This report on ebizq started me thinking on the challenges for the modern day IT Enabled Enterprise.Some of these are:

Enterprises need to extract as much as they can from their existing IT investments.
Business Policy & decisioning MUST be IT enabled for business agility & responsiveness
Decision makers MUST control and have visibility into the […]

Government agencies conduct a large number of financial transactions with other agencies and trading partners.Some of the well documented problems that these agencies face are

Not all these transactions are accounted for which in-turn hinders cost transparency
A significant amount of time and resources are spent to identify,reconcile and resolve differences

A Memorandum issued by […]

Martin Fowler defines the Service Layer as “An Application’s boundary that defines the set of Services that the application can provide”.
While modeling applications where you are separating out Business Rules, or at least intend to do so at some point, it makes a lot of sense in separately modeling those calls that will need to […]

Well, here of course is something so basic that you would have thought most people would know what they should be.
But, like the quip goes, Life is stranger than Fiction !
I have been reading Martin Fowler’s “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture” and the first thing that he attempts to do is to try and define […]

DecisionTables are a totally cool device for capturing Rules. They are used to capture structurally similar rules in a tabular format.
Most Business Rules Vendors implement DecisionTables somewhat like this.

Each row in a Decision Table represents a Rule
The Decision Table is de-constructed into as many If Then Rules as there are rows.
These rules are merged into […]

The Product Team finally wrapped up the Service pack 1 for the 3.0 version of QuickRules.NET. This was essentially a maintenance release that provides fixes for a host of issues.
By the way, this version released in June, already has a number of our Customers using it in their Production Systems.
The product website will probably get […]

Transportation companies, Cargo & Parcel Services are a great example to illustrate the usefulness of using Business Rules in Business & Enterprise Applications.
Transportation companies transport a wide variety of cargo including containers, loose & rolling cargo. The cargo can be consumer goods, agro products, construction materials, steel, automobiles etc.
They use a dizzying array of rules […]

I have been getting all these questions about the Windows Workflow Foundation from both our Sales Team and from some of our Customers.
The two big questions have been these

What is the Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) ?
Why should you use a BRMS, like QuickRules.NET instead of the Rule Engine bundled with WWF?

WWF Intro

WWF is […]