There is a system on the Web that works as a kind of Wiki, and also as an SOA endpoint, for content in open vocabulary, executable English.
As befits a Wiki, shared use is free. Just point a browser to www.reengineeringllc.com .
Since the executable knowledge is in English, Google indexes and retrieves it, acting as a kind of registry.
You can use your browser to specify applications in English, run them, and get English explanations of the results.
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OMG Announces InRule Technology as New Sponsor of the GRC Roundtable
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This Brief History examines events that have taken place specifically and selectively under the banner of 'business rules'. Our simple, pragmatic criteria in that regard are fourfold: (1) The participants themselves described what they were doing (2) at the time they were doing it (3) as primarily of, for, and by 'business rules' (4) in a public, rather than a private, setting.
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You don't think a business rules process has anything to do with eating? Au contraire! A business rules process should be well thought-out, planned, organized, constructed, and consumed. My best sandwiches have been made using this same general construct. When I create a sandwich, there is planning for the type of sandwich, gathering of the best ingredients, organizing the food items, assembling, creating them in the perfect order, and consuming.
Read more »Rules that you create or edit in Rule Team Server are verified at various levels before they are deployed to the rule-based computer applications on which they act:
* Basic Syntax Checks, done when you edit a rule
* Decision Table and Decision Tree Checks, to check gap/overlap/symmetry when you edit a column/node/branch
* Rule Analysis, enabled/disabled when testing the results of a query or by the configuration manager when generating rulesets
In collaborative e-business, the business rules of different business partners need to be shared electronically and be used to solve business problems collaboratively. To achieve this, a neutral knowledge representation is needed to translate heterogeneous rules into the neutral representation so that: 1) pair-wise translations between rule representations can be avoided and 2) the collection of rules can be verified to identify inconsistencies, redundancies, and non-termination conditions.
Read more »As Information Systems get more complicated and specialized, Data Analysts find themselves in need of a better way to express more information in their models. Whether we are designing a cutting-edge transactional system or a data warehouse, we rely on our user community to define the business rules that dictate and validate the data. Further, we are beginning to realize the importance of not only a common repository of meta-data, but of the need to capture another layer of analysis, namely, a conceptual level of knowledge.
Read more »The topic-du-jour in BPM circles is the handling of human and automated decision making in processes. Two major areas that intersect here are the management of business rules (such as “customers with more than 100,000 frequent flier miles receive priority treatment when flights are oversold“) and business processes (such as “rebook voluntary denied boarding customer“). There has been plenty of work done in both domains, but until very recently they did not talk to each other very much.
Read more »A Business Rule Engine is one part of a complete system for handling all the things involved in working with rules. Admittedly, it’s an important part, but it deals only with execution… which rules need to be executed in what order? The big enterprise-oriented players are concerned with a lot more… There’s all the development and testing; linking up to data sources and other applications; measuring and reporting; deployment to different computing environments; making rule maintenance easy; looking for conflicts; and so on.
Read more »Gartner recently issued two “Predicts: 2008” reports highlighting their expectations for Enterprise Architecture and the Business Process Management Suites (BPMS) Market. Both recognize noteworthy and highly complementary trends reflecting the value of Enterprise Decision Management (EDM), particularly Business Rules Management Systems (BRMSs) supporting EDM principles.
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