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ILOG and Sodifrance Collaborate on Joint Solution for Legacy Modernization
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Partnership Increases The Flexibility of COBOL Legacy Assets
PARIS, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext:
ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) and Sodifrance (Euronext: SOA), a French systems
integrator specializing in IT modernization, today announced a technical
partnership agreement aimed at helping organizations simplify their legacy
modernization efforts -- including helping these organizations move to
service-oriented architectures (SOA) more easily. According to the agreement,
the two companies will market a joint solution based on ILOG's business rule
management system (BRMS) that will enable organizations to extract, map and
re-use the business rules written in COBOL software code to enhance
flexibility and improve business response times.
Currently, a large fraction of critical applications of major corporations
are written in COBOL. These applications contain the business logic of a
company's core processes and, over the years, go through many changes and
additions that make them harder and more costly to maintain. Added to this is
the shortage of COBOL skills: only a few specialists are now capable of
maintaining them. As a result, business policies written in COBOL and stored
in mainframes cannot be easily reviewed or changed, slowing business response
times.
ILOG and Sodifrance have joined forces to provide a joint solution,
comprising services expertise from Sodifrance with ILOG Rules for COBOL(R)
add-on module -- which is available for use with ILOG JRules(R). With the
technology and know-how of Sodifrance, business rules are extracted from COBOL
code that is buried in the mainframe system. Then, using Rules for COBOL, IBM
mainframe customers can author and manage their business rules and from those
business rules generate native COBOL in the format of COBOL sub-programs. The
structured COBOL sub-program code is then deployed into the business
application system using Sodifrance's CASE system. Using the joint solution,
business rules that are extracted are managed as strategic enterprise assets
with the appropriate governance.
"Sodifrance has a long history of understanding and transforming legacy
application assets, especially those written in COBOL," said Yves Lennon, CEO
of Sodifrance. "Advanced solutions today extract the business rules from the
program data. The ability to re-inject them into ILOG's BRMS takes the
upgrading of COBOL legacy applications to a new level."
"We have several clients for which both our Business Rules Management
System (BRMS) and legacy COBOL are integral parts of their corporate
architecture," said Desmond Delandro, VP Strategic Alliances of ILOG. "These
customers want to leverage their existing and substantial technology
investment in their legacy COBOL applications. With Sodifrance, we are happy
to offer them a solution that enhances the business value of their legacy
assets and minimizes impact on their existing systems."
About Sodifrance
SODIFRANCE provides IT services to major accounts, especially in the
Banking-Insurance-Retirement and Administration-Defense sectors. Sodifrance is
the specialist in the area of Legacy Modernization and Architecture Driven
Modernization (ADM) based on its lines of automated solutions developed by its
R&D centre. Sodifrance has completed over 100 successful transformation
projects, including the largest ever lead in Europe, for a large insurance
company, with over 60,000 programs to get transformed. Sodifrance automated
approach helps numerous European large companies efficiently modernizing their
IT systems to meet their business needs. Based on its expertise, Sodifrance
has created Mia-Software, one of the leading software companies in MDA (Model
Driven Architecture) solutions.
Founded in 1986, SODIFRANCE employs 846 employees based in France, Belgium
and Luxembourg; Sodifrance (SOA) is listed on NYSE Euronext market.
About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better
decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 3,000 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 840 people worldwide. For more information, please
visit http://www.ilog.com.
ILOG, ILOG JRules and ILOG Rules for COBOL are registered trademarks of
ILOG S.A. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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