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Two new alliances fuse rules and BPM for smarter processes: "Enterprise Decision Management

Two new alliances fuse rules and BPM for smarter processes

Two new Fair Isaac business alliances are providing clients with integrated business rules management and business process management (BPM)—a move that industry analysts say will provide added speed and agility to business decisioning.
“There is a strong trend of combining rules technology and business process management because businesses are demanding better business processes that are also agile and smart,” says Jim Sinur, vice president and research area director at Gartner, Inc.

Fair Isaac has recently signed separate agreements with two leaders in the BPM space, DST Technologies and Metastorm. The alliances bring together the advanced rules management of Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor with industry leading BPM technology from each partner. The integration will improve efficiencies in critical business processes and speed up reaction to changing business conditions. It also offers business users greater control over these processes, freeing up IT for higher-value activities.

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France's BANQUE POPULAIRE GROUP Uses Fair Isaac Rules Management Technology to Help Drive Basel II Compliance: "France's BANQUE POPULAIRE GROUP Uses Fair Isaac Rules Management Technology to Help Drive Basel II Compliance

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2004--
19 Banque Populaire regional banks take advantage of rapid deployment and flexibility of Blaze Advisor-based technology




Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, today announced that BANQUE POPULAIRE GROUP, one of France's top five banking groups, has implemented Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor rules management technology as a key part of its Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) compliance strategy.
The adoption of Blaze Advisor allows BANQUE POPULAIRE GROUP to rapidly configure, deploy and maintain business rules as decision-making components in its automated applications. Specifically, the Group utilizes Fair Isaac's advanced rules management software to develop effective risk management processes for calculating capital requirements and performing data quality assurance for its consumer and business portfolios. Nineteen of Banque Populaire Group's 23 member retail banks have chosen to implement the Blaze Advisor-based solution to prepare for compliance with the Accord's capital requirements. ......Blaze Advisor brings measured, real ROI to BANQUE POPULAIRE GROUP by allowing greater business agility, lower programming costs, easier maintenance, more visibility into and control over how business decisions are being made, and better consistency in carrying out the best actions for any business condition. The Group estimates that the adoption of Fair Isaac's rules management technology has helped cut programming time by 30 percent during the development phase of the project compared to conventional programming approaches. Blaze Advisor also is expected to reduce programming time for future updates and maintenance by 50 to 75 percent. "

Corticon In Accord With IBM Business Performance Management Initiative - ebizQ: "Corticon In Accord With IBM Business Performance Management Initiative
03/29/2004



Corticon Technologies, a provider of business rules management software, says it �has joined the growing list of partners to deliver upon the new IBM (NYSE:IBM) Business Performance Management (BPM) initiative. Launched earlier this month, the IBM BPM initiative unites business process management with IT management to allow business leaders to manage in real-time, historical, and predictive contexts in order to improve responsiveness to market opportunities, competitive actions, and regulatory changes.

“To achieve true business advantage, a comprehensive BPM system should include a set of flexible business rules that allow business users to optimize processes without the need for programming,” said Dr. Mark Allen, President and CEO of Corticon Technologies. “Corticon's tight integration with IBM's BPM products enable customers to improve responsiveness, deploy complex business strategies, and enhance the agility of their operations.”
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Tiscali: "ILOG unveils new compliance solution accelerator
New JRules-based 'Data Compliance Solution Accelerator' Address Data Quality, Regulatory Compliance Applications PARIS and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., - March 30, 2004 - Responding to customer demand for tools to accelerate the deployment of compliance solutions, ILOG(R) (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext SICOVAM: 006673) today introduced the ILOG Data Compliance Solution Accelerator, a collection of technologies and services that, when used in combination with ILOG JRules(tm), a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, immediately helps companies address the management of their growing compliance needs in a resource- and cost-effective way. Available immediately, the new Solution Accelerator includes compliance-specific business rule language templates and modeling tools, out-of-the-box reporting and auditing features as well as access to the best practices ILOG's professional services team has developed in the building and deployment of compliance-based applications for Fortune 100 companies in a wide range of industries. The new tool also enhances the compliance management capabilities of ILOG JRules, which allows companies to leverage existing applications in the monitoring of high volumes of data in real time, enabling immediate detection and reporting of faulty or inconsistent information"

Project Aims for One-Stop Online Shopping for Federal Rules - BizReport: "Project Aims for One-Stop Online Shopping for Federal Rules
Under an ambitious plan recently approved by Bush administration officials, by early 2006 the average citizen will be able to go to a single federal regulatory Web site and dive into an electronic rulemaking repository that will show proposals, final rules, comments, supporting documents such as cost-benefit analyses and just about anything that goes along with the regulatory process."

Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: The voice of the valley economy: "Core Capital Leads $6.7 Million Series B for RulesPower "

"The technology behind RulesPower is markedly superior to any BPM offering
on the market in both modeling and automation," said Jonathan Silver.
"RulesPower's software closes the gap between business and information
technology by enabling customers to automate more and more complex human
tasks. RulesPower provides businesses with a higher degree of flexibility,
efficiency and optimization."

CSC signs four insurers to Visual Product/Modeling System: "CSC signs four insurers to Visual Product/Modeling System



Press release
26 March 2004 - Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) today announced that four leading insurers have licensed its calculation and business rules modeling system, Visual Product/Modeling System (VP/MS). Jefferson Pilot Financial, Manulife USA, Ohio National Financial Services and an insurance company that ranks among the top five stock life and health insurers in the U.S. have selected CSC's software to speed the design and development of new insurance products.
VP/MS simplifies the creation and transfer of calculations, business rules and product definitions that users need to share across multiple systems and platforms, including the Internet. All four insurers, which also use CSC's VANTAGE-ONE policy administration system, will use VP/MS to augment VANTAGE-ONE's capabilities as they introduce new products to market."

IBM Selects Corticon to Provide a Complete Business Performance Management Solution: "IBM Selects Corticon to Provide a Complete Business Performance Management Solution
Thursday March 25, 10:06 am ET
Corticon Integrates Business Rules Management with Business Process Management to Enable On Demand Computing
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Corticon Technologies, a leading provider of business rules management software, announced today that it has joined the growing list of partners to deliver upon the new IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) Business Performance Management (BPM) initiative. Launched earlier this month, the IBM BPM initiative unites business process management with IT management to allow business leaders to manage in real-time, historical, and predictive contexts in order to improve responsiveness to market opportunities, competitive actions, and regulatory changes......Corticon Business Rules Management brings two critical capabilities to business performance management. First, the Corticon Business Rules Modeler provides one of the industry's first design tools that enable business users to model business rules that are directly executable without the assistance of programmers. Second, the Corticon Business Rules Engine enables the rule models to be incorporated into transactional systems as standards-based Web services. Corticon's industry-leading products enable companies to streamline their business processes, ensure consistent execution of strategy and policy, and maximize business agility."

New ILOG JRules Advances Business Rule Management for Business Users: "New ILOG JRules Advances Business Rule Management for Business Users
Wednesday March 24, 3:01 am ET
New Decision Tables Allow Complex Rules to be Managed at a Glance
PARIS and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG� (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext SICOVAM: 006673), a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services, today introduced ILOG JRules(TM) 4.6, a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line. The new product includes significant ease of use enhancements that enable policy managers and business analysts to manage complex rule sets and modify them using a familiar spreadsheet-like interface. The new enhancements are designed to help accelerate the adoption of Business Rules Management Systems (BRMSs) as solutions for addressing the challenges created by faster business cycles and change, and aging software architectures that can no longer keep pace with these changes.....New ease of use features in ILOG JRules 4.6 include decision tables that simplify rule creation and maintenance because the user interface is similar to a spreadsheet. Using this feature, business users can save time creating and editing the rules by using "cut and paste" and other familiar keyboard shortcuts. They can also create and validate large business rule sets -- for example those defining discounts and promotions being offered to credit card customers based on monthly spending, credit rating, age and gender -- within minutes. Prior to the availability of the decision tables feature, business users had no compact way of looking at groups of rules.

Other ease of use enhancements in the latest release include extensions to ILOG JRules Business Action Language that support the writing of more complex rules, for example compliance rules, in conversational syntax. The new release also features optimized rule engine performance due to enhanced memory management, as well as a packaged demonstration for the J2EE platform using the new JSR 094 standard, which is a standard business rule software interface co-developed by ILOG.

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German Steel Maker Dillinger Huette Streamlines Production Processes Using ILOG JRules: "German Steel Maker Dillinger Huette Streamlines Production Processes Using ILOG JRules
Tuesday March 23, 3:01 am ET
ILOG's Award-winning ILOG JRules Fine-tunes Steel Plate Production
CeBIT 2004, HANNOVER, Germany, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG� (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services, today announced that Dillinger Huette, Europe's leading heavy steel plate producer, is adopting ILOG JRules(TM), a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, to streamline steel plate production. Deployed at the main production lines throughout the rolling mill factory, ILOG JRules enables Dillinger Huette to adjust and fine-tune its processes and ongoing production steps in real time in response to changing requirements. As a result, waste is minimized and the production planning is more flexible and responsive."

Pegasystems Joins New IBM Initiative for Business Performance Management; Expands Pegasystems' Presence in Rules-based BPM Market: "Pegasystems Joins New IBM Initiative for Business Performance Management; Expands Pegasystems' Presence in Rules-based BPM Market

PartnerWorld 2004

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2004--Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), a leading provider of smart, rules-based business process management software, recently announced at IBM's PartnerWorld 2004 that it has joined IBM's new Business Performance Management (BPM) Business Partner Program. The news follows closely on Pegasystems' announcement earlier this month that it has joined IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative to help deliver 'smart' business process management for on-demand computing needs, and that it has entered into an agreement with IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS).


Pegasystems will complement IBM's BPM initiative by continuing to develop and enhance its rules-based solutions for key vertical markets such as financial services and healthcare. IBM's new initiative offers Business Partners a set of BPM 'frameworks' for information, processes, events, business rules and workplace and business systems. The frameworks include tools for software developers, core IBM middleware technology, and technical education and support to enable Business Partners to provide customers with solutions unique to their industry. "

BizTalk 2004 �more efficient, productive': "BizTalk 2004 �more efficient, productive'
BY CAREL ALBERTS, ITWEB TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
.....Probably the most important improvement in the new platform is the implementation of a business rules engine. “Customers asked us for a mechanism whereby they could change their business rules without having an impact on the existing business process. Previously any change in business rules required a development effort inside the running orchestration and therefore recompilation and deployment,” says Kudsee."

**Special Highlight in this Issue -- OMG Standards Proposal**

Exclusive for members of www.BRCommunity.com ...Introducing a state-of-the-art standards proposal to the OMG concerning business vocabulary and business rules developed over the past year by a diverse group of the world's foremost business rule experts. Read all about this ground-breaking development and find out what it can mean to business rule professionals! More below ...

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

1. Special BRG Dispatches: Business Semantics of Business Rules,
by John Hall
2. Premise & Conclusion: Rules and Compliance Tactics,
by Ronald G. Ross
3. "Oldies-but-Goodies" posting,
by Ronald G. Ross


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


1. Special BRG Dispatches: Business Semantics of Business Rules,
by John Hall
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Dispatches has been quiet for a few months, but the Business Rules Group (BRG) has been busy. In August 2003 we joined the Business Rules Team (BRT) to respond to a Request for Proposal from the OMG on 'Business Semantics of Business Rules.' The initial RFP responses were submitted in January. In this month's special feature, BRG member John Hall presents an overview of the BRT's 'Business Semantics of Business Rules' submission.

to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b182.html


2. Premise & Conclusion: Rules and Compliance Tactics,
by Ronald G. Ross
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Associated with almost every rule constraining real-world activity is some kind(s) of action taken to enforce it. Is such action(s) part of the rule itself? How should such action(s) be viewed?
In this month's 'Premise and Conclusion' column, Ron Ross examines several sample rules to provide answers to these and related questions.

to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b156.html

3. "Oldies-but-Goodies" Collection
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BRS is releasing hidden treasures from past print issues of the DataToKnowledge Newsletter (formerly Data Base Newsletter).
This month's posting to our "Oldies-but-Goodies"
collection is...

"The Greatest Irony of the Information Age: Business Rules",
by Ronald G. Ross
from the May/June 1995 issue

to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a1995/a505.html

Putting business rules into the development environment: "Putting business rules into the development environment

ISSUED BY: CITIGATE SA PR

[Johannesburg, 17 March 2004] - Introducing business rules to the application development process at the very outset can play a key role in ensuring the success of newly produced enterprise applications. That's according to Ben van Niekerk, product manager at Compuware Corporation SA."

Investment houses use Fair Isaac to empower business rules- ADTmag.com: "Investment houses use Fair Isaac to empower business rules
3/17/2004
By Rich Seeley
... To help end users make these transactions conform to not only their own institutional rules but also to the maze of state and federal regulations, SEI added a rules engine. It selected Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor to perform the business-rules engine functions. XML is also routinely ...
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Dorado Introduces SourceMaster 2.0; New QuoteManager Feature Delivers Closing Cost Estimates and Guaranteed Vendor Quotes: "Dorado Introduces SourceMaster 2.0; New QuoteManager Feature Delivers Closing Cost Estimates and Guaranteed Vendor Quotes

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004--Dorado Corporation, the leader in Web Services-based systems for home lending, today announced Dorado SourceMaster(TM) 2.0. ....... Leveraging SourceMaster's powerful rules engine, QuoteManager allows lenders to input business rules to calculate specific costs for the Good Faith Estimate ...
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Pegasystems Delivers Cure for Healthcare Industry's $3.2 Billion Pain With New Claims Repair Solution: "Pegasystems Delivers Cure for Healthcare Industry's $3.2 Billion Pain With New Claims Repair Solution

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004--
'Smart' BPM Application Helps Reduce Expensive Claims Exceptions Handling; Provides Powerful New Functionality for Integrated, Front-to-Back-Office Healthcare Suite

... Automating the claims process from pre-adjudication through claims finalization, PegaHEALTH Claims Repair applies best-practice business rules to help check ...
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Logic and Licensing - Pundit - CIO Magazine Mar 15,2004: "Logic and Licensing
BY ERIC KNORR
Commercial apps and the hyperintegrated enterprise may lead us into a licensing tangle
....The application giants are basically vast repositories of business logic , extending deep into vertical industries. .....If the app vendors insist on that kind of control, why not abstract the functionality of their business logic using Web services? After all, the desire to recycle existing, well-crafted business logic is arguably the main driver behind today's biggest metatrend: service-oriented architecture (SOA)......The problem is that remotely accessing the business logic of (instead of simply extracting data from) a business application means you add to your licensing fee. ....Suffice it to say that there's no free logic: Either you pay to build or pay to buy. But over the long haul, it makes you wonder about the future of the enterprise application vendors. If we're moving toward SOA, how can any large organization possibly stay on top of all the licensing issues? And if the app vendors don't charge for spreading their business logic around, how can they survive? ....

For enterprises leaning toward building rather than buying, several tools can help ease the pain of business logic development. Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor and Ilog's JRules let developers capture business processes and implement them in rules engines. Blaze tilts toward decision management, while JRules focuses on business rules management. Both support XML-based integration, and both are intended to augment existing back-office apps rather than replace them.

The objective should be to build business logic that's truly yours—reflecting the details of your business processes, and gradually supplanting common-denominator enterprise apps for which you already pay too much.

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Microsoft BizTalk Server: BizTalk Server 2004: Business Rules Framework: "BizTalk Server 2004: Business Rules Framework
Posted: March 02, 2004
Summary
This white paper explores the limitations of current programming languages and methodologies when implementing complex, rule-based processes. The paper examines the creation and deployment of business rule 'policies' in BizTalk Server 2004, and demonstrates how a development environment that enables business rules to function as transparent services can effectively drive business agility."

Microsoft Launches BizTalk Server 2004 With New Tools for Best-of-Breed Integration and Business Process Management Solutions: "Microsoft Launches BizTalk Server 2004 With New Tools for Best-of-Breed Integration and Business Process Management Solutions
Tuesday March 2, 3:30 pm ET
....Highly scalable business rule engine enables business analysts to create flexible and more-responsive rules and policies around business processes.
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Metastorm Delivers e-Work for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004: "Metastorm Delivers e-Work for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004
Tuesday March 2, 3:30 pm ET
Metastorm is Member of Microsoft BizTalk Server Partner Program ....allowing processes running in Metastorm's e-Work BPM software to take advantage of the Microsoft BizTalk 2004 Business Rules Engine. A process automated in e-Work will be able to call a rule in the BizTalk 2004 Business Rules Engine via Web services and act upon the results of the rule.....The solution will enable organizations to reduce transaction costs by eliminating stages in a process, automating more process steps and centralizing the maintenance and management of business rules.....Metastorm will take advantage of the technology offered by the .NET framework to build integration between e-Work and the BizTalk 2004 Business Rules Engine. Metastorm will offer an extension to the BizTalk Rules Designer that will allow e-Work to provide test cases and facts that may be used while building policies in BizTalk Server. In addition, the Integration Wizard in the e-Work Process Designer will be extended to allow policies to be selected from the BizTalk Server rules repository and run by a Rules stage in an e-Work process. The e-Work Process Engine will call these rules using Web services, and the process will take the appropriate action based on the values returned by the BizTalk 2004 Business Rules Engine.

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InfoWorld: Microsoft partners applaud BizTalk Server upgrade: March 02, 2004: By : Platforms: "Microsoft partners applaud BizTalk Server upgrade
Business integration software is designed to enable faster, less costly implementations
By Joris Evers, IDG News ServiceMarch 02, 2004

With the introduction Tuesday of BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft Corp. is delivering a more complete package of business integration software that will allow for faster and less costly implementations, two of Microsoft's system integrator partners said. ... The most important enhancements to BizTalk Server 2004 are improved scalability, the addition of a business rules engine/strong> and integration of the development ...Including a business rules engine should mean cost savings for users who would otherwise have had to buy a rules engine from a third party. Business rules engines allow users to specify or change business rules, and make those rules part of the BizTalk Server system with minimal help from a software developer.

"Traditionally, business rules technology has been expensive," said Monteiro. By shipping a rules engine with BizTalk Server, Microsoft is going head-to-head with business rules engine vendors such as ILOG Inc., Fair Isaac Corp. and Pegasystems Inc., he said.


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# posted by Ladd : 3/05/2004 03:10:00 PM