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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
June, 2006 Vol 7 No. 6
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. Moving from Zachman Row 2 to Zachman Row 3 ~ Business Rules from
an SBVR and an xUML Perspective (Part 1), by Markus Schacher
2 Premise & Conclusion: A Personal Insurance Saga ~
The Economics of Business Rules, by Ronald G. Ross
3. Best Practices of Process Management: The Top Ten Principles
(Part 6), by Roger T. Burlton
4. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 15),
by Terry halpin
5. Zen & the Art of Rules: Road Trip, by Mark Myers
6. SBVR Speaks: Concepts ~ Forms of Business Representation
If you'd like to read all our articles on the web, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com/

1. Moving from Zachman Row 2 to Zachman Row 3 ~ Business Rules from
an SBVR and an xUML Perspective (Part 1), by Markus Schacher ...............................................................
During the past few years, Markus Schacher and his colleagues at KnowGravity have been involved in research on the Business Rules Approach (BRA) as well as in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) of the Object Management Group (OMG). In this context they have developed an environment for creating executable UML models, also called xUML models. In this, the first of a short series of articles, Markus contrasts business rules stated in a business-oriented language as described by the OMG specification "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) with business rules stated in a more IT-oriented form and expressed in an interpretation of xUML.
Also, he shows how another new OMG specification, the "Business Process Modeling Notation" (BPMN), can be mapped to xUML.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b292.html

2. Premise & Conclusion: A Personal Insurance Saga ~
The Economics of Business Rules,by Ronald G. Ross ...............................................................
In this month's column, Ron recounts a real-life personal tale of woeful business rule deployment. You be the judge -- are your company's uncoordinated business rules causing this kind of economic loss and operational churn?
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b293.html

3. Best Practices of Process Management: The Top Ten Principles
(Part 6), by Roger T. Burlton
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Years of successful and not-so-successful process management experience have led to a set of best practices -- a number of fundamental principles that must be honored in order to optimize returns to the company, the delivery of business results to customers, and to satisfy the needs of the organization’s other stakeholders. In this series, Roger Burlton outlines the ten principles that underlie the methods of business process operation and change. In this month's column, he discusses the sixth principle.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b296.html

4. Modeling Concepts: Verbalizing Business Rules (part 15),
by Terry halpin
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Business rules should be validated by business domain experts, and hence specified using concepts and languages easily understood by business people. This is the fifteenth 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 basic derivation rules.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b294.html

5. Zen & the Art of Rules: Road Trip, by Mark Myers ...............................................................
This summer Mark Myers is planning a road trip adventure. In Zen fashion, there is a good relationship between taking a 6,000 mile motorcycle adventure and using the Business Rules Approach. In this month's column, Mark touches on the numerous calls he fields from companies that are considering taking a 'road trip' with the
Business Rules Approach. What are the parallels that he finds?
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b295.html

6. SBVR Speaks: Concepts ~ Forms of Business Representation ...............................................................
In September 2005, the Object Management Group (OMG) approved the "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) to become a final adopted specification of the OMG. In March 2006, the first Interim Specification document was issued, marking the beginning of the public input period. This month's instalment of "SBVR Speaks (for Itself)" looks at some of the metamodel elements for the various forms that can be used to represent business concepts.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b297.html

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IDC Identifies 'Referential Rule Integrity' Problem in Business Rule Management Systems, Says It Must Be Addressed: "IDC Identifies 'Referential Rule Integrity' Problem in Business Rule Management Systems, Says It Must Be Addressed
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2006--According to a recently released IDC study, business rule management systems continue to be vulnerable to the problem of 'referential rule integrity' - an IDC term that describes the potential for a business rule management system (BRMS) to deliver incoherent results due to its reliance on an inference engine. IDC believes that inference engines, which are the crown jewels of the BRMS market, have enormous IT potential, but the adoption of BRMS inference engines is highly contingent upon providing added measures of referential rule integrity remediation.
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Gensym Launches Rule-Driven Business Management Engine; Major Upgrade of G2 ReThink Sets New Standard for Optimizing Time-Sensitive Business Decisions: "Gensym Launches Rule-Driven Business Management Engine; Major Upgrade of G2 ReThink Sets New Standard for Optimizing Time-Sensitive Business Decisions
BURLINGTON, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- May 16, 2006 -- Gensym Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GNSM), a leading provider of rule engine software for mission-critical solutions, today announced a major upgrade of its G2 ReThink(R) product for rule-driven business process management. With many enhancements for modeling, simulation, and deployment in real time, G2 ReThink 5.0 sets a new standard for optimizing time-sensitive business processes and decisions.
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Ilog deepens Microsoft IDE support - Computer Business Review: "Ilog deepens Microsoft IDE support
15th May 2006
By Staff Writer
Business rules management software company Ilog SA has deepened its support for Microsoft's .NET developers by adding integration to Visual Studio 2005.
AdvertisementUsers of Ilog's Rules for .NET 2.5 (which lets business users tweak rules using Microsoft Office) and Gantt for .NET 3.0 (a graphical tool for creating .NET compliant Gantt charts) tools can now create and manage rules directly within the Visual Studio integrated development environment.
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Fair Isaac brings Rete performance to Blaze .NET - Computer Business Review: "Fair Isaac brings Rete performance to Blaze .NET
8th May 2006
By Staff Writer
Customers of Fair Isaac Corp's Blaze Advisor enterprise decision management platform will now be able to realize consistent rules processing performance across all supported .NET, Java and Cobol environments.

AdvertisementThe company said that users of Blaze Advisor's .NET and Cobol software will also be able to tap into the Rete III high-performance rules execution engine, which up to now has only been available on the Java version.
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CRM Today: Pegasystems and Wipro Create Strategic Alliance: "Pegasystems and Wipro Create Strategic Alliance

Rules-based BPM technology, domain knowledge and delivery capability combine to deliver industry-leading agility and responsiveness to the global market

Friday, 05 May 2006


In a major drive to increase penetration for its SmartBPM(TM) suite in the global markets, Pegasystems Inc. has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited.
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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
May, 2006 Vol 7 No. 5

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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. BRForum 2005 Executive Forum Panel: Benefits and Success Factors
of a Business Rules Approach
2 SBVR Speaks: Concepts and Definitions in SBVR

3. Premise & Conclusion: Concepts, Definitions, and Rules: RuleSpeak(R)
Practices, by Ronald G. Ross
4. In Process: Best Practices of Process Management: The Top
Ten Principles (Part 5), by Roger T. Burlton
5. Plainly Speaking: Business Rules vs. Business Requirements,
by Gladys S. W. Lam
If you'd like to read all our articles on the web, visit:
http://www.brcommunity.com/

1. BRForum 2005 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 2005 Business Rules Forum Executive Forum Panel shared their experiences by answering these questions (and more).
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b287.html

2. SBVR Speaks: Concepts and Definitions in SBVR ...............................................................
In September 2005, the Object Management Group (OMG) approved the "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) to become a final adopted specification of the OMG. In March 2006, the first Interim Specification document was issued, marking the beginning of the public input period. This month's instalment of "SBVR Speaks (for Itself)" looks at how concepts (including fact types) are defined and expressed as terms and other symbols, and represented as vocabulary entries in SBVR Structured English
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b288.html

3. Premise & Conclusion: Concepts, Definitions, and Rules: RuleSpeak(R)
Practices,by Ronald G. Ross
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In his previous column, Ron Ross outlined the basic elements of RuleSpeak from a formal point of view, as part of the Journal's coordinated coverage of Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR). In this month's column, extracted from the RuleSpeak Annex for SBVR, he examines RuleSpeak's support for definitions under SBVR, and how it relates to rules.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b289.html

4. In Process: Best Practices of Process Management: The Top Ten
Principles (Part 5), by Roger T. Burlton ...............................................................
Years of successful and not-so-successful process management experience have led to a set of best practices -- a number of fundamental principles that must be honored in order to optimize returns to the company, the delivery of business results to customers, and to satisfy the needs of the organization’s other stakeholders. In this series, Roger Burlton outlines the ten principles that underlie the methods of business process operation and change. In this month's column, he discusses the fifth principle.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b291.html

5. Plainly Speaking: Business Rules vs. Business Requirements,
by Gladys S. W. Lam
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In this month's "Plainly Speaking" column, Gladys S. W. Lam talks about business rules and business requirements. She describes how they are
different and how they impact each other.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b290.html


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IDS Scheer and Corticon Technologies Announce Integrated Rules Modeling for Complete Business Process Lifecycle Management with ARIS Platform: "IDS Scheer and Corticon Technologies Announce Integrated Rules Modeling for Complete Business Process Lifecycle Management with ARIS Platform
SAPPHIRE 2006 Orlando
Booth #2327
BERWYN, Pa. & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2006--
Industry's First Comprehensive Integration of Business Process Management and Business Rules Modeling Solutions to Debut at SAPPHIRE May 16-18 in Orlando




IDS Scheer, the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence, and Corticon Technologies, a leading provider of business rules management, today announced the next stage in their strategic alliance in which IDS Scheer is utilizing Corticon's embeddable business rules modeling, management and execution to fully integrate Corticon's business rules modeling in the ARIS Platform. IDS Scheer will unveil this new integrated solution at SAPPHIRE '06 Orlando from May 16-18, 2006. Both companies will demonstrate this integrated solution at Booth #2327 during the conference.
Business process management describes how work moves within an organization; business rules management describes how decisions are made within those processes. By integrating Corticon's business rules into the ARIS Platform, IDS Scheer will offer its customers the capability to model, measure and manage the business-driven decisions within their processes. Now, decisions can be modeled as tasks within the process by business users, and then automatically generated into executable services.
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The importance of business rules - Computer Business Review: "

The importance of business rules
3rd May 2006
By Madan Sheina
After a near-death experience, business rules management technologies are back in demand as a prerequisite for business agility. Madan Sheina investigates.

AdvertisementBusiness rules touch our lives in many interesting ways. They can dictate your credit worthiness, what type of loan or insurance rate you qualify for or even why you are overlooked for the last business class upgrade at the airport.

Driving these decisions is a new generation of business rules management systems (BRMS) designed to automate decision making in enterprise IT applications. These systems differ radically from the old 'expert systems' of yesteryear that failed to catch corporate IT attention because they were too complex, expensive to run and maintain and not business-user friendly.

Organisations are now starting to realise that a more hands-on approach is needed. They are looking to a new breed of BRMS technology to empower workers to write their own business policies as the competitive climate demands.

Flexible rules management is a direct result of an increasingly dynamic and fiercely competitive business climate where process agility and responsiveness to changing conditions are key. Pierre Haren, chief executive of ILOG, a rules management pioneer, believes the market is shifting from a data to a policy-centric view of core business processes. He has a point. If business rules are the foundation of any business, then processes are, in a sense, the embodiment of these rules. In other words, business processes 'process' rules and business rules 'rule' processes.
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Automated Mining of Business Processes and Rules Drive Next Generation of Enterprise Application Modernization: "New Release of Relativity Technologies' Modernization Workbench(R)
Automates Business Rule Management and Supports Heterogeneous Applications

RALEIGH, N.C., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Relativity Technologies, Inc., the
leading provider of Enterprise Application Modernization solutions, today
announced the availability of the latest version of its Modernization
Workbench platform. This release allows organizations to generate more
value from the cross-environment applications that automate their core
business processes.
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