New IBM ILOG Products Help Customers React Faster to Business Challenges

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Innovation of ILOG Products to Continue Under IBM; New Offerings Include New Supply Chain Applications and a Business Rule Management System

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and PARIS – June 17, 2009 –ILOG, an IBM Company (NYSE: IBM), today announced new offerings across its business rule management and supply chain management portfolio of products to help enterprises analyze an ever-increasing flow of data and make smarter decisions about their operations and the customers they serve.

The new products provide professionals in a range of industries – including banking, insurance, airlines, healthcare, government, manufacturing and others – with tools to make better decisions as part of business operations. For example, more business user friendly features in the latest release of IBM ILOG's new business rule management system (BRMS) lets managers, analysts, architects and developers more easily develop and deploy business rules.

Decisions – ranging from whether to accept a loan application or pay a health care claim, to whether a credit card transaction should be flagged as suspect or awarded loyalty points – are critical to businesses. However, this can be challenging since they are embedded into traditional software solutions where they can’t be accessed. IBM ILOG BRMS automates these decisions and allows businesses to make quick, safe and effective changes to these business rules to speed business response time.

In the new version, IBM ILOG’s supply chain management applications have been enhanced to analyze more detailed parameters, including global tax implications, and the potential financial impact of carbon emissions in supply chains. IBM ILOG Supply Chain Applications help companies address global supply chain design and sourcing strategies, transportation planning, production planning and scheduling, and the optimal flow and placement of inventory.

“The ability to make rapid and informed operational, tactical and strategic decisions is at the core of any successful enterprise. The new ILOG products give key professionals, in a range of industries, the tools they need to accomplish this, while working smarter, understanding more and communicating better,” said Craig Hayman, vice president, WebSphere, IBM Software Group. “Innovation in the areas of business rule management, optimization, supply chain management and visualization, as exemplified by ILOG’s products, will continue at IBM.”

The new products include:

• IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules® 7.0

  BRMS product line – the newest version of ILOG BRMS for the Java platform helps customers in managing complex, variable and evolving business rules, making rule authoring easier and more intuitive for business users through ILOG’s Rule Solutions for Office integration with Microsoft Office Word and Excel, providing improved decision governance and insight capabilities, and ensuring business policies and rules are quickly, safely and reliably implemented as automated decision services. This release will also include improvements for managing and automating decisions in legacy applications running on mainframe systems.
  
  

  
  
  

• IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET® 7.0

  BRMS product line – a BRMS for the Microsoft .NET platform that adds the ILOG BRMS rule repository and Web-based IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server environment, and allows “one click” deployment of rules as Transparent Decision Services for use in service-oriented architectures.
  
  

  
  
  

• IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus™ XE 7.0

  a supply chain design and planning solution that allows measuring and optimizing of the carbon footprint within a supply chain concurrently with production, transportation, warehousing, and other supply chain costs. An industry first, the tool also offers customers the ability to analyze tax implications when designing supply chains, taking into account global tax regulations with other costs and constraints.
  
  

  
  
  

• IBM ILOG Plant PowerOps™ 3.2

  an integrated production planning and scheduling application that helps professionals anticipate and solve potential problems up to five times faster than previous versions. It includes a strong “re-plan and reschedule” capability, enabling customers to run more “what-if” business scenarios. Finally, it is the first solution of its kind to optimize schedules and inventory requirements simultaneously.

ILOG has more than 3,000 customers who are benefiting from the broad range of products offered by the company. Customers includeVanderbilt University Medical Center, which uses ILOG technology to expedite the processing of patient test results;Bank of the West, for automation of its commercial loan process;Netherlands Railways, for improving operating efficiency;NBC, for automating the creation of advertising sales plans and won the Edelman award for this applicationhttp://www.scienceofbetter.org/Edelman/index.htm

DANONE, which uses ILOG to generate schedules in its dairy plant in dramatically less time.

For more information on ILOG, an IBM Company, please visithttp://www.ilog.com

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