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Britain's Thames Water Delivers Millions in Cost Benefits Using ILOG JRules: "Britain's Thames Water Delivers Millions in Cost Benefits Using ILOG JRules
Tuesday May 31, 3:00 am ET
Reduces by Half Customer Response Time and Number of Customer Complaints
LONDON, May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG� (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext; ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), a leading provider of software components and services, today announced that Thames Water has streamlined its conveyancing software system using ILOG JRules(TM), a key offering in ILOG's Business Rules Management System (BRMS) product line -- a step that will enable the World's third largest water utility to achieve cost reductions amounting to more than 4.4 million pounds Sterling over the next five years."
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IT-Director.com: Should you be using a business rules manag: "Should you be using a business rules management system?
Published: 26th May 2005
By: Peter Abrahams
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Copyright � 2005 Bloor Research
Channel: Integration / Middleware
You should be using a business rules management system:
If your company makes complex business decisions
If your company has to ensure that its employees make consistent non-discriminatory decisions
If the auditors need to understand the rules you have used to make decisions
If the rules in your business change on a regular basis
If the rules are buried in Java or COBOL code
If the IT Department cannot respond quickly enough to changes required by management "
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Rounding Up Business Rules - Computerworld: "Rounding Up Business Rules
Business rules management systems help organizations track and enforce the rules that make a business run -- and keep it on the right side of the law.

There's more to this story:

> Sidebar: Start With Good Rules
> Sidebar: What You Need in a BRMS
> Sidebar: Business Rules Engine and BRMS Vendors

News Story by Sue Hildreth

MAY 23, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Do you know where all of your company's business rules are?
Most enterprise users are surprised to discover how many important -- and not-so-important -- rules, regulations, policies and procedures are scattered all around the organization. For example, last year's marketing manual has guidelines for creating advertising campaigns; equations for calculating employees' health and retirement benefits are embedded in Cobol code; and best practices for writing software code reside only in the minds of senior developers, since no one has been asked to write the"

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Sidebar: Advise or Control - Computerworld: "Sidebar: Advise or Control

News Story by Sue Hildreth

MAY 23, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - James Sinur, an analyst at Gartner Inc., explains that rules engines are used either to control transactions and processes or to provide advice and analysis. "
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Resolution Launches PowerStart Partner Program; A First in Making it Easy and Risk-Free to Embed or Integrate a BRE into Existing Offerings: "Resolution Launches PowerStart Partner Program; A First in Making it Easy and Risk-Free to Embed or Integrate a BRE into Existing Offerings

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2005--Resolution EBS, the provider of the only business rules engine (BRE) built from the ground up for highly interactive processes, today unveiled its groundbreaking Resolution PowerStart partner program. PowerStart gives Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Business Process Management Vendors (BPMs) and Solution Integrators (SIs) an easy, flexible way to embed or integrate the market's only interactive business rule engine. This means that partners can 'test drive' an innovative, differentiated offering that delivers immediate revenue opportunities to their bottom line. "
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RulesPower Announces BRMS Version 2.0 for Enhanced Business Rules Management Capabilities and Ease of Modeling: "RulesPower Announces BRMS Version 2.0 for Enhanced Business Rules Management Capabilities and Ease of Modeling


Major Health Insurance Customer Reaches Efficiency Goals Ahead of Schedule

BURLINGTON, Mass., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- RulesPower, Inc.
(http://www.rulespower.com), a leading innovator of Business Rules Management Systems
(BRMS), announces general availability of their 2.0 release, designed to set a
new standard in business rule software performance while enhancing the ease of
business rule development.
RulesPower BRMS 2.0 is comprised of two scalable business rule management
applications that allow companies to embed business activities, business
policies and relevant content into everyday business processes to achieve
bottom-line results,"

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CSC offers insurers new technology to speed product introduction - Computer Business Review: "CSC offers insurers new technology to speed product introduction
13th May 2005
By CBR Staff Writer
El Segundo, California-based Computer Sciences Corporation has released new software that it says will enable insurers to speed introduction of life insurance and annuity products and administer policies at a lower cost.

The company said its Vantage-One platform, an administration system supporting life and annuity products, will be integrated with its Visual Product Modeling System (VP/MS), an external rules engine that enables insurers to define and modify business rules and calculations. "

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Versata Joins Eclipse Foundation; Versata 6 Workbench Based on Eclipse Developer Productivity Tools: "Versata Joins Eclipse Foundation; Versata 6 Workbench Based on Eclipse Developer Productivity Tools

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2005--Versata(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:VATA), a leading independent provider of rapid application development platforms to automate and manage complex, data-intensive business systems, today announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is the leading platform for Java development tools and is used as the strategic foundation for developer tools within the Versata product line.


Versata's new business rules engine, Versata 6(TM), which became generally available earlier this month, makes significant use of the Eclipse tools. Versata 6 Workbench(TM) provides a rich metamodel implemented in EMF and eCore that unifies and integrates decision, process, transaction and data rules with an Eclipse development environment. Versata 6 also supports the team development capabilities of Eclipse, including check-in/check-out functionality, integrated source code management and background builds. "

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Gensym Releases First-Quarter 2005 Results; Continued Profitability with 27% Revenue Growth Rate: "Gensym Releases First-Quarter 2005 Results; Continued Profitability with 27% Revenue Growth Rate

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2005--Gensym Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GNSM), a leading provider of rule engine software for mission-critical solutions, today announced revenues of $5,143,000, operating income of $212,000, and net income of $191,000, or $0.02 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2005. "

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i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - BFO partners with Business Rules Engine provider OpenRules, Inc.: "BFO partners with Business Rules Engine provider OpenRules, Inc.
BFO and OpenRules partnership provides the ability to generate complete PDF documents 'on the fly' using information entered during Web interaction sessions and predefined PDF forms.

i-Newswire, - London, England, - Big Faceless Organization ( BFO ), the leading global provider of Java reporting solutions, announces partnership with OpenRules, Inc., provider of the most popular Open Source Business Rule Engine OpenRules. "
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YASU Announces QuickRules.NET 2.5 BRMS

YASU Technologies, an innovative cross-platform business rules management systems, solutions, products, and services vendor, has announced the latest version of its .NET-based QuickRules BRMS.
(PRWEB) May 5, 2005 -- YASU Technologies, an innovative cross-platform BRM (Business Rules Management) systems, solutions, and products vendor, has announced the release of the latest version of its flagship .NET-based product, QuickRules.NET BRMS.QuickRules.NET 2.5 BRMS features several improvements over the previous versions that aim to reduce the effort required to develop, maintain, and integrate rules-based solutions into existing IT infrastructures. Business Users can take advantage of Rule Packages, Definitions and Data Types to capture and organize their business rules online without having to deal with the underlying code. The ability to define and re-use business rules from Packages, the advanced search functionality, and the Business User Testing Framework allow Architects, Designers, and Developers to easily integrate these business rules into their IT applications and test them for accuracy and dependability. QuickRules.NET 2.5 BRMS also introduces features that allow Data Center Administrators to seamlessly deploy business rules to Web Servers, middle-tier DMZ applications, and to the edge of the Enterprises where “smart client” applications exist.

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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
May, 2005 Vol 6 No. 5
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. The 'Other' Rules ~ Internal Control and the Influence of COSO,
by Steven Chater, CPA, MCSD
2. Premise & Conclusion: Essence Definitions and Business Rules ~
Developing Stable Anchor Points for Operational Knowledge,
by Ronald G. Ross
3. Rule Observatory: Semantic Web, by Silvie Spreeuwenberg
4. OMG Reporter: Work Continues on OMG Business Rules Proposal
by Stan Hendryx
5. "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. The 'Other' Rules ~ Internal Control and the Influence of COSO,
by Steven Chater, CPA, MCSD
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This article provides an introduction to the COSO Framework, the basis for internal control and reporting standards now being adopted across developed economies through legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the USA. In this month's feature, Steve Chater relates how the COSO Framework translates into policies, procedures, and business rule sets in organisations, using procurement in state government agencies in New South Wales, Australia, as an example. He concludes with the presentation of a case for an organization to put in place a business rules management tool.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b231.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: Essence Definitions and Business Rules ~
Developing Stable Anchor Points for Operational Knowledge,
by Ronald G. Ross
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What does the business rule approach have to say about forming definitions of business concepts? What role should rules play in that regard? In this month's 'Premise and Conclusion' column, Ron Ross examines the notion of essence definitions -- business concepts carefully crafted so as to be extremely stable. Such definitions permit using rules to do what that are so good at -- handling the never-ending and often unpredictable succession of changes in related business practices.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b233.html

3. Rule Observatory: Semantic Web, by Silvie Spreeuwenberg ...............................................................
What are the differences or similarities between the rules of the Semantic Web and the rules of the Business? In this month's issue of the 'Rule observatory' Silvie Spreeuwenberg shares with you some observations on the Semantic Web.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b234.html

4. OMG Reporter: Work Continues on OMG Business Rules Proposal
by Stan Hendryx
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In this month's column, Stan Hendryx reports on progress on business rules standardization from the OMG's April meeting in Athens. The announcement of an intended vote on the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) proposal precipitated a flurry of last minute reviews and comments from OMG members, resulting in a delay of the expected vote until the Boston meeting this June. The Athens meeting also focused on the scope of the proposed Business Rules Management Request for Proposal, planned for this issue this Fall.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b236.html
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...
"Four Things Wrong with the Way We Develop Information Systems"
by Ronald G. Ross from the Jan./Feb. 1999 issue
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a1999/a406.html
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The Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update is distributed electronically free-of-charge on a monthly basis by the Business Rules Community.
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BRCommunity.com is sponsored by Business Rule Solutions, LLC, the world leader in business rule techniques.
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Insurers Tackle A Tough Enemy by Insurance Networking News: "Insurers Tackle A Tough Enemy

May 2, 2005
To aggressively and successfully fight fraud, insurers need the proper balance of trained professionals and technology. And they need organizational commitment to fight the good fight.

By Frank Cerne, Editor "

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MetLife Auto & Home and CSC spent "hundreds of hours" to build the business rules and data fields used to analyze claims and flag suspicious information. Examples of business rules include the amount of time between the date a policy took effect and a claim was filed, the severity of injuries resulting from accidents, the number of occupants in an automobile, and subjective injuries such as soft-tissue injuries.

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Westchester County Government Selects Rules Service Architecture
May 02, 2005 By News Staff

Westchester County, N.Y., selected Haley Business Rules Management Suite to develop a rules service architecture for supporting multiple applications to improve government efficiency, make services and information more accessible to the public, and improve public safety in the county.
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Proponents Push Business Rules, But Programmers Aren't Buying, Yet
By Stephen Swoyer

Talking Points

RULES TO DIVIDE
There’s a good chance programmers already are using business rules in the form of proto-rules in their environments.
Business rules advocates often promise that the technology will eliminate much of the rote or otherwise tedious maintenance and production support.
Programmers often have good reason to resist the transition to a business rules-based approach because the impetus usually comes from the line of business.
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Sidebar: What’s a business rule?
More on ADTmag.com:California’s DMV creates rules for a developing roadBy Kathleen Ohlson
Business rules not just for coders anymoreBy ADT Staff
The goal: Automating policies, proceduresBy Lana Gates
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer based in Athens, Ga. He can be reached at daedalus@percipient-analytics.com.