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Cutting-Edge IT System Enables Automated EU Agriculture Subsidies Process: "
Tuesday November 4, 3:01 am ET
Innovative System for National Assembly for Wales Built by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young UK plc Using ILOG and FileNet BPM Technologies

....to streamline and automate the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidy award process. The pioneering solution, built using ILOG JRules(TM) Business Rule Management System and FileNet Enterprise Content Management product, shortens the process of awarding claims to Welsh farmers, making them the first farmers in the UK to receive CAP payments. In addition to enhancing process efficiency and customer service, the new solution also allows the NAfW Agricultural Department to stay compliant with the thousands of new and amended EU rules and regulations enacted each year."

Singapore Trans Island Bus Services Uses ILOG Technology to Improve Service for 670,000 Daily Passengers: "Wednesday November 19, 3:01 am ET
Transportation Operator Combines Multiple ILOG Technologies to Achieve Operational Efficiency Goals. ..ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components were combined to create an integrated solution that performs bus and personnel dispatching as well as scheduling functions."

Hanseatic Bank Selects ILOG BRMS to Automate New Credit Underwriting System: "Wednesday November 12, 3:01 am ET
New Flexible and Responsive BRMS-based System Provides Competitive Edge...ILOG® (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services, today announced that ILOG JRules(TM) Business Rule Management System (BRMS) is now used to capture and deploy best practices and improve customer service as part of Hanseatic Bank's new credit underwriting and scoring system. "

Smart Trade Technologies Selects ILOG's BRMS to Enhance Its Trade Execution Platform : "ILOG JRules Enables Agile Trade Order Management for smartTrade Trading Suite Clients...today announced a co-selling agreement that will add ILOG JRules(TM) Business Rule Management System (BRMS) as an enhancement to the smartTrade(TM) Trading Platform (STTP). Using ILOG JRules in combination with STTP, now traders, asset managers, brokers and corporate clients will be able to create and automate trading strategies and increase their deal flows by better matching their clients' needs. As a result, investment banks and brokerage firms will better control their capital costs while offering a finer and more reliable service to their clients."

Nielsen Media Research -FIRST Multi-TV PVR Audience Measurement System for Digital Set-Top Boxes: "The next steps require that Nielsen Media Research develop entirely new business rules, editing and crediting criteria, new calculation and data processing software."

TRC [Service Offerings: Business Rules]: " TRC Solution: The Insurance Business Rules Librarian
Manage Versioning and Deployment Based on Business Drivers"

Versata Streamlines Operations; Announces Relationship with Engineering Services Firm and Preliminary Fourth Quarter 2003 Results: "Versata Streamlines Operations"

Corticon Speeds Business Rules Engine: "Corticon Speeds Business Rules Engine " Corticon boosts the performance of its business rules engine.

An upgrade to Corticon Technologies Inc.'s business rules engine software will run about 10 times faster than the current version.

"'Dragonfly' Biz Rules to Aid .Net Services - Microsoft Corp. is developing business rules engine technology that could become one of the company's core .Net services. The technology, code-named Dragonfly, promises developers more flexibility in building and maintaining business applications, particularly Web services. Chris Atkinson, vice president of Microsoft's .Net Enterprise Server Product Management Group, would not address Dragonfly directly but said in general business rules engine technology is key to the Redmond, Wash., company's .Net strategy for delivering XML Web services. 'It's very strategic ... as you move to a point where you want to move beyond simple point-to-point [application interaction], and you want to start orchestrating a business process from partner A to partner B to partner C,' Atkinson said during an interview at the Line56 Live Conference in New York. 'Since you have longer-lasting transactions spanning multiple parties, what we want are different options, like if the answer is A, then go to this partner; if it's B, go to that partner. You need to start building those rules in so they more accurately reflect the more complex transactions.' Business rules engines enable enterprises to separate the business rules from the rest of the application code, so users can make modifications to business logic without touching the actual application code. This lets nonprogrammers make modifications, which is particularly important in Web services, where flexibility is a must... Sources said Dragonfly is business rules engine technology that will be used in MSCRM, a customer relationship management offering the company is expected to release in March. It is also likely to be included in upcoming Office .Net and Microsoft'"... By Darryl K. Taft; December 31, 2001; http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,46685,00.asp

In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...

1. Enterprise Rules Services at Liberty Regional Agency Markets,
by David Christiansen
2. Premise and Conclusion: Should You Encapsulate Knowledge in
Modeling Real-World Things?, by Ronald G.Ross
3. Framework Fundamentals: Frameworks, Reference Models, and
Matrices, by John Zachman
4. Plainly Speaking: Family Reunion ... Facilitated Session --
Same Difference, by Gladys S. W. Lam
5. "Oldies-but-Goodies" posting, by Ronald G. Ross
6. BRCommunity.com unveils new online features for web community

If you'd like to read all our articles on the web, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com

n this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...

1. Business Rules, Platforms, and Inferencing, by Kirk D. Wilson
2. Premise and Conclusion: Business Rules, Encapsulation, and Models of
the Real World, by Ronald G.Ross
3. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 4),
by Terry Halpin.
4. OMG Report: OMG Issues Business Rules RFPs, by Stan Hendryx
5. "Oldies-but-Goodies" posting, by John A. Zachman

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http://www.brcommunity.com

1. The Business Rules Market Resurrection Continues, by Jim Sinur
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2003/b168.html
2. Premise and Conclusion: Business vs. Environment in Business Models,
by Ronald G.Ross
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2003/b145.html
3. Plainly Speaking: A Relationship between Process and Business Rules,
by Gladys S. W. Lam.
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2003/b166.html
4. Curmudgeon: What's My Address?, by Dan Tasker
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2003/b165.html
5. "Oldies-but-Goodies" posting, by John A. Zachman
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a1999/a426.html

If you'd like to read all our articles on the web, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com