ILOG Offers Free Six-Month Trial of ILOG Rules for .NET

New .NET Community Targets Developers

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and PARIS – July 1, 2008 ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced the availability of a six-month free trial of ILOG Rules® for .NET® 3.0 the latest version of ILOG's business rules management system (BRMS) for the Microsoft® .NET platform. Supporting the launch of the six-month trial is a new .NET developer community providing a Microsoft-centric portal for .NET BRMS including a quick start guide for ILOG Rules for .NET, online tutorials, recorded Webinars, blogs and interactive forums. These initiatives will help .NET developers enhance their understanding of the business rules development paradigm and ILOG Rules for .NET.

Today’s announcement follows the successful launch of the six-month free trial of ILOG JRules® in October 2007. ILOG’s BRMS Resource Center was launched at the same time and continues to serve as a central resource for developers, architects and IT managers to share industry knowledge, experience and best practices regardless of platform.

ILOG Rules for .NET 3.0 has comprehensive integration with Microsoft platforms and products:

• Rule Solution for Office System enables rule authoring directly from Microsoft Word®, Microsoft Excel®, and deployment to Microsoft SharePoint®, providing an easy and familiar environment targeted for business users.
• Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supported with out-of-the-box deployment, accelerating projects and promoting reuse within the enterprise.
• ILOG continues to lead on the Microsoft platform with the only BRMS that includes Microsoft Visual Studio® integration, promoting seamless project integration with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Microsoft BizTalk® server.

ILOG is a member of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance, a premier-level member of the Visual Studio Industry Partner program, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Internet Software Vendor. ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make it one of the industry’s leading providers of BRMS – Forrester Research has recognized ILOG as a business rule platform market leader and Rules for .NET as the highest-rated product for .NET developers in its April 2008 Forrester Wave™ report for Business Rules Platforms. 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 Rules™ for .NET®, ILOG JRules™, and ILOG Rules (C++)®.

About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 3,000 corporations and more than 465 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management systems (BRMS), supply chain planning and scheduling applications as well as its 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 860 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ilog.com.

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