Whose Rules Do You Use? by Insurance Networking News: "Whose Rules Do You Use?

Should you expect your application vendor to build proprietary rules technologies into your application, or should you expect the company to use enterprise rules solutions?

By David Straus

June 1, 2006 - Business rules have become a hot topic. At an industry event such as ACORD/LOMA, you'll hear many vendors talk about having business rules. We've all been here before; the buzz makes it hard for many of us to consider what we really need in those rules that help us automate processes such as claims and underwriting. Much of what we are struggling with is whether we should buy proprietary business rules capabilities that have been built into our applications, or if we should demand that our application vendors use enterprise-strength business rules solutions.


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Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Mission Intelligence: Hide Complexity, Expose the Rules: "Mission Intelligence: Hide Complexity, Expose the Rules

By David Stodder

Hide what's inside: That's the secret for vendors, developers and managers of strategic business systems who want to win over end users. Even with something as important as managing content--the subject of our cover package--the experiences of Halliburton and others have shown that it's best not to expose users to behind-the-scenes details of content management and integration. Hide it inside Microsoft Outlook, just as many believe business intelligence and performance management should live inside Excel. Hide it all somewhere, so that users can get on with their lives and simply profit from better access to information riches.
Where's the rub? End users can lose sight of business rules and semantic context--at their peril. Often, this vital stuff is coded procedurally and resides deep in the proprietary guts of enterprise applications, database systems, workflow and content management systems. In our recent business rules management poll, readers told us that nearly 35 percent of business rules reside in internally developed applications and legacy systems; 22 percent are in packaged applications and 15 percent live in database systems as triggers and stored procedures.

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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
June, 2006 Vol 7 No. 6
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**DISCOUNTS on Professional Conferences, Seminars and Books** Refer to the bottom of this Update.
***Career Opportunities***
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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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