Business Decision Management

Making business logic transparent means fewer errors and faster maintenance of business logic. InRule supports a spectrum of business rule authors – from subject matter experts to business analysts to developers — who can more easily write sophisticated business rules and complex calculations without costly custom programming. Improved Business Decision Management results from an integrated approach to authoring, storing, managing and executing rules.

Business Decision Management

Because InRule puts business rules authoring in the hands of business users, subject matter experts can easily write sophisticated business rules and complex calculations without costly custom programming. Business users can then update rules without programming changes to the application.

Business Decision Management Helps When...

• Business involves significant decision making
• Business policies and rules are complex
• Rules need to be shared across multiple applications and organizations
• Rules are volatile, changing frequently to react to internal or external pressures (government or financial regulations, competition)
• Rules affect customer interaction ( customer quotes, policy configuration)
• Rules are central to core business processes (manufacturing, product configuration)
• Rules or interfaces may change based on location, user or process (localized apps, web apps, customer facing apps)

Empower Business Users and Reduce Burden on IT

InRule can significantly reduce the cost of software development and maintenance. With InRule business logic automation, and InRule’s intuitive yet powerful authoring tools, organizations can save up to 90% of programming and maintenance time related to business rules authoring.

InRule also helps you to increase agility and adaptability. Because changes to business rules can be made easily and quickly without application changes, organizations can rapidly adapt to changing business conditions such as pricing, risk factors, and regulations.

Business decision management can additionally enhance consistency and ensure compliance. Whether driven by regulations or corporate governance, auditability of business rules is essential. InRule's centralized rules repository ensures that all application processes use the same rules, and verifies that changes to rules are documented and approved according to policy.

Finally ISVs, Systems Integrators, and Technology Solution Providers can more easily differentiate products for competitive advantage. Enable your customers to tailor their own business logic, and let your developers focus on other aspects of your solution.

What Role Does InRule Play in Your Business?

A business rules engine is integrated into your business application to replace some or all of the business logic. How much of the application logic that the business rules engine controls varies depending on the type of application.

For example, in some applications, such as an insurance rating program, you may decide to use the rules engine to control as much as 70% of the applications logic. In other programs like an e-commerce application, you may choose to use the rules engine only to validate the check out process.

Your application will communicate with the rules engine by specifying what set of rules you wish to execute and passing in the data necessary to make its decisions. Once the rules execute, your application looks at the rules engine results to display them to the end user or to execute another process.

Next: With an initial success or two under your belt and a desire to leverage rules technology across multiple processes and applications, you can now consider an Enterprise Logic Infrastructure