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Optym

Optym is a privately held company founded in 2000 by Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja as Innovative Scheduling, Inc. The company headquarters is situated in Dallas, Texas with a development center located in Bangalore, India. Optym provides transportation software and specializes in the optimization, simulation and analytics of transportation and logistics for railroad, trucking, airline and mining industries. The company clients include 5 of the top 10 LTL carriers and several other clients across railroad, air freight, and full-truckload, including Southwest Airlines, Komatsu, BNSF Railway, BHP, Norfolk Southern, Greyhound. Optym was founded by researcher and academic Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja in 2000 as Innovative Scheduling, Inc., which was rebranded as Optym in 2014. Between 2004 and 2015, Optym was located at the Gainesville Technology Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC), a Santa Fe College-led business incubator. In 2015, the company moved its facility to the three-building Hillside Office Park off Tower Road to allow for rapid expansion and hiring.

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Optym is a privately held company founded in 2000 by Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja as Innovative Scheduling, Inc. The company headquarters is situated in Dallas, Texas with a development center located in Bangalore, India. Optym provides transportation software and specializes in the optimization, simulation and analytics of transportation and logistics for railroad, trucking, airline and mining industries. The company clients include 5 of the top 10 LTL carriers and several other clients across railroad, air freight, and full-truckload, including Southwest Airlines, Komatsu, BNSF Railway, BHP, Norfolk Southern, Greyhound. Optym was founded by researcher and academic Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja in 2000 as Innovative Scheduling, Inc., which was rebranded as Optym in 2014. Between 2004 and 2015, Optym was located at the Gainesville Technology Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC), a Santa Fe College-led business incubator. In 2015, the company moved its facility to the three-building Hillside Office Park off Tower Road to allow for rapid expansion and hiring.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2000 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. release date: 2017 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2000". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the release date is "2017". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373043071

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.