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How Flexible and Transparent are your Business Decisions?
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an IT strategy that implements business functions by orchestrating reusable business services. Reuse and agility are the fundamental values of SOA.
In order for an enterprise to reap the rewards of SOA, it is fundamental that CIOs, enterprise architects and project managers understand that there are different types of business services. Knowing the typology of business services and implementing those with the right technology will enable companies to achieve the benefits of adopting an SOA strategy rather than just add new layers of complexity to their IT infrastructure.
Decision services
Decision services carry legal impacts and use highly volatile business logic. By their nature and traditional IT approaches, decision services are usually hard coded, making them difficult to maintain, audit and reuse. Ideally, they should be modeled, owned and maintained by business professionals and managed by IT.
Transparent decision services
To ensure successful SOA implementation, companies should reconsider how they provide decision services. The unmanageable, black-box approach of wrapping legacy code does not work.
ILOG helps companies meet the SOA promises of reuse and agility with Transparent Decision Services which are truly reusable, modeled by business analysts, maintained by business teams and managed by IT.
The following table compares Transparent Decision Services with traditional decision services:
Traditional Decision Service
- Hard-coded decision logic
- Developed by IT
- Maintained by IT
- Managed by IT
- Dependent upon custom logs
- Hard to repurpose and maintain
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Transparent Decision Service
- Externalized decision logic
- Modeled by business analysts
- Maintained by business teams
- Managed by IT
- Automatic auditable capture with extensive reporting
- Easy to repurpose and maintain
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Implementing Transparent Decision Services with ILOG BRMS
ILOG’s business rule management system (BRMS) is uniquely suited for the formulation and implementation of Transparent Decision Services:
ILOG BRMS:
- Empowers business teams to manage the business rules that automate their policies
- Helps development teams deploy business rules as fully formed decision services and weave them into SOA platforms from companies such as IBM, BEA, Microsoft and Oracle.
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Integration with the leading SOA and BPM platforms
ILOG provides integration for BRMS with the following SOA platforms to create transparent decision services:
Furthermore, ILOG provides tight integration with Business Process Management (BPM) platforms as:
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