This is a niche market for only few good players.

-Jevang

> integrated it with our transaction server. To many of

> our customers, business rules are very important

> asset, need to be maintained with great carefulness,

> they are not supposed to be altered by batch program.

> Actually I think Ilog has spent more effort than

> peers on tooling to make rule management/debug

> easier.

> This is a niche market for only few good players.

>

> -Jevang

To Jevang:

我很想请教两个问题，要使用Ilog要具备什么条件？并且什么地方适宜和不宜使用Ilog？

我个人觉得Ilog不宜定义大量的规则，而应该将商务流程中最复杂的一小部分抽出来定义。另外，对国内的客户来说，他们不希望规则定义得太过复杂，否则维护起来很困难，所以目前我只用到BAL，而没用TAL。

Though I do share with your concern about complexity and favor of BAL, I am not qualified to give you a definite answer. My work was plumbing between ILog and My transaction server, actually I use IRL(java like, which is more kind TRL) than BAL, as my interes is totally different than regular rule developers. for sure BAL is the most popular one and some company even customized/package it to make it more close to a specific industry. Our Insurance and telecom serive clients have lots of rules, maybe I should ask my collegues in professional serivice about their projects, i am also curious about it.

Why do you ask Ilog give you few reference accounts?

-Jevang