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ILOG JRules is currently used for SMABTP's customer repository management
and underwriting applications, where business rules already drive data
validation, eligibility and risk assessment decisions.

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"Introducing new underwriting rules was a complex process which required
three to four months to be implemented versus two weeks now," said Jean-Michel
Detavernier, SMABTP's Director of IT Projects and Developments . We are also able to support compliance requirements in the
underwriting process by enabling underwriters to audit and control the rules.

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Using ILOG JRules, SMABTP will be able to respond faster and more
cost-effectively to policy changes, as well as improve the time-to-market for
new products and services.

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SMABTP Standardizes Insurance Policy Management With ILOG JRules

SMABTP has already successfully deployed ILOG JRules in
several applications, including customer repository management and policy
underwriting . "We
dramatically enhanced the responsiveness and the flexibility of our
underwriting application , which means better servicing our customers and
partners.

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Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell added, "This is the first time in my
tenure that Grand Rapids has had such a large and attractive parcel available
for redevelopment."
As a mutual insurance provider, SMABTP has built strong business
partnerships with other mutual insurers to leverage core strengths. "Externalizing the business logic to
a BRMS has become a standard practice in our company.
Customers of the award-winning ILOG JRules include CitiStreet, VSP, eBay,
Zurich, MetLife, Sabre and many other leading Global 2000 companies and
governments worldwide.
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(NYSE: SCS), a global office environments manufacturer, today announced that
after completing a national search it has selected Grubb + Ellis|Paramount as
its brokerage partner for its Grand Rapids area property redevelopment
project.
The nearly 250 acre parcel includes existing infrastructure as well as
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Suwyn@paramountprop. (7:30 a. to 4:30 p. PT Monday
-- Friday). SMABTP estimates that 80% of its IT
architecture can be written using business rules. Over 2,000 global
corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's
market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and
visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment,
create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive
edge.

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Fiscal 2005 revenue was
$2. SMABTP belongs to
SMABTP Group, which employs more than 2 000 people and whose revenue amounted
to 1,622 millions of euros in 2004.

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"We are pleased to continue to call West Michigan our corporate home,"
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BRMS Dramatically Reduces IT Change Cycles, Extends Partnership Capabilities

PARIS, ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext:
ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364 ), a leading provider of enterprise software components
and services, today announced that SMABTP , the leading French insurance
company in the construction industry, has standardized on ILOG JRules (TM), a
key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, to
effectively manage all the business rules governing its insurance
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will work with Grubb + Ellis|Paramount to explore all the available
opportunities for optimum redevelopment of the property. Our global headquarters will remain in Grand
Rapids and 55% of our manufacturing will also remain in west Michigan ."
"Just like the recent redevelopment of the Bosch property brought new life
and excitement to our local business community, we expect that the
redevelopment of the Steelcase property will be another opportunity to
reenergize our city," said Birgit Klohs, President of The Right Place.

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ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make
ILOG JRules the industry's leading business rule software. ILOG was recently
named the BRMS market leader by IDC, and has been in the leader quadrant of
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines for three years running.

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The company designs and manufactures
architecture, furniture and technology products.
Due to increasing external regulatory and tax changes, as well as new
construction methods and materials that appear annually, managing business
policy changes in the construction insurance business is an extremely complex
process.
SMABTP and ILOG's Professional Services organization worked together to
develop the new SOA and rule-based architecture. SMABTP insures construction companies, construction projects,
equipments, delivered buildings, enterprise workers and enterprise managers.

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Consequently, SMABTP 's IT systems must be able to flexibly handle both its own
business rules as well as those of its partners, yet allow any of these rules
to be easily updated so they can effectively serve their mutual customers.

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Hackett, President and CEO of Steelcase Inc. Reservation agents are also
available via phone at 800-227-3235. SMABTP's aging legacy IT systems could no longer cope with the
requirements of this ever-changing business environment while providing the
necessary level of agility, transparency and productivity. This is possible because a BRMS allows the business
rules to be managed separately from the rest of the application, allowing
policy managers to make changes to the application without heavy IT
involvement, and introduce new products and policies more quickly and
cost-effectively . ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 650 people worldwide.

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SMABTP has adopted a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for its IT
systems and is using ILOG JRules as a core part of this architecture to
externalize and manage all of the business rules of its insurance products and
create rule services for these processes. Applications are now being
deployed in a modular fashion and aimed at handling any insurance policy or
claim using business rules technology .

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architecture in which business rules were buried in the legacy systems ,
staying competitive required a lengthy IT change cycle.
As a matter of fact, one of the key drivers for adopting JRules was improving
collaboration between IT and business users and productivity gains -- we feel
we've met these objectives.

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About SMABTP
SMABTP is the leading French insurance company in the construction
industry.

NOTE: ILOG is a registered trademark, and JRules is a trademark, of ILOG.

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Additional gateways are available. We are porting existing
applications to ILOG JRules so that all new applications can leverage our new
SOA," added Detavernier. For more details, please visit:
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