QuickRules.NET 3.1 Beta 1 is now officially Out!
The Product now has its own minisite with much more product information than before. The fun with web sites is that you can keep on updating them as frequently as you want and that is exactly what I expect to be doing.
The QuickRules.NET Product Mini-Site
http://www.yasutech.com/qrdn
Here are some quick […]

It had been one good break from work after a long time. I went off on a holiday for a week and am now back for good.
This month has been busy with the QuickRules.NET 3.0 SP2 getting released, and all of us in the product team working feverishly on the next major version also.I have […]

James pointed out to a post on Decision Tables in Krzysztof’s blog in his comment, and I wanted to add my two cents.
Decision Tables, along with Flow Rules are the most business user friendly business rules formats available.
Most Business Analysts I have come across are most comfortable with Decision Tables, and Flows (Sequential rules in […]

I was with a Customer the whole of last week. One of the problems they had was how to specify their allowance/bonus calculation rules. The rules are something like this.

For every country, provide a Patent allowance
For every country, provide a Performance allowance
For India and the UK, provide a Car allowance
For China, provide a Chinese New […]

I am going to be start putting out a detailed series of posts on Business Rules. The idea essentially is to consolidate my knowledge on this area into one single repository for easy distribution.
I would be consolidating all this content under the Business Rules Codex Tag here, for easy access.
The topics that I would be […]

I heard this true customer story from our Professional Services Team in YASU.Now beat this !.

A brand new Loan Origination System
Built for one product line, say Alt A !
Add 10 - 15 Investors for the product line!
Up & running & in operation in less than 5 months!

So, what got automated?

Eligibility
Underwriting
Pricing

So, how was that done ?

The […]

From Banknet360: Cross Selling on Customer Service Calls
Cross selling has increased in popularity as banks look to grow revenue. But does the marketing tactic really work?

Mostly no, and the reasons are well documented by many other bloggers. Thinking about it, some of the reasons are

Poorly timed cross-selling efforts. Attempting to sell the wrong product […]

The Product team has been learning how to use Videos to ease product learning. The Beta1 version of the Videos is now available. There are some 2 hours of Videos now available.
Most of the videos are good, the rest, we are still working on them. You should be seeing daily improvements from the coming Monday […]

Now, check this post Talking S-O-A, by the Business-Driven Architect, .
Here are some of the interesting expansions on SOA from the post.

Strategic Outcome Attainment
Seizing Operational Agility
Situational Optimization Alternatives
Speed Offering Advantage

Now, that seems familiar! The above are also a Business Rules Management System Advantage. Read on.
Strategic Outcome Attainment
You need collaboration between […]

Jay Fields has this series on BNL in his website. I had some time back requested him to provide his thoughts on BNL vs Business Rules.
Here is an excerpt from his response
The power of rules engines is elegantly solving general problems for the masses.
The power of a BNL is a concise, readable, and specific language […]