PARTNER

axentiv partners with ILOG
Advantage in supply-chain management
Partnering with ILOG gives system integrator axentiv a huge advantage over its competitors in the supply-chain management (SCM) sector. As a new ILOG partner, axentiv (www.axentiv.de) can tap ILOG's sales, marketing, customer support and R&D personnel in winning new contracts and building fully customized solutions.

Based in Germany, axentiv is an international consulting firm that specializes in supply-chain optimization processes. It develops and implements modern IT and enterprise solutions for companies in the manufacturing, commerce and service industries, and uses ILOG optimization components to extend such leading SCM systems as SAP R/3 and SAP APO, for which axentiv has adopted ILOG ODF (www.odf.ilog.com).

Managing the supply chain is a demanding task. Goals such as lowering costs, delivering reliably and handling orders flexibly are hard to achieve with constraints that include limited resources, shrinking budgets and pressure to deliver faster.

axentiv extends SCM systems like SAP's with simulation, optimization and visualization solutions. The company applies a proven process for analyzing and modeling a problem, selecting and developing algorithms for solving the problem, and implementing and integrating the algorithms as a custom extension into an SCM system.

axentiv has partnered with ILOG to take advantage of its worldwide resources for marketing, selling and delivering enterprise-class software. ILOG's proven optimization technologies shorten time to market and greatly reduce project costs and risks, further enabling axentiv to quickly equip its customers with fully customized solutions.

"We create innovative solutions for complex requirements in optimization, simulation and visualization. This way, we enable industrial and commercial enterprises to make the right decisions in planning and controlling supply-chain operations. ILOG gives us some of the best tools for succeeding in this arena." Boris Reuter Managing Partner Supply-Chain Management axentiv

Versata, ILOG enter Phase 2
ILOG JViews connector for Versata Logic Server
Versata, Inc. (www.versata.com), and ILOG have announced the second phase of their partnership, which will result in the creation of customized, end-to-end business process management (BPM) solutions for Global 2000 companies.

In the first phase of their partnership, a connector was created between ILOG JRules and Versata Logic Server. ILOG JRules extends Versata Logic Server with a unified platform that supports all types of business logic, including executive transactions, processing and decision-making.

In the second phase, ILOG has developed a connector between ILOG JViews and the Process Logic Engine of Versata Logic Server. The connector enables businesses seeking increased agility through attention to their business processes to more efficiently manage complex processes across an organization.

An emerging enterprise application, BPM improves the efficiency of operations by enabling companies to better coordinate and manage business processes in order to more effectively respond to customer needs and changing business conditions.