ILOG JRules Receives MISMO MXCompliance XML Certification

ILOG Becomes First Business Rule Management System Vendor To Receive Seal Of Approval From MISMO

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PARIS – February 1, 2006 – ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced that ILOG JRules™, is the first Business Rule Management System (BRMS) to earn MXCompliance certification from the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization Inc. (MISMO), a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). MXCompliance certification confirms that the ILOG JRules product meets specific mortgage industry standards related to XML data exchange. MISMO established this certification to ensure that developers and purchasers can rely on a company displaying the MISMO brand.

MISMO, the premier standards development body for the real estate finance industry, launched its MISMO XML Compliance (MXCompliance) Certification for credit reporting to ensure vendors can reference the requirements and take the necessary steps to become officially compliant with MISMO standards and validate their XML implementation. Certified vendors can display a MISMO logo attesting to certification. ILOG JRules was awarded MXCompliance certification for Credit Request v2.3.1 – part of the MXCompliance Import Service that certifies products that read MISMO Reference Standards.

“The MISMO brand has become widely recognized as offering efficiencies through standards development and innovation,” said Gabe Minton, Executive Vice President at MISMO. “With MXCompliance certification from MISMO, ILOG has joined an elite class of vendors that can assure customers, developers, and investors that their product complies with an industry standard that is critical for the evolution of services in the mortgage lending industry.”

In today’s competitive lending market, it is critical that lenders deliver loan approval and credit decisioning results with greater convenience, consistency and turnaround to consumers and correspondent partners. A BRMS has become an essential element of IT projects as lenders look for ways to bring greater agility and flexibility to their business policies in order to better manage change and respond to competitive pressures. Financial institutions are using ILOG BRMS to automate and add intelligent decisioning capabilities throughout the lending processes – from loan origination, underwriting to servicing.

ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make ILOG JRules the industry’s leading business rule software. For the third year in a row, ILOG has been named to the leader quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines and ILOG has twice been named the BRMS market leader by IT research firm IDC. ILOG’s BRMS customers in the finance industry include Commerzbank, Equifax, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Option One Mortgage Company, Wells Fargo and other top U.S. banks, lenders, and mortgage lenders.

For more information on MISMO, visit www.mismo.org. For more information on MXCompliance, visit mxcompliance.mismo.org.

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ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,500 global corporations and more than 465 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. The BRMS market leader, ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 700 people worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.ilog.com.

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