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, and 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 800 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ilog.com

While our customers are addressing increasingly complex problems, the most competitive technology which we provide is only one part of the equation for success. To deliver business value, you first need the appropriate methodology and process to align IT and business and make them collaborate toward a common objective. Giving access to the business users is particularly key to ILOG's concept of Transparent Decision Services .

But this is not enough in an ever changing environment. When you deal with Decision Support Systems as we do with all our product lines, you need to go through a careful and diligent modeling exercise in order to design a foundation which will prepare the architecture to evolve and endure change over time. This is a key success factor to building IT Sustainable Architectures .

ILOG has found in Praxeme both these needs addressed: a modern process taking into account the concept of Services Oriented Architectures, and a strong focus on enterprise modeling by clearly identifying and defining the various components and layers of enterprise models. ILOG identified witin Praxeme key elements complementing its own Professional Services implementation methodology, ISIS (ILOG Solution Implementation Standard). To make it applicable to its consultants worldwide, it is strategic for ILOG to have Praxeme available in English.