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Resolution Partners With SAP Services Provider MyITgroup Ltd.; Companies to Develop Rules-Based Solutions That Extend Value of SAP Investments: "Resolution Partners With SAP Services Provider MyITgroup Ltd.; Companies to Develop Rules-Based Solutions That Extend Value of SAP Investments

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2005--Resolution EBS, the provider of the only business rules engine (BRE) built from the ground up for interactive front office applications and processes that reduce costs and raise revenue opportunities, announced it is partnering with Houston-based MyITgroup Ltd., a nationally recognized SAP Services Partner. Together, the two companies will develop rules-based front office solutions for customers looking to further extend the value of their SAP implementations out to the front of their value chain. MyITgroup specializes solely on providing professional services for SAP users. Currently, the company supports some 300 clients through its three divisions, Workforce, Solutions, and Outsourcing. "

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ILOG Delivers Enhanced Business Rule Management for Dual-Platform Applications: "ILOG Delivers Enhanced Business Rule Management for Dual-Platform Applications
Tuesday June 28, 3:00 am ET
New JRules 5.1 Enables Rapid Deployment of Rules to Both Java and .NET-based Business Rule Applications
SAN FRANCISCO, JavaOne Developers Conference 2005, June 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG� (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced ILOG JRules(TM) 5.1 with dual-platform support. ILOG JRules 5.1, the latest version of the award-winning ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG's business rule management system (BRMS) product line, makes it possible for business and IT professionals to collaborate on business rule development, execution and management and deploy on either Java or .NET platforms. The announcement was made today at the JavaOne Developers Conference 2005, which is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from June 27-June 29."

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Fair Isaac to Provide Customer Decisioning Platforms with HP: "Fair Isaac to Provide Customer Decisioning Platforms with HP

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2005--Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) today announced that it is working with HP to deliver high-value analytic solutions through an open HP technology infrastructure for an improved customer experience. "
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Fair Isaac's Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) solutions, featuring the industry-leading Blaze Advisor rules management technology, will be the engine for integrated solutions that apply analytics and automated decisioning capability across the customer value chain.

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Resolution EBS Launches Certification Program - ebizQ: "Resolution EBS Launches Certification Program
06/22/2005


Resolution EBS, the provider a business rules engine (BRE) built from the ground up for front office applications and processes that seeks to reduce costs and raise revenue opportunities, today launched the Resolution Certification Program."

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Enterra Solutions Announces Oracle Alliance, Support for Oracle BPEL Process Manager: "Enterra Solutions Announces Oracle Alliance, Support for Oracle BPEL Process Manager

YARDLEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2005--Enterra Solutions, the leader in Enterprise Resilience Management(TM) (ERM(TM)), today announced that it has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) and will develop new solutions based upon Oracle(R) BPEL(R) (Business Process Execution Language) Process Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. "

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The RTA solution also involves an innovative integration of Oracle Business Rules, a new component of Oracle Application Server 10g, that enables business rules to be specified separately from application code and combines with Oracle BPEL Process Manager to build agile, transparent rules-based business processes.

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ILOG Adds Business Rule Management to EMC Documentum Business Process Management Offering: "ILOG Adds Business Rule Management to EMC Documentum Business Process Management Offering
Tuesday June 21, 3:00 am ET
ILOG JRules Brings Enhanced Agility and Flexibility to EMC Documentum Business Process Management Product Suite
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PARIS, June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG� (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced that EMC Documentum has selected ILOG as its preferred business rule technology provider for the EMC Documentum Business Process Management (BPM) product suite. By combining ILOG's award-winning ILOG JRules(TM), a key offering in its business rule management systems (BRMS) product line, with the EMC BPM solution for its next-generation enterprise content management (ECM) platform, business users can make policy changes within any BPM application without any IT involvement, resulting in faster business agility in response to customer demands, regulations and competitive threats."

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Lexis-Nexis Chooses Corticon for Rules Management - ebizQ: "Lexis-Nexis Chooses Corticon for Rules Management
06/20/2005


Corticon� Technologies, a provider of Business Rules Management Software, today announced that LexisNexis has chosen Corticon Technologies as their Enterprise Rules Management solution.
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Corticon said that LexisNexis first used Corticon to solve intelligent customer routing decisions in their company�s Customer Order Management System. LexisNexis is currently utilizing Corticon�s rules automation software to create new account rules up to 70 percent faster than using a custom rules engine."

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FINEOS Launches Rules Manager Product for Banks and Insurers: "June 17, 2005 09:55 AM US Eastern Timezone

FINEOS Launches Rules Manager Product for Banks and Insurers

DUBLIN, Ireland & LONDON & SYDNEY, Australia & PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2005--FINEOS Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise solutions for banking and insurance, has released an innovative rules management solution, FINEOS Rules Manager.


The new product component enables organizations to create, manage and store sophisticated business rules that automate decisions and calculations, delivering faster and more efficient processing of business. It provides business process automation, product rules management and offers the ability to quickly react to legislative change. "

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SMABTP Standardizes Insurance Policy Management With ILOG JRules: "SMABTP Standardizes Insurance Policy Management With ILOG JRules
Tuesday June 14, 3:00 am ET
BRMS Dramatically Reduces IT Change Cycles, Extends Partnership Capabilities
PARIS, June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG� (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), a leading provider of enterprise software components and services, today announced that SMABTP, the leading French insurance company in the construction industry, has standardized on ILOG JRules(TM), a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, to effectively manage all the business rules governing its insurance applications. Using ILOG's BRMS, SMABTP expects to reduce IT maintenance costs, shorten the time-to-market of new products, and better support its business partners. SMABTP has already successfully deployed ILOG JRules in several applications, including customer repository management and policy underwriting."

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PRESS RELEASE MindBox(R) Takes the Trophy at Stevie(TM) Awards: "MindBox(R) Takes the Trophy at Stevie(TM) Awards
Recognized for Best New Computer Software Product in Third Annual American Business Awards Celebration
GREENBRAE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/09/2005 -- MindBox LLC won the prestigious Stevie Award this week for best new computer software product in The 2005 American Business Awards program. MindBox and its MindBox Power Editor software were chosen from a field of 1,200 nominations in 40 categories.
MindBox competed head-to-head with well-known computer software companies such as SAS, and Vignette Corporation, and shared the winners' circle with such well-known brands as AT&T, Verizon Communications, Travelocity, and Oracle.
MindBox LLC is a leading provider of rules-based software products for automating loan origination decisions, deal structuring, product eligibility, pricing and loan underwriting. MindBox's award-winning Power Editor is the first product to allow regular business users to maintain and manage complex business rules and policies, which until now had to be handled by IT department staff. "

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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
June, 2005 Vol 6 No. 6
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. BRForum 2004 Executive Forum Panel: Benefits and Success Factors of
a Business Rules Approach
2. Premise & Conclusion: Rule Reduction ~ The Route to Atomic Business
Rules, by Ronald G. Ross
3. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 11), by Terry Halpin 4. "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. BRForum 2004 Executive Forum Panel: Benefits and Success Factors of
a Business Rules Approach
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In what ways does the business rules approach tangibly benefit the business? From experiences in real projects, what are some of the critical success factors? Five panelists who sat on the 2004 Business Rules Forum Executive Forum Panel answered these questions (and more) by sharing their experiences..
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b232.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: Rule Reduction ~ The Route to Atomic Business
Rules, by Ronald G. Ross
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Structural rules are about creating knowledge (e.g., computation or inference); operative rules are about the conduct of people. The former can be misapplied or ill-conceived, resulting in poor decisions; the latter can the broken, possibly involving sanctions. What does that have to do with rules analysis?
In this month's column, Ron Ross explains how the distinction fits into rule reduction, the analysis technique of breaking rules into granular or atomic form.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b237.html

3. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 11), by Terry Halpin ...............................................................
Business rules should be validated by business domain experts, and hence specified using concepts and languages easily understood by business people.
This is the eleventh 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 more complex frequency constraints:
multi-role frequency constraints (applying to sequences of two or more roles) and external frequency constraints (involving more than one predicate).
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b238.html

4. "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...
"Your Core Business Processes Need a Rule Engine"
by Ronald G. Ross
from the May/June 1999 issue
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a1999/a416.html


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