What sort of organizations should consider implementing Business Rules?

Companies that would immediately benefit from business rules management software include those in financial services (mortgage, lending, credit cards), insurance, telecommunications, healthcare, government and increasingly retail vendors (online, mail order). These are all business that have a large number of customers and make a large number of dynamic, high-impact operational decisions that can be repeated and refined.

From a technical perspective, large-scale national and multinational companies, who have a number of heterogeneous platforms and legacy systems using multiple programming languages, would be another way to profile a company that would benefit from business rules management software.

In the end business rules technology pays off if you have at least one of the following:

• Very complex rules that are hard to implement in code
• Many thousands of rules where management of them is key
• Rules that change so often that flexibility and user control are key
• Rules that have content only really understood by business experts rather than programmers

Comments

[Neo Wang]

I want to use a business rule engine in my project,and I also know all of the benefits that rule engine provides,but I have one question.In my project,there are some db invoking in each business rule decision.So my user concern the performance of business solution.They suggest put this in DB layer.How do I deal with this situation?