Gary Sherman writes on SLA Monitoring, and I thought what a wonderful problem to solve using rule engines and business rules technology.
Example of SLA’s (Extract from Sherman’s write-up)

All cases must be responded to within 2 business hours
All Urgent priority cases must be responded to within 1 hour regardless of business hours
All cases must […]

While I was reading Small Companies do not have time for SOA and Microsoft’s Just Do it SOA, I was wondering how Business Rules Technology so nicely fits in with this idea.
Personally, I am normally careful about any big bang approaches to change, and the popular SOA philosophy seems to be propounding exactly that. I like the […]

This is my final post in this series.In part 1, I introduced Decision Services, in part 2, I talked about the challenges in implementing Decision Services.
In this post, I will attempt to come up with a set of capabilities that you need to aim to have when using rule driven Decision Services
The SOA Life Cycle
Before […]

In this post, I will attempt to cover the implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. I will attempt to identify the typical challenges that might arise when using rule driven Decision Services in an SOA.
A little Background
Lets take the example of a Pricing Service in a Loan Process. A Pricing Service […]

This is the first of my 3 part series on real world SOA and rule driven decision services. I am going to essentially talk about the following items

What you need to know about a Decision Service ?
The implementation landscape including actors and roles, technologies and skill sets. What are the typical challenges that might arise […]

I have found myself explaining Service Orientation to members in YASU these last few days, and it seemed to be a perfect opportunity to get back into my blogging ways once again.
Here is a simplified version of a Loan Process. I’ll use this to talk about Service Orientation , and where a Business Rules driven […]

How do Business Rules Technology fit into the SDLC Life Cycle? I have been talking about this recently in my team, here is what I have been thinking & talking about.
Before I begin, here is a model of a generic SDLC process.

Explanation is needed as to how Business Rules will fit into diferent stages […]

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 […]

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 […]

I have been discovering some old articles recently. Here is one where Bruce Silver says Don’t Bank on Business Process Reuse.
Why Business Rules are better than Code
Talking of Business Decisions and Business policies, Reuse is certainly possible and very much in demand. I have written earlier about why Business Rules are a better paradigm than […]