Business Rules Management Is Made Easier With A BRMS

2007-04-12 11:34:06

( Business )



Information technology has allowed businesses to store vast amounts of data and statistics in computers, for easy retrieval and analysis. Part of the software development process requires the IT people to write into code the particular business rules of the company.

A business rule is essentially a series of conditional statements that traces all the decision criteria affecting a business transaction. For instance, in a financial institution, a business rule on a loan application would follow such a series until you reach a final decision whether to approve or disapprove the loan. The business rules, in effect, show the logic of the business in each of its transactions.

If your company has a huge operation, with distributed information systems, one of your difficulties will be the business rules management aspect. It will be quite possible that if a revision on a policy occurs in one part of the system that change may not be seen elsewhere in the system. The reason for that would be that the programming codes that govern the logic for that transaction may be buried in the application code.

It is said that a business rule management system (BRMS) will help decision makers and business analysts achieve more efficient business rules management. With a business rules management system, your business analysts who help you define the logic of transactions can help keep your business rules codes current, since the system allows them to define the code in clear English-like programming language.

Business rules management will be able to remain up to speed with dynamic changes in the business environment since the business logic of transactions will get their own home, the business rule management system engine. However, the data validation logic of the business, which does not need to change as often, will remain with the main databases, maintained by the IT staff.


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