Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Analysis: Where Rules Management and BPM Meet: "Analysis: Where Rules Management and BPM Meet
Business in Balance
By Bruce Silver
Is your company trying to accelerate cycle times, lower costs, improve responsiveness, ensure compliance with policies and best practices, and increase customer satisfaction? Well, of course! That's why you need a comprehensive approach to managing your organization's business rules. Wait a minute. Aren't those the same things business process management is supposed to do? Confused? That's understandable.
Unfortunately, business rule management and business process management (BPM) are increasingly being pitched as competing options--or one-size-fits-all solutions to business improvement--by vendors and consultants who focus on one area or the other. After all, BPM systems are based on rules, and business rule engines can execute actions without a BPM system.
In reality, BPM suites and business rule management systems serve fundamentally different and complementary purposes. In many cases, you need to use them together to fully achieve the goals of agility, alignment, compliance and the rest. The trick is striking the proper balance: Which rules are the domain of the BPMS and which are managed by the BRMS? What actions should be taken by the business rule engine, and what should be left to the process engine? "
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# posted by Ladd : 10/01/2006 12:39:00 PM
