ILOG Rules helps Informix-NewEra bring intelligence to the desktop; trigger capability typical of RDBMS servers now available on the client for enhanced supervision and control services.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 1995--ILOG Rules(TM), a high-performance rule-based development tool from ILOG, Inc. that optimizes the development and maintenance of Intelligent Agents, has been ported to Informix-NewEra(TM), INFORMIX's object-oriented client server application development environment for enterprise computing.

This integration enables INFORMIX-NewEra clients to develop real-time monitoring applications while building on legacy code.

ILOG Rules is an extension of C++ for rule-based programming. ILOG Rules Agents are designed to coexist with the native objects of target applications, and they provide strong value-added whenever control, filtering, and correlation are required. With its Rules product, ILOG brings a level of intelligence to the application clients have not previously experienced.

"As a software development tool provider, ILOG is committed to putting power into the hands of the programmer," said ILOG's Wendy Shaw, manager, Western Area. "ILOG Rules and INFORMIX-NewEra represent a unique combination not available to developers elsewhere today."

With the explosion of object-oriented technology, software architects emphasize the analysis and design process. In most cases, the definition of the Data Model is the core of this activity and leads to clear specification of the application's object classes. In that context, the rule-based programming language of ILOG Rules Agents greatly facilitates the implementation of supervision and control functions over the internal objects of the application.

ILOG Rules Agents can now be attached to an INFORMIX-NewEra application to provide services such as alarm management, prioritization, operator assistance, or automatic filtering and redirection of messages in groupware applications.

About ILOG Rules

ILOG Rules is a C++ development tool consisting of a compiler that translates a rule-based agent specification into a C++ Agent Class, and an execution library. Because of the compact (100 Kbytes) and efficient execution library, ILOG Rules Agents can infer on the objects of the target application at a rate of 10,000 rules per second, without code duplication or modification.

With ILOG Rules, developers automatically generate standard C++ code from their knowledge base, then merge the generated code with the rest of their application. A core benefit of this implementation is the extreme modularity and simple API of the ILOG Rules Agents, which enable them to be smoothly integrated into existing applications.

ILOG Rules is available on Unix, Windows and NT platforms. Unix platforms include Sun, HP, DEC, IBM and SGI.

About NewEra

INFORMIX-NewEra is Informix's object-oriented client server application development environment for enterprise computing. The product features a powerful and flexible database application language, and productive visual programming tools which include an application builder to graphically manage application components; a window painter to streamline the building of graphical applications; and an interactive debugger to analyze and debug NewEra programs in a graphical environment. The product also supports reusable class libraries, all within a client/server-ready package that allows open connectivity to Informix and non-Informix relational databases.

About ILOG, Inc.

ILOG, Inc. was founded in Mountain View, Calif. in 1992 as a subsidiary of Paris-based ILOG SA, a worldwide leader in C++ software development technologies. The company's products include ILOG VIEWS, for Very Graphical User Interface (VGUI(TM)) design; ILOGSOLVER and SCHEDULE for resource optimization, scheduling and configuration applications; ILOG BROKER and SERVER for distributed groupware applications; and other C++ class libraries for Unix and Windows platforms. Now numbering more than 130 employees at eight offices worldwide, ILOG is privately held, and recently received a $5 million round of venture financing from Silicon Valley-based Oak Investment Partners and Atlas Venture. ILOG can be reached at (800)FOR-ILOG or [e-mail]. -0-

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