please visit the FICO Xpress Community.