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Online resources attract thousands
ILOG’s new product forums are growing popular fast. Since the beginning of the year, more than 70,000 people have visited the forums, and visitor traffic has increased more than twelvefold.
The most popular forum is the BRMS community. It offers a wealth of shared information on ILOG’s business rule products and their different applications. In May alone, it chocked up more than 11,413 visitors. The other communities ― optimization, visualization and ILOG Elixir ― are seeing an average of about 80 visitors a day.
Top forum boards
When it comes to forum postings, again the BRMS forum is the most active. The most popular boards for each forum:
| BRMS | Visualization |
| 1. Rule Studio for Java | 1. Java Visualization Products |
| 2. JRules – General | 2. .NET Visualization Products |
| 3. JRules Trial Support | 3. C++ Visualization Products |
| Optimization | Elixir |
| 1. ILOG CPLEX | 1. Pre-1.0 Release Archive |
| 2. ILOG OPL | 2. Organizational charts |
| 3. ILOG CP/CP Optimizer | 3. Gantt charts |
People are visiting from around the world, especially from Canada and the United States. The forums’ geographic coverage for January-May 2008:
- Americas: 42,021
- Asia: 4,133
- Europe: 9,219
- Other and unknown: 15,237
“The forums have done quite well for us,” says Daryl Pereira, search marketing manager, ILOG web team. “Giving people a place to share information and tap ILOG experience has been popular with our user base.”
Want to participate
If you haven’t visited our forums, feel free to drop in. You can find them at http://forums.ilog.com. We’re sure to have one that fits your interests. But if we don’t, keep visiting, as we are planning to add more.
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Visualization conferences
Following the success of DIALOG 08 in the United States, ILOG hit the road to hold three ILOG Visualization User Meetings (VUME) in Europe.
The events took place in France, Germany and Spain, and brought attendees up to speed on ILOG’s latest visualization technologies. Specific attention was given to ILOG’s Java™, C++, .NET and Flex products. Demos featured the latest releases, and ILOG product people were at the ready to answer questions.
Among the participants were representatives from Microsoft and Adobe, who covered rich Internet application (RIA) development systems Silverlight and Flex, respectively. Talks also focused on AJAX and graph layout technologies, and customer case studies were showcased.
“The takeaway from our VUME events was significant,” says Patrick Mégard, director of ILOG visualization product marketing. “We introduced new product releases, and attendees and other participants shared insights and experiences.”
Optimization workshops
Recent ILOG optimization workshops in Canada and the United States placed ILOG Optimization Decision Manager (ODM) in the limelight, with ILOG’s optimization team providing product updates, hands-on demos, and tips and tricks for developers.
The events were held in several cities: New York, Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver and Toronto. Attendees were able to build state-of-the-art decision-support applications for solving complex problems ranging from real-time scheduling to long-term strategic planning.
They also obtained a better understanding of the ILOG OPL-CPLEX-ODM Development System, its ease of use and how it can benefit their application development.
Learn more about ILOG’s upcoming events and workshops at www.ilog.com/corporate/events.
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