Aligning the Business Community and the IT is well documented Challenge that most businesses are aware of.

One big challenge is one of communication. Specifically,

1. Reduce round trip times between IT and the Business
2. Provide Errors caused by incorrect interpretation
3. Use metaphors & IT enabled constructs that are easily understood by the Business

Businesses use Focused Workshops, Standardized Templates, Flow Charts etc as tools towards improving coordination. To complement these efforts, Business Rules Management Solutions provide useful tools to especially bridge this gap.Let me take some examples here.

Mortgage Eligibility

The sequence in which the rules have to applied to find out whether an applicant is eligible or not can be very complex. It typically involves a large number of Decision Tables for compliance, product specific Pricing and Eligibility Tables etc.

So now,

1. How can the Business be sure that the IT system is enforcing the correct set of rules?
2. How can IT eliminate manual errors from creeping in into their system?

What If ?

1. What if the Business users were able to specify what they need in the form of a Visio Flow Chart and the IT System be able to consume the same directly?
2. What if the Business users can provide the Decision Tables required by the IT system in the form of a Excel Sheet and the system can consume them without any manual intervention?
3. What if the IT could just export the Decision Tables that they use as an Excel and email to the Business Users?
4. What if the Business Users could just log into a Website and view directly all the Business Rules that the IT system is enforcing?
5. What If the Business Users can directly print out a Compliance Report with all the Rules currently enforced by the IT System?

Enter Business Rules

Now, Business Rules Management Systems, like QuickRules.NET are built with exactly these problems in mind.

1. The Business Defines it’s rules in Excel, IT imports the Excel. Zero Manual Intervention, Zero Errors, and quick throughput
2. The Business defines it’s logical Rule/Ruleset Sequence as a Visio Diagram. The System consumes the diagram directly. Again Zero Manual Intervention, Zero Errors.

To wrap up, An Agile Enterprise is a Profitable Enterprise !