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Does your company spend a lot of time and resources to ensure the accuracy and consistency of its business policies and rules? ILOG’s business rule management system (BRMS) can help.

What is a Business Rule Management System?

A business rule management system (BRMS) is a suite of tools that policy managers use along with software developers to build custom systems that extract business policies out of software code. The policies can then be directly authored, modified and managed— independent from the underlying software system. A BRMS covers the complete life cycle of rules within an organization and aims to streamline the administration and improvement of an organization’s business rules across the enterprise.

Basic Components of a BRMS

BRMS solutions automate business policies in custom and composite business applications. They lower application maintenance costs, facilitate more accurate and consistent business policy implementation across applications, and improve collaboration between your business and IT departments.

Why use ILOG's BRMS?
Managers responsible for policy making in decision-rich enterprises have benefited enormously from information technology. But as the pace of change has increased, and the reach of automation has been extended, traditional software applications have been unable to deliver the flexibility and agility required by most businesses.

ILOG's BRMS-based applications, however, deliver flexibility and agility, and enhance the entire policy management infrastructure of the enterprise at the same time. ILOG’s BRMS products add flexibility and performance to your business rule applications, whatever the challenge. ILOG’s easy-to-use tools include the functionality to support rule definition, deployment, maintenance and retirement.

ILOG’s BRMS treats business rules as your corporate asset by enabling effective and efficient management of your business rules through their lifecycle. Externalizing business rules provides:

  • More agility
  • Better control
  • Smarter execution
  • Reduced IT cost

Key benefits:

  • Take rule editing into your own hands
    With ILOG’s 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.

  • Build consistency into your systems
    ILOG’s BRMS stores rules in a central repository. The same rules are accessed by every organization in the enterprise, across touch points and applications. Teams employ consistent regulations and practices, ensuring prompt compliance.

  • Accelerate updates
    With ILOG’s BRMS, you get zero-latency rule changes, so your rules are updated quickly and accurately. Business analysts can change decision logic themselves, relieving overworked IT departments.

ILOG’s leadership
ILOG leads the BRMS market. Our experience proves that organizations should focus on both the business and technical aspects of business rule management, in order to maximize their return on investment (ROI).

We at ILOG understand that there are many different stakeholders with a variety of different skill sets and needs throughout the business cycle. We respond by delivering the right tools and processes for both business and IT users.

ILOG ’s JRules and Rules for .Net are our two key solutions for the creation, deployment and management of rules within process-centric environments. Both solutions have similar functional aims, but they have been created to respond to a specific underlying infrastructure. ILOG JRules has been created to work in Java environments, and ILOG Rules for .NET responds to Microsoft .Net environments.

Next steps

BRMS Resource Center
Download the latest BRMS-related white papers, participate in our forum, try a tutorial, and more.
Nicolas Robbe, ILOG's VP of Product Marketing, discusses ILOG BRMS in the SOA space in this recently published interview by SYS-CON TV, conducted at the SOA World West 2007 conference in San Francisco.

Watch the video

Empower your business users to manage decision change
  14 October 2008
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