WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET Business Rule Management System (BRMS)

• Reduces the amount of time, effort and cost required to develop and maintain applications by separating business decision logic from core application code.

• Makes decision logic easily accessible and re-useable across the organization.
  - Rules are stored and managed in a centralized repository, with comprehensive capabilities for querying and reporting on rules and associated metadata.
  - Rules can be defined in a customizable business vocabulary using a variety of rule metaphors, including decision tables, decision trees, scorecards and text-based rules.
  - Tools and environments are designed specifically for the unique needs of different stakeholders involved in rule management—Line of Business personnel, Business Analysts, Systems Developers, and IT Operations.

• Enables decision logic to be defined with increased granularity and precision, increasing automation in business systems and ensuring that systems make the right decision based on the context and requirements of each individual customer, transaction or activity.

• Provides industry-leading governance of business rules, allowing users easily to understand how and where rule changes affect decisions within operational systems, as well as to assess the business impact changes

Learn about the upcoming v7.1 release of WebSphere ILOG BRMS products.

The 7.0 release of the WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET BRMS family provides the capabilities you need to create, change and deploy rules with confidence—maximizing the productivity of everyone involved in rule management throughout the enterprise, enhancing the partnership between non-technical business and IT teams, and allowing fast, flexible implementation of automated decisions.

The WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET BRMS allows users to easily and confidently create business rules. Rules can be authored using WebSphere ILOG Rule Solutions for Office, IBM WebSphere Rule Team Server or using the Rule Studio for .NET development environment. Both Rule Solutions for Office and Rule Team server provide business users with a guided experience, facilitating the authoring process and reducing time to deploy rules to production.

The WebSphere ILOG Rules for .NET 7.0 BRMS adds integration with WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server, providing a centralized repository and secure, role-based rule management environment for business users. Now, organizations that have .NET-based applications can easily find, share and manage rules, using the same collaborative, Web-based environment already accessible to IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS users.

Business rules can be easily deployed as cross-platform decision services or they can run on the .NET platform. With the addition of IBM ILOG’s Transparent Decision Services (TDS), SOA-based deployment of business rules can be enabled enable with one-click. TDS also can easily be monitored, maintained and reused across different systems.