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TDAN - Hay - Modeling Business Rules: "MODELING BUSINESS RULES:
DATA DRIVEN BUSINESS RULES
Written by David C. Hay - Essential Strategies, Inc.
Published in TDAN.com October 2004

Articles in previous issues of TDAN[1] have discussed the extent to which business rules can be directly represented by data models. To summarize our story so far, data models do use terms to represent concepts and facts. They can represent derived data (although not the derivation logic), and they can represent a few constraints. There are a large number of constraints that they cannot represent, however. This article presents an approach to representing a category of constraints that cannot be directly represented, but which can be managed in terms of data.

see rest of article for more..... "

Press release : ILOG CompanynewsGroup: "NEW ILOG LENDING PRACTICE CAN SHORTEN LOAN PROCESSING CYCLE TO DAYS
(10/27/2004 7:00:00 AM)


Services-led Offering Addresses the Complexities of the Lending Process
MBA ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO � October 27, 2004 � To help leading financial services institutions (FSIs) implement consumer lending solutions faster and at lower risk, ILOG� (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced the ILOG Lending Practice. Available through ILOG Professional Services, the new practice builds upon ILOG's expertise building business rule applications in the consumer lending and credit space, combining the domain expertise of ILOG consultants with tools and templates that address specific functions within a lending process. The new practice complements ILOG JRules�, a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, and will allow FSIs to more quickly deploy solutions that can render credit decisions in seconds, and reduce the loan processing cycle from months to a matter of days. The announcement was made today at the Mortgage Banker's Association Conference and Expo in San Francisco October 24-28, 2004 at the Moscone Convention Center."

Fidelity Adopts Fair Isaac Business Rules Management Technology to Help Customers Improve Business Processes: "Fidelity Adopts Fair Isaac Business Rules Management Technology to Help Customers Improve Business Processes

MINNEAPOLIS & JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2004--
After Comprehensive Comparison, Fidelity Will Apply Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor to Entire Suite of Offerings

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, and Fidelity National Financial Inc. (NYSE:FNF), the world's largest provider of IT solutions to the mortgage and financial services industries, today announced that Fidelity has signed an enterprise-wide licensing agreement for Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor business rules technology. Blaze Advisor will enable Fidelity to improve business processes and lower costs while providing its customers with faster and more efficient customer service capabilities.
Blaze Advisor is a core component of Fidelity's vision of a rules-layered architecture that will span its entire suite of product offerings and provides Fidelity customers with complete software packages that leverage existing legacy systems and preserve business process innovation.
Fidelity will begin using Blaze Advisor as it re-architects its core mortgage servicing system, which provides automation for nearly half of all mortgages in the United States. Blaze Advisor will be an integral part of this initiative and is expected to dramatically reduce the cost of managing Fidelity's systems and increase the company's speed to market. Additionally, Fidelity plans to use Blaze Advisor to orchestrate and manage complex business processes that span its channel, integration and core banking applications. The app"

IT-Analysis.com - A resurgence for rules?: "A resurgence for rules?
Tuesday 26th October 2004

At various times, rules engines have come into and out of fashion, but they have never really fulfilled their promise. However, the latest release from Haley Systems may be about to change all that."

Haley Systems Launches HaleyAuthority 5.0 for .NET and Java Applications: "Haley Systems Launches HaleyAuthority 5.0 for .NET and Java Applications
Monday October 25, 11:17 am ET
Business and IT Collaborate to Reduce Business Rules Management Steps by 40%
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Haley Systems, Inc., the technology leader in business rules management systems, today announced the release of HaleyAuthority 5.0, the industry's only business rules management tool for both .NET and Java environments. HaleyAuthority uniquely empowers business and IT users to develop applications collaboratively while eliminating 2 of the 5 steps in changing rules when business conditions change. HaleyAuthority 5.0 offers natural language authoring and automatic code generation for .NET and Java applications, along with a patent-pending rules methodology that significantly simplifies rules management. HaleyAuthority 5.0 also offers multiple modes of rules authoring functionality which includes true English text, cascading menus, and table formats. With HaleyAuthority 5.0, Haley Systems helps business and IT work together, faster -- to create business agility and competitive advantage."

Business Rules Evangelist: How Useful are Business Rule Statements? Business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics editorial from DMReview: "Business Rules Evangelist:
How Useful are Business Rule Statements?


Column published in DMReview.com
October 21, 2004

By Malcolm Chisholm

Most people would agree that having a complete and understandable statement for every business rule is a worthy goal. Indeed, a lot of effort has been devoted to techniques for constructing rules statements that meet this goal. Yet, I have to wonder if rule statements that really work are always attainable and if spending a great deal of time on them is justified."

Fair Isaac Extends Support of Mainframes with Introduction of Blaze Advisor for COBOL at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004: "Fair Isaac Extends Support of Mainframes with Introduction of Blaze Advisor for COBOL at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2004

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2004--
Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for COBOL ensures rules management solutions can complement and upgrade existing mainframe applications

Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, today announced the general availability of Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor for COBOL. COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language - is a common programming language that is found at the heart of many of today's leading organizations' mainframe applications.
Blaze Advisor for COBOL allows organizations to incorporate a rules decisioning system that co-exists with and upgrades existing mainframe applications, while reducing development loads on enterprise IT departments. It is designed for any organization that currently has mainframe applications within its enterprise and wants to significantly reduce the time and costs required to incorporate important changes in business priorities into its decision systems. Blaze Advisor helps organizations improve the agility of the enterprise and its operational decision-making. "

Harbourton Mortgage Selects Portellus to Provide Web-Based Loan Origination, Business Rules Management Systems: "Harbourton Mortgage Selects Portellus to Provide Web-Based Loan Origination, Business Rules Management Systems
Monday October 18, 12:48 pm ET
IRVINE, Calif. & SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2004--
Ease-of-Use, Flexibility Cited as Key Factors in Decision;
Portellus Offers First Truly Modular, Flexible Enterprise Lending
Solution

Portellus, a leading provider of technology tools and services to the financial services industry, today announced that Harbourton Mortgage Investment Corp. (HMIC), a national wholesale lender, has chosen Portellus to provide a complete suite of Web-based loan origination and business rules management technology. "

PRESS RELEASE: YASU Announces QuickRules 3.0 BRE for Java Applications: "YASU Announces QuickRules 3.0 BRE for Java Applications
YASU Technologies, an innovative cross-platform BRM (Business Rules Management) solutions vendor, has announced the latest version of its Java-based QuickRules Business Rules Engine.
(PRWEB) October 15, 2004 -- YASU Technologies, an innovative cross-platform BRM (Business Rules Management) solutions vendor, has announced the latest version of its Java-based QuickRules Business Rules Engine. The latest version, QuickRules Standard Edition 3.0, is designed to make it easier for the rule architects and business users to create and manage complex rule execution sequences using flows.

QuickRules Standard Edition 3.0 introduces Flowrulesets, a feature that is an advanced rule implementation allowing a complete control over the rule execution sequence either graphically or by using a simple flow language.

QuickRules 3.0 also includes some other enhancements like the dock-able multi-document user interface for QuickRules Builder that provides better usability and ease of working with multiple windows; and the facility to import data from a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file or from a spreadsheet into Decision Tables using QuickRules Builder."

TDAN Loshin - A New Way of Thinking Issue 30.0: "A New Way of Thinking - October 2004
David Loshin - Knowledge Integrity, Inc.

Thinking About Business Rules
People frequently talk about business rules as if the concept was well defined and there was a widespread agreement to that definition. However, while the concept seems to have widespread acceptance, there is less agreement about some of the more mundane (and simultaneously, pragmatic) issues surrounding the form, function, and definition of a business rule. It is very interesting, though, to see that despite the ambiguity associated with business rule concepts, there does seem to be an overwhelming agreement as to the importance of identifying, managing, and using business rules as a significant part of information management. At the risk of going out on a limb, I thought it might be interesting to take a step backward and think about business rules and their context in the data management universe.

see article for more ..... "

Press release : ILOG CompanynewsGroup: "District of Columbia selectsILOG JRules for city�s human services modernization program
(10/13/2004 7:00:00 AM)

WASHINGTON � October 13, 2004 � ILOG� (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services, today announced that the District of Columbia (District) has selected ILOG JRules�, a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, to support a key health and human services initiative as part of the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) Human Services Modernization Program (HSMP).
Part of an aggressive effort to upgrade and integrate the District's technology systems, the award-winning ILOG software will be used to automate the 'Interview for Benefits' application that provides D.C. residents, hospitals, community-based organizations, and related government agencies with a web-based interview tool to determine potential eligibility for either the Federally-funded Medicaid or D.C. HealthCare Alliance."

Aleri Releases Aleri Analysis Engine 3.0: "Aleri Releases Aleri Analysis Engine 3.0


Business Intelligence Environments To Benefit From
Significant Enhancements In On-Demand Analytics

ATLANTA, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Aleri, a provider of innovative
aggregation and analytics software today announced a general availability
release of their flagship product, the Aleri Analysis Engine 3.0 at the Sibos
Conference in Atlanta, GA. Based on breakthrough technology, the Aleri
Analysis Engine 3.0 provides companies with greater visibility into their
data, accelerating the performance of business intelligence and reporting
environments.
....* Usability - the Aleri Analysis Engine 3.0 features a streamlined
interface and new functionality for migrating existing business rules
and logic from legacy environments into the Aleri Analysis Engine
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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
September, 2004 Vol 5 No. 9
October, 2004 Vol 5 No. 10
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European Section in BRCommunity
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European business rules professionals will now find links to events, announcements and articles of the BRJournal that are especially relevant for the European business rules community at the new European section of BRCommunity.
to read more, select region "Europe" on:
http://www.business-rules.info
http://www.brcommunity.com

In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
September, 2004
1. Business Rules, Can They Be Re-used?, by Rik Gerrits 2. Premise & Conclusion: Relearning the Basics of Communicating
~ Business Semantics and Business Rules, by Ronald G. Ross 3. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 8),
by Terry Halpin
4. Translation of BR Manifesto to Dutch
5. "Oldies-but-Goodies" posting, by Ronald G. Ross
October, 2004
6. Premise & Conclusion: Clarifying Clarifications ~ Universal
'And' to the Rescue, by Ronald G. Ross 7. Plainly Speaking: Organizing a Pile of Rules, by Gladys S. W. Lam 8. OMG Reporter: New Business Rules Initiatives from the OMG,
by Stan Hendryx

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

1. Business Rules, Can They Be Re-used?, by Rik Gerrits ...............................................................
What a silly question, you might say. Of course! Business people do it all the time. And obviously you are right. A business rule can be used in more ways than the original inventor of the rule could ever have imagined. So why ask this question? In this month's column, Rik Gerrits provides his answer.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b203.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: Relearning the Basics of Communicating
~ Business Semantics and Business Rules, by Ronald G. Ross ...............................................................
People in different parts of the organization do talk to each other
(usually) -- but do they really understand each other in ways that count the most? The next great advance in IT capability will be as much about rethinking business communication as it is about technology.
In this month's column, Ron Ross takes a look at how business semantics
and business rules address this fundamental challenge.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b204.html

3. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 8),
by Terry Halpin
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Business rules should be validated by business domain experts, and hence specified using concepts and languages easily understood by business people.
This is the eighth in a series of articles on expressing business rules formally in a high-level, textual language. In this month's column, Terry Halpin discusses the verbalization of equality constraints.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b205.html

4.Translation of BR Manifesto to Dutch
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To widen the audience for this excellent piece of work, the BRMAnifesto is translated to Dutch. Intitiative of and by Drs. Silvie Spreeuwenberg (LibRT) with thanks to mr. dr. Henriette Gelinck (Utrechtse Juristen Groep), drs. leo Hermans (Everest), dr. Stijn Hoppenbrouwers (Universiteit Nijmegen), prof. Jan Vanthienen (KU Leuven).
to read more, visit:
http://www.businessrulesgroup.org/brmanifesto.htm

5. "Oldies-but-Goodies" Collection
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BRS is releasing hidden treasures from past print issues of the Data Base Newsletter and DataToKnowledge Newsletter. This month's contribution to our "Oldies-but-Goodies" collection is...
"Implementing Application Packages: Is There a Better Way?"
by Ronald G. Ross
from the Sep./Oct. 1997 issue
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a1997/a369.html

6. Premise & Conclusion: Clarifying Clarifications ~ Universal
'And' to the Rescue, by Ronald G. Ross ..................................................................
As a business rule analyst, sometimes you want to provide a clarification for the business indicating that something is O.K., rather than not O.K or otherwise constrained. To do so, do you need to list every rule relevant to the circumstances that still must be followed? Fortunately not. In this issue's column, Ron Ross discusses Permission Statements, and explains why they are relatively easy to express.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b207.html

7. Plainly Speaking: Organizing a Pile of Rules, by Gladys S. W. Lam ..................................................................
In this month’s Plainly Speaking, Gladys S. W. Lam talks about rule categorization. She describes the essential and the most popular categorization schemes. She outlines how some commercial tools can assist in managing these categorization schemes.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b208.html

8. OMG Reporter: New Business Rules Initiatives from the OMG,
by Stan Hendryx
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In this month's column, Stan Hendryx reports on the major advancements made in the ongoing work of the Object Management Group (OMG) to expand its efforts on business rules. From its August meeting in Montreal, Stan reports on several significant advances: Fujitsu presented their revised submission proposal for Business Semantics of Business Rules (BSBR), the Business Rules Team also presented their revised submission, and the BEIDTF announced the creation of a BSBR Evaluation Team (in anticipation of upcoming work to finalize BSBR).
In this month's report, Stan also reports on several other major initiatives, including the Business Rule Management RFI, the proposed Request for Comment of the BRG's 'Business Rules Motivation Metamodel' (BRMM), the Organization Structure Metamodel RFP (now available), and news from those
working on the Business Process Definition Metamodel. It is noted that a
significant accord was reached -- the BPDM and BSBR groups appears to be in agreement that business rules play an important role in business process definitions, and that business rule definition and management should be external from the definitions of the business process they govern.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2004/b209.html


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CSC Enhances Health Plan Management Software With Advanced Rules-Based Technology: "CSC Enhances Health Plan Management Software With Advanced Rules-Based Technology
Thursday October 7, 2:47 pm ET
Integration of CSC's PowerSTEPP and VP/MS Software Simplifies Business Change
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC - News) today announced the availability of a new version of CSC's PowerSTEPP health plan administration system, which lets business experts change processing rules without programming. In this new version, CSC has integrated PowerSTEPP with the company's Visual Product/Modeling System (VP/MS), a business rules engine and calculation modeling tool that more than 85 firms worldwide use to quickly and efficiently respond to business changes."

AIG expands global markets with help of Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor


CASE STUDY
Client: AIG eBusiness Risk Solutions
Challenge: To quickly implement new strategies that react to various risk factors in its international markets
Solution: Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor rules management technology
Results: Risk models deployed in weeks instead of months; policy updates in hours; faster and more accurate decisions

AIG eBusiness Risk Solutions, a division of American International Group Inc. (AIG), needed to find a way to quickly and easily incorporate varying and changing factors into its web-based credit and risk management service.

Line56.com: Managing Business Rules: "Managing Business Rules
Corticon 3.0 release incorporates automated rule-checking system; modeling is the key to execution; differentiating from other rules systems


by Demir Barlas, Line56

Monday, October 04, 2004


Niche e-business software company Corticon, which provides technology for modeling and presenting profligate business rules to line-of-business employees, today announced a 3.0 release, embedded with technology to highlight gaps in a company's rule system.
Mark Allen, CEO of Corticon, says the product 'isn't an app unto itself, but a way to externalize the rules from other apps and manage them as services.' Corticon uses Web services to fetch and deliver rules from external registries and internal applications, but typically more rules would be input manually than otherwise. For example, imagine managers inputting rules allowing a 'gold' customer to have more time to pay a bill than a 'silver' one. The possibilities are limited only by how much personalization a company wants to feed into the system. "

Corticon 3.0 Simplifies Development, Management and Integration of Business Rules: "Corticon 3.0 Simplifies Development, Management and Integration of Business Rules


Version 3.0 Offers First Desktop Rules Modeling and Web Services Integration,
Delivering the Most Reliable Business Rules in the Industry

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Corticon Technologies, the
leading provider of business rules management software, today introduced
Corticon 3.0, a powerful and unique solution to ensure more efficient and
reliable execution of business rules, or the policies and regulations that
govern business operations. Corticon 3.0 delivers a significant new set of
capabilities to Corticon's business rules product line, including the
industry's first standalone desktop business rules modeler, enabling business
users to create business rule sets using spreadsheet-like models instead of
programming code. Version 3.0 also includes enhanced Web Services support,
and complete support for localization and internationalization. Most
important, Corticon 3.0 offers the only patent-pending technology solution to
assure the accuracy and reliability of the business rules."

Decision Evolution - - CIO Magazine Oct 1,2004: "Decision Evolution
Automated systems are helping businesses make decisions more productively and consistently. But they're also making a lot of entry-level jobs obsolete. Executives had better be prepared to manage the transition.
BY TOM DAVENPORT"

TenFold Announces BusinessRules Feature: "TenFold Announces BusinessRules Feature
Friday October 1, 3:14 pm ET
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TenFold Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TENF - News), provider of the EnterpriseTenFold(TM) platform for building and implementing enterprise applications, today announced BusinessRules, a major new EnterpriseTenFold feature that places the business expert at the center of enterprise applications development."