Business Rule Management System Keeps Your Rules Nimble

2007-05-02 10:04:19

( Business )



One fundamental tenet in technology is that to get the smart results you want, you must use your smart people and you must give them smart tools. This is particularly true in applications that help managers make business decisions. If you have applications that assist in business decisions that are still being developed or regularly need code rewriting, you may want to consider having a business rule management system.

There is something unconventional about the business rule management system: it puts control of the applications logic and its code in the hands of your business analysts not IT personnel. This requires that the business logic of the application should be isolated from the rest of the application, and that logic will then reside in the business rule management system.

You usually get the business rules engines of the business rule management system embedded in enterprise applications that mimic or simulate repetitive decision making. The types of applications that employ business rules on a routine basis include loan applications, complicated scheduling activities as in tour and travel planners, and insurance underwriting.

The decision criteria, that is, the business rules, in such enterprise applications may have to change on a fairly regular basis. The business rule management system makes it fairly easy to make the needed changes. You don't have to bother IT personnel anymore to write the changes. When your business analysts believe that the business rules need revision, they can write the revisions themselves instead of waiting for days or weeks for IT people to do the job.

This gives your business at least two advantages: your maintenance costs on the application will be much lower; and, you become quite nimble and confident in your ability to compete, because you know that your business rules are always current and are being followed as you intended them to be implemented.


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