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IBM positions Ilog under WebSphere portfolio


By David Worthington
June 17, 2009 — 
Ilog's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) software has emerged from its acquisition by IBM as part of the WebSphere product family. New product releases for Java and .NET are focused on making rule authoring an easier task for business users.

Today, [June 17] IBM released IBM WebSphere Ilog JRules 7.0 and IBM WebSphere Ilog Rules 7.0 for .NET. Each version now has more parity with the other, as well as updated tools for writing, editing and managing business rules.

JRules 7.0 now includes a Microsoft Office plug-in that was previously only available for the .NET edition. Business workers can use the plug-in to use Excel and Word to write rules, and to receive guidance in vocabulary, decision tables and versioning, said Brett Stineman, director of BRMS product marketing for Ilog products at IBM.

Decision validation services are now included in the business users' environment on the JRules Team Server. Rules are simulated and executed in a test environment, and JRules calculates their impact on KPIs and other metrics, he said. Users had to previously hand off rules to IT for deployment and testing, he noted.

However, IT does not come away empty-handed: There are new tools and wizards for building out test suites to hand over to the business user, Stineman said. There is also a new audit functionality that fits into the rule execution server environment, which traces rule executions that occur in a transaction back to the exact version of a rule that fired, he said.

Decision validation services are not available for .NET at this time, and there is no public timetable for its inclusion. However, the Ilog team has made some progress converging functionality between the JRules and Rules for .NET.

The .NET edition now has rule management through the Ilog Rules Team Server. Microsoft Office and SharePoint were the only options available for managing rule documents prior to this version. "It did not have a comprehensive rule management environment for collaboration and project management," Stineman said.

Likewise, .NET users now have the ability to deploy rules and rule sets as Web services with WSDLs, so that other systems and applications can invoke the Ilog rules engine, Stineman said. Rules created by the .NET edition cannot be deployed on the Java EE engine, and vice versa.

The Ilog products build out IBM's business process management suite by adding capabilities that IBM had previously lacked, including audibility, governance and reuse, said Kramer Reeves, manager of BPM product marketing at IBM. "We are delivering a more agile environment that allows people to work smarter."

The Ilog products also compliment IBM's business analytics, enterprise content management, information management, mainframe, and master data management products, he added. "Carrying it under the WebSphere brand provides alignment with our stack and portfolio."


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