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News Release from: ILOG | Subject: JRules 4.6 - Business Rule Management rules
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2004
Complex policy rules managed at a glance
As part of a Business Rules Management System, organisations can use JRules 4.6 to effectively manage business policies across the enterprise by deploying rules form business critical processes.
As part of a Business Rules Management System, organisations can use JRules 4.6 to effectively manage business policies across the enterprise by deploying rules form business critical processes and applications - a key aspect of BPM solutions ILOG, a leading provider of enterprise-class software components and services, today introduced ILOG JRules 4.6, a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This is a key reason why a recent report from Giga Research, a wholly owned subsidiary of Forrester Research, entitled "Market Overview 2003: Rules Platforms - Standing at the Threshold of Mainstream IT," noted that business rules platforms are entering the IT mainstream.
The same report companies "short-list" ILOG when looking for a rule management platform.
New ease of use features in ILOG JRules 4.6.
include decision tables that simplify rule creation and maintenance because the user interface is similar to a spreadsheet.
Using this feature, business users can save time creating and editing the rules by using "cut and paste" and other familiar keyboard shortcuts.
They can also create and validate large business rule sets -- for example those defining discounts and promotions being offered to credit card customers based on monthly spending, credit rating, age and gender -- within minutes.
Prior to the availability of the decision tables feature, business users had no compact way of looking at groups of rules.
Other ease of use enhancements in the latest release include extensions to ILOG JRules Business Action Language that support the writing of more complex rules, for example compliance rules, in conversational syntax.
The new release also features optimised rule engine performance due to enhanced memory management, as well as a packaged demonstration for the J2EE platform using the new JSR 094 standard, which is a standard business rule software interface co-developed by ILOG.
ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make ILOG JRules the industry's leading business rule software.
For the second year in a row, ILOG has been named to the leader quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines.
ILOG's BRMS provides a competitive advantage for many strategic business applications.
Compliance solutions powered by ILOG JRules monitor high volumes of data in real time, enabling the immediate detection and reporting of faulty or fraudulent information.
For business process management, ILOG JRules enables the effective management of the complex, dynamic rules that can number in the thousands for a discrete business process, maximising business agility.
Customers of the award-winning ILOG JRules include CitiStreet, Fannie Mae, MetLife, Sabre and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide.
About ILOG - for more than 10 years, ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximise their business agility and improve operating efficiency.
Over 1000 global corporations and more than 300 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's business rules, optimisation and visualisation technologies to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge.
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