The ILOG and Wipro relationship has grown to provide our customers a combination of services and products for Legacy Modernization. The webinar held on June 19, 2008 was very well received and highlighted how the combination of ILOG JRules with Rules for COBOL and Wipro’s service with their Business Rule Extraction methodology can provide increased business value for our customer’s Legacy Modernization projects.

Wipro’s Legacy Modernization business rule extraction method is a four phased methodology (Extract, Catalogue, Realise and Manage). The design and implementation of those extracted business rules in JRules and Rules for COBOL provides the ongoing and future maintenance and management of those extracted business rules. Rules for COBOL provides native execution in COBOL by generating a COBOL subprogram from the rules that were authored in JRules.

The webinar attendees indicated through polling questions that COBOL still runs their organization’s business applications - 55% of the attendees stated that 75% of their applicaitons remained in COBOL with 35% of the attendees having 75% of their applications on the mainframe but not necessarily all in COBOL. For the polling question on business drivers for their legacy modernization project, there were 45% of the attendees stated that the key business driver was to improve IT time to deliver business changes and 23% of the attendees stated that the key business drivers was to lower IT integration costs.

The combination of business rule extraction with business rule management providing for a choice for deployment - Java or COBOL - is an excellent way your organization can begin to provide business value with your Legacy Modernization projects sooner rather than later.

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