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ILOG Inc.
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Press release date: August 28, 2007
Wipro to Incorporate ILOG's Products into its Application Development Process
BANGALORE, India, and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 28 - ILOG® (NASDAQ:ILOG)(NASDAQ:Euronext:)(NASDAQ:ILO)(NASDAQ:ISIN:)(NASDAQ:FR0004042364) and Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance, where Wipro will incorporate ILOG's Business Rules Management System (BRMS) products into its application development process.
Wipro will also leverage ILOG's other product lines, namely its supply chain planning and scheduling applications, as well as optimization and visualization software components. Through this alliance, ILOG and Wipro will share business and technical expertise to help customers improve business decision making, bring solutions to market faster, optimize business processes and manage product life-cycle development.
Wipro will also create a dedicated ILOG Center of Excellence (COE) for selling and implementing BRMS applications. ILOG will provide Wipro with access to its technology and training services and will work with Wipro to integrate its products into Wipro's services offerings. Initial projects include integrating ILOG JRules®, a key offering in ILOG's BRMS product line into Wipro's product lifecycle management (PLM) solution for a major tire manufacturer.
"Wipro delivers unmatched business value to customers through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation," said Vivek Bhasin, Vice President, e-Business and BI-IM, Wipro Technologies. "Close collaboration with ILOG helps Wipro's consultants apply ILOG's best practices for making solutions that allow both business and IT users to manage complex systems easily and efficiently."
ILOG has been an industry leader in business rules management space since 1992 providing solutions that automate business policies in custom and composite business applications and lower application maintenance costs, facilitating more accurate and consistent business policy implementation across applications, and improving collaboration between an organization's business and IT departments.
Wipro offers unique solutions in the BRMS space which is a strategic focus area for its Enterprise Business Integration practice. The solutions have gained immense client acceptance as they are built viewing client requirements from a practitioner's approach. Wipro has established a dedicated practice utilizing consulting and product implementation expertise on ILOG. Wipro offers end-to-end BRMS expertise ranging from rules assessment, rules harvesting, rules mining, consulting, implementation, support and maintenance.
For another joint project, Wipro is creating a solution using the ILOG CPLEX® optimization engine to optimize the scheduling and slotting of advertising space for a market-leading media and entertainment client. ILOG is a leader in the field of optimization technology and ILOG's solutions are used by more than 1,000 commercial customers to solve challenging planning and scheduling problems. Wipro will also use Visualization, ILOG's third product line, to create sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to enhance decision making, speed and ability by making vast quantities of complex data more comprehensible and manageable for users.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally.
In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS' are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit our websites at http://www.wipro.com/, http://www.wiprocorporate.com/.
About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,500 corporations and more than 465 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), supply chain planning and scheduling applications as well as its 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 850 people worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.ilog.com/.
Source: ILOG
CONTACT: Monika Raj of ILOG, +1-408-991-7128, mraj@ilog.com; or Sanjeeth Boloor of Wipro Technologies, 91- 9845294767, sanjeeth.boloor@wipro.com
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