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Business Rules Resources

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Category & Resource	Description
Articles
BIZRULES Business Rules Knowledgebase	BIZRULES This will be our spot on the web to share our knowledge about building rule-based and knowledge-based applications.
Business Rules Engine: Askget articles Business Rules Evangelist	Malcolm Chisholm. Askget Inc. provides thought leadership in the areas of business rules and metadata management. The articles below are the products of some of the research undertaken and experience gained by Askget over the years. They have been published in a number of well-known magazines and online newsletters.
Business Rules Community Articles	Requires free registration and login
DM Review Business Rules Portal	This Business Rules resource portal proves to be an excellent channel for all users searching for specialized information.
EBG Consulting Articles	Ellen Gottesdeiner's site provides her published articles on business rules.
Essential Strategies Articles	David Hay's site provides his articles on business rules.
Inastrol Articles	Terry Moriarty's site provides her articles on business rules
KPI Articles	Various articles from Knowledge Partners Inc.
Reference Data Portal	Malcolm Chisholm. This site is devoted to reference data and the issues surrounding its use and management. Reference data also has important linkages to areas like business rule management....
TDAN articles on Business Rules	Search results on TDAN site ( THE DATA ADMINISTRATION NEWSLETTER ) for business rules
Books
Business Rules Applied by Barbara Von Halle	Describes a step-by-step guide to the business rules approach starting from the business problem an ending in the technical mapping of the business functionality to various commercial business rules products.
Principles of the Business Rules Approach by Ron Ross	An extended presentation of the concepts introduced in Ron's "Business Rule Concepts" book, equally targeted towards business people as well as towards IT people.
Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning IT with Business Goals by Tony Morgan	Shows IT professionals how to evolve from the classical systems development approach to the business-driven "extreme non-programming (XNP)" approach based on business rules.
How to Build a Business Rules Engine: Extending Application Functionality Through Metadata Engineering by Malcolm Chisholm Companion site: http://www.bizrulesengine.com	October 2003, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1-55860-918-0, Pages 438. This book discusses how to develop a business rules engine. Areas covered include user requirements, data modeling, metadata, and more
Business Process Management With a Business Rules Approach: Implementing the Service Oriented Architecture by Tom Debevoise	BPM and BR and SOA
Communities
BIZRULES Yahoo Group	Discussion by Business and IT professionals of Business Rules Management Systems including but not limited to: Products Methodologies Projects Employment
BPMI Business Rules Home Page	Dedicated Business Rules Section of BPMInstitute.org. This section serves Practitioners with an interest in successful BR approaches and how they complement BPM.
Business Rules Community	BRCommunity.com, the Internet's only vertical community for business rule professsionals
The Java Rules.org Business Community	This web site hosts information related to building business rule applications or rule-based systems using the Java programming language. Our Mission Promote rule-based programming in Java in general. Provide a vendor neutral portal for finding and sharing information. Inform and educate implementors and users of the "Java Rule Engine API" (JSR-94). Discuss future evolutions of the Java Rule Engine API.
Conferences
Business Rules Forum	The primary industry conference on Business Rules
European Business Rules Conference	The Only Industry-wide Conference in Europe on Business Rules
ODTUG Business Rules Symposium http://www.odtug.com/2004_conference_busrules.htm http://www.odtug.com/2003_busrules.htm 2003 BUSINESS RULE TOOLS SHOOTOUTREPORT http://www.odtug.com/2002_handouts.htm#bus http://www.odtug.com/2001_handouts_rules.htm	Conducted as pat of the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) conference
FAQ
Business Rules FAQ	A Business Rule Primer for Rules Professionals. Provided by the European site of the Business Rules Community.
Business Rules overview Business Rules Message BACKGROUNDER ON BUSINESS RULES	What? How? Where? Who? When? Why? Background information about business rules Provided by the European Business Rules Conference.
Industry Groups
Business Rules Group	The Business Rules Group is an independent organization. Their membership comprises experienced practitioners in the field of systems and business analysis methodology. They are practitioners who work in both the public and the private sectors.
OMG Bus Semantics of Bus Rules RFP Business Rules in Models RFI	Restricted to OMG members
Research Reports
The 2006 Report on Business Rules BP Trends	The BPTrends 2006 Report on Business Rules Products includes an Introduction by Ronald G. Ross, an Overview of the Business Rules Market, a Detailed Analysis of Business Rules Products, comprehensive reviews of 4 leading Business Rules vendors and products and a Matrix that allows you to quickly and easily compare the features of the Business Rules Products included in the Report.
Forrester Forrester Best Practices Paper, The Path to Enterprise Business Rules . The Forrester Wave: Business Rules Platforms, Q1 2006	Includes any GIGA reports - may require cost.
Gartner Gartner 2003 BRE magic quandrant Gartner 2005 BRE magic quandrant Rules: Adding Intelligence to the Enterprise Architecture Innovative vendors in Business Rule Management 2 March 2004 Jim Sinur	Search for "business rules" to get list of applicable research papers - may require cost.
Training
Artemis Alliance, Inc.	Artemis Alliance provides education, support, and mentoring services on general business rules concepts and specific problems or skills.
BR Solutions	Briefings, seminars and workshops from Ron Ross and his company
KPI Training KPI BR Overview	Training from Knowledge Partners, Inc. KPI's (2) Hour Business Rule Overview and Motivation Presentation
Lambert Business Rules Methodology Training and Mentoring	Lambert Technical Services and Knowledge Partner’s, Inc (KPI) have extended their alliance partnership to offer training and mentoring using the KPI STEP™ Methodology.
Requirements Modeling: Good Practices and Techniques	EBG consulting: Ellen Gottesdeiner
User Groups
COOUG COOUG Business Rules SIG	Connecticut Object Oriented Users Group. Business Rules has been a topic of several sessions. Business Rules SIG has been formed in May 2005. Prior COOUG meetings on BR. March 9, 2004 "Business Processes and Business Rules Perfect Together or Perfect Apart?" Barbara von Halle, Knowledge Partners Inc Read a Review of this meeting an download presentation August 5, 2003 "Use Cases and Business Rules" Ellen Gottesdiener Principal Consultant EBG Consulting Read a Review of this meeting an download presentation July 17, 2003 " Benefiting from the Business Rules Approach " Gopikrishna Gade ("GK") ValueMomentum Read a review of this meeting . July 08, 2003 "Building Cutting-Edge Applications with Business Rules Technology" Nicolas Robbe, ILOG Read a Review of this meeting . December 10, 2002 "COOUG Responds to OMG Business Rules Working Group" Susan Burk, MassMutual (Facilitating a member participation meeting) Read a Review of This Meeting . August 13, 2002 "Integrating Business Rules and OO: Can it Work?" Barbara von Halle, Knowledge Partners Read a Review of This Meeting and download presentation.
Twin Cities Business Rules User Group	The Business Rules User Group (BRUG) provides a setting for both business and technical members to gain and share knowledge about business rule and inference engine technologies, projects, and initiatives AND network.
Weblogs and Podcasts
BIZRULES® Business Rules Blog	Rolando Hernandez BIZRULES® Business Rules Blog
The BRMS Blog	Rajgo QuickRules.NET Blog Perspectives on the Business Rules Space , Implementation Stories and challenges
BRxG’s business rule blog NEW	Business Rule Experts Group: Advice and discussion about business rule analysis, design, development, and deployment. In this blog, we’ll orchestrate an ongoing dialog on business rules subjects ranging from design and management to development and deployment.
Enterprise Decision Management - a Weblog Business Rules Category on EDM Blog Business Rules FAQ Category on EDM Blog Case Studies Category on EDM Blog Decisions Podcast on EDM Blog Decision Management blog	James Taylor, Fair Issac EDM BLOG - All about focusing on automating decisions to improve their consistency, precision and agility and get more value from your data. James Taylor's Decision Management James' blog keeps you informed about the latest uses of business rules and decision automation. Frequent topics and subject matter include: Business Activity Monitoring, Business Agility, Compliance, and Business Process Management. James gives a thought provoking perspective for planning, developing and integrating the technologies of today and for the next 10 years.
Down to Earth Business Rules	Artemis Alliance, Inc. A place to share real-life thoughts and experiences in the pursuit of Business Rules automation.
JBoss Rules Blog	Mark Proctor JBoss Rules - formerly DROOLS
Jeffrey Schlimmer's Blog	Jeffrey Schlimmer A BR blog.
Pathfinder Business Rules	Dietrich Kappe This blog tries to cut through all the jargon and give you answers on how you would use a rule engine, how they work, what the heck is RETE, etc.
Realrules Blogzine	RealRules provides educational material, insider information and news about all aspects of all kinds of rules: rule languages, rule engines, business rules management, rulebased systems, and more.
The Road hits the rubber NEW	Woofel nothing special, just blah blah blah.
Sergey Lukichev Homepage	Sergey Lukichev This blog is a part of my university homepage and it is related to my current research interests: Semantic Web, Rules for the Semantic Web, Business Rules, Rule Markup Languages, Rules Modeling and Rules Validation.
Tom Debevoise's BLOG	Tom Debevoise’s BLOG, Author Business Process Management with a Business Rules Approach
Whitepapers
The Business Rules Manifesto	Principles of rule independence published by the Business Rules Group.
Defining Business Rules – What Are They Really? (3rd ed.),	The "classical" paper of the Business Rules Group laying the foundation for the semantics of business rules from an information system perspective by defining a precise meta model for business rules.
Business Strategy: The Standard Model for Business Rule Motivation	The second paper of the Business Rules Group defining the constituents of a business plan (such as vision, objectives, strategies, tactics, influences,assessments, etc.) as well as its relationship to business rules.?
IDC whitepaper, Companies Achieve Significant ROI Using Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor	Press Release. Published June 2003. For full copy visit http://www.blazesoft.com and register for white papers.
SERVICE ORIENTED BUSINESS RULES MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS version 2 NEW	downloadable report discusses business rules and business rules management systems (BRMS), especially those that use the Rete algorithm, are compatible with a service oriented architecture (SOA) and component based. There is also a focus on the way natural language is treated. Eleven products are described and three reviewed in detail. These are ILOG JRules, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor Version 6 and Haley Systems HaleyAuthority (aka Authorete, Authority) and HaleyRules (Eclipse).

Business Rules Consulting

Artemis Alliance, Inc.	Faced with the demand to share information effectively, streamline productivity, and reduce costs, organizations are challenged with how to adopt and realize the value of a Business Rules approach.
Business Rule Solutions LLC	Business Rule Solutions, LLC is the recognized world leader in the advancement of the business rule approach. Our Principals, Ronald G. Ross and Gladys S.W. Lam, are internationally acclaimed as the foremost experts and practitioners of business rule techniques and methodology.
Inastrol	Using innovative information management techniques, such as business rule analysis, dynamic business models, and meta-data management, Inastrol provides guidance in developing application and data management architectures that provide the flexibility required to transition from an account-oriented approach to conducting business, to one that is more customer-centric. Terry Moriarty is the principal.
Knowlege Partners Inc. (USA)	KPI is The Business Rules Management Company. Barbara von Halle is the principal.
Lambert Technical Services LLC	The Lambert Business Rules Development Practice focuses on sustainable business rules management, enterprise technology and architecture solutions, and an agile approach to the implementation of applications using a Business Rules Approach.
	Consulting Alliance Groups
BRxG	The Business Rule Experts Group is an alliance of leading independent consultants within the Business Rules community. Our membership consists of a small, elite group of senior consultants with a collective experience of more than 100 years’ in rule-based analysis and development.
SABAP	The Strategic Alliance of Blaze Advisor Professionals (SABAP) is group of credible, experienced individuals and companies who have come together for the common goal of promoting, producing and maintaining an exemplary level of consulting services for our client base.