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It was only a matter of time: IBM buys into business rules with ILOG
Monday, July 28, 2008 by admin
Today IBM announced that has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ILOG that states IBM’s intention to acquire the French business rules and software development componentry provider. It’s subject to all the relevant legal and shareholder approvals of course, but ILOG’s board of directors has approved the sale.
IBM has been an ILOG partner for some years, so as BPM and SOA become ever more central to IBM’s enterprise pitch, it’s no surprise that it wanted to buy into the specialist business rules management market rather than continue partnering. There’s potential for ILOG’s JRules technology to fit alongside the “business event processing” technology it acquired from AptSoft early in 2008, and also of course nestle into its BPM Suite offering.
What’s less clear at this point is how and where the rest of ILOG’s technologies (specialist operational programming and scheduling software, advanced GUI components and supply-chain applications that accounted for 67% of ILOG’s revenue in its financial 2007) will fit into IBM’s portfolio.
Posted in BPM