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Editorial
ILOG Optimization Decision Manager
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
Commerzbank AG
DB Systems
The Rainmaker Group
J.B. Hunt
MineMAX
PARTNER NEWS
Acterna
ANALYST NEWS
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines
PRODUCT NEWS
ILOG OPL Development Studio 4.0
Visualization releases
QAViews
SERVICE NEWS
ILOG Solution Implementation Standard
Consulting boot camps
ILOG JRules courses
COMPANY NEWS
ILOG Optimization Technologies Workshops
ILOG Direct Channel
CeBIT 2005
MS Office seminars
INDUSTRY FEATURE
Accounting practices: Compliance made easy
 

COMPANY NEWS

Optimization Workshops
ILOG Optimization Technologies Workshops
Three years and counting
ILOG has entered its third year of bringing optimization to operations researchers worldwide. Locally delivered ILOG Optimization Technologies Workshops give attendees an opportunity to better understand and evaluate ILOG’s optimization products, and share best practices and methodologies for building and deploying applications.

More than 55 workshops have already been held in 23 countries, and more will soon take place across Asia, Europe and the Americas. Feedback for the one-day sessions has been very positive, with attendees describing the workshops as “very informative” and “well organized.”

Participants are introduced to ILOG’s market-leading optimization products and shown technical case studies on successful implementations in their industries and regions. For more information on the workshops, including where and how to attend them, visit www.ilog.com/products/optimization/events.cfm.

 

 

 

 

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ILOG Direct Channel
Presales advice
Buyers around the world can now get expert advice over the phone – before they purchase ILOG optimization or visualization software.

Designed for technical buyers, ILOG Direct Channel offers presales support that includes product assessments, evaluations and testing. After the purchase, the buyer receives ongoing support from ILOG Direct Channel, which serves as a point of contact to ensure trouble-free fulfillment of license maintenance, training and consulting services, and access to technical materials, events and workshops.

“ILOG Direct was created to help optimization and visualization customers match our technologies to their applications in a highly responsive technical buying environment,” says Jim Claussen, marketing director for ILOG Direct. “We’ve extended this service worldwide, and today provide customers with more localized service support.”

To contact ILOG Direct, e-mail info@ilog.com or call 1-800-FOR-ILOG (U.S.A.) or 1-775-881-2800 (International).

 

 

 

 

CeBIT
CeBIT 2005
ILOG, partners at CeBIT 2005
ILOG joined forces with FileNet and FileNet partner TDS at CeBIT 2005 this year. Representatives from all three companies worked ILOG’s booth at the seven-day event in Hanover, Germany, demonstrating their solutions and ILOG’s technologies. Visitors to the booth learned the latest on ILOG’s three product lines: optimization, visualization and business rule management systems. Thorsten Ripper, head of sales at ILOG Germany, also gave a special presentation on the competitive advantages of using ILOG JRules.

Amadeus picks ILOG JRules
ILOG and leading travel IT provider Amadeus used CeBIT to announce Amadeus’ selection of ILOG JRules for a new search-and-compare solution: Amadeus Destino. The new application will be used by 1,300 travel agencies across Germany to provide real-time reservation information on up to 65 tour operators in Germany and Austria.

 

 

 

 

MS Office seminars
Developers across France are learning more about ILOG Rules for .NET through a series of Microsoft seminars. Started in March, the series is introducing participants to the advantages of integrating applications with Microsoft Office Systems.
Upcoming seminars:
  • Nice, May 2
  • Montpellier, May 3
  • Paris, May 23

For more information visit msoffice.ilog.com.