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ILOG: ILOG And Sodifrance Collaborate On Joint Solution For Legacy
Modernization; Partnership Increases The Flexibility of COBOL Legacy
Assets
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:07102008
PARIS -- ILOG (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) and
Sodifrance (Euronext: SOA), a Frenchsystems integrator specializing in
IT modernization,today announceda technical partnership agreementaimed
at helping organizations simplify their legacy modernization efforts -
including helping these organizations move to service-oriented
architectures (SOA) more easily. According to the agreement, the two
companies will market a joint solution based on ILOG's business rule
management system (BRMS) that will enable organizations to extract, map
and re-use the business rules written in COBOL software code to enhance
flexibility and improve business response times.
Currently, a large fraction of critical applications of major
corporations are written in COBOL. These applications contain the
business logic of a company's core processes and, over the years, go
through many changes and additions that make them harder and more
costly to maintain. Added to this is the shortage of COBOL skills: only
a few specialists are now capable of maintaining them. As a result,
business policies written in COBOL and stored in mainframes cannot be
easily reviewed or changed, slowing business response times.
ILOG and Sodifrance have joined forces to provide a joint solution,
comprising services expertise from Sodifrance with ILOG Rules for COBOL
add-on module - which is available for use with ILOG JRules . With the
technology and know-how of Sodifrance, business rules are extracted
from COBOL code that is buried in the mainframe system. Then, using
Rules for COBOL, IBM mainframe customers can author and manage their
business rules and from those business rules generate native COBOL in
the format of COBOL sub-programs. The structured COBOL sub-program code
is then deployed into the business application system using
Sodifrance's CASE system. Using the joint solution, business rules that
are extracted are managed as strategic enterprise assets with the
appropriate governance.
"Sodifrance has a long history of understanding and transforming legacy
application assets, especially those written in COBOL," said Yves
Lennon, CEO of Sodifrance. "Advanced solutions today extract the
business rules from the program data. The ability to re-inject them
into ILOG's BRMS takes the upgrading of COBOL legacy applications to a
new level".
"We have several clients for which both our Business Rules Management
System (BRMS) and legacy COBOL are integral parts of their corporate
architecture,"said Desmond Delandro, VP Strategic Alliances of ILOG.
"These customers want to leverage their existing and substantial
technology investment in their legacy COBOL applications. With
Sodifrance, we are happy to offer them a solution that enhances the
business value of their legacy assets and minimizes impact on their
existing systems."
About Sodifrance
SODIFRANCE provides IT services to major accounts, especially in the
Banking-Insurance-Retirement and Administration-Defense sectors.
Sodifrance is the specialist in the area of Legacy Modernization and
Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) based on its lines of automated
solutions developed by its R&D centre. Sodifrance has completed over
100 successful transformation projects, including the largest ever lead
in Europe, for a large insurance company, with over 60 000 programs to
get transformed. Sodifrance automated approach helps numerous European
large companies efficiently modernizing their IT systems to meet their
business needs. Based on its expertise, Sodifrance has created
Mia-Software, one of the leading software companies in MDA (Model
Driven Architecture) solutions.
Founded in 1986, SODIFRANCE employs 846 employees based in France,
Belgium and Luxembourg; Sodifrance (SOA) is listed on NYSE Euronext
market.
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 system (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
840 people worldwide.
ILOG, ILOG JRules and ILOG Rules for COBOL are registered trademarks of
ILOG S.A.. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective
owners
CONTACT: Alexia, for ILOG
Tel: +44 (0)207 608 4687
e-mail: alexia.ward@hotwirepr.com
WWW: http://www.ilog.com
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