(IDG News Service) IBM has agreed to buy French software company Ilog SA for around €215 million ($340 million U.S.). IBM plans to combine Ilog's business rules management systems with its own business process management and business optimization tools, it said Monday.
Ilog's business rules management systems (BRMS) could be used to improve and add capabilities to a whole range of IBM product lines, including Tivoli and Lotus, the companies said.
Business process automation systems can replicate the paper-shuffling aspect of a company's systems, but they do less well with decisions that rely on human judgment, such as determining which customers deserve priority treatment or whether an expense claim conforms to company policy. Business rules management systems seek to handle that dimension.
Last October, IBM competitor SAP AG bought an Indian BRMS vendor, Yasu Technologies Inc., to improve the capabilities of its NetWeaver enterprise software platform.
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Ilog's business rules management systems (BRMS) could be used to improve and add capabilities to a whole range of IBM product lines, including Tivoli and Lotus, the companies said.
Business process automation systems can replicate the paper-shuffling aspect of a company's systems, but they do less well with decisions that rely on human judgment, such as determining which customers deserve priority treatment or whether an expense claim conforms to company policy. Business rules management systems seek to handle that dimension.
Last October, IBM competitor SAP AG bought an Indian BRMS vendor, Yasu Technologies Inc., to improve the capabilities of its NetWeaver enterprise software platform.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110878&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8
