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SDA Asia Magazine: "ILOG JRules Integrates with Oracle BPEL Process Manager

With the integration of ILOG JRules and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, business users can use ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG�s business rule management systems (BRMS) product line, to create and edit policies from within Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) applications in a familiar language rather than having to rely on IT staff. The two products used together can enable faster response times to changing business environments and government regulations, as well as competitive pressures for organizations, especially those in financial services, insurance, government, telecommunications, retail and manufacturing industries."

IRS seeks comments on business rules system: "IRS seeks comments on business rules system

By Mary Mosquera
GCN Staff

The IRS seeks industry comments on a draft statement of work for business rules enterprise management for its Business Systems Modernization program.

IRS intends some time in the future to acquire software license and maintenance support, training and technical support services for implementing a business rules management environment, including interface, architecture, repository, business process modeling, modeling and analysis, and configuration services.

A business rules environment will allow IRS to update its systems quickly to reflect tax code and policy changes, the agency said in its posting at FedBizOpps.

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Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Business Rules Meet the Business User: "Business Rules Meet the Business User
Blaze Advisor makes creating rules-based applications painless, but don't give too much control to end users

By Lou Agosta "

The Observer Business Why Brits must acquire an American accent: "Why Brits must acquire an American accent

Breaking into the US market can be tough. Allyson Stewart-Allen examines where it all went right for vacuum cleaner firm Dyson

Sunday August 14, 2005
The Observer


Dunhill... Dyson... Durex... What do they have in common? All three have escaped the transatlantic marketing morgue - the large corner of a foreign field for companies who stayed forever England. For the one certain road to death in the United States is to assume that its business rules and culture are just like those in Britain."

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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
August, 2005 Vol 6 No. 8
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. The 2005 Business Rules Awareness Survey, presented by
Kristen Seer
2. Premise & Conclusion: Decision Tables, Part 2 ~ The Route
to Completeness, by Ronald G. Ross
3. OMG Reporter: What kinds of Business Rules are there?,
by Stan Hendryx
4. In Process: Effective Business Transformation through Process
Management, by Roger T. Burlton
If you'd like to read all our articles on the web, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com/

1. The 2005 Business Rules Awareness Survey, presented
by Kristen Seer
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Sponsored by the European Business Rules Conference and the Business Rules Forum Conference, this year's Survey was conducted in March 2005. Respondents had a demonstrated interest in business rules, and came from every continent on the globe except Antarctica. Find out about the most important drivers for companies to invest in business rules, the rapid worldwide expansion of business rule activity, the practitioners' views of challenges and most workable solutions ... and much more!
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b242.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: Decision Tables, Part 2 ~ The Route
to Completeness, by Ronald G. Ross
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Last month, Part 1 in this two-part series looked at decision tables as a means to visualize and manage large sets of rules in consolidated fashion. A cautionary note: Even the most carefully-designed decision tables, especially if multi-dimensional, are prone to anomalies and other problems. They must be scrutinized very closely. To illustrate, in this month's column Ron Ross focuses on the issue of completeness.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b243.html

3. OMG Reporter: What kinds of Business Rules are there?,
by Stan Hendryx
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The question that is the title of this article was recently asked, which triggered an interesting discussion thread.
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the concept of 'rule' has many categories, some defined and many others undefined, many overlapping. In this month's column, our OMG Reporter, Stan Hendryx, answers the question from the perspective of the OMG "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) proposal.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b245.html

4. In Process: Business Process Management: The Heart of
Organizational Capability, by Roger T. Burlton ...............................................................
An organization's new products and services, along with its desire to maintain or improve the health of relationships with its stakeholders, will require a periodic examination of its capabilities, since realizing the desired future state will not happen simply by declaring a vision of it. Over time, the required capabilities of an organization need to be realigned with the purpose of the organization. Any breaks in this alignment will mean that whatever changes are being worked on will not be traceable to strategic intent and later business performance will suffer. In this month's column, Roger Burlton presents an approach to organizing the thinking about and organization of capabilities that aids this ongoing change and realignment.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b244.html


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ONJava.com: Give Your Business Logic a Framework with Drools: "Give Your Business Logic a Framework with Drools
by Paul Browne
08/03/2005


Most web and enterprise Java applications can be split into three parts: a front end to talk to the user, a service layer to talk to back-end systems such as databases, and business logic in between. While it is now common practice to use frameworks for both front- and back-end requirements (e.g., Struts, Cocoon, Spring, Hibernate, JDO, and Entity Beans), there is no standard way of structuring business logic. Frameworks like EJB and Spring do this at a high level, but don't help us in organizing our code. Wouldn't it would be great if we could replace messy, tangled if...then statements with a framework that gave us the same benefits of configurability, readability, and reuse that we already enjoy in other areas? This article suggests using the Drools rules engine as a framework to solve the problem. ..more"

Streamlined systems save Thames Water �4.5m - Applications - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com: "Streamlined systems save Thames Water �4.5m
Case study: Utility integrates IT apps to speed up conveyancing requests
By Steve Ranger
Published: Thursday 4 August 2005
Moving house is of one of the most stressful things anyone can do, and conveyancing - the process of transferring legal ownership of the property - can be one of the most painful parts of the whole ordeal. But few homeowners realise the enormous technical complexity hidden behind the process.
Thames Water deals with more than 250,000 conveyancing requests every year from people who need to have all the details about the pipes running under their new houses.
But because drains - unlike other utilities - depend on gravity to keep them flowing, they don't always appear where you might expect.
As a result the conveyancing requests can take quite a lot of work - in the course of each one, the system must make 6,500 different decisions.
Peter Kaye, operations manager at Thames Water Asset Data Services, said on top of this there are peaks in demand which previously meant having to bring in less experienced staff.
'We would have to bring in a number of people at peak times and there are some quite fiddly rules they have to learn. The issues we had were that manual processes were a bit slow and expensive and we had an issue with the quality of the information,' he told silicon.com.
Plus, if Thames Water wanted to make any changes to the rules governing the system they could cost �7,000 each time.
To deal with all these issues the company - the world's third largest water utility - has invested �1.2m in a project to implement ILOG JRules and integrate the six different IT applications involved in the conveyancing information ...more"