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ILOG Ships Elixir 1.0 For Adobe Flex 3 With Feature and Sales Channel Enhancements

Tuesday 26. February 2008 - ILOG Elixir 1.0 Complements Flex and Adobe AIR Software for Creating Rich Internet Applications

LOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced that its graphical visualization offering for Adobe(R) Flex(R), ILOG Elixir(R), is shipping with feature and sales channel enhancements. ILOG Elixir is available immediately from Adobe Systems to developers for $799 through an exclusive reseller agreement. ILOG also announced today that the product will be made available to Independent Software Vendors (ISV) for OEM use through ILOG’s sales and support organization.

ILOG Elixir 1.0 enables rapid creation of advanced, business-critical and engaging Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for the browser and the desktop using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe(R) AIR(TM) software – from dashboards to planning and human resources displays. ILOG Elixir 1.0 features seven components, including a new one dedicated to gauges and dials. The new component enables drag and drop interface design and an advanced dedicated framework for specific gauge creation with fine-tuned appearance and behavior for custom business dashboards.

“Our collaboration with ILOG adds important value to the RIA ecosystem,” said Dave Gruber, group product marketing manager for Adobe Flex at Adobe. “ILOG Elixir provides sophisticated user displays and essential graphical data components for developers and enterprises using Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR to build and deploy the most engaging applications with the widest reach across browsers, desktops and operating systems.”

During its Beta period, ILOG Elixir was warmly received by the Adobe Flex community, as evidenced by the following customer testimonials:

“ILOG Elixir was a key asset in our next generation energy management portal development. It allowed us to save important development efforts and the product team support was first class,” said Earl Battey, I.T. Application Manager, Cirro Energy.

“We believe ILOG Elixir to be a perfect complement to Adobe Flex data displays for our next generation enterprise wide product lines for training management and information systems and dashboards,” said Bharadwaj Revuri, Product Manager, Sankhya Technologies.

“Elixir is hands down the best Flex reporting framework available on the market today,” said Igor Ulis, CEO, SharpStyle Labs, Inc. “Ease of use combined with extensive visualization options make Elixir a logical choice for business intelligence applications across all industries. ILOG has been a pleasure to work with and we look forward to a long and flourishing business relationship.”

“We are impressed with the quality and completeness of the first version of Elixir,” said Ralf Schroeder, Product Manager Technology, Workday, Inc. “ILOG’s solution provides immediate value to our Business Services and we are looking forward to expanding our partnership in the future.”

In addition to the new gauges and dials module, ILOG Elixir 1.0 includes the following six graphical data-display components:

— 3D charts: fully interactive with 40+ predefined settings, including
line, area, column, bar and pie charts that support orthographic,
oblique projections and stacking.
— Maps of the world: location-aware dashboards made easy with ready-made
maps of the world, continents and countries. Color coding and custom
object overlays as charts or custom map import are at a click of a
button.
— Radar chart (a.k.a. spider, Kiviat, web chart): display and compare a
limited set of unrelated factors such as software reliability,
aesthetic appeal, responsiveness and compatibility.
— Organization charts: visual and interactive representation of company
human resources for easy navigation of employee databases with rich,
interactive experience and stunning animations.
— Gantt resource chart: planned activities for numerous resources and
long periods of time available at a glance and tasks rescheduling are
few clicks away.
— Treemaps: invaluable graphics for analyzing and spotting trends and
outliers in raw data sets. Also described as graphical pivot tables,
Elixir’s treemaps come with built-in drill-down capabilities.




Additionally for a more productive design and development experience, ILOG Elixir is integrated with Adobe Flex Builder(TM) — an Eclipse(TM) based development tool to accelerate Flex application development. Developers can drag and drop Elixir components and use the property manager to configure display and behavior characteristics.

Through its Flex, Java(TM), .NET and C++ graphics libraries and components, ILOG provides the industry’s most comprehensive set of graphics tools for creating sophisticated, interactive user displays. ILOG’s graphics products enhance decision-making speed and ability by making vast quantities of complex data more comprehensible and manageable for users. With each of ILOG’s visualization products, developers can save 50 to 80 percent of development time in creating displays