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White papers
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Red Eléctrica incorporates decision-making (PDF, 681 KB)
Red Eléctrica de España, the company in charge of
managing the national power supply system, has recently
developed a project with ILOG in order to renovate the
software used to make the mathematical calculations
needed to regulate power supply.
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Detailed Scheduling in ILOG OPL Development Studio with ILOG CP Optimizer (ZIP, 343 KB)
This white paper, adapted from the ILOG training course 'Optimization with ILOG OPL Development Studio', introduces the concepts involved in describing a detailed scheduling problem and the ILOG OPL keywords that facilitate modeling such a problem.
This file contains:
The white paper (in PDF format)
A directory, 'Scheduling Labs', with examples and exercises that can be run with the trial version of ILOG OPL Development Studio.
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LogicTools Suite Complements SAP Solutions (PDF, 1.7 MB)
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Bringing Lean Strategies to the Process and Hybrid Industries (PDF, 1.4 MB)
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Agile Decision Services (PDF, 487 KB)
This paper explores the challenges that organizations face in trying to deliver quick time to value for IT projects and achieve the status of 'Agile Enterprise'. It illustrates how ILOG's
Business Rule Management System (BRMS) can facilitate the alignment of IT with Business
and support the implementation of an Agile Decision Service (ADS) to provide business
value within six months of project adoption.
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Past the Tipping Point (PDF, 454 KB)
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Efficient Modeling in ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System (PDF, 496 KB)
ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System is a rapid development system for optimization models with interfaces to embed models into standalone applications. This white paper describes techniques
to compress models and data so that the runtime performance and memory consumption of OPL applications are virtually the same as pure CPLEX applications.
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ILOG OPL Development Studio From OR to OPL and ODM (PDF, 781 KB)
This tutorial is written for OR experts who are not familiar with the ILOG OPL approach for development and deployment of optimization models. This is a quick start to using OPL with a well known, hands-on example based on the P-Median problem.
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Enrich the Decisioning of Your COBOL Applications (PDF, 938 KB)
Learn how to increase your mainframe COBOL applications business value. Organizations that rely on COBOL look for better ways to maintain their COBOL applications and make them more responsive to business needs. This white paper explains how ILOG JRules and Rules for COBOL can provide business benefit to your mainframe applications now.
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X-Ray Series Part Three (PDF, 953 KB)
Integrating ILOG Rules for .NET with Microsoft BizTalk Server
In part three of the X-Ray series we explore how to integrate Microsoft BizTalk Server with Rules for .NET by describing the affinity in the architectures, establishing and documenting key integration points, and promoting a list of best practices when the products are used together.
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The Forrester Wave: Business Rules Platforms, Q2 2008 (PDF, 850 KB)
This report by Forrester Research evaluates 11 BRMS vendors, using a comprehensive survey of technology/capabilities, product and company strategies, and customer feedback. The evaluations are used to compare each vendor's offering(s) across a set of market segmentations, including overall BRMS platforms, BRMS for Java developers, BRMS for .NET developers and BRMS for business analysts. Forrester rates ILOG a Leader in each of these categories.
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X-Ray Series Part Two (PDF, 3.5 MB)
Understanding Microsoft Windows Workflow
Foundation (WF) and the ILOG Rules for .NET Integration Parameters
The goal of this paper is to provide both the theory and the practice of using Rules for .NET and
Microsoft Windows WF together with the least amount of ambiguity. Several examples are provided, along with a lot of source code.
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X-Ray Series Part One (PDF, 251 KB)
Understanding RuleEngine Assertions and Parameters
This paper explains the two basic ways to pass data into
the RuleEngine application programming interface (API). The reader will walk away with a solid understanding of other key RuleEngine areas, such as integration architectures,
basic data modeling patterns for you business object model (BOM), and two real-
world examples for choosing an algorithm.
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Building Advanced Desktop and Web User Interfaces for the .NET Platform (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET framework provides a complete environment for the development of user interfaces based on standard controls. To create more advanced visualization displays that require custom graphical objects and customer interactions, however, developers can turn to the features offered in ILOG Diagram for .NET. This paper explores the product and outlines how it can be used to create custom diagram and dashboard displays.
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Before and After: Quantifying Business Rule Results in Key Banking Applications (PDF, 829 KB)
Read the white paper.
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Building Advanced User Interfaces for Rich and Web Applications (PDF, 2.9 MB)
It is well known in the engineering community that interfaces always take much longer to develop than initially planned. Furthermore, problems become even more prevalent when an application has to be delivered on different platforms. A common example is the application that has to run on both desktop computers and the Web. How should the problem be addressed? This article presents approaches for quickly creating and delivering the right rich interface for any given platform.
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ISIS: Delivering Successful Solutions Each Time, Every Time (PDF, 844 KB)
The ILOG Solution Implementation Standard (ISIS) is the methodology used by ILOG consultants to maximize our customers' return from our products. ISIS builds on the Open Unified Process (OpenUP), the industry standard for reducing development risk, from the Eclipse Foundation. ISIS refines and extends OpenUP with ILOG-specific best practices and execution artifacts gathered from hundreds of ILOG consulting projects.
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Designing and Managing the Supply Chain (PDF, 175 KB)
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A Holistic Approach to Supply Chain Transformation (PDF, 577 KB)
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Fraud Prevention and Detection for Credit and Debit Card Transactions (PDF, 170 KB)
Over the past 20 years, financial institutions, governments, insurers and retailers have seen an explosion in the amount and types of fraud perpetrated against them. This white paper takes a closer look at card fraud and examines business rules-based fraud prevention and detection.
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Are Packaged Planning Solutions Always Appropriate? (PDF, 126 KB)
Not always, advises ARC Advisory Group Analyst, Simon Bragg.
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Business Process Management with a Competitive Edge (PDF, 1.1 MB)
This white paper explains how a business rule management system can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage. Learn how the Welsh Assembly Government and a United States commercial lender have implemented business rules to make a difference in their business processes.
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Improving Plant Performance and Flexibility in Process Manufacturing (PDF, 3.3 MB)
This white paper reviews the special challenges facing most process manufacturing companies and provides information about new approaches that are making it easier to schedule and manage process manufacturing operations for new levels of performance, control and flexibility.
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Mieux supporter votre tactique commerciale (PDF, 123 KB)
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Solve Your Toughest Planning and Scheduling Problems:
How Business Managers Can Use Optimization (PDF, 2.8 MB)
Learn how ILOG has removed these barriers with the introduction of a complete system that makes it easier for organizations to build custom planning and scheduling applications that provide business users with what they really need: the ability to perform what-if analysis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario comparison so they can understand their options and balance their conflicting business goals.
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Deploying Rule Applications with ILOG JRules (PDF, 945 KB)
Developing, deploying and administering any mission-critical application is difficult. It is one of the most challenging of the cross-cutting concerns, those requirements that slice through your IT infrastructure and require just the right interplay between hardware, software, people and their supporting processes. This white paper describes ILOG JRules' deployment features, and is intended for software engineers, architects and their managers who make implementation and deployment decisions.
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Analysts Rave About JRules6! (PDF, 639 KB)
According to Bloor Research, "No other product takes the separation of business rules from application logic to the level of JRules." Get the latest word from this new 16-page report.
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Delivering Visually Rich Applications with Eclipse (PDF, 1.0 MB)
Eclipse's Rich Client Platform (RCP) is becoming increasingly popular with developers as a framework for building professional applications. This paper discusses some of the challenges of building highly graphical applications with RCP and explains how to embed Swing components into RCP using ILOG JViews' graphical displays as examples.
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AJAX for Graphics-Intensive Web Applications (PDF, 900 KB)
AJAX, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, improves the Web interface user experience by increasing interactivity and by reducing roundtrips to the server. This white paper explains how AJAX works and how ILOG JViews uses it to create advanced Web displays with graphical displays such as charts and diagrams.
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Decision Services: The Next SOA Challenge (PDF, 521 KB)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an enterprise integration strategy currently enjoying widespread adoption due to its promise of component reuse, flexibility and reduced inherent complexity, and its ability to be deployed alongside existing legacy infrastructure. This document explains how SOA implements business processes by orchestrating business services that use standard data formats and communication protocols to perform business functions.
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ILOG JRules 6 for Architects and Developers (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Business rules traditionally live simultaneously in both the application development world and the business rule life cycle. Application architects, analysts and developers need specialized tools that recognize and accommodate this reality. JRules 6 provides these tools, allowing technical users to be more productive.
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ILOG JViews Maps 7.5 fact sheet (PDF, 2.4 MB)
This technical paper details the structure and technical features of JViews Maps, including SDK exploration, jump-start development and coordinate formatting.
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Short-Interval Detailed Production Scheduling using Mixed Integer and Constraint Programming (PDF, 225 KB)
This article will describe the production implementation of
a short-interval local area scheduler in IBM's leading-edge
300mm fab, including motivation, approach, and initial results.
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Business Rule Management (BRM) with ILOG JRules - BRMS without compromise (PDF, 412 KB)
ILOG JRules 6 is BRMS without compromise. ILOG JRules 6 enables organizations to accelerate the business cycle by empowering the business to manage their business policies and rules as the business needs to change, not on an IT schedule.
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Getting ready for MiFID (PDF, 135 KB)
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ILOG in Lending and Credit Solution Brief (PDF, 142 KB)
In the race to maintain profitability and secure future growth, lenders must effectively address multiple challenges - from responding quickly to business and competitive requirements and complying with a rapidly changing regulatory landscape, to leveraging existing technology investments and integrating automated decisioning that supports exception-based handling.
This paper discusses why and how lenders are increasingly turning to technologies such as ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) to meet these challenges and bring greater speed, accuracy and increased transparency in their loan and credit decisioning.
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Why Business Rules? A Case For Business Consumers of Information Technology (PDF, 459 KB)
The relationship between business and IT has often been fraught with misunderstanding, frustration and even hostility. Part of this disconnect between the IT organization and the business groups is a natural disparity between the work cycles of the two groups. Business rule management systems bridge this gap.
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JViews Maps for Defense Fact Sheet (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Nineteen-page document detailing technical product features and architecture. Designed for developers and project managers.
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Effective IT Modernization With Business Rule Management (PDF, 1.0 MB)
This PDF presentation copy discusses how BRMS is driving federal IT modernization efforts. Philip Matkovsky, Principal, Macro Design Group, and Lynne Ann Harbin, Associate Director at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Eligibility Center share their experiences implementing BRMS in federal agencies
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ILOG Screening and Targeting Framework for Homeland Security (PDF, 1.3 MB)
The ILOG Screening and Targeting Framework supports critical Homeland Security objectives. Based on ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS), it provides an agile solution to automate data screening, fraud detection, threat detection, risk management, event management, and case management.
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ILOG JRules: Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning (PDF, 326 KB)
ILOG JRules offers a rich variety of high-performance and scalable services for demanding e-business applications. In many cases the time taken to evaluate thousands of business rules may be less than that required for a simple database query. This document is intended as a guide for developing capacity planning numbers.
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Equifax Case Study by Celent (PDF, 457 KB)
Equifax is building systems that allow lenders to make better, faster credit decisions, thanks to ILOG BRMS. This Celent case study describes how JRules is helping Equifax clients.
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ILOG JRules Business White Paper (PDF, 407 KB)
Improve efficiency and productivity with automated decision-support systems built and maintained using business rule management systems. This white paper provides an overview of business rules and ILOG JRules. Business users will learn how business rule management captures policies and best practices.
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JViews for BPM Visualization (PDF, 1.3 MB)
When tools have better interfaces, business users are more effective throughout the process life cycle -- from process definition to monitoring to performance analysis. This paper explains how ILOG JViews helps developers create intuitive interfaces. Learn about relevant features and the technology behind them. See how easily JViews products can be integrated into leading BPM solutions.
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ILOG Rules (PDF, 814 KB)
One of the fastest, most compact, robust rule engines on the market, ILOG Rules is examined in this paper. Both application developers and project managers will find the right level of detail for understanding how Rules can bring the power of business rules to C++ applications.
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Datasheets
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ILOG JViews Product Line (PDF, 3.1 MB)
The ILOG JViews product line provides a set of Java products for building displays that complement traditional text-oriented displays: diagrams, dashboards, Gantt charts, maps, charts, and more. The products consist of editing and development tools for rapid development as well as full-featured SDKs for customizing the look and feel. Applications can be developed for the desktop or for the Web, as both Java and Ajax clients.
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ILOG JViews Graph Layout for Eclipse (PDF, 499 KB)
ILOG JViews Graph Layout for Eclipse builds on ILOG's long history of expertise in graph
layout algorithms to complement EMF, GMF and GEF with sophisticated graph layout
services. It offers a full range of advanced graph layout algorithms, ILOG's acclaimed
scalability and flexibility, and a completely nonintrusive design that lets developers add
this product to an application without changing existing code.
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Project Management Solution (PDF, 158 KB)
Add-on for ILOG Gantt for .NET
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ILOG Gantt for .NET (PDF, 407 KB)
For decades, the Gantt chart has served as a standard element in planning and scheduling applications by accurately and intuitively visualizing schedules. ILOG Gantt for .NET brings this graphical standard to the .NET Framework. It comes with a complete set of Windows and Web form controls to enable developers to create fully functional Gantt charts in minutes with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET or Borland C # Builder.
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ILOG and the Microsoft Business Process Alliance (PDF, 1.8 MB)
Read about what ILOG and Microsoft are doing together.
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ILOG Diagrammer for .NET (PDF, 610 KB)
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ILOG JViews Gantt (PDF, 598 KB)
ILOG JViews Gantt lets Java developers rapidly build intuitive, interactive Gantt displays that quickly convey complex information. With Designer for Gantt, developers simply select a view type, set its properties, define the rules for highlighting critical values, and connect the resulting Gantt chart to a data source. A complete software development kit (SDK) is included for customizing exact look and user interactions. Displays developed with ILOG JViews Gantt can be easily deployed as applets for desktop applications or as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)-enhanced interactive DHTML thin clients for the Web.
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ILOG JViews Diagrammer (PDF, 979 KB)
ILOG JViews Diagrammer provides a set of tools for quickly assembling diagram and dashboard displays, and an SDK for complete control over customization. The tools are: Designer for Diagrammer, a ready-to-use development tool for quickly configuring diagrams without coding, Symbol Editor, a tool used to create, edit and organize symbols, and Dashboard Editor, which is used to create industrial and business dashboards. ILOG JViews Diagrammer applications can be deployed as Eclipse plug-ins, desktop, or Ajax thin client components.
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ILOG services (PDF, 1.6 MB)
ILOG services helps you get the most from your ILOG software. From conception to deployment, ILOG provides the best in consulting, training and customer support. ILOG helps you to accelerate time to market with the best solution for your needs.
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ILOG Rules for NET (PDF, 477 KB)
ILOG adds new features to its groundbreaking BRMS, further revolutionizing .NET development with new features that further bring business and IT users together into a formidable team for building and maintaining competitive decision-making applications.
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Rules for COBOL (PDF, 100 KB)
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ILOG business rules for manufacturing operations (PDF, 126 KB)
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ILOG Plant PowerOps (PDF, 194 KB)
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ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System (PDF, 159 KB)
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Company Profile (PDF, 691 KB)
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ILOG JRules 6 (PDF, 154 KB)
ILOG JRules is the only business rule management system (BRMS) that allows both business and IT users to easily and successfully manage the rules that drive business -- without compromising on power.
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ILOG JRules 6 (French) (PDF, 156 KB)
ILOG JRules est le seul système de gestion de règles métier
(BRMS) permettant à la fois aux utilisateurs métier comme aux informaticiens de gérer facilement
et efficacement les règles pilotant l’activité sans faire de compromis.
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ILOG CP Optimizer (PDF, 159 KB)
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ILOG JViews Telecom Graphic Objects (PDF, 337 KB)
ILOG JViews Telecom Graphic Objects (JTGO) simplifies GUI development by providing a full set of high-level Java components. These include network, equipment, table and tree views for displaying networks, services and hardware. ILOG JTGO GUIs seamlessly integrate with OSSs. Turnkey graphics connect to data sources through XML or a Java API.
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ILOG JViews Maps and Maps for Defense (PDF, 261 KB)
ILOG JViews Maps provides comprehensive graphics and services for making map-based interfaces. Its MapBuilder creates backdrop maps by layering data from different sources and formats. Developers can then position customized, data-aware graphic objects over the maps using the open application programming interface (API). ILOG JViews Diagrammer can be added to automatically manage interconnections. Applications made with the ILOG JViews Maps tool chain can be deployed either as traditional desktop or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)-enabled Web-based monitoring solutions.
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ILOG JViews Charts (PDF, 220 KB)
ILOG JViews Charts provides a full range of charts: 2D point, line, bar, stacked, bubble, area, high/low, candle, radar, polar and pie. It comes with load-on-demand for handling huge data sets, and a complete set of navigational features. It is also one of the first visualization products to support the new Java Server Faces (JSF) standard for easy thin-client user-interface development, and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) technology to make charts that are truly dynamic and interactive.
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ILOG solutions for insurance (PDF, 191 KB)
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ILOG OPL Development Studio (PDF, 1.6 MB)
ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System is a complete platform for applying optimization technology to leverage valuable resources.
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ILOG JRules and EMC Documentum BPM (PDF, 453 KB)
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ILOG Constraint Programming (PDF, 130 KB)
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ILOG Fab PowerOps (PDF, 565 KB)
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ILOG JRules Rule Scenario Manager (PDF, 135 KB)
Business rule management systems (BRMSs) like ILOG's drive critical applications in virtually every industry. They automate decision making in systems that handle thousands of transactions and millions of dollars daily.
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Business process management and BRMS (PDF, 123 KB)
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Storage Management (PDF, 80 KB)
ILOG technologies enable ISVs and OEMs to develop next-generation storage management applications quickly and successfully. Proven through 15 years of worldwide usage, ILOG software components reduce development costs and risks, and accelerate time to market for cutting-edge applications that heighten the agility of business operations.
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ILOG CPLEX (PDF, 189 KB)
ILOG CPLEX delivers high-performance, robust and flexible optimizers for solving linear, mixed-integer and quadratic programming problems in mission-critical resource allocation applications.
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ILOG Server (PDF, 168 KB)
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Consumer lending and credit (PDF, 115 KB)
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ILOG Optimization Decision Manager (PDF, 1.2 MB)
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ILOG Transport PowerOps (PDF, 104 KB)
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Compliance (PDF, 92 KB)
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E-Government (PDF, 145 KB)
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Network and Service Management (PDF, 279 KB)
ILOG's visualization and business rule products provide the industry graphic objects and unmatched alarm filtering and correlation needed to closely supervise a network around the clock. ILOG software components ensure higher customer satisfaction by expediting service activation and problem resolution.
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The Competitive Edge in Media (PDF, 133 KB)
Media vendors need software that improves operational returns and facilitates development of new offerings without replacing existing assets or substantially re-investing. ILOG business-rule management software enables companies around the globe to exploit untapped opportunities that require real-time response and high granularity.
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Service Fulfillment (PDF, 182 KB)
By automating complex routine tasks and data conversion such as compliance checking, and better integrating fulfillment systems with one another, an ILOG-based flow-through provisioning system can greatly improve service fulfillment.
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Powering Alarm Filtering and Correlation (PDF, 309 KB)
ILOG is a leading provider of intelligent software components for network management and service assurance, offering products that are among the most efficient software components for filtering out irrelevant alarms, removing redundant ones and identifying the root cause of a problem.
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Success stories
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Powel ASA (PDF, 114 KB)
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Energy Market Company (PDF, 862 KB)
Meeting Singapore's demand for electricity
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Case Study: Danone (PDF, 2.4 MB)
With ILOG Plant PowerOps, Danone, the #1 fresh dairy products company in the world, has made a breakthrough in the integrated scheduling of intermediate product and finished goods production, and in the management of tanks and complex cleaning rules.
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Magnum Technologies (PDF, 126 KB)
IT service discovery for
configuration management databases.
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LAN Airlines (PDF, 113 KB)
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Dynetics (PDF, 843 KB)
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Federated Software Group (PDF, 252 KB)
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Whoa2Go! (PDF, 104 KB)
W2G creates software for Australia's building industry. It provides small to large construction companies with a comprehensive system for managing the homebuilding process. W2G's Integra application uses ILOG Gantt for .NET to chart and schedule every aspect of the building process. Homes built using Integra typically save four weeks and $3,800 in administrative and time costs.
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J.B. Hunt (PDF, 102 KB)
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MineMAX Pty. Ltd (PDF, 100 KB)
MineMax Success Story.
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Schneider Logistics Inc. (PDF, 367 KB)
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Powel ASA (PDF, 114 KB)
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Bitwise Solutions, Inc. (PDF, 153 KB)
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Aeroport de Paris (PDF, 93 KB)
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Dillinger Hutte GTS (PDF, 98 KB)
Dillinger Hutte GTS implements steel production plans using business rules written and deployed with ILOG JRules. Employed in 16 production lines at Dillinger Hutte's rolling mill plant, ILOG JRules powers a new application called Buchungsserver. Planners can adjust and fine-tune processes and production steps in real time, achieving better quality and faster response to changes in supplies, orders and plant schedules.
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Choose Technologies (PDF, 83 KB)
Choose Technologies deploys computer systems for industries including telecom, transportation and agro-business. From an office located in Miami, Choose Technologies works with software development groups in Brazil, combining cost-effectiveness and software quality for the international software market. IMES, Choose Technologies' billing mediation solution, was built using ILOG Server, ILOG Rules, ILOG Views and ILOG JTGO to manage, configure and visualize the mediation process.
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Siemens AG (PDF, 268 KB)
Siemens AG is a world leader in electronics and electrical engineering, with a heritage extending over 150 years. Today the firm operates in over 190 countries and competes in a variety of markets, including information and communications; automation and control; power; transportation; medical; and lighting. Siemens used ILOG Views to add real-time management to a switching system.
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AbaXX Technology AG (PDF, 91 KB)
Rated as one of the top 100 emerging technology companies in Europe by Tornado Insider, more than half of abaXX Technology's business comes from the financial services industry. Its abaXX E-Business-Suite, designed using ILOG JRules and ILOG JViews, serves customers that include Dresdner Bank and Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg.
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Nokia Corporation (PDF, 1.7 MB)
Nokia Corporation is the world leader in mobile communications, selling products and services in over 130 countries. The company's OSS business unit uses ILOG visualization components to give its network management system a competitive edge. Intelligent graphics help the system reduce response time and increase accuracy in solving network problems.
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LHS Group Inc. (PDF, 396 KB)
LHS Group is a leading global provider of operating support system software and services. LHS products range from pre- and post-paid billing and customer care to enhanced services and acquisition software, installed at more than 300 customer sites worldwide. LHS has adopted ILOG Rules for its Business Support and Control System (BSCS), allowing end users to rapidly implement discount and pricing schemes without having to modify the application's core code.
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University of Chile (PDF, 460 KB)
More than 1.3 million students at 14,000 Chilean schools depend on the National School Assistance and Scholarship Board (JUNAEB) of Chile to feed them daily. The University of Chile has created an auction system for JUNAEB that helps select the best catering companies for each region. Powered by ILOG CPLEX, the system has cut distribution costs by 25%.
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Policy Studies Inc. (PDF, 444 KB)
Policy Studies Inc. (PSI) works with state governments to help process health-care applications for children and pregnant women. To clear applications more quickly, PSI offers advanced software solutions that include the Child Health Administration Management Program System (CHAMPS). Powered by ILOG JRules, CHAMPS has cut application processing time by 50%.
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