This document summarizes research on the extended Bose-Hubbard model, which describes interacting soft-core bosons. The model exhibits a supersolid phase, where there is simultaneous diagonal long-range order (solid phase) and off-diagonal long-range order (superfluid phase). Mean-field theory and stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the phase diagram and competition between the solid and superfluid orders. Both methods find successive solid and superfluid transitions with suppression of the solid order by the superfluid fraction near the tetracritical point.