We've done a lot lately to reduce the learning curve for OptaPlanner (open source). Have you seen our quickstarts repo? https://github.com/kiegroup/optaplann

We've done a lot lately to reduce the learning curve for OptaPlanner (open source). Have you seen our quickstarts repo? https://github.com/kiegroup/optaplanner-quickstarts https://github.com/kiegroup/optaplanner-quickstarts It features various use cases across various technologies.