Completion of the Object Management Group's Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) is an important step toward putting information technology under more direct and immediate control of business decision makers. Here are two scenarios demonstrating what I mean by direct and immediate control.
An insurance company frequently adds insurance products, new pricing rules, and new eligibility rules. Decision makers simply describe products and state rules plainly in their own language (e.g., English, French or Chinese). At the push of a button, the company's IT system supports the new products and rules. Automatically, new operations appear in Web Services, methods are created or updated with new calculations and new conformance checking, and new database tables and columns appear along with new views and stored procedures. To support this automation, software engineers have previously made technology decisions, choosing platforms and design patterns. Parts of the system driven by business rules are then generated following the design patterns.
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