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Managing Information News: "26 November 2005
Rule Interchange Format Working Group (Semantic Web)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced the formation of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group with a mission to produce a standard means for exchanging rules on the Web.

Rules constitute a key element of the Semantic Web vision, allowing integration, derivation, and transformation of data from multiple sources in a distributed, transparent and scalable manner.

'After years of industry and research work in rules languages, I'm pleased to see W3C Members working to develop a Web-based rules standard,' explained Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the W3C. 'The bringing together of business rules vendors, user companies, rule language designers and Semantic Web developers to create a rules standard is an important step in achieving the full power of the Semantic Web.....more'"

http://be.sys-con.com/read/154844.htm: "ILOG Enhances BRMS Product Line With Scenario Management Features
Ensures IT Can Deliver on Business Objectives, Reduce Costs and Minimize Risk.
By: JDJ News Desk
Nov. 16, 2005 03:00 PM


ILOG has introduced ILOG Rule Scenario Manager 1.0, adding testing and simulation capabilities to their market-leading Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line. Using ILOG JRules and ILOG Rule Scenario Manager, business users can validate the accuracy of a new business policy and analyze its business impact before the policy is ever implemented. ILOG's Rule Scenario Manager gives businesses a tool to quickly and confidently respond to change while ensuring that IT can deliver on business objectives, reduce costs and minimize risk. ...more"

webMethods to Enhance webMethods Fabric With Rule Management Component From Fair Isaac: "webMethods to Enhance webMethods Fabric With Rule Management Component From Fair Isaac


Partnership Complements webMethods' Industry-Leading BPM
and BAM Components, Promises Enterprises a More Turnkey Solution for
Optimizing Business Processes

FAIRFAX, Va., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Integration World 2005 --
webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a leading business integration and
optimization software company, today announced a strategic partnership and
licensing agreement with Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), a leading
provider of analytics and decision technology. Under the terms of the
agreement, webMethods will incorporate components of Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor
as the embedded rules engine standard for future editions of webMethods
Fabric(TM), the company's flagship solution for process-based, service-
oriented total business integration. The announcement was made in conjunction
with Integration World 2005, the webMethods user conference being held this
week in Atlanta. ...more"

Mosaico version 1.1 is released: "Mosaico version 1.1 is released

Posted by: webmaster on Thursday Nov 17, 2005 Viewed: 293 times

Mosaico, now at Version 1.1 from Mosaico, is a fast and powerful Rules Engine evaluator for the .NET platform that allows separating business rules from application code, allowing dramatic reduction in maintenance and enhancement costs for software applications.
The primary motivator for the use of Mosaico is improved agility, for implementing business policy changes and provide modern environment that enables the applications to rapidly adapt to regulatory and competitive pressures.
The Mosaico Business Rules Framework is a stand-alone application that consists of a number of modules, support components, and tools. The main modules include Mosaico Author for constructing Knowledge Bases (collections of Rules and actions), and the Run-Time Rule Engine that executes knowledge bases on behalf of a host application.

...more"

Australian IT - Local bulks up against big boys (Simon Hayes, NOVEMBER 15, 2005): "Local bulks up against big boys
Simon Hayes
NOVEMBER 15, 2005

CANBERRA software company RuleBurst has begun an aggressive expansion into the booming compliance and governance area with the acquisition of Sydney-based IQMS.

RuleBurst, which was listed as SoftLaw until a recent management buyout, aims to bulk up before big players such as SAP and Oracle begin to consolidate the fragmented governance sector.
The acquisition is aimed at giving RuleBurst, which has 70 staff and offices in Britain and the US, software to compete with larger US governance software vendors.

...more"

Vodafone Spain Customer Loyalty Programs Get a Boost From ILOG JRules: "Vodafone Spain Customer Loyalty Programs Get a Boost From ILOG JRules


New JRules-based System Will Enable Online Promotions for the First Time

MADRID, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext:
ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), a leading supplier of enterprise-class software
components and services, today announced that Vodafone Spain, the Spain
subsidiary of one of Europe's leading wireless service providers has selected
ILOG JRules(TM), a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System
(BRMS) product line, to create a new centralized promotions platform for its
10 million customers in Spain. Using ILOG JRules, Vodafone Spain expects to
enhance its customer acquisition and customer loyalty programs and boost sales
during traditionally slow periods by rapidly introducing new promotions.
In addition to allowing Vodafone to offer online promotions for the first
time, a new rules-based promotions system called NPPI (New Platform of
Integrated Promotions) will reduce the time-to-market of new promotions and
will facilitate the creation of new and innovative promotions.

...more"

Resolution EBS Partners with FileNet - ebizQ: "Resolution EBS Partners with FileNet
11/07/2005


Resolution EBS, provider of a patented interactive business rules engine (BRE) built from the ground up for highly interactive, front and back office processes and applications, today announced it is partnering with FileNet Corporation, a provider of Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solutions, in a project to bring customers dynamic, interactive rules and business process management solutions, seeking to enhance organizational agility, drive revenue opportunities, reduce operating costs and increase time to value.
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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
November, 2005 Vol 6 No. 11
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. The Role of Rule Analyst (part 1),
by Kristen Seer
2. Premise & Conclusion: How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 2.
Business Processes, by Ronald G. Ross
3. OMG Reporter: SBVR and MDA: Architecture, by Stan Hendryx
4. Rule Observatory: The Semantic Web and the Business Rules Approach
~ Differences and Consequences, by Silvie Spreeuwenberg
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 Role of Rule Analyst (part 1),
by Kristen Seer
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As an organization matures in the business rules approach, there arises a growing recognition of the value of managing business rules over the long term. This generally leads to the next logical step
-- establishing a rule management function. One of the critical success factors of this function is the development of a new role -- that of Rule Analyst. In this month's feature, Kristen Seer describes the roles
and responsibilities of a Rule Analyst.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b255.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: How Rules and Processes Relate ~ Part 2.
Business Processes, by , by Ronald G. Ross ...............................................................
An important direction for many companies today is managing business activity on more of a beginning-to-end, value-add basis. That requires thinking cross-organizationally about fundamental business processes and developing models of them. How do business rules relate to that need? In this month's column, the second of a 6-part series (excerpted from the just-released second edition of Business Rule
Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge), Ron Ross provides timely answers. He reviews what business rules have to offer in that regard, drawing on ideas just recently emerging about rules as viewed from the business perspective
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b256.html

3. OMG Reporter: OMG Reporter: SBVR and MDA: Architecture, by Stan Hendryx ...............................................................
In last month's column Stan Hendryx discussed the Object Management Group's (OMG) Model-Driven Architecture(TM) in terms of the recently-approved "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) specification.
That column discussed how concepts are represented and how modeling languages and models are composed. Many models are required to describe fully anything so complex as a business or a distributed information system. In this month's column, attention is turned to the bigger picture of how to organize and relate a series of models that collectively describe a complex business or information system. This is the topic of architecture.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b258.html
4. Rule Observatory: The Semantic Web and the Business Rules Approach
~ Differences and Consequences, by Silvie Spreeuwenberg ...............................................................
What are the differences and similarities between the Semantic Web and the Business Rules approach? A discussion of this question was begun last time and, in this month's issue of the 'Rule Observatory', Silvie Spreeuwenberg shares with you her observations on the consequences of the differences in the formal specification languages used by the semantic web and business rules communities.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2005/b257.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...
"Current Thoughts On Expressing
Business Rules"
by Ronald G. Ross
from the January 2000 issue
to read more, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com/a2005/a453.html

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

ILOG JRules Enables Option One to Streamline Mortgage Lending Processes: "ILOG JRules Enables Option One to Streamline Mortgage Lending Processes


BRMS-based Loan Automation Saves Time, Enhances Customer Service

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and PARIS, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ILOG(R)
(Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced that Option
One Mortgage Corporation, a national residential mortgage lender and
subsidiary of H&R Block Inc., has deployed a key offering in ILOG's Business
Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, ILOG JRules(TM), to build both its
mortgage pre-qualification system as well as its automated underwriting
system. Option One selected ILOG JRules to enable faster turnaround times on
loan qualifications and loan approvals, increase decision making flexibility,
and improve risk management for regulatory compliance.
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Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Business Makes the Rules: "Vendors promise to put business staff in charge of rules, but do you really want users messing with mission-critical apps? Here's how four firms are balancing responsibilities for rules

By Michael P. Voelker


The concepts underlying business rules aren't new. If-then-else logic has been at the heart of computer processing since the first program was written, and the expert systems and artificial intelligence of the late 1990s are progenitors of today's business rules management systems (BRMSs). Despite the evolutionary connection, today's rules technology is remarkably different from yesterday's systems. Nowhere is that difference more marked than in the ability of business staff to control rules that can potentially affect processes, workflows and even mission-critical systems.
'In the old days of artificial intelligence, the idea that regular business folks could maintain or write rules was just ridiculous. You needed to be a very skilled programmer,' explains vice president at Forrester Research John Rymer. 'Today you see tools for business users that let them maintain rules and in some cases even build rules. You also see good business rules [change] management features and improved integration between rules engines and the major development platforms.'
Do you want business users controlling business rules � tweaking and possibly breaking mission-critical applications and system interactions? Companies are coming to grips with the realities of hands-on rules management, and some firms are keeping IT in charge. In other cases, business users can easily make rules changes in the effort to gain a competitive edge. Here's how a mortgage lender, a database publisher, an investment management firm and a statewide health insurer are balancing rules control between business and IT."

for rest of article=> http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172302190

for full article => Texas Farm Bureau Steers Ahead of the Curve by Insurance Networking News: .... "The toolset, which Sapiens calls eMerge, is a business-rules engine that sits at the core of the developer's INSIGHT products. Users break processes into specific steps, or events-and then, using an English-like language, code them into eMerge rules that govern those events.
The rules operate in the background, and technical and business people can make changes quickly without having to use code. 'It's a lot easier to change these rules, rather than having to go back and change COBOL and recompile and test,' Kocek says. 'That's a very painful process.'"

.....Since INSIGHT's rules engine does a lot of the work in the background automatically, the new system is proving to be rather simple for agents to learn.

The firm is bringing in 15 to 20 of its agents for training and system testing, and the plan is for them to train the other agents. Texas Farm Bureau Mutual allotted three days for training, but it found that the agents were able to cover nearly everything in a single morning. "These new systems really are a lot easier to use," Kocek says. "It's really click and go."

The company's investment in its new policy administration system is substantial, and it's a bit early to count returns on that investment. But Kocek notes that Texas Farm Bureau Mutual's accountants have run a cost-benefit analysis that projects payback in less than two years. Apart from speeding policy creation, he reckons "it should cut down tremendously the amount of paper that has to be handled, and it will also cut down on the errors that are made between the time information is taken down on a piece of paper and keyed in by somebody else."