ILOG and Sodifrance Collaborate on Joint Solution for Legacy Modernization

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.