Tavant Technologies and ILOG Announce Agreement to Provide ``Intelligent'' Configuration and Optimization Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002 Tavant Announces Deployment of ILOG JConfigurator-based Solution for Bobcat Company Bobcat Company is a manufacturer of farm and construction equipment manufactured in West Fargo, Gwinner and Bismarck, North Dakota. It was a subsidiary of the Ingersoll Rand Company from 1995 until July, 2007 when it was sold for $4.9 billion USD to Doosan Infracore[1]. Tavant Technologies(TM), Inc., an enterprise software and services company with advanced products and solutions that encompass collaborative commerce, enterprise application integration and configuration and optimization technologies, and ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext; SICOVAM SICOVAM Société Interprofessionelle pour la Compensation des Valeurs Mobilières : 006673), the leading provider of enterprise-class software components, today announced that Tavant(TM) is embedding ILOG JConfigurator(TM) into Tavant MultiChannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple (TM) applications. Tavant also today announced that its first deployment of the ILOG-based solution will be for the Bobcat Company, a leader in the industrial, construction, and agri-business industries, where it is expected to provide a significant competitive advantage by helping Bobcat bobcat: see lynx. bobcat Bobtailed, long-legged North American cat (Lynx rufus) found in forests and deserts from southern Canada to southern Mexico. It is a close relative of the lynx and caracal. reduce overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. while increasing the operational efficiencies associated with each sale. The announcements were made at the 2002 APICS APICS Association for Operations Management APICS Educational Society for Resource Management (formerly American Production and Inventory Control Society) APICS American Production & Inventory Control Society International Conference and Exposition in Nashville, TN, October 27 through 30, 2002. Using ILOG JConfigurator, ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS BRMS Business Rule Management Systems BRMS Backup and Recovery Media Service BRMS Backup Recovery and Media Services ) for product and service configuration, Tavant is building, configuring and optimizing solutions in its next-generation MultiChannel products. Tavant MultiChannel, the company's flagship channel management product, is being used to improve profitability and market share for its customers in many industries, including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and industrial equipment manufacturing. Tavant's configuration and optimization solutions include guided selling Guided Selling is a concept that enhances the sales process of customer specific products and services. Guided Selling enables organizations in an automated fashion to analyze customer needs, determine the proper features, products and services and to translate the result into a systems, customer self-service systems, complex product configurators, financial product configurators and underwriting systems. Tavant's solutions are used by leading global brand names such as Ingersoll-Rand Company, a leading innovation and solutions provider for the major global markets of Security and Safety, Climate Control, Industrial Productivity and Infrastructure. "ILOG shares our goal of providing custom configuration and optimization solutions to businesses like Bobcat in 90 days or less," said Aseem Mital, vice president of Marketing for Tavant. "We have a unique implementation of ILOG's configuration technology, which augments our ability to quickly deploy our comprehensive solution in large enterprises." "ILOG JConfigurator enables Tavant to quickly and cost-effectively customize their applications, allowing them to deliver tailored solutions to their customers," said Eric Brisson, ILOG's vice president for Strategic Business Development. "The Tavant-ILOG-based solution is helping customers like Ingersoll-Rand Company become more agile by enabling them to better respond to the unique demands of their markets." Traditionally, product and service configuration solutions were rigid and hard to change, relying on pre-defined rules. ILOG JConfigurator empowers business users -- customer service representatives, salespeople and other business users -- to manage the rule changes that best meet customer and business requirements. For online customers, ILOG JConfigurator places the user in the driver's seat driv·er's seat n. A position of control or authority. , allowing them to make selections based on the features and preferences most important to them. 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"ILOG has an established track record for industrial strength optimization and configuration products," said Nita Goyal, vice president of New Product Development at Tavant. "ILOG's product and service configuration products are widely used, they have one of the few 100% Java products available for constraint programming Constraint programming is a programming paradigm where relations between variables can be stated in the form of constraints. Constraints differ from the common primitives of other programming languages in that they do not specify a step or sequence of steps to execute but rather and they have reliable, prompt, and knowledgeable customer support." The Tavant-ILOG-based solution provides "intelligent" constraint-based programming for configuration and optimization. Unlike traditional procedural programming This article is about the computer programming paradigm. For the method of algorithmic content creation, see procedural generation. Procedural programming , constraint-based configuration enables a user to specify "what" to do; the program automatically figures out "how" to do it, and returns one or more solutions that satisfy the specified constraints. About ILOG For more than 10 years, ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximize their business agility and improve operating efficiency. Over 1000 global corporations and more than 300 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's business rules, optimization and visualization technologies to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. For more details, please visit www.ilog.com. About Tavant Tavant Technologies is a provider of software products and solutions that enable businesses to manage, streamline and enhance multi-level distribution channels. Tavant facilitates collaboration between manufacturers and financial services businesses and their channel partners by making critical information available to participants in various and multiple distribution channels. Tavant automates all interactions by channel partners through a Web interface that eliminates the delays in costs of fax and telephone based legacy systems. Tavant's key products include Tavant MultiChannel(TM) -- an extensive suite of sell-side channel management applications, Tavant MLC (MultiLevel Cell) A flash memory technology that stores more than one bit per cell. Traditional flash memory defines a 0 or 1 bit based on a single voltage threshold. (TM) -- a highly flexible multi-level collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. , Tavant InterConnect(TM) -- an advanced business-to-business interaction platform for systems and business process integration, Tavant MultiTenant(TM) -- a hosted and managed "software as a service" for turnkey solutions. Tavant's configuration and optimization applications include Tavant Configurator(TM) and Tavant Loan Expert(TM) -- both solve complex product and loan configuration problems through its powerful core of constraint-based optimization techniques resulting in revenue and margin enhancement for manufacturers and lenders. Tavant is headquartered in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. For more information about Tavant, please visit www.tavant.com. Note to Editors: Tavant, Tavant Technologies and Tavant MultiChannel are trademarks of Tavant Technologies, Inc. ILOG is a registered trademark, and ILOG JConfigurator is a trademark, of ILOG. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners. |
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