New ILOG JRules 4.0. (Management News and Products).ILOG JRules 4.0, is a business rule engine designed to bring customisable and business rule management to enterprises. One of the features in this new release is the JRules Business Rule Repository, a centralised location for storing business rules and associated information. As it can be customised, the ILOG Rules repository is designed to work with each organisation's unique business rule requirements. It also includes event management features that allow users to create rules for detecting complex time-oriented patterns within flows of events. Other key features in this latest release are advanced business rule templates for faster rule creation, and improved language support. Business rules represent, in a readable and easy to modify format, the hundreds or even thousands of business policies that drive business processes - from customer, supplier and partner agreements to operations procedures. In an increasing number of organisations, business rules originate in Verb 1. originate in - come from stem - grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" multiple departments across levels of management, emphasising the need for business rule management. The ILOG Rules repository 'is open and completely extensible, based on industry standards like MOF (1) (Managed Object Format) An ASCII file that contains the formal definition of a CIM schema. See CIM. (2) (Meta Object F (OMG's Meta Object Facility), XMI (1) (XML Metadata Interchange) An XML-based representation of a UML model. XMI is used to transfer UML diagrams between various modeling tools. See UML. (2) An earlier high-speed bus from Digital that was used in large VAX machines. (OMG's XML Metadata Interchange The XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) is an OMG standard for exchanging metadata information via Extensible Markup Language (XML). It can be used for any metadata whose metamodel can be expressed in Meta-Object Facility (MOF). ) and JMI JMI Java Metadata Interface (Sun Microsystems) JMI Japan Market Intelligence JMI James Madison Institute JMI Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship (Florida State University) (Java Metadata Interface Java Metadata Interface (JMI) is a platform-neutral specification that defines the creation, access, lookup and exchange of metadata in the Java programming language. The JMI specification was developed under the Java Community Process and is defined by JSR 40. ). Businesses can also create their own custom business rule languages using the new Business Rule Language Definition Framework. New event management features target applications that monitor a continuous flow of data and events - applications such as fraud detection, trading systems, security, network management and supply-chain management. As business rules are critical for automating such security-essential measures as screening, profiling, fraud detection, and cross-border transaction monitoring, the new event management features are expected to benefit the institutions and industries that must meet government-mandated security requirements. ILOG JRules 4.0 can also be embedded within Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. on all the leading application server platforms. This lets customers build Web services in which corporate policies must be applied consistently across all business transactions regardless of whether the rules are exchanged across the intranet, extranet, Internet, call centres or mobile devices. www.ilog.com |
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