Singapore's Nanyang Polytechnic, SCS and ILOG Collaborate for First Enterprise Business Rule Solutions Center

Center to Train More Than 2,100 Students In Newly Established BRMS Curriculum

SINGAPORE – July 19, 2006 - ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and Singapore Computer Systems Ltd (SCS) today announced the establishment of the “Enterprise Business Rule Solutions Center” at the NYP School of Information Technology, resulting in the first credentialed curriculum for Business Rules Management System (BRMS) application development in the world. NYP is one of Singapore’s leading technical polytechnic schools.

The Center, which is located at the NYP campus, will train more than 2,100 NYP students over the next three years through BRMS courses added to the school’s curriculum. Students who complete the courses will graduate with the skills needed to develop and maintain BRMS applications, and will be able to gain work experience through more than 15 real-world industry projects. The students will also be given internship opportunities at ILOG, Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) and other solution providers where they can gain additional expertise in developing enterprise solutions using BRMS.

BRMS is gaining traction in the Asia Pacific region, driven by the same factors that have made the software category essential in the U.S. and Europe. For many industries, BRMS’s have become default solutions for addressing the challenges created by faster business cycles and change and aging software architectures that can not accommodate change quickly enough. This factor has made BRMS’s key components of IT modernization initiatives at Global 2000 companies and many government organizations worldwide. Because of their growing popularity, BRMS’s were identified by IT research firm IDC, in its report titled, “Worldwide Business Rules Management Systems 2005-2009 Forecast and 2004 Vendor Shares,” as a high growth market segment that is becoming a key component of the application infrastructure stack. The market is forecasted to reach $304.5 million by 2009, with a compound annual growth rate of 16.6 percent.

ILOG, a BRMS market leader, will provide the Center with its suite of BRMS software products and will train NYP lecturers on product usage through ILOG-certified training courses and internships at ILOG’s research and development centers in Gentilly, France and Mountain View, California. NYP will develop the BRMS curriculum as well as industry projects, and manage the Center.

A key function of the Center will be to create proof-of-concept projects that demonstrate the business value of BRMS technology. As more proof-of-concepts are completed, business rules from different industries will be stored in a centralized repository to help other companies jumpstart the creation of new applications, adding value to the Center and allowing students to gain valuable work experience.

The Center has already trained the first group of 20 NYP lecturers from the School of Information Technology on ILOG Rules for .NET™, a key offering in ILOG’s BRMS product line. In the training and with the help of SCS, three NYP lecturers developed a purchasing request management system application for a local bank in three months, which is less than half the time it would have taken had the system been hard-coded by programmers.

“We are glad to be one of the first few local organizations to explore the use of BRMS technology extensively. BRMS applications can deliver the flexibility and agility that enterprises need to stay competitive, and enhance the entire policy management infrastructure of the enterprise at the same time. This collaboration will greatly benefit our students, and their competency in BRMS will add value to their skill-sets as they join the workforce,” said Edward Ho, Deputy Principal/Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic.

“The establishment of the Enterprise Business Rule Solutions Center is a laudable move by ILOG, Nanyang Polytechnic and Singapore Computer Systems in supporting Singapore’s Intelligent Nation (iN2015) vision,” said Leong Keng Thai, Deputy Chief Executive and Director-General of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). “By equipping the students with training and the opportunity to work on real-life industry projects, the students are poised to acquire higher value-added expertise to be our next generation of techno-strategists.”

The NYP collaboration follows ILOG’s successful 2005 partnership with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore to develop a “Business Rule Management System Center of Excellence” (BRMS CoE) in Singapore, which is helping more than 15 local companies develop BRMS pilot projects in key verticals such as financial services, healthcare, logistics and telecom.

About NYP
Nanyang Polytechnic is a modern tertiary institution that offers quality education in IT, engineering design, chemical & life sciences, business management, and health sciences. NYP constantly collaborates with the industry in cutting-edge technology projects, so as to provide relevance and a firm foundation for its students. As part of its capabilities development programme, the Polytechnic engages in applied R&D in core competencies such as Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Grid Computing, Business Rule Solutions, Enterprise Databases, RFID, IP Convergence, E-Commerce, Wireless and Mobile Computing, to the end that its graduates will meet the ever-changing demands of the industry. For more information, visit http://www.nyp.edu.sg.

About Singapore Computer Systems Limited
Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) is a leading information and communications technology service provider in Asia. As the provider of Trusted Services to its customers, SCS empowers organizations with competent IT professionals, using proven processes and living technologies in a timely and cost-effective manner. The company’s services are designed to maximise organizational performance and are compliant with regulatory and security guidelines. They range from traditional IT infrastructure, business solutions, systems integration and managed services to state-of-the-art Application-Aware Infrastructure, Infrastructure-Aware Applications, converged communications, business rule management systems, business process outsourcing, and business continuity management services. These are flexible solutions that are adaptable to our customers’ needs as their businesses grow or change. Trusted Services have been successfully deployed in multiple sectors including government; banking, insurance and financial services; manufacturing, logistics and distribution; healthcare; property; and telecommunications.

Incorporated in 1980 and listed on the Main Board of The Singapore Exchange in 1991, SCS has operations in Asia spanning Singapore, Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. For more information, please visit www.scs.com.sg.

About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,500 global corporations and more than 465 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 730 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ilog.com.

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