Newly Developed System Improved NFL's 2003 Season Scheduling Task

MARLTON, NJ and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif, - April 15, 2003 - The National Football League (NFL) recently unveiled its 2003 regular season schedule - a schedule created in conjunction with a new automated scheduling system developed by Sengen�, a builder of business process efficiencies, using optimization technology from ILOG� (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext; SICOVAM: 006673), the world's leading provider of enterprise-class software components.

This new scheduling system is capable of taking into account the numerous "constraints" that impact team play annually over the 256-game schedule and helps create schedules that are optimized to the League's requirements. The use of this system also enables the League to create and consider a wider variety of outstanding scheduling options in a far more effective manner, prior to selecting the final version.

"The process of developing the regular season schedule had always been, to a large degree, a manual process, and an intensely complex one. This is due to the numerous rules and constraints that must be managed in order to satisfy our teams' needs, complicated by the logistics of scheduling around stadium availabilities, while providing all of our fans, our network partners and their viewers with outstanding schedules" said Dennis Lewin, NFL Senior Vice President, Broadcasting and Network Television, who is responsible for overseeing the League's scheduling process. "Sengen understands our unique requirements and, using ILOG technology, has automated much of the process while factoring in specific guidelines, which we were able to test, continuously modify and refine during the process of creating the 2003 playing schedule."

"The opportunity to assist the NFL in upgrading their scheduling process by using cutting-edge constraint programming and scheduling tools represents just one of the many efficiencies optimization technology can offer companies today." said Mel Baiada, Sengen President and CEO. "We look forward to watching the many exciting NFL gridiron match-ups in 2003 with the pride of knowing that we assisted in the scheduling process."

The scheduling system, recently tested and deployed at NFL headquarters in New York, was built by Sengen in cooperation with the National Football League's Broadcasting and Information Technology Departments, based on specific design requests from the League, using ILOG's award-winning optimization software, ILOG OPL Studio™ and ILOG Solver™.

About Sengen
The privately held Marlton, New Jersey-based professional services consulting and development firm strategizes, develops, and implements custom technology solutions that deliver measurable business results for our clients. For nearly 15 years Sengen has helped companies across multiple industries streamline business process through the use of technology by providing business process management, technology integration, data transaction and management, and IT staff augmentation services. Sengen's integration and implementation expertise with numerous software solutions provides clients with powerful applications to address the most demanding requirements. Sengen is a Microsoft Certified Partner (NASDAQ:MFST) and an authorized subcontractor to Sun Microsystems Professional Services (NASDAQ:SUNW). To contact Sengen, please visit the company Web Site at www.sengen.com, or call 1-800-639-9566.

About ILOG
ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximize their business agility and improve operating efficiency for more than 10 years. Over 1,000 global corporations and more than 300 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's business rules, optimization and visualization technologies to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. For more details, please visit www.ilog.com

ILOG is a registered trademark, and ILOG OPL Studio and ILOG Solver are trademarks, of ILOG. Sengen is a registered trademark of Sengen. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.