Charts based on ILOG JViews Gantt Simplify Cargo Locomotives’ Scheduling and Eliminate Need for Staff Training

BAD HOMBURG, Germany – May 11, 2005 – ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services, today announced that DB Systems, the IT services provider of Deutsche Bahn (DB), Germany’s national railway, has selected ILOG JViews™ to create information-rich user displays for its new train dispatching application. The system, called Cargo Disposition Fahrzeuge (CDIF), is used to schedule cargo trains throughout Germany. Within CDIF, which was designed from the ground up with dispatchers’ needs in mind, ILOG’s graphics technology is expected to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making and has reduced staff training time to use the dispatching system to “almost zero” from 5 to 8 days per user, according to DB Systems management.

The new CDIF user display uses the Gantt charts in JViews to monitor every locomotive in the Railion network so that decisions can be made about scheduling and deployment. Railion is the cargo subsidiary of DB.

Prior to the creation of the JViews-based CDIF system, dispatchers used a system based on complex tables and numerical values to display scheduling information. This low “user friendliness” kept initial training costs high. Additionally, the cumbersome displays kept ongoing costs high as well since many features remained hidden from view, preventing dispatchers from getting the complete picture. Using the new JViews-based displays, Railion dispatchers now have all scheduling information at-a-glance. Locomotive status can be flagged with different colors with context-sensitive dialogue boxes indicating delays or problems.

“ CDIF’s visual user interface is so intuitive and easy to learn that we were able to reduce training hours to virtually zero since the application has gone live,” said Rudolf Wagner, project manager at DB Systems. “Our customer Railion has wholly embraced the application. We are now heading for 700 workstations with CDIF across Germany – 200 more than originally planned. In the final roll-out stage, approximately 1,200 users will work with CDIF in three shifts around the clock.”

ILOG JViews also shortened the time to market for the software developers who built CDIF’s graphical user interface (GUI). “For the development of CDIF, it was essential to have components that integrated well with our core application,” explained Rudolf Wagner. “ILOG JViews ensured just that and has helped us deliver CDIF in a fraction of the time compared with building the display ourselves.”

Through its Java, .NET and C++ graphics libraries and components, ILOG provides the industry’s most comprehensive set of graphics tools for creating sophisticated, interactive user displays. ILOG’s graphics products enhance decision making speed and ability by making vast quantities of complex data more comprehensible and manageable for users. With each of ILOG’s visualization products, developers can save 50 to 80 percent of development time in creating sophisticated graphical user displays. The award-winning ILOG JViews family includes JViews Diagrammer, JViews Charts, JViews Gantt (scheduling), JViews Maps, and JTGO.

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