The WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS is the market-leading Business Rule Management System, providing both collaborative rule management for business teams and robust, scalable and precise rule execution.

The JRules BRMS family has been enhanced with WebSphere Business Events, bringing together two powerful decision automation technologies in a single offering. This new product has been rebranded as WebSphere Operational Decision Management, providing an integrated business rules and events management platform to improve the quality of transaction and process-related decisions, determining the appropriate course of action for each customer, partner and internal interaction.

All the functionality of the JRules BRMS Family has been incorporated in WebSphere Operational Decision Management. The new offering has two orderable components: WebSphere Decision Server (containing the runtime and development capabilities) and WebSphere Decision Center (containing the rule management capabilities). Each product maps to these components as follows:

• WebSphere ILOG JRules

  The JRules product functionality to build and deploy rule-based applications is included in WebSphere Decision Server.

• WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server

  The Rule Team Server functionality for allowing non-technical business users to manage the lifecycle of business rules is included in WebSphere Decision Center.

• WebSphere ILOG Decision Validation Services

  The Decision Validation Services functionality for testing and simulating the impact of business rule changes is included in WebSphere Decision Center.

• WebSphere ILOG Rule Solutions for Office

  The Rule Solutions for Office functionality for authoring and editing business rules in Microsoft Office Word and Excel is included in WebSphere Decision Center.

• WebSphere ILOG Rules for COBOL

  The Rules for COBOL functionality for generating COBOL copybook code from business rulesets is included in WebSphere Decision Server for z/OS