Business Rule Management with irCatalog®
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
Download Free TrialMicrosoft 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 > Testing > Production
- Set security and permissions
- Reporting for tracking and audit purposes
Collaboration with Rule Reuse and Management Capabilities
Granular reuse of catalog elements
InRule 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.
Setting catalog items as shareable Enlarge 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.
Searching for shareable itemsEnlarge 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 additional parts of the application. If desired, an "exclusive checkout" can be used to prevent other users from updating all or part of an application.