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Business requirements are time-dependent and dynamic; we need IT solutions that are able to adapt and change quickly to keep pace with competition. In a typical system, changes often require a complete impact analysis and sometimes even to the extent of mining business rules from the system to understand the change completely. To maintain such systems will incur considerable effort and time, thus translating to high maintenance cost and delayed delivery.
Business Rules Management System (BRMS) is a software platform that enables organisations to capture, model, store, implement, test, and execute business rules regardless of whichever application language. BRMS helps organisations to maintain and manage their business rules. BRMS enables organisations to lower application maintenance costs, allows more accurate and consistent business policy implementation across applications, and improves collaboration between business and IT departments.
Key benefits of implementing BRMS:
Business rules are created from the business operations, classifications, regulations and constraints that apply to an organisation or industry in achieving its objectives. These rules and regulations are used to help the companies communicate between themselves or with interested third parties.
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Business users can take control of policy changes themselves.
- Software developers’ productivity will increase because with BRMS in place, they can concentrate on developing applications, rather than spend inordinate amounts of time on getting business rules right.
- Since business rules are managed in isolation, they can be captured, modelled, tested, and stored separately (thereby reducing the effort and time spent on testing the whole application repeatedly).
- Business Rules captured using BRMS are proven, accurate and reflect the actual intent of business users.
- More efficient and automated business process operations.
- Enables business process review and re-engineering to be performed.
SCS Partners ILOG for BRMS
ILOG’s BRMS caters to business users by empowering them to manage their policy implementations as business needs change, rather than on an IT schedule. It also caters to developers by enabling them to develop flexible applications across the enterprise.
The advantages of ILOG BRMS
LOG BRMS treats rules as a corporate asset. In addition to simply updating rules when conditions change, it also empowers business users to manage rules throughout the lifecycle of the application. With ILOG BRMS, you have a powerful tool that gives:
- Business agility through zero-latency rule changes
Anticipate demand and react quickly for faster time-to-market. Accelerate business rule updates with ILOG BRMS. Business analysts change decision logic themselves, relieving overworked IT departments. New policies and regulations are implemented quickly and accurately.
- Consistency for regulatory compliance
ILOG BRMS stores rules in a central repository. The same rules are accessed by every organisation in the enterprise, across touchpoints and applications. Teams employ consistent practices, ensuring prompt compliance with regulations as and when they change.
- Do-it-yourself rule editing
With ILOG BRMS, policies and practices are expressed as English-syntax business rules instead of computer code. Developers, analysts, managers and administrators use powerful editing tools to manage, track and change rules.
- Proven decision-making
Test rule-based scenarios before implementation, thus cutting unnecessary costs.
- Increased revenue
Flexible product, pricing and service opens incremental revenue streams.
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