MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PARIS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- New research from International Data Corporation (IDC) has named ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) the leading vendor for business rule management systems (BRMS) with 29.0 percent market share for calendar year 2003. The same report, "Worldwide Model Driven Development and Business Rules Management Systems, 2004-2008 Forecast and 2003 Vendor Shares (IDC #32392) also named ILOG the third largest overall MDD vendor behind IBM and Computer Associates.
"With a market share of 29%, ILOG has shown to be the consistent market leader for the last two years, said Stephen D. Hendrick, Group Vice President for Application Development and Deployment Research at IDC. "By centralizing pre-built business rules and enabling managers and non-technical workers to create rules using business language, ILOG makes rules easier for companies and developers to access and maintain thereby reducing overall application development and maintenance costs."
The report marks the first time that IDC has recognized BRMS, which include business rule engines, as a separate market segment. IDC has begun coverage of BRMS and has added the category to their software taxonomy -- underscoring their importance to the IT infrastructure.
The IDC report indicated that the BRMS market was $115.9 million in 2003, driven by companies' requirements for an effective way to handle the management of policies and procedures governing the order of business rule execution in their organizations. BRMSs have the advantage of having a better intrinsic alignment with how organizations define business activities when compared with conventional declarative programming approaches due to their ability to provide a more effective environment for defining business logic through rules, decision trees, and decision tables.
The report forecasted that the overall market for Analysis, Modeling, and Design, which includes BRMS, as well as Model Driven Development software, would increase to $938 million in 2008, driven by demand for more efficient and improved tools for developing service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Web services, and for reducing development complexity along with the risk and costs associated with application development, according to the report. The overall Analysis, Modeling, and Design market was $572 million in 2003.
ILOG's flagship BRMS product is ILOG JRules. Customers of the award- winning ILOG JRules include CitiStreet, eBay, MetLife, Sabre, and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide.
About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. The BRMS market share leader. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 600 people worldwide.
NOTE: ILOG is a registered trademark of ILOG. ILOG JRules is a trademark of ILOG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Information
This release contains "forward-looking" information within the meaning of the United States Securities laws that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, future business conditions, the evolution, growth and profitability of the overall market for Modeling, Analysis and Design as well as business rule management systems or model driven design tools markets as they relate to the company's business rule technology. Additional risks include those risks and uncertainties mentioned under "Risk Factors" in the company's form 20-F for the year ended June 30, 2004, which is on file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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"With a market share of 29%, ILOG has shown to be the consistent market leader for the last two years, said Stephen D. Hendrick, Group Vice President for Application Development and Deployment Research at IDC. "By centralizing pre-built business rules and enabling managers and non-technical workers to create rules using business language, ILOG makes rules easier for companies and developers to access and maintain thereby reducing overall application development and maintenance costs."
The report marks the first time that IDC has recognized BRMS, which include business rule engines, as a separate market segment. IDC has begun coverage of BRMS and has added the category to their software taxonomy -- underscoring their importance to the IT infrastructure.
The IDC report indicated that the BRMS market was $115.9 million in 2003, driven by companies' requirements for an effective way to handle the management of policies and procedures governing the order of business rule execution in their organizations. BRMSs have the advantage of having a better intrinsic alignment with how organizations define business activities when compared with conventional declarative programming approaches due to their ability to provide a more effective environment for defining business logic through rules, decision trees, and decision tables.
The report forecasted that the overall market for Analysis, Modeling, and Design, which includes BRMS, as well as Model Driven Development software, would increase to $938 million in 2008, driven by demand for more efficient and improved tools for developing service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Web services, and for reducing development complexity along with the risk and costs associated with application development, according to the report. The overall Analysis, Modeling, and Design market was $572 million in 2003.
ILOG's flagship BRMS product is ILOG JRules. Customers of the award- winning ILOG JRules include CitiStreet, eBay, MetLife, Sabre, and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide.
About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. The BRMS market share leader. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 600 people worldwide.
NOTE: ILOG is a registered trademark of ILOG. ILOG JRules is a trademark of ILOG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Information
This release contains "forward-looking" information within the meaning of the United States Securities laws that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, future business conditions, the evolution, growth and profitability of the overall market for Modeling, Analysis and Design as well as business rule management systems or model driven design tools markets as they relate to the company's business rule technology. Additional risks include those risks and uncertainties mentioned under "Risk Factors" in the company's form 20-F for the year ended June 30, 2004, which is on file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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