SUNNYVALE, California and PARIS, February 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- New ILOG JRules 6.7 Adds New Platforms, Customization Options

ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced
ILOG Rules for COBOL(R), a new add-on module for ILOG JRules(R), a key
offering in ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line, that
helps organizations with significant IBM mainframe investments simplify their
legacy modernization efforts -- including moves to service-oriented
architectures (SOA). ILOG Rules for COBOL enables organizations to leverage a
BRMS to unlock business policies buried in COBOL to cost-effectively
implement policy change management and quickly respond to regulatory or
market pressures. ILOG also today unveiled ILOG JRules 6.7 with several
platform upgrades and improved customization features for end-user and ISV
customers.

Many Fortune 500 companies -- including insurance, banking, government
and telecommunications -- have mission-critical applications deployed on
mainframe computers. In many cases, these applications are written in COBOL
which requires specialized and increasingly scarce programming skills to
maintain. As a result, business policies written in COBOL on the mainframe
cannot be easily reviewed or changed, slowing business response times.

The Rules for COBOL add-on module, which is available for use with ILOG
JRules and licensed separately, enables IBM mainframe customers to author and
manage rules written against native COBOL data structures, and to deploy
these rules more easily. Companies with a large mainframe investment that
wish to move to a modern SOA environment can particularly benefit from using
the COBOL add-on module: using Rules for COBOL, business policies are
expressed as business rules that can be tested and deployed both in the
mainframe data environment and as standalone decision services in an SOA
environment. This means that business rules can create a bridge that ensures
business policy continuity from legacy systems to SOA.

"The new ILOG Rules for COBOL opens up the possibility for us to enhance
our business agility through a BRMS while leveraging our existing mainframe
investments," said Ramon Lasurt, Head of Development Allianz Seguros,
Barcelona, Spain. "Using Rules for COBOL in concert with ILOG JRules, we
expect to increase transparency and auditability in our operations as well.
With ILOG Rules for COBOL we are now prepared to make ILOG's BRMS part of our
standard map and methodology for applications development."

Key technical features of ILOG Rules for COBOL include:

-- A COBOL copybook import facility for quickly developing the business
       object model to begin authoring business rules for the COBOL
       application.
    -- Full support of business rule authoring within JRules including the
       use of decision tables and rule flows. The support of COBOL functions 
       and actions required for rule authoring enables the customers to 
       access additional COBOL functionality they need from business rules.
    -- Ability to generate native COBOL code as a sub-program by a simple
       menu item from ILOG JRules Rule Studio or Rule Team Server so 
       customers do not have to introduce new technology or new coding 
       techniques within their existing mainframe COBOL programs.
    -- Compatibility with IBM WebSphere Developer for zSeries.



New ILOG JRules 6.7 Adds Platforms, Customization

With ILOG JRules 6.7, ILOG furthers customization options for end-user
and ISV customers, including new user interface components that permit
customers to embed rule management and authoring functionality into their own
Web applications. This means that end-user customers can tailor the user
experience to their own organizations and processes and ISV customers can
build their own Web application (using the Web components for editors and
tree explorer) to control the behavior of the existing interface and
integrate it more closely with their other components.

JRules 6.7 also introduces new application program interfaces (APIs) for
customizing the user experience of Rule Team Server, allowing for the removal
of standard features and the addition of customized functionality per user
role. Also new is support for the Java 6, Eclipse 3.3, Tomcat 6.0 platforms
and new application server releases from BEA (WebLogic 10.0) and Sun Java
Enterprise System 8.2 - JRules 6.7 continues support for application servers
IBM WebSphere 6.1 and JBoss 4.0. Various database driver and version support
updates are also included.

Both the ILOG Rules for COBOL add-on module and ILOG JRules 6.7 are now
available. Please visit http://www.ilog.com/products/jrules for more
information.

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, including the
leader in business rule 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(R) and ILOG Rules (C++)(R).

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 http://www.ilog.com.

ILOG, ILOG JRules and ILOG Rules for COBOL are registered trademarks of
ILOG S.A. and ILOG, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks
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