Business Rules as a solution to Healthcare problems

This article - IT Could Help Ailing Health Care Systems - led with the statement that "Health care systems across the developed world are struggling to coordinate care and keep patients informed about what their medications do. That's the conclusion...

Making the Most of SOA

In this Information Week article SmartAdvice: Making The Most Of SOA a number of excellent points are made. A couple reinforce the value of business rules in the context of an SOA: Emphasize coarse-grained business services: Business services contain more...

Business Services, SOA and business rules

Thomas Erl, well known SOA author, recently presented on Business-Centric SOA: Using Service-Orientation to Express Business Logic and Rules through Services through TechTarget's network. We sponsored this as we believe that there is a great synergy between the business-centric SOA...

If all business application software is the same, can business rules make you unique?

I subscribe to Computerwire and in today's opinion piece "Computerwire Directions" the headline is "Is All Business Applications Software the Same?". The most pertinent paragraph seemed to me to be: "However, the conclusion does highlight the dilemma facing vendors. On...

webMethods Fabric and Blaze Advisor

Today webMethods and Fair Isaac made what I think is a great announcement - webMethods will incorporate Blaze Advisor as the embedded rules engine for future editions of webMethods Fabric™. Now Fabric is webMethods' flagship solution for SOA/business integration so...

Discussion on business users and business rules

I got a great set of questions from Doug Golden after his trip to the Business Rules Forum. Doug had questions about how well rules management systems really empower the business. You can see his comments here and I updated...

Business rules standards are like buses

... you wait ages and none come and then two come right together! Saw today the news W3C Launches Rule Interchange Format Working Group. The other standard of course being the OMG's Production Rule Representation work. This is all good...

Fix the requirements mess - use business rules

Don't try and fix the requirements process, empower business users to own the part of their system that IT does not understand and that changes all the time with business rules.

Why are business rules better than traditional code?

There are a number of advantages gained by expressing business logic in business rules and using the processing and management facilities included with a business rules management system to work with them. In brief summary: The separation of decision logic...

CRM, and rules, at the ATM

I saw this little snipper on the Credit Union Journal Daily today: Wincor Nixdorf will unveil a new customer relationship management solution that will interact with ATMs, at the annual BAI Retail Delivery Conference Tuesday. The company's ProClassic/ProSales CRM software...