ILOG JRules Brings Enhanced Agility and Flexibility to EMC Documentum Business Process Management Product Suite

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PARIS – June 21 -- ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced that EMC Documentum has selected ILOG as its preferred business rule technology provider for the EMC Documentum Business Process Management (BPM) product suite. By combining ILOG’s award-winning ILOG JRules™, a key offering in its business rule management systems (BRMS) product line, with the EMC BPM solution for its next-generation enterprise content management (ECM) platform, business users can make policy changes within any BPM application without any IT involvement, resulting in faster business agility in response to customer demands, regulations and competitive threats.

Business users can take advantage of ILOG’s BRMS to deploy and apply policy changes using EMC’s new “Documentum Process Connector for ILOG JRules.” This connector provides seamless integration between ILOG JRules and the EMC Documentum BPM product suite. The JRules-powered process connector targets new and existing customers of the EMC Documentum BPM product suite who need externalized business rule management functionality for better agility and flexibility of their processes.

The EMC Documentum BPM product suite delivers powerful and easy-to-use tools for designing and configuring processes and code-free process integrations, as well as a powerful engine for high-performance execution of complex business processes. The BPM product suite is completely unified with Documentum’s next-generation enterprise content management (ECM) platform, marking the world's first major unified ECM platform that enables global organizations to make better use of information, optimize work processes and mitigate risks through enhancements in content, process and repository services. The BPM suite is critical in that it enables businesses to radically alter their processes and procedures without major IT resources; putting the management of the business back where it belongs - with the business managers.

“To efficiently automate content-based business processes while complying with regulatory requirements, our customers need easier-to-use solutions that they can rapidly deploy and use across their entire organization,” said Rob Tarkoff, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Business Development and Alliances, EMC Software Group. “Thus, we have selected ILOG as our provider of business rule technology to provide this capability for customers of the EMC Documentum BPM platform.”

The Documentum Process Connector for ILOG JRules consists of two parts. One integrates with Business Process Manager, enabling the design of processes invoking external business rules, and the other integrates with Documentum Process Engine, enabling real time rule validation for each running instance of the process. Using ILOG’s BRMS, business policies defined by sub-processes or services can be managed or changed separately from the rest of the application. Changing business conditions can then be adapted by business users without creating new versions of the software every time a policy modification is required.

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 was recently named the BRMS market leader by IT research firm IDC. ILOG’s BRMS customers include eBay, Freddie Mac, Sabre, Zurich American and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide. In addition, since BRMS is becoming an essential complement to BPM applications, ILOG has partnered with leading BPM solution providers including EMC Documentum to provide BRMS solutions to their customers.

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ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 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 share leader, ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 600 people worldwide.

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