BRDP Business Rules - Latest and Greatest News

Rewrite the Rules About Writing ... - Computerworld: "Rewrite the Rules About Writing ...


Opinion by Mark Hall OCTOBER 31, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - ... business rules. The first new rule? Get IT out of the equation. That's what David Straus suggests. Straus is senior vice president of sales and marketing at San Mateo, Calif.-based Corticon Technologies Inc., which develops an array of software designed to let
STRAUS: Get IT out of business-rule-writing businessbusiness analysts and managers turn their own business rules into executable code. According to Straus, "anyone with a logical mind" can use Corticon's Rules Modeling Studio tool. He says a business rule consists of a condition and its values, plus an actionand its values. End users point and click their way through the software and use everyday English to complete the form that creates the rules. Once they're happy with a new rule, they compile the code and test it for logic flaws. Corticon's software checks all the possible combinations of conditions and actions in the rule. By the end of November, the company plans to add an Analysis Server to its product line. The new software can be used to create what-if scenarios prior to building business rules. Pricing varies based on the implementation, but Straus says an average value of a Corticon sale is about $25,000 for 15 seats. "

ILOG Announces 2006 First Quarter Results: "ILOG Announces 2006 First Quarter Results "

http://it.sys-con.com/read/145948.htm: "ILOG JRules Receives ACORD Life XML Certification
Confirms that ILOG JRules Fully Supports ACORD XML-Based Messages
By: XMLJ News Desk
Oct. 26, 2005 11:00 AM"

Sapiens Introduces New Generation of Business-Rules Technology Through Service Oriented Architecture: "apiens Introduces New Generation of Business-Rules Technology Through Service Oriented Architecture "

CIO Business Rules Boost to Centrelink: "Business Rules Boost to Centrelink
Sue Bushell, CIO
25/10/2005 10:30:49
Centrelink is achieving major efficiencies using a rule-driven, interview-based system developed by Canberra software company RuleBurst (formerly known as SoftLaw).
CIO John Wadeson says the RuleBurst application implemented earlier this month - Customer Account Start-Up (CASU) - is already processing 10,000 of Centrelink's 16,000 new customers each week. CASU is a rule-driven, interview-based system, built from business rules rather than legislation using RuleBurst's specialist rules technology. It provides initial data capture for clients interacting with Centrelink offices and call centres."
.......

Versata(R) Forms Strategic Alliance Partnership with CGI-AMS for Joint Marketing to State Agencies: "Versata(R) Forms Strategic Alliance Partnership with CGI-AMS for Joint Marketing to State Agencies

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2005--Versata, Inc. (Pink Sheets:VATA), a leading provider of business rules management systems (BRMS) to automate and manage complex, data-intensive applications, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with CGI-AMS Inc. for joint marketing solutions to clients in the public sector."
......

Corticon Upgrades Namesake BRMS Suite - ebizQ: "Corticon Upgrades Namesake BRMS Suite
10/24/2005


Corticon Technologies today announced the availability of a major upgrade to its namesake Business Rules Management System (BRMS) suite."
........

Integration Developers News: "JBoss Lays Out SOA Roadmap for 2006
10/24/2005 Print Version
by Vance McCarthy
JBoss is lining up a 2-prong approach to SOA for 2006, the firm told attendees at its JBoss Barcelona user meeting this week.


First, JBoss will build up (and out) its core J2EE app server stack by adding the Drools Open Source Java business rules engine, as well as with enhancements to its JEMS enterprise middleware system.


Second, JBoss� SOA end-to-end vision will also require partnerships with key enterprise software firms, with Microsoft just the first JBoss interop partnership. "

Fair Isaac's Business Rules Technology Wins Readers' Choice Award from Intelligent Enterprise: "Fair Isaac's Business Rules Technology Wins Readers' Choice Award from Intelligent Enterprise

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2005--Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC), the leading provider of analytics and decision technology, today announced that CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise has named Fair Isaac the winner of the Business Rules Engine category in its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards for best IT technologies. "
.....

Oracle unveils Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3AME Info - United Arab Emirates... With the business rules engine, customers will be able to modify or add business rules without requiring application re-writes, speeding time to market while ...

Clayton Selects Portellus to Enhance Conduit Fulfillment Portal; Solution Enables Conduits to Fund Non-Conforming Loans Faster: "Clayton Selects Portellus to Enhance Conduit Fulfillment Portal; Solution Enables Conduits to Fund Non-Conforming Loans Faster

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 2005--Portellus Inc., a leading provider of technology tools and services for the financial services industry, today announced that Clayton Holdings Inc., one of the industry's largest providers of transaction management, due diligence, credit risk management, portfolio analysis, compliance and consulting services, has entered into an agreement with the company to enhance Clayton's Conduit fulfillment portal with private-label automated product eligibility, selection, pricing and locking features using Portellus' automated Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solution. Together, the solutions will help Clayton clients streamline and accelerate the electronic delivery, due diligence, and processing of loans to the secondary market. "
.......

Crowe Chizek Selects Corticon as Their Standard for Business Rules ...Management; Corticon Enhances Crowe Chizek's Straight Through Processing Solution for Risk Management and Compliance in Financial Services Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA17, 2005--Corticon(R) Technologies, a leading provider of business rules management software, today announced that Crowe Chizek and Company LLC has selected ...

FileNet Debuts Business Activity Monitoring System InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA... It includes an integrated rules engine to help organizations discern whether action should be taken on an out-of-range dashboard reading. ...

ILOG and HandySoft Merging Jrules and BizFlow ebizQ - New Rochelle,NY,USAThe relationship means that customers can use ILOG's JRules to manage and change the business policies that underlie the business processes managed by ...

ILOG extends BRMS for new Singapore SOA center CIOL - Bangalore,India... of Information Technology's Center of IT Innovation in NYP campus, the new SOA Center will receive development and deployment licenses for ILOG JRules and ILOG ...

.......................
The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
October, 2005 Vol 6 No. 10
.......................
In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. Term-Fact Modeling, the Key to Successful Rule-Based Systems,
by Oscar Chappel
2. Premise & Conclusion: How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 1.
The Challenges, by Ronald G. Ross
3. OMG Reporter: SBVR and MDA, by Stan Hendryx
4. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 12),
by Terry Halpin
5. Book Review: Business Rule Concepts-Getting to the Point of
Knowledge (Second Edition), Reviewed by Mark Myers.
If you'd like to read all our articles on the web, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com

1. Term-Fact Modeling, the Key to Successful Rule-Based Systems,
by Oscar Chappel
...............................................................
Ambiguity is the nemesis of all computer applications but is especially bad for business rule applications. Ambiguity is rampant in all business domains. Ambiguity exists because business policies, regulations, laws, and other documents are written in natural language. People can manage the ambiguity and thrive in an environment where ambiguity rules.
Computer systems, especially rule based systems falter and crash in such an environment. In this month's feature, Oscar Chappel explains how term-fact modeling is the most effective tool for driving ambiguity
out of business rule applications.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b250.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 1.
The Challenges, by Ronald G. Ross
...............................................................
The business rules approach prescribes that rules be externalized, evaluated, and managed separately from processes. Members of the Business Rules Community are becoming well aware of the advantages of this approach. But what are the implications for processes, as modeled from the business and systems perspectives, respectively?
In this month's column, the first of a 6-part series (excerpted from the just-released second edition of Business Rule Concepts:
Getting to the Point of Knowledge), Ron Ross identifies the challenges and opportunities as we move toward a new world of rule-friendly processes.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b251.html

3. OMG Reporter: SBVR and MDA, by Stan Hendryx ...............................................................
The Object Management Group (OMG) recently approved the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) to become a final adopted specification of the OMG. SBVR is a landmark for the OMG, the first OMG specification to incorporate the formal use of natural language in modeling and the first to provide explicitly a model of formal logic. Based on a fusion of linguistics, logic, and computer science, and two years in preparation, SBVR provides a way to capture specifications of business rules and the supporting vocabulary in natural language and represent them in formal logic so they can be machine-processed. In this month's column, our OMG Reporter, Stan
Hendryx, introduces SBVR as part of MDA by explaining MDA in terms of SBVR.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b253.html

4. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 12),
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 twelfth in a series of articles on expressing business rules formally in a high-level, textual language.
In this month's column, Terry Halpin discusses verbalization of ring constraints.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b252.html
5. Book Review: Business Rule Concepts-Getting to the Point of
Knowledge (Second Edition), Reviewed by Mrk Myers.
...............................................................
This month, Mark Myers reviews Ronald G. Ross' latest book, Business Rule Concetps: Getting To The Point of Knowledge, the second edition to his 1998 ground-breaking handbook on the Business Rule Concepts.
to read more, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com/a2005/b254.html


Copyright 2005. www.BRSolutions.com. All rights reserved.

Highmark Life & Casualty Group Deploys Pegasystems Business ...Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA... compliance. Our solution unifies pure-play BPM software with a sophisticated Business Rules Engine to drive business effectiveness. ...

The Economical Insurance Group Selects ILOG JRules for Its Next ...PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA... of the largest property and casualty insurers in Canada with over $1.7 billion in premium volume and $3.3 billion in assets, has selected ILOG JRules(TM) for ...

Bank Deploys Anti-Money Laundering System InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA... The rules engine monitors data and detects specific behavior patterns within mission-critical, high-transaction volume environments. ...

Resolution EBS Teams With Appian on BPM and Business Rules ebizQ - New Rochelle,NY,USAResolution EBS, the provider of a business rules engine (BRE) built from the ground up for interactive, front office processes and applications that reduce ...

Fair Isaac Automates Auto Club Group's Underwriting Process with ..Powerful Business Rules.DMReview.com - New York,NY,USAPLATFORMS: ACG's mainframe system acts as the central information hub and enlists Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor as the engine to interface across the different IT ...