IBM purchases Paris-based ILog

IBM has completed its purchase of ILog, the Paris-based business rules engine maker, which is expected to equip IBM with automated process intelligence for its business process management products, reports Intelligent Enterprise.

IBM paid $340 million for ILog. Market researcher IDC reported last spring that ILog had displaced Fair Isaac, the business rules-based credit-checking system, as the dominant rules engine supplier.

In addition to monitoring complex business events in software, IBM will use ILog to enable business managers to react to those events as business needs dictate.

Ricoh Americas, a provider of digital office equipment, has made available Ricoh Reform PDC, according to PR Newswire.

This print, distribution and capture solution automates mission-critical workflow for organisations and offers customisable features, which enable it to fit the processing needs of multiple industries.

Reform PDC allows businesses to improve existing workflows as it produces and distributes business forms straight from any host system, application or Ricoh multifunctional product.

A new tool that makes it simple to place Outlook and e-mails into SharePoint and share those files within a document library has been released by nSynergy, says BigNews.

Businesses use tools like SharePoint to manage most of their important business documents, but the inability to easily place e-mails into SharePoint and share those files within a document library is a problem that many SharePoint users have encountered.

nSynergy has developed a tool called myDocs to integrate SharePoint and Outlook, and finally solve the problem of managing e-mail within SharePoint.