Modeling services
As an object oriented technology, ILOG Server allows easy interaction with CASE tools like Rational Rose, letting developers build a visualization information model before deploying various operator interfaces. Modeling services provide template-based entity-relationship management, smart pointer management, and memory optimization.

Drag-and-drop interface design
Once modeling is done, ILOG Server helps developers design graphical panels through an intuitive studio. The visualization model is directly accessible, letting developers choose objects and their relationships, then link them to a variety of graphical representations.

Built-in synchronization
ILOG Server automates synchronization of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) sharing its object model. Using no additional code, ILOG Server ensures the consistency of graphical and tabular representations of information displayed on distributed operator interfaces. Synchronization is crucial for real-time applications where many different operators share ever-changing information.

CORBA-compliant distribution
Thanks to tight integration with Iona's Orbix, ILOG Server can distribute graphical interfaces around a CORBA bus with no additional code. This capability makes ILOG Server the tool of choice when new graphical interfaces need to be deployed in a CORBA architecture. With Internet Inter-ORB Protocol, Java applications are now fully interoperable with CORBA architectures, allowing ILOG Server to integrate graphical user interfaces GUIs based on ILOG JViews and ILOG JTGO.

Application areas
In highly distributed environments, supervision applications often require several operator profiles. Each profile has a different role, requiring real-time, selective information dispatching. This is ideal for ILOG Server, which has been used to build visualization applications integrated with real-time production systems in areas like network management, manufacturing execution systems, and traffic control.

Application example
Siemens EWSD is the most widely used switching system in the world, accounting for more than 25% of all annual switching-system shipments. Over 300 network operators in 100 countries currently use EWSD - every two seconds a new EWSD port is placed in operation. This unprecedented success is the result of unmatched flexibility, reliability, and economy for network operators.

Running EWSD, the ComUX management system gives operators and administrators central control over the switching system. They can respond immediately to events such as alarms and congested lines. When Siemens Brazil recently updated ComUX, it decided to add a real-time intuitive GUI. This feature greatly improved operators' ability to interact with the switching system.