irCatalog is a database-backed service that provides a variety of rule management
capabilities. Rules are stored in irCatalog, and at run time the most up to date
rules can be used without any need to recompile application code.
irCatalog delivers full Rule Lifecycle Management:
Rule Management
Share and reuse elements across multiple rule applications
Search irCatalog for specific rule application elements
Label rule applications
Security & Corporate Governance Support
Robust security model with role-based permissions and a flexible
authentication model
Granular check-in/check-out with audit trail
Rule application promotion and rollback (with ability to choose
the correct revision)
Rule application and difference reporting
Architectural Flexibility
Manage multiple catalogs
Programmatic Access to irCatalog via irSDK
Web-service Accessibility
Supports both SQL Server and Oracle
Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory Integration
InRule simplifies administration by importing Active Directory users and groups
into irCatalog, where the administrator can assign InRule roles and/or permissions
to them. If a user or group is deleted from Active Directory, those deletions are
noted in InRule, making initial and ongoing permission management easy and consistent.
Administration with irCatalog Manager
irCatalog Manager can be used to manage one or more irCatalog instances, allowing
enterprise-level access to all of an organization’s rule applications and InRule
users.
Promote rules from one environment to another, such as development
to testing to production
Set security and permissions
Reporting for tracking and audit purposes
Collaboration with Rule Reuse and Management Capabilities
InRule now provides the ability for users to reuse rules and schemas. Users may
select just the parts of a rule application they need, then manage and consume those
to update or create new applications. This allows greater consistency in how critical
decision logic is applied across an enterprise, because one set of rules and business
schemas is authored and maintained, then reused wherever needed.
Rule Management and Control.
irCatalog allows control over the ways in which rule applications and parts of rule
applications are accessed and shared. Users have the ability to specify whether
new schemas, rulesets, and data elements are shareable, allowing or disallowing
their use within other rule applications.
When working with a rule application using shared elements, irCatalog will alert
users if any shared elements have been updated since the last time the rule application
was checked in or saved. Revisions may then be pulled into the rule application.
To prevent unwanted revisions of shareable rule elements, an application may be
designated as the “master rule application” for a rule element. The shared element
may then be modified only within the context of the master rule application.
irCatalog can be searched for shareable elements, making it easy to find reusable
rules and application components.
Granular Check-Out
Multiple team members work on different parts of a rule application, checking out
only what they need and allowing other team members to continue working on different
parts of the application. If desired, an "exclusive checkout" can be used to prevent
other users from updating all or part of an application.
Setting catalog items
as shareable 
Searching for shareable
items 
Granular Checkout
