This lense is all about business rules.
Following is Wikipedia entry about business rules:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_rulesBlogs
- Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog
- All about focusing on automating decisions to improve their consistency, precision and agility and get more value from your data.
- BIZRULES® Business Rules Blog
- By Rolando Hernandez.
- Tom Debevoise's BLOG
- Tom Debevoise's BLOG, Author Business Process Management with a Business Rules Approach.
- JBoss Rules Blog
- JBoss Rules = Drools
- The BRMS Blog (Blog Network Home)
- This BRMS blog network includes following blogs:
1. The Business Rules Blog. Perspectives on the Business Rules Space , Implementation Stories and challenges.
2. Business Rules for Everyone. A blog about business rules, examples and value.
3. Business Rules use-cases and other stuff. - ILog BRMS Blog
- Part of ILog's BRMS Resource Center.
- James Taylor's Decision Management
- James' blog keeps you informed about the latest uses of business rules and decision automation.
- Smart Enough Systems
- Blog about enterprise decision management and business rules.
- Java Rules
- NOT JavaRule.Org - better. Sponsored by KBSC and written by Yaakov Kohen.
- Paul Haley's Blog
- Title is: Commercial Intelligence
Conference and Forum
- 2007 Business Rules Forum
- The Business Rules Forum is the pre-eminent business rules Conference of its kind. Held annually, it attracts hundeds of business rule professionals from around the globe. You don't want to miss the business rules event of the year!
- Rules Technology Summit
- The Rules Technology Summit is the pre-eminent Rules event for IT Architects and IS Professionals whose common goal is to build agile applications that are more responsive to business needs. This premier event is focused on the development and deployment of these business software applications.
- European Business Rules Conference
- In 2006 the European Business Rules Conference will be held in London.
- RuleML-2007
- The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2007) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida /2007.ruleml.org>, co-located with The 10th International Business Rules Forum /www.businessrulesforum.com>. RuleML-2007 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications.
A RuleML-2007 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. Abstracts are due June 15, 2007.
Papers are due June 29, 2007.
Books
Business Rule Revolution: Running Business the Right Way
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
Principles of the Business Rule Approach (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)
Amazon Price: $34.30 (as of 07/25/2008)
Jess in Action: Java Rule-Based Systems (In Action series)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Business Rules Management and Service Oriented Architecture: A Pattern Language
Amazon Price: $54.30 (as of 07/25/2008)
Smart Enough Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions
Amazon Price: $38.70 (as of 07/25/2008)
Portals
- Business Rules Community
- Highlight: It includes "Business Rules Journal" - an official online publication. Contributors include Ronald Ross, John Zachman.
- Business Rules Group
- A non-commercial peer group of IT professionals
... since 1989 - Java Rules (javarules.org)
- This web site hosts information related to building business rule applications or rule-based systems using the Java programming language.
- Business Rules Knowledgebase
- BIZRULES.INFO and the BIZRULES® Knowledge Base tells you what you need to know about business rules, and how to do it. Proven methods. What works and what doesn't. Success stories. Case studies with real ROI. Facts not hype.
- Business Rules of BPMInstitute.org
- This business rules section serves Practitioners with an interest in successful BR approaches and how they complement BPM. This Business Rules Home Page offers great variety in Business Process Management-Business Rules expertise, technology, and opinions. Like multiple generations peacefully co-existing, there are no biases, no judgments, no wrong answers. Instead, we share every tip, technique, opinion, and approach that really works.
Whitepapers and Articles
- The 2006 Report on Business Rules
- Published by BPTrends.com.
- The Forrester Wave: Business Rules Platforms, Q1 2006
- To assess the state of the business rules platform market and see how the vendors stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top business rules platform vendors across 174 criteria.
- Decision-centric rules modeling
- The decision-centric business rules model comprises the following:
1. Fact (or data) model
2. Business rules, each of which determines a single value
3. Decision model
4. Versioning by date and business scenario
Company (Product)
- Fair Isaac: Blaze Advisor
- Blaze Advisor is the leading rules management solution, designed to automate operational business decisions and provide companies with unprecedented agility, consistency and precision in their customer interactions. It's the best on the market because it greatly simplifies and reduces the cost of developing, managing and updating even highly complex decisioning processes.
- ILOG: JRules
- JRules is a broad, Rete-based platform for business rules application development and enterprise rules management that has close affinity to the Java language. ILOG's new rules platform, Rules for .NET, gains important supplemental facilities from its strong integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Services, and Microsoft Office. This paper offers an overview of the Forrester Research, Inc. evaluations of the two products.
- Haley: HaleyAuthority
- With HaleyAuthority, a one-of-a-kind business rules authoring tool, non-technical users can write rules in English, not code. In fact, Haley's BRMS is recognized as the leading rules platform for business analysts. Haley also leads in the run-time environment, with HaleyRules, our fast, compact, high-performance business rules engine.
- Pega: PegaRULES
- Pegasystems' unique approach to rules management is based on the belief that, like business data, business rules should be managed as a separate corporate asset. The PegaRULES enterprise rules engine separates business logic from your mission-critical applications and enables your enterprise to capture, manage and execute your business policies and practices.
- Corticon
- Corticon's Business Rules Management System consists of a family of products that drive superior results through each stage in your business rules project; from rule modeling as a part of early stage project analysis through high-performance rule execution. Corticon's solutions deliver complete rule lifecycle management and rules data access
- Mindbox: ARTEnterprise
- MindBox® uses sophisticated artificial intelligence technology to help companies automate their complex, knowledge-intensive business processes. MindBox automates these processes by delivering decision systems using our award-winning rule and case-based reasoning.
- Oracle Business Rules
- Oracle Business Rules provides a fast and efficient infrastructure for development and deployment of business Rules thus allowing organizations in today's highly volatile markets to quickly take advantage of new market opportunities or to stave off competitive threats while enjoying significant development cost reductions.
- JESS
- Jess is a rule engine and scripting environment written entirely in Sun's JavaTM language by Ernest Friedman-Hill at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. Using Jess, you can build Java software that has the capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. Jess is small, light, and one of the fastest rule engines available. Its powerful scripting language gives you access to all of Java's APIs.
- JBOSS Rules
- JBoss Rules is the supported and branded release of the Drools project. Drools is an enhanced Rules Engine implementation, ReteOO, based on Charles Forgy's Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language. More importantly, Drools provides for Declarative Programming and is flexible enough to match the semantics of your problem domain with Domain Specific Languages.
- YASU Technologies: QuickRules
- QuickRules (Java/J2EE) is a Business Rules Engine that reduces maintenance and enhancement costs by cleanly separating business rules from application code. The latest releases of the java rules engine service pack are QuickRules Standard Edition 3.1 SP3 and QuickRules Standard Edition 4.0 (Beta3).
- CA: CleverPat Aion Business Rules Expert
- CleverPath Aion Business Rules Expert (BRE) is a proven industry leading solution for creating intelligent, rule-based eBusiness applications that capture corporate knowledge and human expertise to drive sound decision-making. CleverPath Aion BRE enables organizations to capitalize on market opportunities, re-engineer business processes and implement new processes with unprecendented speed through component-based development, easy-to-maintain decision tables, dynamic rules, and a sophisticated inference engine that manages and interprets large rule sets.
- Open Source Rule Engines in Java
- About 20 open source rule engines in this list.
- TransparentLogic: LogicBase
- LogicBase, Maestrotm: High performance graphical decision engine
- RuleBurst
- RuleBurst is a global software company, delivering Business Rules Management and Governance Risk and Compliance Management solutions.
- Object Connections: Common Knowledge
- Common Knowledge is the only combined business rules engine and visual studio environment that allows all forms of business logic to be represented in multiple intuitive formats, reflecting the way you run your business. Unlike conventional rules engine products, Common Knowledge uniquely allows your business logic to be visually represented in a variety of inter-operable formats (including trees, tables, grids, rete rules, workflows, flowcharts, state-maps and scripts) or using a custom format of your own development.
- Acumen Business - The Rule Manager
- The Rule Manager allows the Business User to construct, animate, validate and visualize business rules without writing any technical code. Our rule editors use English-friendly constructions and do not require semi-colons, quotes, or other technical constructions.
Company (Service)
- Business Rule Solutions
- Its mission is to provide leadership, guidance, education, and support for organizations seeking to apply the business rule approach.
- KPI
- The Business Rules Management Company.
- BIZRULES
- BIZRULES is a leading provider of business rule consulting services and turnkey solutions. BIZRULES services include business rule strategy consulting and methodology-facilitated rules capture and harvesting, as well as custom BRMS/BPM application design and development, and knowledge acquisition, representation and engineering services.
- Artemis Alliance
- Artemis Alliance specializes in the key analysis, engineering, and management disciplines necessary for successful Business Rules and related IT projects.
- Reengineering LLC
- Reengineering LLC provides the patent pending Internet Business Logic ® system, supporting flexible, self explaining programs, written in open vocabulary English.
- Rule Automation
- Rule Automation was formed to provide services and software supporting deployment and integration of Business Rules and Expert Knowledge into new and existing software systems.
- enterprise-agility
- With a business process and rules based approach, Enterprise Agility helps its clients obliterate the business/IT divide and redefine how business automation solutions are realized.
- InScope
- InScope's business rules solutions include:
Platform and vendor independence
Non-hard-coded rules
Intuitive business interfaces
Internet Groups
- Business Rules Group on Yahoo
- Discussion by Business and IT professionals of Business Rules Management Systems including but not limited to:Products, Methodologies, Projects, Employment
- Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics
- The objective of REWERSE is to establish Europe as a leader in reasoning languages for the Web by networking and structuring a scientific community that needs it, and by
providing tangible technological bases that do not exist today for an industrial software development of advanced Web systems and applications.
Technology and Company Review
- Gartner Magic Quadrant, Business Rules Engines
- Business rule engines have momentum, and vendors in this sector continue to innovate. During the next two years, as this crowded market matures and more suite vendors include BREs in their offerings, expect a wave of sell-offs and failures.
- Top five business rule management systems
- In 2006, InfoWorld (more specifically rules wizard James Owen) evaluated five rule-based systems. Here's how they stack up, based on their overall scores in our reviews:
#1. Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor 6.1 (Excellent, 8.7)
#2. Corticon 4 and ILOG JRules 6.0 (both Very Good, 8.2)
#4. JBoss Rules 3.2 (Good, 7.4)
#5. Jess 7.0 (Good, 7.3) - JRules, Blaze Advisor, HaleyAuthority Review
- By Ian Graham CTO and Principal Consultant Trireme International.
Standard Etc
- JSR 94: JavaTM Rule Engine API
- This specification defines a Java runtime API for rule engines.
- SBVR
- OMG Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR)
- Rule Interchange Format
- This Working Group is chartered to produce a core rule language plus extensions which together allow rules to be translated between rule languages and thus transferred between rule systems.
- RuleML
- The Rule Markup Initiative.
