I was reading the Cadillac Story in Business Week, and I thought this was such a good usecase for explaining the power of the Business Rules Technology & approach.
Here is the gist of the story for those in a hurry! Excerpt from Business Week.
Car companies have for years kept goodwill funds for dealers to draw […]

I was getting one of my developers today to read through some VB code that one of our sales guys wanted deciphered. The task was to read a VB class, extract the business rules, business terms out of that class, then model the rules it using QuickRules.NET.
I was watching how long it took for my […]

I am so busy with moving over to my new home. A million small things to be done and taken care of.
Expect to be back in action next week, though!

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Edwin has this post on How to write a Program in 2 Steps . He suggests the following 2 simple steps to write a business program.

Design and implement the programming language which would be best for solving the problem.
Write the program in the language you’ve just implemented.

Now, that is a suggestion that will certainly […]

Nick Malik declares victory for Dependency Injection in the battle of Rules Engines vs. Dependency Injection. Well, not so fast, Nick.
Nick argues that rules like UI form validation rules, error handling rules, routing rules in a process are better handled in code using a Dependency Injection Pattern, and not using a rule engine. […]

Kenneth Down asks Should Business Rules be Technology Neutral? I respond by saying that Business Rules Must be at least Implementation Neutral.
Kenneth argues that business rules are best captured in the language of database tables, stored procedure descriptions, and the like.
He is perfectly right, when

No specs have been drawn out
It is upto the developers to […]

Joe Mckendrick asks Is EDA the ‘new’ SOA ?.I was thinking about what SOA is and what is EDA. Now this is what I think.
SOA >> A architectural model where systems are modeled as Service Providers and Service Consumers. Decoupling is provided for because the Service Providers and Service Consumers use the Service Definition […]