ILOG Announces New Resources for BRMS Education, Awareness at Gartner SYMPOSIUM/ITXPO 2007

GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITXPO, ORLANDO, Fla. – Oct. 9, 2007 -- ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), today announced its BRMS Resource Center with online forums, tutorials and a free six-month trial of its award-winning ILOG JRules® software – the longest BRMS trial opportunity available in the industry. This announcement comes at the same time as the publication of Gartner’s new report, “The Anatomy of a Business Rule Management System”. These events underscore the importance of business rule management as a practice and BRMS as essential technology within enterprises.

“Just as the business process management (BPM) enabling technology market is evolving into suites, a similar shift is occurring in the rules market – a shift highlighted by this research,” the Gartner report stated. “BRE providers are evolving their products into BRMS’s, thereby adding a richer rules management ecosystem and providing functionality above and beyond that offered in traditional BRE.1”

Business Rule Management Systems and BRMS were terms coined by ILOG in 2002 and have since been adopted by the rest of the industry to refer to the next generation of business rules software. Gartner warned in the report, “Many rule engine vendors claim they have a full BRMS, but the masses do not fully support all seven components that define a BRMS.”

ILOG’s BRMS Resource Center Targets Education
ILOG’s newly launched BRMS Resource Center www.ilog.com/brms will serve as a central resource for developers, architects and IT managers to share industry knowledge, experience and best practices surrounding BRMS. The Center includes online community forums and blogs for dialogue on industry issues and sharing best practices for rules implementation and SOA deployments. The Center will contain resources to help a user learn about business rules management, including white papers, online tutorials, recorded webinars and analyst reports.

As part of its BRMS awareness and education campaign, ILOG will also offer a free trial of ILOG JRules 6.6, the latest version of the flagship JRules product, to allow users to learn more about BRMS and ILOG, to try out BRMS technology and to custom build prototypes. The JRules Trial includes a downloadable six-month evaluation copy of JRules for the JBoss platform. A first for the industry, ILOG’s six-month trial of JRules provides an easy and hassle-free opportunity for education and evaluation purposes.

ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make it one of the industry’s leading provider of business rule management system software. Forrester Research has recognized ILOG as a rules platform market leader, including the leader in rules platforms for Java. Customers of ILOG's award-winning BRMS products include eBay, Equifax, Grupo Santander, Harrah’s Entertainment, Visa, Vodafone, Zurich, and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide. ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line includes ILOG JRules®, ILOG Rules™ for .NET® and ILOG Rules (C++). To learn more about BRMS please visit www.ilog.com/brms.

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About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,500 corporations and more than 465 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), supply chain planning and scheduling applications, and optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 850 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ilog.com.

1 Gartner, Inc., "The Anatomy of a Business Rule Management System" by Eric Deitert and David W. McCoy, Sept. 28, 2007.

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