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EDITORIAL
By J-Fr. Abramatic, ILOG Chief Product Officer
 ILOG has long participated in initiatives like OSS/J to ensure our customers get products fully adapted to their industries. We have also been setting standards with our software for the same reason. In the intensely competitive financial industry, for example, companies are rapidly adopting ILOG's Business Rule Management Systems and ILOG JRules, which natively supports XML - the standard for file exchange among applications.
We have enjoyed similar success with our other products, as ILOG JTGO is now the standard GUI maker for telecommunications, and our optimization software can be found in most of the leading resource management solutions. Through standards, ILOG is delivering solutions for achieving competitive advantage.
 ILOG joins OSS/J Initiative
Dialed into fast deployment of telecom OSS/BSS solutions
ILOG has become a member of the OSS through Java (OSS/J) Initiative, supporting the fast deployment and integration of next-generation operations and business support system (OSS/BSS) solutions for the telecommunications industry.
ILOG's participation was announced at 3GSM World Congress 2003 in Cannes, France. The company joins other technology and telecommunications leaders, including BEA, MetaSolv, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel Networks and Sun Microsystems, in developing and disseminating free of charge application programming interfaces (APIs) that accelerate the development and implementation of OSS/BSS solutions with interchangeable components.
ILOG brings to the initiative OSS/J connectors for the award-winning ILOG JTGO communications OSS desktop and ILOG JRules business rule software. ILOG JTGO has been qualified to support the initiative's Quality of Service API, and ILOG JRules for the Trouble Ticket API.
TeleManagement Forum
In addition to the OSS/J Initiative, ILOG is a long-standing member of the TeleManagement Forum (TMF), and supports the TMF Next-Generation OSS (NGOSS) Architecture through the NGOSS Compliance Group. ILOG JTGO and ILOG JRules power critical flow-through provisioning and service assurance applications that telecommunications companies rely on in automating tasks, lowering operating costs and easing interoperability among legacy systems.
RHK (www.rhk.com), a leading market research and consulting firm specializing in public telecommunications networks, estimates that $10 billion-$15 billion is spent annually worldwide on integrating new and legacy software systems. This equals one-third of the service providers' combined OSS budgets.
"This proportion will only increase if service providers fail to rationalize OSS into fewer integrated systems, migrate to packet-based infrastructures, and begin charging for data services by volume and usage. We believe that with the help of initiatives like OSS/J, next-generation systems will help service providers ease the task of OSS and BSS integration, and lower its cost."
Patrick Kelly
Senior Analyst for OSS
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OSS/J Initiative: faster innovation
The OSS/J Initiative provides APIs that accelerate the development of innovative OSS/BSS solutions that work together. Based on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the APIs are standardized under the latest Java Community Process (JCP) program.
They help service providers jumpstart the deployment of end-to-end services for next-generation wireless networks, and leverage the convergence of telecommunications and Internet-based solutions. For more information about the OSS/J Initiative, please visit http://java.sun.com/products/oss.
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