Access control is an important aspect of regulatory compliance. Therefore, access control specifications must be process-aware in that they can refer to an underlying business process context, but do not specify when and how they must be enforced. Such access control specifications are often expressed in terms of general rules and exceptions,
akin to defeasible logic. In this paper we demonstrate how a role-based, process-aware access control policy can be specified in the SBVR.

It has been said by different experts that "SBVR is a landmark result in the evolution of business rules and business modeling"[4], "a major breakthrough in productivity in requirements and knowledge management"[5], "SBVR provides the foundational bridge component that has been missing since computers began to be used in organizations in the 1950s"[2], "An important threshold … for our industry"[7], and a "groundbreaking new standard."[1]

Now that the SBVR standard has reached approval, what's the next step for SBVR-related standards? One important process is standards maintenance — dealing with the inevitable questions that will come up with the first implementations. This is the job of an OMG-chartered group called the SBVR Revision Task Force.

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.

On December 11, 2007, the standards organization OMG declared SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules) to be a standard.[1] The name of the standard seems to suggest that it is primarily concerned with 'business' in a commercial, for-profit sense. The truth is that this standard also opens up new possibilities in education and IT, as well as in many other fields. In education, SBVR gives the opportunity to drop the prevailing stovepipe approach and implement a completely integrated approach. This new approach is characterised by full integration of all subjects.