Net: Another dose of concrete data and experience at a well-run conference.
Memes:
Office is the most widely used business rules tool (if not the best), complex business policies drive adoption (e.g., government compliance).
Michael Azoff (
Butler Group),
Realising the Potential of Business Rules Automation: Covered a wide range of trends, alternating between laudable goals and candidate feature lists. He repeated a now-oft citation to eBay's
adoption of rules.
Caspar Fall (
ELCA),
Applying an Open-Source Business Rules Engine to Validate Questionnaire Responses: Hearing that customers want flexibility, system integrator authored some 50 rules in
Visio (!) using
NxBre on
.NET to validate annual census data required by the Swiss federal government for some 2,300 health-care institutions.
Ronnie Keiser (
SD Worx),
Integration of Business Rules - A Case Study: To calculate salaries for some 600,000 Belgian employees, system integrator built their own rules engine (5 man years): existing engines don't focus on implementing legislation, by definition, rules are active during specific windows in history, and they want to target field experts. The result integrates with
Word doing integrated calculation on forms, and with
Outlook filing incoming calculation requests and replying with PDF reports.
Qusai Sarraf (
Ivis Group),
Business Rules in the Real World - The Tesco.com Story: The
largest online retailer uses rules technology, but apparently of a fairly different sort than other applications because rules map unstructured into structured data (for example), allowing so-called 'semantic search'.
Posted
Jun 14 2006, 06:25 PM
by
jeffrey-schlimmer