BPM is business-driven. It’s about optimizing and improving business performance at the end-to-end process level, innovating the business, making it more efficient, faster, more agile, more compliant with policies and best practices, and more measurable. It’s top-down because it begins with the end-to-end process. SOA is IT-driven. It’s about transforming IT infrastructure, leveraging existing investment and breaking it into reusable parts.

This report is a detailed business and technical comparison of three Business Rule Management System: Blaze Advisor from Fair Isaac Inc, JRules from ILOG SA and Haley Authority from Haley Systems Inc.

Today’s evolving business environment is driven by change. These changes are often fuelled by conflicting business drivers such as the need for increased business agility required to maintain profitability in increasingly competitive markets, and more business process visibility for regulatory compliance. These new requirements need to be addressed in IT budgets optimization process. These are the factors that drove the emergence and rapid growth of new information technology paradigms such as business rules management (BRM).