X-Ray Series Part Three (PDF, 953 KB)
Integrating ILOG Rules for .NET with Microsoft BizTalk Server
In part three of the X-Ray series we explore how to integrate Microsoft BizTalk Server with Rules for .NET by describing the affinity in the architectures, establishing and documenting key integration points, and promoting a list of best practices when the products are used together.
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The Forrester Wave: Business Rules Platforms, Q2 2008 (PDF, 850 KB)
This report by Forrester Research evaluates 11 BRMS vendors, using a comprehensive survey of technology/capabilities, product and company strategies, and customer feedback. The evaluations are used to compare each vendor's offering(s) across a set of market segmentations, including overall BRMS platforms, BRMS for Java developers, BRMS for .NET developers and BRMS for business analysts. Forrester rates ILOG a Leader in each of these categories.
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LogicTools Suite Complements SAP Solutions (PDF, 261 KB)
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X-Ray Series Part Two (PDF, 3.5 MB)
Understanding Microsoft Windows Workflow
Foundation (WF) and the ILOG Rules for .NET Integration Parameters
The goal of this paper is to provide both the theory and the practice of using Rules for .NET and
Microsoft Windows WF together with the least amount of ambiguity. Several examples are provided, along with a lot of source code.
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X-Ray Series Part One (PDF, 251 KB)
Understanding RuleEngine Assertions and Parameters
This paper explains the two basic ways to pass data into
the RuleEngine application programming interface (API). The reader will walk away with a solid understanding of other key RuleEngine areas, such as integration architectures,
basic data modeling patterns for you business object model (BOM), and two real-
world examples for choosing an algorithm.
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Building Advanced Desktop and Web User Interfaces for the .NET Platform (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET framework provides a complete environment for the development of user interfaces based on standard controls. To create more advanced visualization displays that require custom graphical objects and customer interactions, however, developers can turn to the features offered in ILOG Diagrammer for .NET. This paper explores the product and outlines how it can be used to create custom diagram and dashboard displays.
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Before and After: Quantifying Business Rule Results in Key Banking Applications (PDF, 829 KB)
Read the white paper.
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Building Advanced User Interfaces for Rich and Web Applications (PDF, 2.9 MB)
It is well known in the engineering community that interfaces always take much longer to develop than initially planned. Furthermore, problems become even more prevalent when an application has to be delivered on different platforms. A common example is the application that has to run on both desktop computers and the Web. How should the problem be addressed? This article presents approaches for quickly creating and delivering the right rich interface for any given platform.
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ISIS: Delivering Successful Solutions Each Time, Every Time (PDF, 844 KB)
The ILOG Solution Implementation Standard (ISIS) is the methodology used by ILOG consultants to maximize our customers' return from our products. ISIS builds on the Open Unified Process (OpenUP), the industry standard for reducing development risk, from the Eclipse Foundation. ISIS refines and extends OpenUP with ILOG-specific best practices and execution artifacts gathered from hundreds of ILOG consulting projects.
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Designing & Managing the Supply Chain (PDF, 175 KB)
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A Holistic Approach to Supply Chain Transformation (PDF, 577 KB)
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Fraud Prevention and Detection for Credit and Debit Card Transactions (PDF, 170 KB)
Over the past 20 years, financial institutions, governments, insurers and retailers have seen an explosion in the amount and types of fraud perpetrated against them. This white paper takes a closer look at card fraud and examines business rules-based fraud prevention and detection.
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Are Packaged Planning Solutions Always Appropriate? (PDF, 126 KB)
Not always, advises ARC Advisory Group Analyst, Simon Bragg.
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Business Process Management with a Competitive Edge (PDF, 1.1 MB)
This white paper explains how a business rule management system can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage. Learn how the Welsh Assembly Government and a United States commercial lender have implemented business rules to make a difference in their business processes.
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Improving Plant Performance and Flexibility in Process Manufacturing (PDF, 3.3 MB)
This white paper reviews the special challenges facing most process manufacturing companies and provides information about new approaches that are making it easier to schedule and manage process manufacturing operations for new levels of performance, control and flexibility.
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Mieux supporter votre tactique commerciale (PDF, 123 KB)
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Solve Your Toughest Planning and Scheduling Problems:
How Business Managers Can Use Optimization (PDF, 2.8 MB)
Learn how ILOG has removed these barriers with the introduction of a complete system that makes it easier for organizations to build custom planning and scheduling applications that provide business users with what they really need: the ability to perform what-if analysis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario comparison so they can understand their options and balance their conflicting business goals.
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Quick Start to OPL-CPLEX Development Studio (PDF, 224 KB)
This tutorial is written for OR experts who are not familiar with the ILOG OPL approach for development and deployment of optimization models. This is a quick start to using OPL with a well known, hands-on example based on the P-Median problem.
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Efficient Modeling in ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System (PDF, 534 KB)
ILOG OPL-CPLEX Development System is a rapid development system for optimization models with interfaces to embed models into standalone applications. This white paper describes techniques
to compress models and data so that the runtime performance and memory consumption of OPL applications are virtually the same as pure CPLEX applications.
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Deploying Rule Applications with ILOG JRules (PDF, 945 KB)
Developing, deploying and administering any mission-critical application is difficult. It is one of the most challenging of the cross-cutting concerns, those requirements that slice through your IT infrastructure and require just the right interplay between hardware, software, people and their supporting processes. This white paper describes ILOG JRules' deployment features, and is intended for software engineers, architects and their managers who make implementation and deployment decisions.
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Analysts Rave About JRules6! (PDF, 639 KB)
According to Bloor Research, "No other product takes the separation of business rules from application logic to the level of JRules." Get the latest word from this new 16-page report.
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Delivering Visually Rich Applications with Eclipse (PDF, 1.0 MB)
Eclipse's Rich Client Platform (RCP) is becoming increasingly popular with developers as a framework for building professional applications. This paper discusses some of the challenges of building highly graphical applications with RCP and explains how to embed Swing components into RCP using ILOG JViews' graphical displays as examples.
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AJAX for Graphics-Intensive Web Applications (PDF, 900 KB)
AJAX, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, improves the Web interface user experience by increasing interactivity and by reducing roundtrips to the server. This white paper explains how AJAX works and how ILOG JViews uses it to create advanced Web displays with graphical displays such as charts and diagrams.
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Decision Services: The Next SOA Challenge (PDF, 521 KB)
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an enterprise integration strategy currently enjoying widespread adoption due to its promise of component reuse, flexibility and reduced inherent complexity, and its ability to be deployed alongside existing legacy infrastructure. This document explains how SOA implements business processes by orchestrating business services that use standard data formats and communication protocols to perform business functions.
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ILOG JRules 6 for Architects and Developers (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Business rules traditionally live simultaneously in both the application development world and the business rule life cycle. Application architects, analysts and developers need specialized tools that recognize and accommodate this reality. JRules 6 provides these tools, allowing technical users to be more productive.
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ILOG JViews Maps 7.5 fact sheet (PDF, 2.4 MB)
This technical paper details the structure and technical features of JViews Maps, including SDK exploration, jump-start development and coordinate formatting.
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Short-Interval Detailed Production Scheduling using Mixed Integer and Constraint Programming (PDF, 225 KB)
This article will describe the production implementation of
a short-interval local area scheduler in IBM's leading-edge
300mm fab, including motivation, approach, and initial results.
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Business Rule Management (BRM) with ILOG JRules - BRMS without compromise (PDF, 412 KB)
ILOG JRules 6 is BRMS without compromise. ILOG JRules 6 enables organizations to accelerate the business cycle by empowering the business to manage their business policies and rules as the business needs to change, not on an IT schedule.
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Getting ready for MiFID (PDF, 135 KB)
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ILOG in Lending and Credit Solution Brief (PDF, 142 KB)
In the race to maintain profitability and secure future growth, lenders must effectively address multiple challenges - from responding quickly to business and competitive requirements and complying with a rapidly changing regulatory landscape, to leveraging existing technology investments and integrating automated decisioning that supports exception-based handling.
This paper discusses why and how lenders are increasingly turning to technologies such as ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) to meet these challenges and bring greater speed, accuracy and increased transparency in their loan and credit decisioning.
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Why Business Rules? A Case For Business Consumers of Information Technology (PDF, 459 KB)
The relationship between business and IT has often been fraught with misunderstanding, frustration and even hostility. Part of this disconnect between the IT organization and the business groups is a natural disparity between the work cycles of the two groups. Business rule management systems bridge this gap.
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JViews Maps for Defense Fact Sheet (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Nineteen-page document detailing technical product features and architecture. Designed for developers and project managers.
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Effective IT Modernization With Business Rule Management (PDF, 1.0 MB)
This PDF presentation copy discusses how BRMS is driving federal IT modernization efforts. Philip Matkovsky, Principal, Macro Design Group, and Lynne Ann Harbin, Associate Director at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Eligibility Center share their experiences implementing BRMS in federal agencies
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ILOG Screening and Targeting Framework for Homeland Security (PDF, 1.3 MB)
The ILOG Screening and Targeting Framework supports critical Homeland Security objectives. Based on ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS), it provides an agile solution to automate data screening, fraud detection, threat detection, risk management, event management, and case management.
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ILOG JRules: Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning (PDF, 326 KB)
ILOG JRules offers a rich variety of high-performance and scalable services for demanding e-business applications. In many cases the time taken to evaluate thousands of business rules may be less than that required for a simple database query. This document is intended as a guide for developing capacity planning numbers.
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Equifax Case Study by Celent (PDF, 457 KB)
Equifax is building systems that allow lenders to make better, faster credit decisions, thanks to ILOG BRMS. This Celent case study describes how JRules is helping Equifax clients.
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ILOG JRules Business White Paper (PDF, 407 KB)
Improve efficiency and productivity with automated decision-support systems built and maintained using business rule management systems. This white paper provides an overview of business rules and ILOG JRules. Business users will learn how business rule management captures policies and best practices.
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JViews for BPM Visualization (PDF, 1.3 MB)
When tools have better interfaces, business users are more effective throughout the process life cycle -- from process definition to monitoring to performance analysis. This paper explains how ILOG JViews helps developers create intuitive interfaces. Learn about relevant features and the technology behind them. See how easily JViews products can be integrated into leading BPM solutions.
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ILOG Rules (PDF, 814 KB)
One of the fastest, most compact, robust rule engines on the market, ILOG Rules is examined in this paper. Both application developers and project managers will find the right level of detail for understanding how Rules can bring the power of business rules to C++ applications.
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